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Knives of the Avenger (1966), Shriek of the Mutilated (1974), Die Laughing (1980), Bride and the Beast (1958),  Sins of Jezebel (1953), too Scared to Scream (1985), Red Bells (1982), To All A Goodnight (1980), Trick or Treats (1982), Dr. Jekyll's Dungeon of Death (1979), Bad Man's River (1972), Whales of August (1987), The Ugly Duckling (1959), Golden Ivory (1954), Cloud Dancer (1980), 9 Deaths of the Ninja (1985), Ma Barker's killer brood (1960), Going Berserk (1983), Mad about MEN (1954), Nightmare in the Sun (1965), Top of the Heap (1972), Love from a Stranger (1947), Panic in the City (1968), I accuse my Parents (1944), The Young One (1960), Simon of the Desert (1965), Ah, les belles bacchantes (1954), the Bad Lord Byron (1949), Plot of Fear (1976), the Gangster (1947), Bill and Coo (1948), Day of Wrath (1942), Confessions of a Vice Baron (1943), Delinquent Daughters (1944), Flight to Nowhere (1946), Blonde Savage (1947), The Devil on Wheels (1947), Jungle Siren (1942), No 1 of the Secret Service (1977), Liane - Die weisse Sklavin (1957), Battle of the V1 (1958), Orders to KIll (1958), The Diamond (1954), Daughter of Shanghai (1937), Amour de Poche (1957), Jungle Street (1960), The Message (1977), Color me Dead (1977), Some Like it Cool (1977 - the Tony Curtis Casanova picture), Jigoku (1960), the Fifth Cord (1971), Amuck (1972), Erik the Conqueror (1960), Police Python 357 (1976), First Family (1980), Stone Cold Dead (1979), The Violent Professionals (1973), The Sicilian Connection (1972), Eyeball (1974), Spasmo (1975), secrets of a Call Girl (1973), Roma Violenta (1973), Napoli Violenta (1973), Killer Cop (1976), Eva Nera (1976), face of Terror (1962), The Wild Eye (1967), The Eroticist (1972), Mad Dog Killer (1977), Emmanuelle (1974), So Sweet so Perverse (1969), A Quiet Place to Kill (1969), Perversion Story (1969), The Bitch (1979), The Ambassador (1984), Last Cannibal World (1977), Manhunt in the City (1976), Streets of Fire (1984), The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist (1976), Rings of Fear (1978), the Challenge (1960), Ghosts of Hanley House (1968), Exorcismo (1975), Eagle's Wing (1979), Stunt Squad (1979), Bolero (1985), Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975), Ludwig (1972), The Climber (1975),  The Protector (1985), Howling II (1985), Deadly Force (1983), Grace Quigley (1984), The Hit (1984), Certain Fury (1985), The Skin (1981), Future Hunters (1986), Ghost Warrior (1984), The Dungeonmaster (1984), Manhunter (1986), split Image (1982), Jake Speed (1986), Omega Syndrome (1986), Cobra Mission (1986), Opposing Force (1986), Wanted Dead or Alive (1987), Contraband (1980), Star 80 (1983), The Lonely Lady (1983),Caligula (1979), Gymkata (1985), Pray for Death (1984), Rage of Honor (1987), Into the Night (1985), Mozambique (1964), Carpet of Horror (1962), Commando (1962), Doctor of St. Pauli (1968), The Gay Deceivers (1969), Scream of the Butterfly (1965), Flesh (1968), Trash (1970), Heat (1972), Brigand of Kandahar (1965), Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1964), Penitentiary (1979), Alakazam the Great (1978), joshua (1976), Wedding in White (1972), The Bus is Coming (1971), Thumb Tripping (1972), Good Luck Miss Wyckoff (1979), the Groove Tube (1974), Cosmos War of the Planets (1978), Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave (1976), Scorchy (1976), Maitresse (1975), Honey Britches (1971), Cat in the Cage (1978), The Hollywood Strangler meets the Skid-row Slasher (1979), Bummer (1973), The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), In the Folds of the Flesh (1970), The harrad Experiment (1973), Detroit 9000 (1973), Good Guys Wear Black (1978), A Force of one (1979), La Vallee (1972), The Story of O (1975), the Fifth Floor (1978), the Sea Wolf (1977), the Double McGuffin (1979), Female Trouble (1974), Short Eyes (1978), The Young Americans (1993)

Iron Eagle III - Aces (1993) - more like the Wild Geese than anything.

Year of the Dragon (1985) - A deranged epic of a New York that never existed.  Why is Fabia Drake in this? Wonderfully weird to see her in this. People criticise the film lead, Ariane as being wooden, but she's a TV reporter, so it works. 

