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Game Show Models (1977)Teenage Models
A group of well-endowed young women go through a number of auditions to be selected as "pointers" and "hand holders" on a popular television game show. Those that make the cut must then deal with a bunch of libidinous producers, hosts and guests. The supporting cast includes Dick Miller as a game show host, Sid Melton as a publicist, Los Angeles Times film critic Charles Champlin as himself and cult-movie actress Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith, - Director:
- David N. Gottlieb
- Cast:
- Gilbert DeRush, Rae Sperling, John Vickery
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Two horror films directed by Jean-Paul Ouellette. Join H.P. Lovecraft on a terrifying journey through past and present.
The Unnamable (1988)The time is now. The setting is Winthrop house, believed to be haunted for the past 300 years. It is rumored that Joshua Winthrop was horribly murdered and mutilated by the creature born of his wife. Meanwhile, college students at nearby Miskatonic university decide to disprove the rumors by spending the night in the house. They are later joined by Carter who now takes the legends more seriously when he learns that his buddy has disappeared there. Together, they come face to face with the unspeakably horrifying creature. Hearts pound and pulses race as it stalks their every step. Who will live and who will die? Don't miss the incredible climax when the nightmare comes to life in...The Unnamable.
The Unnamable Returns (1992)
Randolph Carter (Mark Kinsey Stephenson) is investigating a series of bizarre murders at Miskatonic university. The evidence leads back to a 17th century warlock whose experiments with quantum physics summoned a force from another dimension. Deep in the earth lives Alyda - half woman, half demon. She wants to return to the mortal plane. Able to warp space and time, she claims a new victim at every turn. With the help of an eccentric professor (John Rhys-Davies), Carter uses modern science and ancient ritual to fight this supernatural creature - The Unnamable.- Director:
- Jean-Paul Ouellette
- Cast:
- Charles Klausmeyer, Mark Kinsey Stephenson, Alexandra Durrell
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Gay Lawrence (George Sanders), known as "The Falcon", is a renowned sleuth and womanizer. He has just promised his fiancee, Elinor, that he will give up these pursuits when a pretty woman, Helen (Wendy Barrie), arrives and asks for his help. Happily forgetting his vow, The Falcon agrees to take on the case. With his associate, Goldy (Allen Jenkins), and Elinor (Nina Vale), The Falcon attends a gala party thrown by a prominent socialite, Maxine Wood. During the party, a valuable diamond belonging to Mrs. Gardiner is stolen, and Mrs. Gardiner is murdered. Gay deduces that the theft is really a clever scheme on the part of a group of impoverished society women to defraud their insurance companies. Maxine asks The Falcon to break up the ring but this proves easier said than done when there are more murders and the Falcon himself is nearly killed... - Director:
- Irving Reis
- Cast:
- George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Allen Jenkins
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"The Company" follows the complex lives, loves, dramas and triumphs of a company of aggressively talented dancers over a season at the world-renowned Joffrey Ballet. At the centre of this ensemble is Ry (Neve Campbell) a tough, gifted and dedicated dancer, pushed to her physical and emotional limits by the flamboyant and charismatic choreographer and company director Mr. A (Malcolm McDowell). As the season unfolds, egos collide and insecurities take over as the art of ballet becomes a war of attrition. In characteristic Altman style and envisioning the world of ballet as only he could, "The Company" serves as a love letter to artists who work in this singularly difficult and universally expressive medium. The film glides seamlessly through the array of dedicated and troubled characters, through the complex company politics, through the auditions, rehearsals and finally to the performances, which the company hopes makes all their sacrifices worth the pain and suffering they have to endure. - Director:
- Robert Altman
- Cast:
- Neve Campbell, James Franco, Malcolm McDowell
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All the kids in town are dying to play the hot new video game Arcade. Trouble is once you play the game you can kiss reality good-bye. Arcade has seven levels of excitement, adventure and terror for its players. The game transports you to another world with its stunning graphics, thrilling sound effects, and virtual reality simulation. It is the ultimate experience in a video game. But excitement like this doesn't come cheaply - when you battle with Arcade you're putting your life on the line. The kids have accepted the challenge and are absorbed into the game. Only Alex (Megan Ward) realizes that their mysterious disappearances are linked to Arcade. She must battle the game, alone. Too bad she's never been very good at games... - Director:
- Albert Pyun
- Cast:
- Megan Ward, Peter Billingsley, John de Lancie
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When a petty crook promises him a million pounds - and then turns up dying on his doorstep - Simon Templar realises he's in for one of the strangest and most dangerous cases of his career. The dying man mentions a criminal mastermind named 'The Tiger' and a tantalising clue to his location... and soon the Saint and his faithful manservant Horace are on a tiger hunt - in deepest, darkest Cornwall! The Tiger himself remains strangely elusive, but as Simon Templar mingles with Cornwall's high society he soon finds a pretty girl (Jean Gillie) and some dirty rotten bankers intent on swindling her out of her land rights. As the bullets start to fly and the double crosses come thick and fast, The Saint must uncover the connection between the girl's supposedly worthless land, some old smuggler's tunnels and a fortune in gold bullion from a recent bank robbery in Bristol! - Director:
