As a storm tears through Manhattan, four convicts narrowly escape the crash of their prison transport. Bomber Christie (Robert Carradine), sex criminal Eddy (Terry Haig), murderer Marcus (Victor B. Tyler) and arsonist Chico (Don Granbery) are free to take over a building, steal some money, find a getaway car and oh yeah, assault Annie (Belinda […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first on the site on September 19, 2021. Psychiatrist C.J. Arnold (Richard Crenna) has bought an abandoned Civil War mansion that was built over hot sulfur pits, which seems like it may instantly be an issue beyond the fact that, you know, the house is totally haunted. But sure, why not turn […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This was on the site on September 10, 2019 but has new info added from my interview with Allan Arkush.  Deathsport unites everything I love about late 1970’s junk film all in one place. It’s set after a nuclear war. It has David Carradine in it. Claudia Jennings, too. Throw in Richard Lynch, motorcycles, lucite […]

Based on three Henry James stories — “The Altar of the Dead,” “The Beast in the Jungle” and “The Way It Came” — this was Francois Truffaut’s seventeenth film and the third in which he’d also act. He plays Julien Davenne, a newspaper editor who specializes at obituaries and who keeps a special room in […]

The last theatrical film of Ralph Nelson (Charly, Lillies of the Field), the screenplay for this film came from the author of the book that it’s based on, Alice Childress. It’s all about teenager Benjie (Larry B. Scott), who goes from marijuana to heroin and nearly dropping not just out of school, but life itself. Can […]

Poliziotto senza paura also known as Fearless, Fatal Charm, Fearless Fuzz and A Matter of Honour is directed by Stelvio Massi (Convoy Busters, Highway Racer), who wrote the screenplay with Gino Capone from a story by Fulvio Gicca Palli. In the lead role of Walter Spada is poliziotteschi star Maurizio Merli, who was encouraged by Massi to act like […]

Based on the Mills and Boon/Harlequin Romance Leopard in the Snow by Anne Mather, this movie was directed by Gerry O’Hara (The Bitch, Fanny Hill) and written by Jill Hyem. Helen James (Susan Penhaligon, Patrick) wrecks her car in the small English town of Cumberland Falls and is rescued by a man hiding from the world, former race driver […]

Pai Wu Lang (Dragon Lee or Bruce Lei) — or the Silver Ninja — has come to town looking for the killer of his father but ends up learning that there are jewels hidden in this town. He also saves flower seller Xue Hua (Yuen Qiu, who studied at the Peking Opera School and master […]

Also known as The Town That Cried Terror, Night Hunter,  Assault in Paradise and Maniac*, this was directed by Richard Compton (Angels Die Hard, Macon County Line, tons of episodic TV) and written by John C. Broderick (who wrote and directed The Warrior and the Sorceress; well, kind of…read my interview with William Stout) and Ronald Silkosky (The […]

An adaptation of the 1973 musical A Little Night Music, which was based on Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night, this seems like an odd film for New World to release. It was directed by Harold Prince, who spent most of his career directing for the stage. Despite negative reviews, Stephen Sondheim’s music and […]