Autumn Born (1979) - Horrible, unbearable, "classy" would-be erotica with Dorothy Stratten, made in rural Canada.

Gwendoline (1984) - The sexy stuff gets repetitive, and it's still rooted in old-school racist archetypes, but it's fun and it looks beautiful. And it has Jean "Aubergine" Rougerie as a British scientist, and Vernon Dobtcheff. 

The Naked Flame (1964) - Intriguing Canadian quota quickie with a mainly US cast, headed by Dennis O'Keefe, based on real-life Russian anarchists in Banff. Features a lot of Ritz crackers. 

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OSSESSIONE (1943) - What is this film's tone?

The Church Mouse (1934) - Teddington try for the big time.  Also watched forgetttable Pat O'Brien vehicle the Great O'Malley (1935)

Tarzan Escapes (1938) - From racists into racism.

Anna  Karenina (1948) - the old story.

Lilli Marlene (1950)/The Wedding of Lilli Marlene (1953) - this was a franchise?

To Dorothy A Son (1954) - Peter Rogers production. In a parallel universe, Shelley Winters did the Carry Ons.

Seagulls over Sorrento (1954) - Rote naval comedy.

The Brain Machine (1955)/Escapement (1958)  - Rote Brit noir with SF elements. 

The Law (1958) - Routine Gina Lollobrigida drama. 

Broth of a Boy (1959) - A comedy about British TV in Ireland, with Barry Fitzgerald as Oireland's oldest Oirishman. 

Wake Me When it's Over (1960) - Ernie Kovacs, Dick Shawn, Jack Warden and Don Knotts in an aptly named 2 hour bore. 

Le Gentleman D'Epsom (1961) - Racing comedy with Gabin and De Funes. 

See also Le cave se rebiffe (1961) and Any Number can Win (1962).

The Day and the Hour (1963), On Friday at Eleven (1963)- 60s Europuds galore.

Cleoportes (1965)  - Lino Ventura and Charles Aznavour - together at last

The Wild  Bunch (1969) - Back when men in their fifties looked twenty years older. Except Borgnine, who never looked more fresh-faced.  See also Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

Run Wild, Run Free (1969) - The other Mark Lester horse movie, but like Black Beauty, feels Irish.

Believe in Me (1971) - Love Story with drugs, again.

Angel's Leap (1971) - Sterling Hayden and Gordon Mitchell versus Tintin-reading Asian assassins. What's not to love?

The Jerusalem File (1972) - finally found this actioner, mildly diverting and with Nicol Williamson, Donald Pleasence, Bruce Davison and Ian Hendry and a Troy Kennedy Martin script, but lazily directed and with a tragic ending that semi-fridges Daria Halprin. 

The Ragman's Daughter (1972)  - Fox tried to make a pre-The Bill Simon Rouse a movie star, alongside Victoria Tennant. A glossier take on Ken Loach from Harold Becker.

The Abdication (1974) - Religious epic with LIv Ullmann and Peter Finch. 

Take a Hard Ride (1975) - Despite the black leads, Margheriti and shooting in Tenerife, surprisingly  trad western. Apart from Catherine Spaak, Ronald Howard and Ricardo Palacios, a mainly American cast and Hal Needham does the stunts.  The Goldsmith soundtrack is way too good. See also Boss ****** (1975).

Boulevard Nights (1979) - Forgotten Chicano gang pic.

The Tin Drum (1979) - It's certainly an interesting film. Seeing Charles Aznavour was a bit of a shock.  See also The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1977).

Also watched various New World pictures, Christiane F (1982), Moonshine County Express (1977), The Hot Box (1972), The Woman Hunt (1972), Sweet Kill (1973), Cover Girl Models (1975), My American Uncle (1979), Paradise (1982), Women in Cages (1982)

Rich and Famous (1981) - Transatlantic tripe with an oddly uncredited Michael Brandon and Marsha Hunt (the African-American Hammer actress/former Jagger lover not the white blacklistee), Ray Bradbury, Paul Morrissey and Nina Foch as themselves. 

A Breed Apart (1984) - Ropey eco-vigilante saga. 

Mr. Scarface (1976) - Rote Eurocrime.

Ice Castles (1979) - Surprisingly not a tax shelter film. 

The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980) - Is that the Four Tops' theme from Shaft in Africa used in the party scene?

The Hot Touch (1981)- Features Canadian TV, so there's a plus. But very beige Canadian prestige product. Did Vadim really Direct it?

See also Tribute (1980) and the astonishing Martin's Day (1985).

Strictly Ballroom (1992) - Luhrmann is proper tacky, in't he?

