And God Said to Cain (1970)
Gary Hamilton (Klaus Kinski!) is released from ten years of hard labor with a pardon for a crime he didn’t commit, so he does what any insane character played by Kinski would do. He sets out to kill everyone who ever did him wrong. This movie comes from director Antonio Margheriti, who we all know […]
Adios Sabata (1970)
Known in Italy as Indio Black, sai che ti dico: Sei un gran figlio di (Indio Black, you know what I’m going to tell you… You’re a big son of a…), this is the second Sabata entry for director Gianfranco Parolini but switches out the lead role of Sabata. This time, Yul Brynner is the […]
Musical Mutiny (1970)
Barry Mahon is magic. And madness, too. After volunteering for the Canadian Royal Air Force before America entered World War II, then getting shot down, imprisoned and escaping Stalag Luft III before getting captured again, then being saved by Patton’s 3rd Army and then becoming Errol Flynn’s personal pilot and manager, Mahon’s life was already […]
A Quiet Place to Kill (1970)
Umberto Lenzi and Carroll Baker made quite the giallo duo. Their 1969 pairing Orgasmo had been released internationally as Paranoia and this film, known as Paranoia in Italy, was retitled A Quiet Place to Kill. That’s not the end of the confusion, as this year Severin will release this on their Lenzi/Baker box set and Mondo Macabro […]
The Weekend Murders (1970)
Known in Italy as Concerto per Pistola Solista (Concert for Solo Gun), this Michele Lupo (Arizona Colt) film takes place in England instead of the Italy we’ve come to depend on for our giallo adventures. As a family comes to an estate for the reading of the will of Henry Carter, Second Earl of Vale, and get […]
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970)
Luther Davis wrote Across 110th Street and this nihilistic TV movie, originally airing October 13, 1970. It’s directed by Walter Grauman, who was behind more than fifty episodes of Murder, She Wrote. What a cast — from Jay C. Flippen (a former blackface vaudevillian known as “The Ham What Am”), Martin E. Brooks (Dr. Rudy Welles from The Six […]
How Awful About Allan (1970)
Along with What’s the Matter With Helen?, this movie is one of the two collaborations between writer Henry Farrell and director Curtis Harrington. It was the ABC Movie of the Week on September 22, 1970 and has stood the test of time as one of the better TV movies. And there’s some stiff competition for that. […]
Santo and Blue Demon Against the Monsters (1970)
Lucha libre is to American pro wrestling as a movie like Alucarda is to an American possession film. Sure, they’re in the same category, but they’ve gone off into their own strange world where reality — the things we know and see and believe every single day — no longer exists. Lucha takes the Catholic […]
Gamera vs. Jiger (1970)
Known as Gamera tai Daimajū Jaigā in Japan, or Gamera vs. Giant Devil Beast Jiger, this is the sixth Gamera film. In the U.S., it was released straight to television under the name Gamera vs. Monster X. The American version contains stock footage from Gamera vs. Guiron and Gamera vs. Barugon to extend the movie’s release time. […]
House of Dark Shadows (1970)
Dark Shadows was a phenomenon. As such, producer and creator Dan Curtis started pitching a feature-length TV movie from 1968 onwards, seeing it as a big cultural deal that needed to be capitalized on. The original idea was to edit together old episodes of the show, but soon, the idea to tell the entire Barnabas […]
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