Embassy

Embassy

Embassy

A Russian spy penetrates into the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon to try to kill a Soviet defector under asylum there.

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Rating: N/A
Directed By: Gordon Hessler
Written By: Stephen Coulter (novel), William Fairchild (screenplay)
Released: 1972
Runtime: 90 minutes

Cast

Richard Roundtree as Richard ‘Dick’ Shannon
Chuck Connors as Keston
Marie-Jose Nat as Laure
Ray Milland as Ambassador
Broderick Crawford as Frank Dunniger
Max Von Sydow as Gorenko

Plot

A Russian spy penetrates into the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon to try to kill a Soviet defector under asylum there.

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Four Dimensions of Greta

Four Dimensions of Greta

Four Dimensions of Greta

Hans a young German journalist arrives in London to write an article about au-pair girls.

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Genre: Comedy
Rating: 18
Directed By: Pete Walker
Written By: Murray Smith
Released: 1972
Runtime: 85 minutes

Cast

Tristan Rogers as Hans Weimar
Karen Boyes as Sue
Alan Curtis as Carl Roberts
Leena Skoog as Greta Gruber
Robin Askwith as Roger Maidment
Bill Maynard as Big Danny

Plot

Hans a young German journalist arrives in London to write an article about au-pair girls, but is requested by friends to investigate the whereabouts of their teenage daughter Greta.

He interviews four individuals who all paint distinctly different pictures of the missing girl – each revealing a different aspect or dimension. These reminiscences constitute the film’s 3-D sequences.

Hans finally tracks down Greta and discovers she has been kidnapped by an East End gangster.

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Girl Stroke Boy

Girl Stroke Boy

Girl Stroke Boy

The straight laced parents of a young boy who has, until now, shown no interest in the opposite sex, are surprised when he comes home with a girl/boy from the West Indies.

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rating: X
Directed By: Bob Kellet
Written By: Caryl Brahms, David Percival, Ned Sherrin
Released: 1971
Runtime: 86 minutes

Cast

Joan Greenwood as Lettice Mason
Michael Hordern as George Mason
Clive Francis as Laurie
Peter Straker as Jo Delaney
Patricia Routledge as Pamela Hovendon
Peter Bull as Peter Hovendon

Plot

The straight laced parents of a young boy who has, until now, shown no interest in the opposite sex, are surprised when he comes home with a girl/boy from the West Indies.

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Images

Images

Images

A schizophrenic housewife unknowing if the demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.

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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Rating: X
Directed By: Robert Altman
Written By: Robert Altman, Susannah York (novel)
Released: 1972
Runtime: 104 minutes

Cast

Susannah York as Cathryn
Rene Auberjonois as Hugh
Marcel Bozzuffi as Rene
Hugh Millais as Marcel
Cathryn Harrison as Susannah

Plot

Wealthy housewife and children’s author Cathryn (Susannah York) receives a series of disturbing and eerie phone calls in her home in London one dreary night. The female voice on the other end suggests mockingly to her that her husband Hugh (René Auberjonois) is having an affair.

Cathryn’s husband comes home, finding her in complete disarray. Hugh attempts to comfort her, but then he is gone, and she sees a different man who is behaving as if he were her husband. She screams in horror and backs away, only to see her vision of the figure revert to her husband.

Hugh attributes her outburst to stress and her budding pregnancy. He decides to take a vacation to the countryside at an isolated cottage. But as she dwells there, Cathryn delves into darker delusions as the stranger returns, and she finds it difficult to determine what is reality and what is in her mind.

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Murphy’s War

Murphy’s War

Murphy’s War

A lone survivor from a British naval ship is obsessed with getting revenge on a German U-boat crew that massacred his shipmates in the water.

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Genre: Drama, War
Rating: 12
Directed By: Peter Yates
Written By: Max Catto (novel), Stirling Silliphant (screenplay) 
Released: 1971
Runtime: 107 minutes

Cast

Peter O’Toole as Murphy
Siân Phillips as Dr. Hayden
Philippe Noiret as Louis Brezon
Horst Janson as Commander Lauchs, German Submarine Captain
John Hallam as Lieutenant Ellis, Seaplane Pilot from RNMS Mount Kyle
Ingo Mogendorf as Lieutenant Voght, Submarine Executive Officer

Plot

In the closing days of World War II, Irishman Murphy (Peter O’Toole) is the sole survivor of the crew of a merchant ship, Mount Kyle, which has been sunk by a German U-boat, which then machine-gunned the survivors in the water. Murphy makes it ashore (to a missionary settlement on the Orinoco in Venezuela) where he is treated by a pacifist Quaker doctor, Dr Hayden (Siân Phillips).

When he discovers the U-boat is hiding further up river, under the cover of the jungle, he sets about obsessively plotting his revenge to sink it by any means, including using a surviving Grumman J2F Duck floatplane from the Mount Kyle. The floatplane had been recovered, the wounded pilot later being shot dead in his hospital bed by the U-boat captain, in order to preserve the secret of the sub’s location and, presumably, its action in shooting survivors in the water.

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