Love Letters (1984), Wall of Death (1951), The Optimists (1973), Inadmissable Evidence (1968), Tony Arzenta (1973), Raw Deal (1948), Le Vice et la Vertu (1963), Youngblood Hawke (1964), Rome Adventure (1962), Hold that Blonde (1945), The Great American Pastime (1957), Forbidden Cargo (1954), Crooks Anonymous (1962), Windom's Way (1957), diamond City (1949), girl in Danger (1934), the Right Stuff (1983), the Moonspinners (1964), Fist of Fury (1972), Glory (1989), the Wiz (1978), the Presidio (1988), The House on Sorority Row (1984), The Forest (1982), Girls' Nite Out (1982), Maniac (1980), Ms 45 (1981), Effects (1980), Smokey bites the Dust (1980), Oasis of the Zombies (1983), Happy Hooker goes Hollywood (1980), the final Terror (1983), New York Ripper (1982), Scalps (1983), Executioner II (1984),Exterminator 2 (1984), Kill Squad (1982), Exterminators of the year 3000 (1983), the Big Score (1982), Blood Song (1982), House of Death (1982), A Blade in the Dark (1983), Joysticks (1983) , Devilfish (1984), They Call me Bruce (1982), Unhinged (1982), the Impossible Kid (1982), Don't Answer the Phone (1980), Conquest (1983), Day of the Cobra (1980), Ninja III (1984), An Eye for an Eye (1981), Zombie Lake (1981), Toxic Zombies (1980), Night of the Demon (1980), Eaten Alive (1980), Fist of Fear, Touch of Death (1980), The Great Rock and Roll Swindle (1980), Murder Obsession (1981), Boardinghouse (1982), Fairgame (1986), Absurd (1981), Ghostkeeper (1981), Farewell Uncle Tom (1981), Anthropophagus (1981), Clones of Bruce Lee (1970), Concrete Jungle (1972), Alien Dead (1980), Cannibal Apocalypse (1980), The Dorm that Dripped Blood (1980), Alien 2 (1980), Murder Rock (1984), R.o.t.o.r. (1989), Avenging Force (1986), American Ninja (1985), That championship Season (1982), Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1982), America 3000 (1987), Love Streams (1984), Runaway Train (1985), Barfly (1987), Street Smart (1987), Tough Guys don't Dance (1987), the Borrower (1991), the Berlin Affair (1985), Alien Predators (1987), April Fool's Day (1987), Opera (1987), Neon Maniacs (1986), Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (1973), Roseland (1972), Dillinger (1946), Girls on Probation (1938), Xanadu (1980), Insignificance (1985), The Criminal Life of Archipaldo de la Cruz (1955), Mountaintop Motel Massacre (1983), Flic story (1975), Child Bride (1938)

