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The Endangered List (Case File #165)
THESE PLEASURES CONDEMNED(1973)StarringMarsha JordanwithCaleb Goodman [Michael Pataki]Shannon LaneLola BabbetteFran MarlowSebastian GregoryJane LouiseProduced and DirectedbyJohn HayesReleased byClover...
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Movie Ads of the Week: THE HAUNTED WOMAN a.k.a. TATTOOED SWORDSWOMAN (1971)
Best known today as BLIND WOMAN'S CURSE, Teruo Ishii's weird yakuza horror pic KAIDAN NOBORI RYU, starring Meiko Kaji, opened at the Toho Theatre in Honolulu as THE HAUNTED WOMAN on September 22,...
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Movie Ad of the Week: Hideki Takahashi on stage
Nikkatsu contract actor Hideki Takahashi, star of the studio's popular Crest of a Man series, made guest appearances at the Nikkatsu Theatre in Honolulu during the weekend of April 1-3, 1966 to...
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The Endangered List (Case File #166)
THE MANICURIST(1975)StarringPennie Walter [Dyanne Thorne]withLola FrenchFlame FontaineMarsha JordanWritten and ProducedbyHarold Perkins[John Hayes]DirectedbyJohn HayesPhotographed byPaul HippReleased...
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KOGARASHI MONJIRO: WITHERED TREE and SECRET OF MONJIRO'S BIRTH (both 1972)
Vagabond gambler Monjiro (Bunta Sugawara) is tricked into serving time at Miyake Island penal colony for a yakuza killing he didn't commit, then escapes to track down the former friend who betrayed...
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Movie Ad of the Week: TRAP THEM AND KILL THEM (1984)
The Italian sexploitation cannibal flick EMANUELLE E GLI ULTIMI CANNIBALI/EMANUELLE AND THE LAST CANNIBALS (1977) was picked up for U.S. distribution in 1983 by Megastar Pictures of Queens, New York,...
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The Endangered List (Case File #167 )
DRAGONSPADE(1977)StarringChuck McNeil (Johnny Ace)Kathi Carey (Camile Giovanni)Linda Miller (Carrie Washington)Lance Calloway (Jelordie)Teddy Carey (Sylvia)withIsrael HicksNat MooreMichael LewisDon...
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Movie Ad of the Week: THE STUDENT BODY (1976) a.k.a. VALIUM HIGH (1978), WET...
There was an uncut Planet Video cassette of THE STUDENT BODY in the Temple library for many years -- a plastic clamshell case with a pink paper insert (looked kinda pretty) -- so we were never exposed...
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Mystery Movie Solved! HOUSE OF SHAME (1979)
A decade ago we posted a Mystery Movie entry about the "Double Dose" combo of "two smash shockers," both of which were mysteries to us, and six years later we learned that GIRLS IN BONDAGE, the latter...
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Movie Ad of the Week: QUEEN OF FIST and FIST ON THE WATERFRONT (both 1973)
The Taiwanese kung fu film SHAN DONG LAO NIANG (1973) opened in San Francisco as QUEEN OF FIST on October 24, 1973. The distributor, Pacific Grove Films, sold the film to Crown International...
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The Endangered List (Case File #168)
JINSEI GEKIJO (1972)aka THEATRE OF LIFEStarringMuga TakewakiJiro TamiyaHideki TakahashiTetsuya WatariYoshiko KayamaMitsuko BaishoHisaya MorishigeJunzaburo BanDirectedbyTai KatoScreenplaybyTai...
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Movie Ad of the Week: FUTUREKICK (1991)
The sci-fi kickboxer pic FUTUREKICK, starring Don "The Dragon" Wilson, opened at the Ford Wyoming Drive-In in Detroit on September 6, 1991 -- 29 years ago today!
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Movie Ad of the Week: DANGEROUS GAME (1990)
Stephen Hopkins' first feature film, shot in 1987, didn't reach the U.S. until 1990 -- a year after A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5: THE DREAM CHILD was released and shortly before his major studio...
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Movie Ad of the Week: THE DIRT GANG (1972) a.k.a. FAT MOMMA (1973)
The ad above is from the December 1, 1972 opening of THE DIRT GANG in El Paso, TX. Below... ...the same film's release in Boston as FAT MOMMA on March 21, 1973.
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Movie Ads of the Week: Budd Boetticher in '72
Budd Boetticher's last two films, both shot several years earlier, finally saw the light of projectors in 1972 (albeit in limited release). ARRUZA, his problem-plagued, decade-in-the-making documentary...
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Movie Ad of the Week: ARNIS - THE STICK OF DEATH (1980)
World Premiere - Friday, May 2, 1980 - Santa Rosa, CA
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Movie Ads of the Week: SPINN'IN WHEELS and FREEWHEELIN' (both 1976)
FREEWHEELIN', from Irwin Yablans' short-lived Turtle Releasing Corp., opened in Tallahassee, FL on September 17, 1976 and has been touted by some as the first feature film about skateboarding....
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The American Dreamer and the Heyday of Campus Film Programming
The American Dreamer and the Heydayof Campus Film Programmingby Chris Poggiali“Film is what’s happening on campus” was a claim that 16mm rental company Ivy Film made in its advertisements in the early...
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Movie Ad of the Week: DAGGER DOLLS plus DRACULA'S BLOODY REVENGE (1999)
Whatever movies DAGGER DOLLS and DRACULA'S BLOODY REVENGE are, they were showing on video projection in the main auditorium of the notorious Fair Cinema in Queens the week of March 28 to April 1, 1999.
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Movie Ad of the Week: SHOGUN DRAGON (1981)
Shortly after the TV miniseries SHOGUN grabbed the highest weekly Nielsen ratings in NBC's history in September 1980, the Taiwanese production LIU XING FEI YING (1980), a.k.a. THE ROVING HEROES and...
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