Mill Creek Through the Decades: 1970s Collection: The Anderson Tapes (1971)
A few days out of jail and John “Duke” Anderson (Sean Connery) is back with his lover Ingrid (Dyan Cannon) and already planning his next job: robbing every single apartment in her building with the help of a furniture van. To do the job right, he needs the right crew. So he gathers a team […]
Mill Creek Through the Decades: 1970s Collection: For Pete’s Sake (1974)
Henrietta and Pete Robbins (Barbra Streisand and Michael Sarrazin) are a struggling couple who have to deal with the insults of their sister-in-law Helen, who tells them that an early marriage took away Pete’s chance at success. Yet when Pete gets an insider trading tip — this type of thing was somehow perfectly legal in […]
Mill Creek Through the Decades: 1970s Collection: The Owl and the Pussycat (1970)
Written by Buck Henry, based on a stage play by Bill Manhoff and directed by Herbert Ross, The Owl and the Pussycat was a huge romantic comedy hit. It stars Barbara Streisand (who did a nude scene for the film that was cut at her request and then published by High Society; Babs sued) as a prostitute […]
Saul At Night (2019)
As a result of a bizarre experiment, Saul Capgras ihas become used to a life of isolation at night, while the rest of the city — and his family — all sleep under a mandated curfew. Saul is the only person left awake at night — perhaps by choice or sacrifice — and he yearns […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Gritos en la noche (1962)
The Awful Dr. Orloff stars Howard Vernon stars as the surgical villain, who with the help of his blind minion Morpho, is out and about and taking the flesh of women to fix the face of his daughter. Concerned with how the film would be handled by Spanish censors, Franco made a safe version for […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Mondo Cannibale (1980)
Also known as The Cannibals, Die Blonde Göttin, White Cannibal Queen*, A Woman for the Cannibals and Barbarian Goddess, this cannibal film — did you get the context clues — has director Jess Franco doing his best to make an Italian movie, what with Al Cliver (who is also in Franco’s Devil Hunter) and Sabrina Siani (Conquest, […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)
EDITOR’S NOTE: As we celebrate this month of all things Franco, we’re bringing back our August 19, 2021 of this Sax Rohmer adaption. Man, Christopher Lee may rival Donald Pleasence for not being able to say no — I say this with full knowledge that the former turned down Halloween while the latter said yes to […]
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