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Village of Daughters (1962)/One Way Pendulum (1965), Hollywood Canteen (1943), Three (1969), the stagey Operation Eichmann (1961 - Hogan's Heroes - concentration camp edition), Tiara Tahiti (1962), Esther and the King (1960), The Shooting (1966), Carbon Copy (1981), The Informers (1963), The Bargee (1964), the Quare Fellow (1962), Our Man in Marrakesh (1966), The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960), Man-Trap (1961), The Bulldog Breed (1960), Operation C.I.A. (1965), Of Human Bondage (1964), A French Mistress (1960), Private Potter (1964), KIng and Country (1965), Night of the Grizzly (1966), The Outsider (1961 - teenage native American played by thirtysomething Tony Curtis), For the Love of Ivy (1968), Yojimbo (1961), Hands over the City (1963), the Ravine (1969),  the Beauty Jungle (1964), The Great Impostor (1961 - faux Canadian Tony Curtis), Taxi to Tobruk (1961), Magnet of Doom (1963), Doctor Dolittle (1967), The Idol (1966), Tightrope (1984), Red Dragon (1965), the German version of the Devil's Daffodil (1961 - the UK cut has Colin Jeavons instead of Kinski), the disappointing Mexican Brian Trenchard-Smith film Day of the Assassin (1979), Bartleby (1970), the Little Ark (1972), Wombling Free (1977), Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1971), what (1972), The Romantic Englishwoman (1975), Doctor in the House (1954, )Doctor at Sea (1955), Doctor at Large (1957) Doctor in Love (1960) Doctor in Distress (1963), Doctor in Clover (1966), Doctor in Trouble (1970), Desperate Living (1977), Werewolf Woman (1976), The Hunting Party (1971), Please Sir (1971), Harper Valley PTA (1978), Soldier Blue (1970), Man about the House (1974), the Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970), Take me High (1973), The Jerk (1978), Who  Saw Her Die (1973), Leadbelly (1976), The Chess Players (1978), Song of Norway (1970), The Baby Maker (1970), the Cat Ballou knockoff starring Lee Marvin the Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday (1976), The Class of  Miss McMichael (1978 - set at the NFT), Gang War in Milan (1973), Don't Torture A Duckling (1973), Could it Happen Here (1977) and Shoot First, Die Later (1974) with Luc Merenda, Fassbinder's Despair (1978), Not Now, Darling (1973), Wrong Move (1975), Shoguns' Samurai (1978), China 9, Liberty 37 (1978), Seven Beauties (1977), the Spider's Stratagem (1970), Overlord (1975), Butley (1974), The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970), All the Right Noises (1970), Skin Game (1971), Autumn Sonata (1978), A Little Night Music (1977), Fingers (1978), La poudre d'escampette (1971), Saturday Night Fever (1977), The National Health (1973), The Spanish Gardener (1957), Appointment in London (1953), Commando (1985), Can't Stop the Music (1980), The Golden Child (1986), Lone Wolf McQuade (1983), Mannequin (1987), George and Mildred (1980), To Live and Die in LA (1985), Fright Night Part II (1988), The Seventh Sign (1988),  Suburbia (1983), Manhattan Baby (1982), Gorillas in the Mist (1988), Project A (1983), The Crimson Blade (1963), His and Hers (1961), THe Firemen's Ball (1966), the Gospel According to St. Matthew (1966), Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town (1989), Mack the Knife (1989), Leningrad cowboys go America (1989), Fury at Smuggler's Bay (1961/ The Hellfire Club (1961)), Love on a Pillow (1962), Le Voleur (1967), Don't Bother to Knock (1960), Too Hot to Handle (1960 - rip Herbert Kretzmer), Till Death Us Do Part (1969), Love is a Funny Thing (1969), Backfire (1964), The Man who Finally Died (1963), Cartouche (1962), the Amorous Prawn (1962), Mata Hari (1961), No Love for Johnnie (1961), the Long and the Short and the Tall (1960), The Angry Silence (1960 - Whicker!), The Young Ones (1961 - the Strand ad!), Beach Blanket Bingo (1964), The World of Sammy Lee (1963), Accident (1967), teorema (1968), Some People (1962), The American Beauty (1961) with Louis de Funes, A Matter of Resistance (1965), shoot the Piano Player (1961) , the Elusive Corporal (1961)

How do I Love Thee (1970)- A Comedy set at Lourdes with Maureen O'Hara and Jackie Gleason. Prime RTE filler. 

Closely Watched Trains (1966) - The CSF logo is the best. Trumptonesque.

The Lion (1962)

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 Assassination in Rome (1965), Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980), Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1980), Santa Claus (1985), the siege of Pinchgut (1960), Zombie Creeping Flesh (1981), three Smokey and the Bandits (1977, (1980, (1983), Eugenie (1970), 99 Women (1969), The Rats are Coming, the werewolves are Here (1970), the Body Beneath (1970), Enforcer (1976),  Who killed Jessie (1966 From Beyond (1986), Savage streets (1984), Scavenger Hunt (1979)), the Lion in Winter (1968), Eliminators (1987), Honkytonk Man (1982), Moonwolf (1958), the Big Noise (1944), Teenage Monster (1955), Don't Shout from the Rooftops (1959), Ein Mann geht durch die wand (1959), Maniac (1963), 4 for Texas (1963), The Belstone Fox (1973), The Plague Dogs (1982), Tarka the otter (1979), Cabaret (1972), Mr. Peek-Aboo (1951 - Bourvil and a French-speaking, undubbed Joan Greenwood), Nightmare at Noon (1988), American Gigolo (1980), Port of New York (1948), Cut and Run (1985), The Battle of Sutjeska (1969)/Battle of Sutjeska (1973), blaxploitation Big Time (1977), Private's Progress (1957), Pixote (1981), soldier of Orange (1977),  Katie Tippel (1976), UTU (1983), the Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970), Don't talk to Strange men (1963), Dr Syn (1963), the Wicked  Lady (1983), Honky Tonk Freeway (1981), Bury Me Dead (1947), Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942), Convoy (1940), the Yellow Canary (1943), Christopher Columbus (1949), Eureka Stockade (1949), Secret Mission (1942), The History of Mr. Polly (1949), Portrait of an Assassin (1949), They Were Sisters (1945), mission a Tanger (1949), Bad Boy Bubby (1993), Parting Shots (1999), Freejack (1992), Freddie as FRO7 (1992), Taffin (1988), Shakedown (1988), Tai-Pan (1986), Marilyn (1953), Happy is the Bride (1960), Serious Charge (1959), Miss Robin Hood (1952), Gunman in the Streets (1950),  Manina (1952),  The Net (1953), Yesterday's Enemy (1959), the Green Scarf (1954), The Galloping Major (1954), The Astonished Heart (1950), Alive and Kicking (1959), Ugetsu (1953), Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948), Lease of Life (1954), Miracle in Soho (1957), the Ringer (1952), Danger Within (1959), Escapade (1955), Tale of Two Cities (1958), A Hell in Korea (1957), Sumer with Monika (1953)

