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- April 1, 2023
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Peter Brown and Ahna Capri star as wildlife photographers, exploring the Amazon jungle. The two shutterbugs run afoul of homicidal hunter William Smith. In Most Dangerous Game fashion, the villain gives Brown and Capri a head start, then begins hunting them down like wild animals. The title is something of a giveaway: it’s a safe bet that somebody’s body will be picked clean by those omniverous Amazon piranhas. Filmed on location, Piranha Piranha received plenty of TV play after Jaws opened the floodgates of “death from the deep” flicks.
- April 1, 2023
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Italian director Tonino Ricci helmed this 1974 snowbound adventure film about a young boy in danger and the courageous wolf who comes to his rescue.
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The story of three Las Vegas showgirls, each at a different stage in her career.
- April 1, 2023
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- Comments Off on Piranha, Piranha 1972
Peter Brown and Ahna Capri star as wildlife photographers, exploring the Amazon jungle. The two shutterbugs run afoul of homicidal hunter William Smith. In Most Dangerous Game fashion, the villain gives Brown and Capri a head start, then begins hunting them down like wild animals. The title is something of a giveaway: it’s a safe bet that somebody’s body will be picked clean by those omniverous Amazon piranhas. Filmed on location, Piranha Piranha received plenty of TV play after Jaws opened the floodgates of “death from the deep” flicks.
- April 1, 2023
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- Comments Off on If You Meet Sartana, Pray for Death 1968
After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise attacks a murderous double-crosses leaves the coach’s strongbox in the hands of the killer Lasky. It is up to the legendary hero Sartana to track down the missing money and determine just who is ultimately behind the grisly robberies and killings.
- April 1, 2023
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- Comments Off on Pride of Jesse Hallam 1981
Jesse Hallam, an illiterate coal miner from Kentucky, moves to Cincinnati so that his daughter may receive spinal surgery. Determined to support his family in the city, he decides he must learn how to read and write as an adult, and resolves to graduate from high school.
- April 1, 2023
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- Comments Off on Swiss Conspiracy, The 1975
Janssen is hired to protect customers with large accounts at a bank but there’s a cat-and-mouse game at work.
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- Comments Off on God Told Me to 1976
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that “God told them to.”