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Just for the Hell of It (1968)

A teenage gang led by the vicious Dexter; his girlfriend Mitzi; and friends Denny and Lummonx; create havoc in a small Florida town by harassing various people, vandalizing property, well... just for the hell of it. When a former gang member, Doug, tries to prevent their ever increasing violent antics, Denny takes it upon himself and a few loyal members of the gang to target Doug's girlfriend, Jeanne, to make him back off.
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The Alley Tramp (1968)

Sixteen year old Marie stumbles upon her parents making love, which awakens her latent sexuality. She begins a torrid affair with her third cousin Philip. Her parents cluelessly pursue their own illicit affairs while their daughter delves deeper into her own sexual experimentation. When the school principal makes the Barkers aware that their daughter is cutting classes, they purchase a partial clue and try to help their daughter.

Horror master Hershell Gordon Lewis took a break from the gore and went for sex and nudity in this over the top sex comedy. The film tells the story of a 16-year-old girl who catches her parents having sex so she rushes to her third cousin and the two begin sleeping around. Although she's in love, the teenage girl wants sex with more men and that includes her mother's secret lover. I'm sure this type of trash played all over 42nd Street in various Grindhouse theaters and on that level the film is a minor success. As you'd expect, the acting is laughably bad as is the script but laughter is good in these types of films. When the girl seduces her cousin it's rather sexy and hilarious at the same time. There's also some hilarious moments with the girl's father as he tries to avoid having sex with his wife. There's plenty of T&A from the mother and daughter so if you like trashy fun then this should be right up your alley.

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On the Waterfront (1954)

On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando and features Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, and, in her film debut, Eva Marie Saint. The soundtrack score was composed by Leonard Bernstein. The film was suggested by "Crime on the Waterfront" by Malcolm Johnson, a series of articles published in November–December 1948 in the New York Sun which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, but the screenplay by Budd Schulberg is directly based on his own original story.[1] The film focuses on union violence and corruption amongst longshoremen while detailing widespread corruption, extortion, and racketeering on the waterfronts of Hoboken, New Jersey.

On the Waterfront was a critical and commercial success and received twelve Academy Award nominations, winning eight, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Brando, Best Supporting Actress for Saint, and Best Director for Kazan. In 1997, it was ranked by the American Film Institute as the eighth-greatest American movie of all time and in AFI's 2007 list it was ranked 19th. It is Bernstein's only original film score not adapted from a stage production with songs.

In 1989, On the Waterfront was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.


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Joan of Arc (1948)

In the Fifteenth Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen years old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army and conquerors Orleans. When her army is ready to attack Paris, the corrupt Charles sells his country to England and dismiss the army. Joan is arrested, sold to the Burgundians England and submitted to a shameful political trial in Rouen castle.
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The Dead Do not Talk (1970)

A young couple comes to a mysterious mansion. Here is just a housekeeper live. Couple killed on the same night and the same would be other guests arriving at the mansion last over time. Things that lead to death, but will be eliminated by religious methods.

Unobtrusive views and natural as when he enters the building was forgotten in time unheeded. The re-emergence of the attention of the whole world and cult cinema environment, then the chance to have occurred with the DVD edition.

Gothic atmosphere, the vampire and zombie types to send a fantastic size katsu filming took place between fun bollywood films became cult and thus in a short time.
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Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1964)

Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Edmund Redding of the Cowan Institute in Pasadena has discovered that Ann Taylor is a reincarnated Aztec woman. Via her recovered memories, she is able to lead Redding and his associates to a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid of Yucatan, where they hope to find the lost treasure of the Aztecs. Instead, they find two mummified bodies - one of a modern man, quite dead, and the other of an ancient Aztec, quite alive. They are able to return safely to Pasadena with both finds, but a rival professor, Janney, kills Redding and steals the body of the modern man-mummy. This he subjects to a resurrection experiment, which works - only the mummy proves to be a werewolf. This creature breaks free of Janney's lab. Meanwhile, a hired thief sent by Janney to steal the other, living mummy, is overcome and that creature escapes also. Two supernatural menaces roam the city that night...
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Atom Age Vampire (1960)

A stripper is horribly disfigured in a car accident. A brilliant scientist develops a treatment that restores her beauty and falls in love with her. To preserve her appearance the doctor must give her additional treatments using glands taken from murdered women. His unexplained ability to turn into a hideous monster helps with this problem but does nothing to win her love. The doctor's woes multiply as the police and the girl's boyfriend begin to close in on him.

How many times have excellent European films from the 1960's even up until the present been ruined by American distributors? Whether it's dubbing or the editing room, the European film industry has always been royally screwed by us. I think that this film and MANY MANY others have been horribly misrepresented and misunderstood. Unlike others, this film still looks good with horrible dubbing and when it's a badly edited mess. I absolutely love Susan Loret as the scarred beauty, she is the shining star of the production. The plot is very common in European films and is usually pulled off better, but the film does have potential, it just doesn't meet it. Anchor Bay, if you're reading, please consider obtaining a European UNCUT print of this, preferably subtitled so the dialogue can make a bit more sense. The cheap label ACME Video company offers the movie and the running time is marked as 105 minutes. This is doubtful, but the tape is usually only $10 anyway, so you might want to check it out.

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The Thing from Another World (1951)

In 1949, in the Officers Club in Anchorage, Alaska, the pilot Captain Patrick "Pat" Hendry is summoned by General Fogarty to fly to a remote outpost to investigate something that has crushed on Earth. Captain Hendry flies with his crew and meets Dr. Arthur Carrington and his team of scientists and they fly to the location. They discover a flying saucer buried in the ice and they use Thermite bombs expecting to release the spacecraft. However, it explodes and is totally destroyed by the bombs. They also find a frozen life form and bring it to the research station. When the creature thaws, it attacks the dogs and loses one arm. Dr. Carrington researches and discovers that it is a vegetable life that reproduces like plants. Captain Hendry believes that the dangerous creature is an invader and decides to find a way to destroy it with his team. But Dr. Carrington believes that the scientific discovery is more important than lives and protects the creature.

When most think of The Thing, they think of the 1982 masterpiece by John Carpenter. However, the original The Thing From Another World, though very different, is still a skilled exercise in suspense. A group of researchers near the North Pole uncover a crashed spacecraft, and take the body of the pilot back to their station in a block of ice. Unfortunately for them, the body is still very much alive, and breaks free of the ice, rampaging throughout the base with the desperate crew trying to stop it before it spreads to the outside world.

Unlike the Carpenter version and the story on which it was based, this alien is not the shapeshifting imitator that the story has become known for, instead portrayed as a more Frankenstein-like monster. While this is a major detriment to the film, it does manage to rise above this limitation and deliver a very tense and claustrophobic thriller. The monster is traced around the station using a geiger counter, a motif that eventually inspired the motion tracker in Aliens. The most frightening scene is when the characters all huddle up in a room, watching the needle go higher and higher until the monster eventually kicks down the door. This is one of the few cases where the original film is inferior, but this chilly chiller from 1951 still wins where it counts, and will keep you watching the skies.
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