Also saw tiresome Ron van Clief vehicles Black Dragon (1974)/Way of the Black Dragon (1978)

Wild Guitar (1963), Pink Floyd the Wall (1982), Ooh You are Awful (1972), Gonks go beat (1972), Glen or Glenda (1953), The Fast and the Furious (1955), Naked Paradise (1957), Eskimo Nell (1975), Jive Turkey (1974), Reflecting Skin (1990), Sid and Nancy (1986), Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire (1986), the insane Crimes of Passion (1984), rotund war fare Three Stripes in the Sun (1955), Sea of Sand (1958), The Frightened City (1961), the Holly and the Ivy (1952), Three Men on a Horse (1936), Pygmalion (1938), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), The General (1926), Kipps (1941), Beauty and the Beast (1946). Gaslight (1940), Knife in the Water (1962), Daisies (1966), Last year at Marienbad (1962), Testament of Orphee (1950), Sunflower (1970), The Cruel Sea (1953), Mandy (1952), A Taste of Honey (1961), the sicilian (1986)/Salvatore Giuliano (1962), Nada (1974), A Kind of Loving (1962), Sparrows Can't Sing (1963), Turks Fruit (1973), Souvenir d'Italie (1957), the Young Mr. Pitt (1942), Next of Kin (1942),  It's Not Cricket (1949), Let's Live a  Little (1948 - Hedy Lamarr on poverty row), Sanders of the River (1935), Big Fella (1937), Song of Freedom (1935), Jericho (1937 - all four with Paul Robeson)             Bitter Rice (1949), Appointment with Crime (1946), Bulldog Jack (1935), The Good Companions (1932), The Deadly Companions (1961), The Small Back Room (1949), Batteries not Included (1987), Demons 2 (1986), Los Olivados (1950), Bad Taste (1987), Odette (1950), Rose Marie (1936), Le Grand Jeu (1934), the Intruder (1953), Throne of Blood (1957), Secret People (1952), the 400 blows (1959), the Birthday Present (1957), I Was Monty's Double (1958), Passage Home (1955), Cry the Beloved Country (1951), Hiroshima mon Amour (1959), Diary of a Country Priest (1950), The Godfather III (1990)

Coonskin (1975), Disco 9000 (1976), Velvet Smooth (1976), Tom (1973), The human Tornado (1976), Petey Wheatstraw (1978), Disco Godfather (1979), Penitentiary II (1982 - quite fun - Ernie Hudson in Errol Brown mode, Mr. T and Glynn Turman!), Slavers (1978), and the early-color-not-colored film Valley of Giants (1938)

Lovers and Other Strangers (1970) - Weird seeing Michael Brandon in his leading man days, black-haired Bea Arthur and sexy Cloris Leachman. See also The People next Door (1970).

Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1969), Two Evil Eyes (1990), Sergeant Deadhead (1964), the Pink Panther (1963), Spree (1979), Up the Creek (1958), Julius Caesar (1970), Macbeth (1971), Vudu Sangriento/Black Voodoo Exorcist (1974), Toxic Avenger (1984), Long Good Friday (1980).  Reanimator (1985), Half moon street (1986), Superargo (1966)/(1968), Werewolf vs the Vampire Woman  (1971), Sweet 16 (1983), Blood Splattered Bride (1972), Creatures the World Forgot (1972), Contamination (1971), Island Monster (1954), Bulletproof (1988), Green ice (1981), Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988), Maniac Cop (1988), Whoops Apocalypse (1986), Obsession  A Taste for Fear (1988), House of Black Death (1965), La Jetee (1965), the Fly (1986), Starchaser (1986), Zorro the Gay Blade (1981), Superfly (1972), Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984), Hills have Eyes (1978), Twilight Zone (1983), Cocoon (1985), Tron (1982), Fantastic Planet (1973, Jack the Ripper (1976), Taps (1981), One Down, Two to Go (1982), the astonishing  Leolo (1992), The Narrow Margin (1990), A Prayer for the Dying (1987), the Green Berets (1968)