EDITOR’S NOTE: Seven Golden Men was on the CBS Late Movie on June 19 and December 18, 1974 and July 23, 1975.

7 uomini d’oro was directed and co-written — with Mariano Ozores — by Marco Vicario. Albert the professor (Philippe Leroy) has six men as part of his gang — Adolf (Gastone Moschin), August (Giampiero Albertini), Aldo (Gabriele Tinti), Anthony (Dario De Grassi), Alfonso (Manuel Zarzo) and Alfred (Maurice Poli) — who are all from different counties and each have different skills. He has another secret weapon, his lover Giorgia (Rossana Podestà, who was married to Vicario and was Hera in the Cannon version of Hercules). They team up to rob the Swiss National Bank. Of course, the job goes to plan, but later, the six men are detained for their passports and Giorgia turns on her man, starting an affair with the bank manager in an attempt to make all the spoils for herself.

As for the gold they stole, well, it ends up as part of a truck crash. Everyone has to get over all of the double crosses, because now, it’s time to rob the Bank of Italy. That would be Il grande colpo dei uomini d’oro.

Speaking of crime, it was illegal to film in front of that Swiss bank. So they did it, no permits, and got it before everyone got busted.

You can watch this on YouTube.

EDITOR’S NOTE: So Fine was on the CBS Late Movie on April 26 and October 18, 1988.

“The Unknown King of Comedy,” Andrew Bergman wrote Blazing Saddles and The In-Laws, which led him to this movie, which wasn’t a success. He also made The Freshman, Big Trouble, Fletch, Oh, God! You Devil and Striptease. Not a bad career!

Bobby Fine (Ryan O’Neal) is a professor of English at Chippenango State College. The head of his department, Chairman Lincoln (Fred Gwyne), let’s him know that he’s up for tenure. Yet he soon discovers that his dress-making father Jack (Jack Warden) is millions in debt to a loan shark named Mr. Eddie (Richard Kiel), who sends his underlings Eddie’s henchmen (Tony Sirico and Michael LaGuardia) to collect. They take Bobby, who has agreed to run the company, and threaten him. He’s only interested in Mr. Eddie’s wife, Lira (Mariangela Melato, Kala from Flash Gordon).

Their infidelity leads to Bobby wearing a pair of her jeans as he escapes the mansion, fixing the ripped back with a piece of clear plastic. Buyers who see him think that he intended these jeans to look this way. Called So Fine Jeans — and giving men a view of butt — they become huge. Everything works out and Lira gets to do opera again, as Eddie is defeated.

Producer Michael Lobell had his firsthand experience in the garment industry, as his father made dresses and he made Mod clothes himself. He claimed that he told the idea of this to Bergman and costumer Santo Loquasto came up with the pants.

The results? Pauline Kael said that it was a “…visual insult: crudely lighted and framed, and jumping out at you.”

A Warner Bros. press release claimed that Gail Robinson of Denver, Colorado won a search to find ”the girl who best suited to wear a pair of So Fine Jeans.” The competition’s prize? To be in the movie. Nope. She’s not in it.

At least the pants almost got made. In 1996, Joanne Slokevage filed a patent for a garment rear that made cut-out areas on the rear of various bottom garments that could be revealed with a glap. The patent was unregisterable and in her filing, she did include information on the movie So Fine.

Well, OK at least they got Ennio Morricone to do the music.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Sol Madrid was on the CBS Late Movie on March 8 and November 9, 1972, September 26, 1973 and January 30, 1975.

Also known as The Heroin Gang and The Secret File of Sol Madrid, this is based on Fruit of the Poppy by Robert Wilder. Directed by Brian G. Hutton (Where Eagles Dare, Kelly’s Heroes) and written by David Karp, it stars Man from U.N.C.L.E.‘s David McCallum as the titular character.

Small-time crook Harry (Pat Hingle) is trying to escape with half a million dollars of stolen organized crime money, taking his girl, Stacey (Stella Stevens), to Madrid. Hitman Dano Villanova (Rip Torn, who replaced John Cassavetes, who was “sick” but really walked off the set; he would later say “Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.”) is hired to murder him, while drug dealer Emil Dietrich (Telly Savales) and a crooked cop named Jalisco (Ricardo Montalbán) are making a deal to move tons of heroin into the U.S. Sol Madrid must deal with all of them.

Anyway, this was supposed to be a Eurospy, but it doesn’t have the gadgets. It does have Stella Stevens.

You can watch this on YouTube.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Twilight of Honor was on the CBS Late Movie on February 16 and June 5, 1972, April 11, 1974 and January 14, 1976.

Boris Sagal directed The Omega Man and died while making the miniseries World War III when he got out of a helicopter the wrong way in the parking lot of the Timberline Hotel in Portland — where The Shining exteriors were filmed — and the blades hit him in the head. He died five hours later. He also made this movie, which was written by Henry Denker and based on the book by Al Dewlen.

David Mitchell (Richard Chamberlain) is a widowed lawyer in a small city in New Mexico who is called in to be the public defender for an alleged murderer named Ben Brown (Nick Adams) who has been charged with murder. He’s up against Norris Bixby (James Gregory), with whom he shares a mentor, Art Harper (Claude Rains). No one gives Ben a chance, not even David, as he’s already confessed to the crime and in a small town like this, no jury will listen to him.

Harper reveals that he’s the reason why David got the case, as he’s too ill to try the case, but thinks that Ben deserves justice. Art’s daughter, Susan (played by Joan Blackman, also known for her role in Pets), serves as his secretary and love interest; she has pined for him ever since he was married.

After meeting the wife of the defendant, Laura-Mae Brown (Joey Heatherton), David learns that she was abused by him and hopes he dies in the gas chamber. But what is the truth? Yes, Ben may have killed off-duty cop Cole Clinton (Pat Buttram), but the cop was making time with Mrs. Brown, which could make this a justifiable homicide. But since the town loves Clinton and most of his wealthy friends are serving on the jury, there’s no way this can be won.

Mrs. Clinton (Jeanette Nolan) asks to meet David and reveals that yes, her husband slept around. If he drops the adultery charge, she will ask for mercy for the accused. She wants to keep her daughter (Linda Evans) from finding out what kind of man her husband really was. The lawyer refuses.

The truth is complicated, especially given that Laura received the reward for turning in her husband and is now sleeping with a member of the state’s legal team. Ben may have his issues — being suicidal, maybe loving the wrong woman — but he’s not guilty.

Chamberlain was a big star from the Dr. Kildare TV show, so this was his first role on the screen. It was controversial, as the novel was considered too adult for the clean-cut actor. As for Nick Adams, he excels in this role and was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. He went on one of the highest-profile campaigns ever, but lost to Hud actor Melvyn Douglas. The public embarrassment led to Adams being offered fewer roles, an increase in the actor’s depression and may have played a role in him ending his life.

In the UK, this was renamed” The Charge Is Murder and was paired with Children of the Damned for one weird double!

You can watch this on YouTube.