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Yong-sik Yu – Anakiseuteu Anarchists aka The Anarchists (2000)

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Klaus Lemke – 48 Stunden bis Acapulco AKA 48 Hours to Acapulco (1967)

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A German film and the debut film by Klaus Lemke from 1967.

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Torn between a life with an industrialist’s daughter and the jet-set beauty Monica, Frank decides to stake everything on one card. He adapts a gangster life-style based on his American B-movie heroes, as Monica helps him plan to ransom information stolen from the industrialist. The longing for the great adventure drives him to Rome and Acapulco, and finally to his fate on the beaches of the Caribbean Sea.






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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

Yasuzô Masumura – Heitai yakuza AKA Hoodlum Soldier (1965)

Sam Peckinpah – Convoy [+Extras] (1978)

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SYNOPSIS: While driving through the Arizona desert, Albuquerque based independent trucker Martin Penwald – who goes by the handle “Rubber Duck” – along with his fellow truckers “Pig Pen” and “Spider Mike”, are entrapped by unscrupulous Sheriff Lyle “Cottonmouth” Wallace using a key tool of the trucker’s trade, the citizens’ band (CB) radio. Rubber Duck and Cottonmouth have a long, antagonistic history. When this encounter later escalates into a more physical one as Cottonmouth threatens Spider Mike, a man who just wants to get home to his pregnant wife, Rubber Duck and other the truckers involved, including Spider Mike, Pig Pen and “Widow Woman”, go on the run, figuring the best thing to do being to head to New Mexico to avoid prosecution. Along for the ride is Melissa, a beautiful photographer who just wanted a ride to the airport. As news of what happened spreads over the CB airwaves, other truckers join their convoy as a show of support. Cottonmouth rallies other law enforcement officers …







Extras Include:
(All of the extra features here have apparently been ported over from a previous American DVD release)
French and German subtitles
1) Injokes, Friends And Cameos (5:44)
2) Passion and Poetry (doc – making of) (70:02)
3) Three Lost Scenes (5:33)
4) Trucker Notes From Norway (3:04)

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William Witney – I Escaped from Devil’s Island (1973)

Doris Wishman – The Immoral Three (1975)

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Three sexy women, raised separately as orphans, are summoned to a funeral, where they learn that they are in fact sisters and that the dead woman was their mother. The latter had been a secret agent – the notorious Double Agent 73 (a reference to Wishman’s earlier “Chesty Morgan” flicks) – who had been murdered in the line of duty. (The actress shown playing her in flashback bears very little resemblance to that formidably proportioned actress-stripper, especially at the bust level — but of course, who could?). She had used her feminine wiles (if you know what I mean) to seduce and betray enemy agents, but was rather careless in executing this modus operandi – the unwanted daughters being one of the job hazards. The executor of the will tells the girls that they can inherit a cool million each as long as they can track down their mother’s killer within one calendar year. Plenty of absurd violence and nudity ensues.

Fans of her earlier work may be surprised at the relatively large budget Wishman must have had at her disposal for this one. It’s in living colour, we actually see people’s mouths move while they talk (though out-of-sync in most cases), and one of the sequences may actually have been filmed in Las Vegas (mixed with plenty of stock footage, of course). The women are better looking than usual – two have voluptuous 50s- style exotic dancer proportions, but lithe “Sandy” wouldn’t be out of place in a Playboy movie today (except for her obviously natural bust). Of course, the men are generally horrid – probably investors getting in on the “action”.

But don’t be deterred – the film shows all the earmarks (and other body parts) that we’ve come to cherish — canned lounge music cues, crass set decoration (now in hideous day-glo colour!), closeups of feet, aimless scenes of cars driving and pedestrians walking, and most of all, a complete lack of logic in how the characters act. The women’s threads are dropped at random, and they alternate between abruptly seducing some lucky(?) male passer-by and being sexually assaulted by others. The prop master uses a couple of covered card tables laid end-to-end for the coffin and a cardboard box for the back of a picture frame; another photo has a bra hastily drawn over the breasts of the protagonist with a black magic marker. When the girls are skinny dipping, one of them does a handstand in the water (all the better to reveal her assets), and judging by the wobbly pose and quick cutaway, the lifeguard probably had to drag her off the bottom of the pool a split second after the shot.




