Hercules Against the Mongols (1963)
The sons of the aging Genghis Khan jockey for position as the Polish kingdom prepares to try to wrest back the city of Tuleda, which is in Mongol hands. Bianca (José Greci), the rightful heir, has been raised ignorant of her status, while her father languishes in a Mongol dungeon. Bianca loves and is loved …
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Blonde Dynamite (Monogram, 1950)
As a new money-making venture, Slip (Leo Gorcey) and the boys turn Louie’s into an escort bureau, with the guys as the sophisticated escorts, while Louie (Bernard Gorcey) and his wife are away on vacation. They soon obtain some beautiful (and unlikely!) clients, including Joan Marshall (Adele Jergens), but the gals are part of a …
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Superbug – The Craziest Car in the World (1975)
It’s another road rally for Jimmy Bondi (Rudolf Zehetgruber) and Dudu, in Switzerland, where Dudu’s ability to fly comes in handy. At stake this time around are a hotel (whose one employee occupies a variety of roles) and an orphanage (on whose behalf two nuns, one played by Zehetgruber’s wife, Kathrin Oginski, enter the race). …
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The Smiling Ghost (WB, 1941)
Heiress Elinor Bentley Fairchild (Alexis Smith) has a problem: her fiancés encounter terrible fates, either dying or ending up crippled. Her desperate grandmother (Helen Westley) turns to a newspaper ad in an effort to attract another potential groom to serve as bait to break the apparent curse, and Lucky Downing (Wayne Morris), who doesn’t know …
Horror Express (1973)
Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee as rival scientists — one of whom has made a find of an ancient anthropoid that in fact (a) still has life and (b) is immensely evil — are the chief reasons to watch this horror film, originally titled Pánico en el Transiberiano, largely set upon a train traveling through …
Johnny Yuma (1966)
Several years before their costarring roles in The Great Treasure Hunt and The Devil’s Wedding Night, Mark Damon and Rosalba Neri appeared together in this western. Here, Neri plays Samantha Felton, who with her brother has murdered Damon’s uncle (her brother actually pulled the trigger); she now must eliminate her dead husband’s heir, Johnny Yuma …
Beyond the Living Dead (1973)
Slow pacing and some confusing storytelling undermine this horror film, originally titled La orgía de los muertos and better known, perhaps, in English as The Hanging Woman. After his uncle’s death, a young man journeys to the avuncular home and along the way discovers the body of a woman hanging in the cemetery, a woman …
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Super Xuxa Contra o Baixo Astral (1988)
In this weird fantasy movie, Xuxa’s dog Xuxo (a puppet) is kidnapped by Baixo Astral (“Bad Mood”), who wants to turn everyone gloomy, and especially Xuxa. She then goes on a quest to rescue her dog, making friends (often puppets) and facing strange obstacles along the way, and finding time for song as well. Perhaps …
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The Avenger (1962)
Aeneas (Steve Reeves) and his followers, refugees from the sack of Troy, seek a place to settle in the lands of King Latinus (Mario Ferrari), but though the monarch is willing, some of his allies — most notably the proud, hot-tempered Turnus (Gianni Garko), but also the warrior queen Camilla (Liana Orfei) — oppose giving …