- Paul L. Stein
- Cast:
- Hugh Sinclair, Jean Gillie, Gordon McLeod
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The Saint never abandons a friend, so when his old pal Inspector Henry Fernack (Jonathan Hale) of the New York Police Department is accused of corruption, Simon Templar takes the first cruise liner to the Big Apple to sort things out - his way. Teaming up with small time loser 'Pearly' Gates (Paul Guilfoyle), The Saint discovers that the biggest racketeering case in years has collapsed. With the head detective discredited and the star witness ruthlessly gunned down, all the mobsters have walked free... The trouble is, now those same mobsters are all coming down with fatal cases of lead poisoning - and Templar's friend Inspector Fernack is always at the scene of the crime. Is he out to settle the score personally? And just who is the mystery brunette (Wendy Barrie) with a habit of pulling a disappearing act whenever Templar saves her from trouble? As one murder follows another, The Saint is running out of time to crack his most baffling case... - Director:
- Jack Hively
- Cast:
- George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale
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This is a star studded, madcap comedy about the rivalry between class nerd Jay Jay Manners (Michael J. Fox) and rich kid Beau Middleton (Anthony Edwards). When Jay Jay falls for Beau's girl Beth (Nancy McKeon), war breaks out. Beth is obviously attracted to Jay Jay but his credibility is reduced to zero after a series of pranks and dirty tricks. The battle comes to a climax when Jay Jay challenges Beau to a car race. Pulling out all the stops our hero is determined to prove that nice guys don't always finish last. - Director:
- Rod Amateau
- Cast:
- Michael J. Fox, Nancy McKeon, Todd Bridges
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The hallway of City Hospital looks ordinary enough, until you sense that the walls are painted with odd combinations of colours, there are goldfish in one of the I.V. bottles, and there's a candy striper and an orderly cuddling under a sheet on a gurney. There's no question that love is in the air; doctors with doctors, nurses with doctors, patients with nurses, and so on. The complications of these romantic trysts make daytime television soaps look like child's play. This hospital's hospitable, where you see no blood, and the only real injury is a broken heart. - Director:
- Garry Marshall
- Cast:
- Michael McKean, Sean Young, Gary Friedkin
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Gay Lawrence (George Sanders) is the debonair and ruthless amateur detective known only as The Falcon. He learns that his brother Tom (Tom Conway) has been reported murdered on a ship arriving from South America. The Falcon swoops to investigate and stalks the would-be murderers before learning that his brother is still alive. His hunt leads him into murky waters with a variety of spies, spivs, and racketeers arriving into New York. The Falcon pursues the gangsters and comes off worse when protecting a diplomat, so the scene is set for the Falcon's mantle to be passed to his brother. When Tom takes over the case, his investigations lead to the doors of a fashion magazine and a ring of Nazi spies... - Director:
- Stanley Logan
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- George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
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Amy (Madchen Amick), a young college student, turns an ancient Aztec cloak into a party dress with disastrous results. Used in sacrificial ceremonies, the cloak transmits evil, supernatural powers to all who come into contact with it. As each member of Amy's family comes under the influence of the dress, the death toll mounts, until it is finally stolen by a mortuary assistant and the evil spreads to the entire neighbourhood. - Director:
- Tobe Hooper
- Cast:
- Mädchen Amick, Corey Parker, Daisy Hall
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In London, Fleet Street is going crazy. They've heard that Simon Templar (Hugh Sinclair), The Saint, is off on holiday to Switzerland with his close friend Monty Hayward (Arthur Macrae) and everyone wants the big scoop. What case is the famous adventurer really working on? Only intrepid lady reporter Mary Langdon (Sally Gray) manages to track him down - and soon wishes she hadn't. After a brutal murder, the Saint has come into the possession of a mysterious music box. It's a prize that has set a gang of Nazi agents on his trail, led by Rudolph Hauser (Cecil Parker). Now The Saint and his companions must escape from Switzerland aboard a speeding Alpine Express and somehow smuggle the music box to safety and home to the War Office... - Director:
- Leslie Fenton
- Cast:
- Hugh Sinclair, Sally Gray, Arthur Macrae
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All hell breaks loose when Jo Newton, a computer billionaire's daughter, downloads the evil 'Mangler' virus into her high school mainframe. The Mangler virus takes over the system as if it were alive. Faced with catastrophe, the students are forced to match their wits against the computer or face the reality of an excruciating electronic death. - Director:
- Michael Hamilton-Wright
- Cast:
- Philippe Bergeron, David Horner, Elizabeth Carol Savenkoff
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Charlie Chan In The Secret Service The World War II years, filled with espionage and spies of all sorts, were perfect for the foibles of Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler). And in this 1944 venture, America's Number One Chinese detective is enlisted by the Secret Service to find the person who murdered the inventor of a top-secret device.