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Menahem Golan – Mivtsa Yonatan aka Entebbe: Operation Thunderbolt (1977)

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Plot Outline :
In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons. After much debate, the Israeli government sent an elite commando unit to raid the airfield and release the hostages. The film is based on the true facts and follows the events since the flight’s takeoff and until the hostages’ return to Israel.








Kult-Movies Review :
In 1977, the US and Canada hastily put out two films detailing the almost unbelievable Israeli hostage rescue mission at the Ugandan Entebbe airport in 1976. These two star-laden epics were Victory at Entebbe (with Richard Dreyfuss, Elizabeth Taylor, and Burt Lancaster) and the much better Raid on Entebbe (with Charles Bronson, John Saxon, and James Woods). The Israeli government was none-too-satisfied with either of these films, and hence put the stamp of approval on a mega-budgeted project headed up by Israel’s star director Menehem Golan, who later went on to create the Golan-Globus/Cannon Group, which funded such films as The Barbarians, The Assisi Underground, The Seven Magnificent Gladiators, and Hercules, among many, many others.

Basically the plot is the same as the other two films, though it does focus a lot more on the airplane hijacking and less on the strategy of the Israeli military. Some Palestinian terrorists take over an Air France jetliner and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda, where the sympathetic dictator allows the terrorists to hold the 100+ Jewish hostages until the Israeli government releases several terrorists from prison. Of course, the Israeli government is not in the mood to mess around, and quickly puts together a complicated and daring night-time raid on the airport in which they saved almost all of the hostages and killed all 12 terrorists as well as an untold number of Ugandan soldiers.

Using the same airport set as Raid on Entebbe, Operation Thunderbolt outshines the other films with its absolutely intense build-up and fast-paced action scenes. In addition to several well-known Israeli actors, Operation Thunderbolt features a cast of familiar euro-trash actors such as Klaus Kinski and Sybil Danning. Yitsak Rabin, Shimon Peres, and much of the real-life Israeli cabinet appear as themselves as do 13 of the original hostages! The acting may not be the greatest in the world, but it’s about as close to authentic as you can get. My only disappointment here is with the many undeveloped plot threads and red herrings, and Kinski is unsurprisingly in the film for very little. Also for some reason the film has a lot of extended foreign-language dialog scenes with no subtitles, leaving the casual English-speaking viewer wonder what the hell they’re talking about.

This is a great movie though. It makes great use of the rich Dov Seltzer musical score to slowly build up to the explosive finale which is edited well enough to feel like a real firefight. Yoni’s death is captured much better and more realistic than either of the other two films, made all the more poignant with Seltzer’s extremely memorable music. This film also has some very interesting photography, although firmly footed in 70’s style, it only adds to the fun. It’s a hard movie to find, but more than worth it!

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Bob Kelljan – Black Oak Conspiracy (1977)

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Black Oak Conspiracy stars Jesse Vint (Forbidden World) as Jingo Johnson, a struggling Hollywood stunt man who comes back home after hearing his mother is sick. He is greeted by his friend Homer (Seymour Cassel) and is saddened to find that the old girlfriend he left behind (who is also Homer’s sister) is now going out with local rich kid Harrison Hancock. Jingo also finds out that his mother signed over her house in return for medical care and that the house is going to be demolished. Jingo soon discovers that there is corruption going on in town and it is up to him to stop it.

Black Oak Conspiracy is another wonderfully enjoyable slice of Down Home, Southern, Good Ol’ Boy Action. Jesse Vint proved to be perfect for the role after starring in Macon County Line. He is tough and very charismatic. Also starring Albert Salmi as the corrupt sheriff, Karen Carlson as Jingo’s love interest, one of my favorites Seymour Cassel as Homer and Robert F. Lyons as the sniveling Harrison Hancock, Black Oak Conspiracy is a blast from start to finish. The film has lots of action, some comedy and great stuntwork. The story, though a little predictable in some parts, had a lot of momentum and didn’t let up until the end credits. Black Oak Conspiracy was easily one of my favorite of Shout!’s Roger Corman Cult Classics line.







