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Movie Ad of the Week: The Many Faces of THE LAST VICTIM (1976)
World Premiere - Wednesday, June 23, 1976 - Bettendorf, IAJim Sotos' THE LAST VICTIM -- a low-budget, PG-rated thriller starring Tanya Roberts, Ron Max, and Nancy Allen -- had its world premiere at the...
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Movie Ads of the Week: TOWING (1978) a.k.a. WHO STOLE MY WHEELS (1979) and...
Almost seven years ago we did an Endangered List entry for Maura Smith's action comedy TOWING (Case File #94), a film worth revisiting since it's still MIA and we've recently found some better...
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Mystery Movie Solved! LOVE TIMES THREE (1973)
Acquired for the U.S. by Serafim Karalexis' United International Films and released by Howard Mahler, LOVE TIMES THREE opened in the NYC area on December 14, 1973 with a self-applied X (It was...
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Movie Ad of the Week: AFTER THE FALL OF NEW YORK (1984/1985)
Sergio Martino's 2019: AFTER THE FALL OF NEW YORK was scheduled for U.S. distribution by Almi Pictures in the fall of 1984, not long after the company had released Lucio Fulci's HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY...
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Movie Ad of the Week: DRAG-ON TOKER (1978)
The "high flying" and "hard hitting" kung fu joint called DRAG-ON TOKER (THE KUNG FU SMOKER) beat Cheech & Chong's UP IN SMOKE to theaters by at least six months. Here it is in Orangeburg, SC on...
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Movie Ad of the Week: THUNDER WARRIOR (1985)
The Italian action film THUNDER, filmed in Arizona and Utah in 1983, opened in two theaters in Nashville as THUNDER WARRIOR on August 30, 1985. The distributor, VPD International, was the short-lived...
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Mystery Movie Solved! THE BODY (1975-1980)
About a year and a half ago we put up a Mystery Movie post about THE BODY, an Independent Artists release from 1981 that we could find no additional information about. Some people wrote in and...
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Movie Ad of the Week: DELIRIUM (1979)
World Premiere - Friday, July 19, 1979 - St. Louis, MO
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Mystery Movies Solved! The Kung Fu Edition
In the past couple of years we've identified a number of martial arts movies that played in the U.S. under alternate titles, including LADY LEE'S REVENGE, BLACK BELT ANGELS, REVOLT OF KUNG FU LEE, KUNG...
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Movie Ad of the Week: MOONSHINE COUNTY EXPRESS a.k.a. THE HI-JACKERS (1977)
MOONSHINE COUNTY EXPRESS in Santa Rosa, CA on May 6, 1977Opened in New York as THE HI-JACKERS on September 21, 1977
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Movie Ad of the Week: NASHVILLE GIRL (1976) a.k.a. NEW GIRL IN TOWN (1977)...
NASHVILLE GIRL had its world premiere in Nashville on March 18, 1976Arrived in New York City on March 11, 1977 as NEW GIRL IN TOWNAfter COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER it was re-released by M&M Films as...
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Movie Ad of the Week: The Many Faces of RUCKUS (1980)
RUCKUS IN MADOC COUNTY in Cincinnati on July 24, 1980in Tallahassee on August 1, 1980as THE LONER in Fort Lauderdale and Miami one week later (August 8, 1980)as EAT MY SMOKE in San Antonio, TX on...
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Movie Ad of the Week: THE CHILD (1977) a.k.a. KILL AND GO HIDE! (1983)
The supernatural killer kid film THE CHILD opened in Austin, TX on March 4, 1977 through Harry Novak's Box-Office International. By September it was being paired with another Novak acquisition,...
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WHIPMASTER: BALLAD OF MURDER (1970)
The whip-cracking, karate-chopping blind gambler priest Ryotatsu (Bunta Sugawara), nemesis of Shinkai in the WICKED PRIEST series, is the main attraction in this one-shot spin-off that doesn't break...
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Movie Ad of the Week: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1981) aka THE BEING (1983/1984)
World Premiere - Friday, May 8, 1981 - Tucson, AZJackie Kong made her directorial debut with the horror film BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, starring Martin Landau, Jose Ferrer, Dorothy Malone, and Ruth Buzzi....
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DUEL AT FORT EZO (1970)
An excellent, action-packed adventure from Toho, set in 1864 and centered around a mission to locate a cache of gold and rescue the daughter of the Russian royal family. Both are being held in Fort Ezo...
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ZA KARATE aka BRONSON LEE, CHAMPION (1974)
In this first film in the ZA KARATE trilogy, Japanese-American martial artist Tadashi Yamashita (played by Japanese-American martial artist Tadashi Yamashita) travels to Kyoto to compete in a Budo...
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ZA KARATE 2 (1974)
Tadashi Yamashita is back as Tadashi Yamashita in the second of three ZA KARATE/THE KARATE movies. He's still blind from getting his eyes burned with a hot poker, which gives him the opportunity to do...
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Mystery Movies: Two from Group 1 Films
Brandon Chase's Group 1 Films (also known as V.I. Productions, Ltd. and BLC Services, Inc.) was a distribution company that specialized in sleazy European imports (AMUCK!, THE SENSUOUS THREE, NAZI LOVE...
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ZA KARATE 3 aka PERILS OF KARATE (1975)
This is the final movie in the absurd but thoroughly entertaining ZA KARATE trilogy starring Tadashi Yamashita as Tadashi Yamashita. At some point between parts two and three, Yamashita underwent...
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