Spagvemberfest 2023: Fury of Johnny Kid (1967)
The Campos and Mounter family have been fighting for years. Then Senor Campos (Rufino Ingles) and Bill Mounters (Luis Induni) come to an understanding. Both families will fight in the open and a judge will decide who wins. The losers must leave California. Rodrigo Campos (Peter Martell) and the rest of the family spring a […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: Wanted: Babysitter (1975)
Ann (Sydne Rome, the daughter of an Akron, Ohio plastics manufacturer who went to Europe and became a star in movies like Some Girls Do and Sex With a Smile; she also dated David Bowie for a year, became the face of aerobics in Europe by the 80s and recorded several songs) is an actress […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: Wacky Taxi (1972)
Pepe “Pepper” Morales (John Astin) already has four kids and another on the way with Maria (Maria Pohji). What better time than now to quit his job at a can company and paint a car so it looks like a taxi and be his own boss? Directed and written by Alexander Grasshoff — who also […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: The Treasure of Jamaica Reef (1975)
Stephen Boyd only lived to see 45, but the guy had the kind of life that could fill several others, what with starring in epics like Ben-Hur, nearly drowned in the Ardèche river and shared a camp with cannibals for the movie The Big Gamble, was censored for his near-nudity in GIna Lollobigida’s dream project Imperial Venus and […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: To All My Friends On Shore (1972)
Blue (Bill Cosby) works as a skycap for an airport and also scrounges for junk he can sell. His wife Serena (Gloria Foster) is a maid and going to school to be a nurse. They’re both working so they can leave the projects and have a better life for their son Vandy (Dennis Hines), who […]
Spagvemberfest 2023: Dynamite Joe (1966)
Gold transfers keep getting attacked, which puts a hurting on the U.S. Mint, so they sent Joe Ford (Rik Van Nutter, Felix Leiter in Thunderball) — better known as Dynamite Joe — to make sure those bandits get taken care of. Joe’s talent is blowing people up. That’s why they call him Dynamite Joe, after all. […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: They Call It Murder (1971)
Based on characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner, this was directed by Walter Grauman and written by Sam Roffe, who created Have Gun, Will Travel. The producers — Paisano Productions — had tried to launch a Doug Selby series for six years, while its series Perry Mason was popular. This is the only effort that came […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: The Squeeze (1977)
Michael Apted directed Coal Miner’s Daughter, Gorillas In the Mist and The World Is Not Enough but before all that, he made this movie that he called an “informed look at the British underworld.” That may be because he enlisted ex-gangster Bob Ramsey to act as a contact between the film unit and the local underworld. This kept […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: The Swiss Conspiracy (1976)
You probably know Jack Arnold better from directing movies like It Came from Outer Space, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Tarantula and The Incredible Shrinking Man than spy thrillers. In this movie, a Swiss bank has its infamous secret bank accounts get compromised. They get David Christopher (David Janssen), a former U.S. Treasury official who now […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: Stunts (1977)
This was Bob Shaye’s — and New Line Cinema’s — first full-length production after a decade as a pure distribution company. Director Mark Lester would tell The Pink Smoke, “They were distributing Truck Stop Women to college campuses and they already had a script, so I was hired to direct it. We hired Robert Forster because he […]
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