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Masaki Kobayashi – Seppuku aka Harakiri (1962)

Naji Abu Nowar – Theeb (2014)

Teruo Ishii – Bôhachi bushidô: Poruno jidaigeki AKA Bohachi: Clan of the Forgotten Eight [+Extras] (1973)

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To die is hell, but to live is also hell.

SUMMARY
Japanese cult movie guru Teruo Ishii (HORROR OF MALFORMED MEN; BLIND WOMAN’S CURSE) directs this deranged, over-the-top adaptation from the original manga by Kazuo Koike (creator of LONE WOLF AND CUB, LADY SNOWBLOOD and RAZOR HANZO) about a privileged samurai gang in charge of recruiting women for prostitution in old Edo’s pleasure quarter. It’s a perfect match for unapologetically decadent, phantasmagorical, softcore sex and bloody, sword-swinging sadism. Fascinating, brilliant and amoral, a tour through an ancient subculture obsessed with cruel, violent death and cruel, violent sex. Tetsuro Tanba (ZERO WOMAN: RED HANDCUFFS, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE) is a standout as the hardboiled mercenary swordsman caught in the middle between the sex slave business, the corrupt Shogunate and rival gangs. When he goes into action, blood sprays, and heads and limbs fly!

ABOUT THE FILM
Before one starts to discuss BOHACHI BUSHIDO as a film, it is necessary to examine the legacy of its manga creator Kazuo Koike, a legendary writer who generated some of the most unforgettable and most filmed) manga from 1960s/1970s in Japan. LONE WOLF AND CUB (Kozure Okami), LADY SNOWBL000 (Shure Yukihime), RAZOR HANZO (Goyo Kiba), DEMON SPIES (Oni wa Ban) and, more recently, CRYING FREEMAN, all sprang forth from Koike’s perverse and blood-drenched pen. BOHACHI BUSHIDO is one of Koike’s lesser known, shorter-lived manga series and relates the saga of a nihilistic, lone wolf rosin — played by Tetsuro Tanba in the film — alternately in alliance and at odds with the Bohachi, a degenerate clan of samural, yakuza samurai dedicated to vice, specifically sex slavery and opium traffic. Koike had previously depicted the Bohachi gang in one of the Lone Wolf and Cub manga installments (see the film, LONE WOLF AND CUB #3 — BABY CART TO HADES aka LIGHTNING SWORDS OF DEATH for a previous film reference — although the clan there is led by a woman, played by Yuko Hamada).

But unlike Toho Studio’s Koike pictures, especially the LONE WOLF AND CUB, RAZOR HANZO (both produced by Shintaro “Zatoichi” Katsu and LADY SNOWBL000 series, all of which made extensive use of evocative exterior locations, the film of BOHACHI BUSHIDO is largely setbound. Which is not to say it does not often look spectacular, despite its low budget. Toei Studio’s production designers and cinematographer Jubei Suzuki have abetted director Tero Ishii in conjuring up a phantasmagorically decadent, fever dream of a movie. Many of Ishii’s color-coordinated setpieces are dazzling, and — although not as well choreographed and shot as the LONE WOLF films (or star Tanba’s samurai films with director Hideo Gosha) — the sword action is still hypnotic. The other Koike manga series that have been filmed are all certifiable tall tales, but Ishii takes a significantly more tongue-in-cheek approach here. In comparison, the closest to which BOHACHI comes in tone would probably be the three RAZOR HANZO pictures with Shintaro Katsu as the ultra-endowed and oversexed samurai cop (RAZOR producer/star Katsu was also enamored of black R&B and was instrumental in proposing the incongruous, but bizarrely effective, SHAFT-style theme for the first installment of that series). Director Ishii does incorporate Koike’s trademark existential anguish that is so evident in the LONE WOLF and SNOWBLOOD sagas — to paraphrase, Tanba’s BOHACHI BUSHIDO character repeats a key bit of philosophy throughout, “To die is hell, but to live is also hell.” However, Ishii never takes it too seriously, and he purposely eschews the more serious historical/dramatic landscape that directors like Kenji Misumi brought to the LONE WOLF pictures. Ishii and screenwriter Susumu Saji pokes fun at Koike’s coldblooded, nihilist, angst-ridden characters and incorporates a visual style that is — to use that word again — positively phantasmagorical.