Charlie takes his time as he investigates the case of a scientist murdered for devising a way to protect US forces from German U-boats. Bedeviled by a gaggle of eccentrics, his nervous assistant (Mantan Moreland) and his exuberantly in-the-way offspring (Benson Fong and Marianne Quon), Charlie must decide which of a houseful of guests is actually the plan-purloining Master Spy!
The Chinese Cat
Number Three Son Tommy comes to the aid of a damsel is distress - by offering Charlie Chan's services - in this top-notch whodunnit fare starring Sidney Toler and Benson Fong.
Leah Manning (Joan Woodbury) has never stopped searching for her father's murderer, although the police and the DA gave up long ago. And now, to add insult to injury, an expert criminologist has written a novel accusing her mother of the crime! Charlie's investigation leads him to a cutthroat gang of gem thieves out to steal a wealth of diamonds hidden in a porcelain Chinese cat!
The Jade Mask
Some families have reunions - this one has alibis! In this thrilling 1945 endeavour, Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) finds himself at odds with an entire family, any one of whom could be a killer!
Helped by his pseudo-intellectual Number Four Son (Edwin Luke) and his panicky assistant Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland), Charlie investigates the recent murder of a brilliant but much-loathed scientist (Frank Reicher) who invented a gas that makes wood as strong as steel. But the investigation is anything but elementary, as Charlie sleuths his way through suspicious scientists, sultry sisters, a silent cousin and a butler with a very stiff upper lip!
Meeting At Midnight
Released in 1944 as Black Magic, this unusually absorbing mystery was celebrated on the revival circuit, making it one of the best-known films of the series! Filled with fun spiritualist gags, like levitating hankies and gamboling skeletons, Meeting at Midnight is a rendezvous you'll want to experience again and again!
When Birmingham (Mantan Moreland) gets a job as a butler for the Bonner family, he doesn't know that they're con artists who specialize in trick seances. But things get really spooky when a murder occurs... and Charlie Chans daughter Frances becomes a suspect! Charlie (Sidney Toler)
surmises that nearly everybody has a motive - but even he doesn't yet realize how dangerous these ghoulish swindlers really are!
The Scarlet Clue
The unflappable Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) takes on a group of fast-track media types in this forties send-up of bad radio drama, snarling sponsors and tense thespians that also features Mantan Moreland and partner Ben Carter doing their classic nightclub routine - a Chan movie first!
A fatal mistake made by an impatient detective in Chans employ leads the master sleuth to a radio studio that is somehow connected to a radar operation in the same building. A bloody heel print, lethal cigarettes and an icy wind tunnel all provide Charlie with clues to a dastardly scheme to steal top-secret radar plans - out these suspects are experts at deceit. After all, it's their business!
The Shanghai Cobra
From the director of Kansas City Confidential and The Silencers comes this unusual Chan mystery. Containing a number of film noir elements unique to the series (such as a weary young detective, stark urban sets and a grown-up romance), The Shanghai Cobra is one of the most striking Chans of all!
Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is called in to investigate a strange and complicated series of mysterious murders by cobra venom. Soon Charlie, Number Three Son Tommy (Benson Fong) and ever-present assistan- Director:
- Phil Karlson
- Cast:
- Sidney Toler, Manton Moreland, Joan Barclay
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When the Falcon (Tom Conway) and his sidekick Goldie Locke (Edward Brophy) rescue an exotic Brazilian beauty (Madge Meredith) from kidnappers, they find themselves caught up in a deadly international conspiracy! The girl's uncle has perfected a formula for creating industrial diamonds - a priceless secret that ruthless gangsters are well prepared to kill for. In a desperate race against time, the Falcon and Goldie must jump a train from New York to Miami and deliver the formula to a friendly scientist. The gangsters are closing in fast and the Falcon is in for one of the greatest adventures of his crime-busting career! - Director:
- William Berke
- Cast:
- Tom Conway, Madge Meredith, Edward Brophy
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