jed-1's - Rented List
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The Whip and the Body (1963)La frusta e il corpo
The sadistic Kurt Menliff (Christopher Lee) returns to claim his title from his ailing father; and also turns his eye to reclaiming his former lover, Nevenka (Daiiah Lavi). Unfortunately, Nevenka is now married to Kurt's younger brother Christian (Luciano Stella). When Kurt is savagely murdered, there is no shortage of suspects, but Nevenka's claims that Kurt's spirit has returned from the grave to both torment and carry on their sadistic sex fantasies... - Director:
- Mario Bava
- Cast:
- Daliah Lavi, Christopher Lee, Tony Kendall
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Trouble brews beneath the exotically curved towers of Istanbul when the equally exotic - and equally curved - Elizabeth Lipp (Melina Mercouri) recruits her former lover (Maximilian Schell) in a scheme to heist the pride of the city's Topkapi museum: a jewel-encrusted dagger. But the "job" soon turns into a high-tension, high-wire performance - literally - when the bumbling fall guy (Peter Ustinov) and other amateurs they've hired as help find they'll have to lift their prize while dangling from the museum's vaulted ceiling! - Director:
- Jules Dassin
- Cast:
- Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell
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Red Desert (1964)Il Deserto rosso
Red Desert (Il Deserto Rosso) once more combines the considerable talents of director Michelangelo Antonioni and star Monica Vitti. Cast as Giuliana, an unhappy wife, Vitti suffers from an unnamed form of depression and malaise. Her quicksilver emotional shifts disturb everyone around her, but they, like she, pretend that nothing is truly wrong. British engineer Corrado Zeller (Richard Harris) seems to understand what Giuliana is really after in life, and he acts upon it by entering into an affair with the troubled woman. Giuliana eventually comes to terms with her physical and mental pain, but this hardly means that she's "cured" in the conventional sense. - Director:
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Cast:
- Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti
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