The world of Toho Studio’s Koike adaptations is also nightmarish and phenomenally gory, but, no matter how over-the-top, it is also rooted in some kind of recognizably real world. Ishii paints a had dream landscape of torture, cruelty, promiscuous sex and sudden death in BOHACHI BUSHIDO (much as it had appeared in the manga), but his approach is overtly artificial. Instead of real locations and the gritty, super-realism of the Toho pictures, Ishii brings the qualities of a garish, very well-mounted theatrical production to his effort. Visual tropes and motifs are endlessly repeated in different contexts. And when there is nudity — which is even more in evidence than flying heads and limbs and spurting blood — it is absurdly gratuitous, generated for no other reason than one’s dreamlike desire for immediate gratification. But what is so entertaining and ultimately satisfying about BOHACHI BUSHIDO is that, unlike Ishii’s FEMALE YAKUZA TALE (where he seemed to be out screwing around half of the time), Ishii obviously has taken time and care with his astonishing setpieces. Perhaps he felt he owed it to his friend and lead star Tanba. From Ishii’s own account, Tanba had purchased the rights to the manga and had personally asked Ishii to take on the project. Although Ishii claims he had originally not wanted to do it, Tanba finally convinced him and he acquiesced.

Veteran yakuza film actor, Tatsuo Endo, who made a long career out of playing villainous bosses and henchmen, is amusingly effective as the degenerate and duplicitous Bohachi leader. Goro Ibuki, another yakuza film regular, is Endo’s younger second-in-command. Actor lbuki, but not Tanba, would return the following year to appear in the follow-up, BOHACHI BUSHIDO — THE VILLAIN (Bohachi Bushido — Sa Burai, 1974), joined by the star of the GIRL BOSS (Sukeban) series and SEX AND FURY, Reiko Ike. That film was helmed by Takashi Harada. As an interesting side note, Ishii remarked, in a 1997 interview with this writer, that he had been totally unaware Toei Studios had mounted a sequel!

In the final analysis, BOHACHI BUSHIDO’s full title — which incorporates the phrase: Poruno Jidai-Geki or HISTORICAL PORNO STORY — aptly describes the content of the film. But it gives little evidence of what to expect — a mind-boggling hybrid of director Ishii’s fascination with the ero guru (erotic/grotesque) aspects of 19th century kabuki theater and Toei Studio’s burgeoning “Pinku Violence” genre, as evidenced by the likes of their ZERO WOMAN, FEMALE CONVICT SCORPION, GIRL BOSS and TERRIFYING GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL films. Ishii had directed an even mare effective blend of the elements the year before in THE RED SILK GAMBLER, starring Eiko Nakamura and Bunta Sugawara.

Chris D. on Discotek Media DVD

Extras:
– Interview with lead actress Yuriko Hishimi
– Interview with Pinku Violence expert J-Taro Sugisaku
– Commentary with J-Taro and Takao Nakano (as second audio track)

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Carlo Lizzani – Banditi a Milano AKA The Violent Four (1968)

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Description: As public outrage mounts against organized crime in modern-day Milan, four robbers meticulously plan a timed assault on several major banks within a period of 40 minutes. Led by the mastermind Cavallero, the men have pulled off other robberies in the past, keeping their identities secret by leading seemingly law-abiding lives. While making their getaway after one robbery, however, there is a slip-up, and the men must blast their way through the streets with submachine guns, killing several innocent bystanders in an effort to escape from the police. Three of the robbers escape, but a fourth, Rovoletto, is wounded and captured. The city is blockaded with the latest electronic devices, and police inspector Basevi questions Rovoletto, who finally breaks down. Lopez, the youngest gang member, is easily captured in his home, but Cavallero and Notarnicola evade the police dragnet. Before long, however, they are tracked down and cornered in an abandoned farmhouse. While being brought back to headquarters by Basevi, Cavallero boasts that his crimes have made him as famous as the Sicilian bandits of old, but he is shocked when a mob of irate citizens surround the police car, cursing and spitting at him.











