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Hercules and the Captive Women/Hercules, Prisoner of Evil
»rank: 51203
0ur opinion:Description:Here's a double dose of mighty muscles courtesy of champion bodybuilder Reg Park as Hercules. ln his debut, Hercules and the Captive Women, Hercules and Androcles (Ettore Manni), the King of Tebes, journey to the island of Atlantis where the evil queen (Fay Spain) has hatched a diabolical plan for world domination. Filmed on a particularly lavish scale, this was the only Hercules film photographed in 7Omm; this stunning widescreen presentation preserves its sumptuous spectacle for your home viewing enjoyment. Then Reg and Ettore return ...
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God's Little Acre
»rank: 33839
0ur opinion: :Hard to believe that Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre was, for years, the bestselling novel ever published. This 1958 film adaptation gives little reason for that status, being a curiously inert combination of sweaty Southern passion and rustic comedy. Thanks to director Anthony Mann's exacting eye for outdoor photography, the film is a pleasure to look at, and Elmer Bernstein's score makes it swell to listen to. Robert Ryan, always good at obsessives, plays a patriarch convinced gold is buried on his farm. He's aided ...
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God's Little Acre
»rank: 68958
0ur opinion: :Hard to believe that Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre was, for years, the bestselling novel ever published. This 1958 film adaptation gives little reason for that status, being a curiously inert combination of sweaty Southern passion and rustic comedy. Thanks to director Anthony Mann's exacting eye for outdoor photography, the film is a pleasure to look at, and Elmer Bernstein's score makes it swell to listen to. Robert Ryan, always good at obsessives, plays a patriarch convinced gold is buried on his farm. He's aided ...
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Teenage Doll
»rank: 81805
0ur opinion:Description:Hot gang chicks, street punks, murder, wild sex and sadism are the key ingredients in this stylish 195O's teenage gangster film about a good girl in bad company who sets off a gang war by accidently killing a beat girl from the other side of the tracks. Produced and directed by Roger Corman!
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Al Capone
»rank: 167368
0ur opinion:Description:ln this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone (Rod Steiger) comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest 'business,' but moves inexorably toward his downfall and ignominious end. :Rod Steiger. That's why you need to see this well-crafted but otherwise undistinguished biopic of America's most iconic gangster. Produced for Allied Artists (the upscale version of Monogram, the ...
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Hercules and the Captive Women (1961)
»rank: 194967
0ur opinion:Description:ln this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone (Rod Steiger) comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest 'business,' but moves inexorably toward his downfall and ignominious end. :Rod Steiger. That's why you need to see this well-crafted but otherwise undistinguished biopic of America's most iconic gangster. Produced for Allied Artists (the upscale version of Monogram, the ...
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The Naked Zoo
»rank: 130619
0ur opinion:Description:ln the twilight of her screen career, Rita Hayworth appeared in this William Grefe ('Sting of Death') production, playing the adulterous wife of a wheelchair-bound rich man who has an affair with a young writer. When hubby finds out, he's accidentally sh
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Hercules and the Captive Women (1961)
»rank: 158493
0ur opinion:amazon.com:The ever intrepid world-trotting hunk of a man Herc (Hercules to those who are not his friends) saves a beautiful maiden from the hands of an evil creature. She takes him to her home, Atlantis. Herc kicks some butt and saves her from her mother who wants to kill her and from some scary looking blond guys but unfortunately the rest of the inhabitants are destroyed. Do not worry because Herc escapes along with his son, the maiden and an annoying midget.
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Hercules and the Captive Women [Region 2]
»rank: 226457
0ur opinion:amazon.com:The ever intrepid world-trotting hunk of a man Herc (Hercules to those who are not his friends) saves a beautiful maiden from the hands of an evil creature. She takes him to her home, Atlantis. Herc kicks some butt and saves her from her mother who wants to kill her and from some scary looking blond guys but unfortunately the rest of the inhabitants are destroyed. Do not worry because Herc escapes along with his son, the maiden and an annoying midget.
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