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Yasuo Furuhata – Gokuchu no kaoyaku AKA Prison Boss (1968)

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Ken Takakura stars in yet another bad-ass Prison film, in “Prison Boss”. Here, rival gangs battle it out over ownership of a bicycle race track. The outside life for the yakuza mimics prison life in two respects,…. First, there are rules that must never be crossed and second, when opportunity arises, the rules will always be broken.








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Daisuke Itô – Hangyakuji AKA The Conspirator (1961)

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During an era of civil wars, in the 7th year of Tenso, Yoshimoto Imagawa was overthrown by Oda Nobunaga with the help of Ieyasu Tokugawa. Ieyasu’s wife, Lady Tsukiyama, was of the ruined Imagawa clan. She was basically abandoned by Ieyasu lest his fealty with Oda Nobunaga be doubted. Ieyasu’s son, half Tokugawa & half Imagawa, was married to Oda’s first daughter Tokumine Gozen, to further assure Oda that there would be no attempt at revenge over the downfall of the Imagawa clan.




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John Frankenheimer – Black Sunday (1977)

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Plot Synopsis [AMG]
Bruce Dern is ideally cast as Lander, a crazed Vietnam veteran, in Black Sunday. Lander joins terrorists Dahlia (Marthe Keller) and Fasil (Bekim Fehmu) in a plot to create a bloodbath at the annual Super Bowl. Piloting the ubiquitous Goodyear blimp, Lander is to ram the aircraft into the capacity Orange Bowl crowd, then fire thousands of poisoned darts into the fleeing spectators. Israeli military officer Kabakov (Robert Shaw) struggles to thwart Lander’s plan before it comes to fruition. As unbelievable as it may sound on paper, Black Sunday is wholly credible on film.

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Massimo Dallamano – Quelli della calibro 38 aka Colt 38 Special Squad (1976)

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IMDB:
form A to B coolness!, 16 June 2007
8/10
Author: jvanmaare from Netherlands

Colt 38 special squad is a rare breed in the poliziotteschi genre. Excellent shot and filled with great casting, cinematographer/director Massimo Dallamano really comes trough on this one. Known for his outstanding camera precision on the Sergio Leone trilogy Colt 38 grapes you all the way. Of course there are a lot good examples for movies in those Italian cop/crime films.Like Milano Calibre 9 or The big racket. But Colt 38 special squad belongs among those films. Rather than just focusing on the usual violence this one delivers also a other angle, those of the mental-pain and struggle. Like a real pro Massimo let’s you get involved in those characters and start to care form them. With all well paced storytelling we follow French crime lord Ivan Rassimov as the Dark angel in his mad rage against the city and his cops. Expeccialy against Marcel Bozzuffi as hard boiled Capitan Vanni. An old beef is going on between the two of them.Personal as can be, Vanni and his special crew of cops now not only arresting the locals bastards but are also mix up in the personal vendetta between Vanni and the crew of Dark Angel. The result is well packed storytelling with some brutal, but subtle action. Colt 38 is a well crafted movie with memorable scenes. Think in the line of city bombing and care chases. Rassimov is one’s of the most cool killers. But really, Vanni is stealing the show in my opine that is. Of course also in real life those guys competing. Both are die hard actors. Dirty rotten by all those amazing scripts in there carrier. Kinda like De Niro and Pacino in Heat. Do not make the mistake of thinking less about this movie in budget ways. It’s great cinema and a prime example of Polliziotesschi madness. Not to be missed.






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Michael Ritchie – Prime Cut (1972)

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Michael Ritchie, better known for his gentle satires of American social institutions, enters Don Siegel territory in the unusual crime thriller Prime Cut. Lee Marvin is surly collection agent Nick Devlin, who is hired by Chicago racketeer Jake (Eddie Egan) to collect an overdue payment from Kansas cattle baron Mary Ann (yes, Mary Ann!) (Gene Hackman). When Devlin travels west to get Jake’s money from Mary Ann, he finds the cattle king mixed up in complex drug deals and pimping wild women — two of which are Poppy and Violet (Sissy Spacek and Janit Baldwin — both in their film debuts). ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi



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Let me sing about a goddamn nutty crime film from 1972 called Prime Cut. My impulse with all of these great old ’70s crime films is to start by saying: “This couldn’t get made today.” And it’s almost always true. Certainly they’d never be made as they are. But this one. Let me say definitively that there’s no goddamn way in hell this movie could get made today. It’s part gangster film, part Midwestern redneck exploitation film, part slippery soft-core film, and part art-house weirdo-fest. It’s a film that feels like it’s parodying a lot of things, but it also takes itself seriously-as-fuck and that’s the genius of it. It’s offensive with a loose plot barely stitched together. It’s hard-boiled camp. But in your darkest (or maybe not so darkest) heart, it’s the movie you’ve always wanted to see. – William Boyle, Dope and Flesh: Prime Cut



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Henri Verneuil – Le Casse aka The Burglars (1971)

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Henri Verneuil’s The Burglars has a bit of a cult reputation for an infamous car chase through Greece – fully deserved for that lone, incredible sequence – but more than thirty years since its theatrical release, the flaws in this second attempt at adapting David Goodis’ novel to the big screen are painfully evident.

Clearly aimed at the global arena, the casting was meant to please British, French, and American markets, and Dyan Cannon’s presence as an idyllic love interest fuels interludes of roguish charm with gleefully overconfident Jean-Paul Belmondo. In Burglars, her third-billing is merely a billboard lure, since her handful of scenes restrict the grinning actress to short moments of Belmondo bar chatter, a brief exterior scene, and a slap-around session that’s part of Verneuil’s weak attempt to add classic crime conventions to a film already hampered by an opening heist larded with fantastical Bondian gadgetry. (If the clock is ticking, carting a chrome-polished gizmo on site with all kinds of knobs, buttons, and paper insertions is an invitation for easy police arrest.)

It’s a hit and mostly miss production, though Sharif – clearly relishing his chance to incinerate the last traces of his matinee persona – is delightful as the corrupt top-cop able to chase Belmondo through the streets of the film’s undefined Mediterranean city with impunity, and avoid killing a single gawking bystander. (Sharif really began to radicalize his image in 1968 by playing the double-crossing slimeball in J. Lee Thompson’s similarly bloated, but way more fun western suspenser, MacKenna’s Gold.) Sharif’s scene in a grainery is often cited as a classic depiction of cruel (but deserved) irony, but his best moment involves a casual game of bullseye, testing marksmanship against mounting intoxification.

The cited car chase (ah, the legacy of Bullitt) is another prime example of some first-rate stunt driving, and Verneuil makes sure the mounting speed, screeching tires, and vehicular trauma are conveyed from myriad angles – with plenty of shrapnel flying off in every direction. Just as memorable are Belmondo’s actual stunts, which include an outrageous chase atop moving cars and bus; and one stunning shot that has the film’s star falling away from the camera and down a treacherous hillside (hence the film’s catchy poster art) before he bounces another few meters into a dusty heap. Those moments alone make the film worth a peek, but the lack of any meaty story – wrapped up in the shorter, original 1957 Columbia film, The Burglar, with Dan Duryea and Jane Mansfield – makes it a tough journey.

Alpha Digital’s DVD boasts an anamorphic transfer of a widescreen print, but it’s a pretty beat-up copy that the discs’ producers have used. The opening titles still lose content at the edges, and there’s nasty scratches plaguing the first reel. The colours also fade and shift in certain reels, and the print sharpness is unbalanced. It’s still the only way at present to see the film in its huge ‘scope ratio, but Claude Renoir’s elegant cinematography won’t be dignified until Burglars receives a proper DVD release.

Some great sequences, but pretty tepid.









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Shûe Matsubayashi & Hugo Grimaldi – Hawai Middowei daikaikûsen: Taiheiyô no arashi AKA Storm Over the Pacific AKA I Bombed Pearl Harbor (1960)

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On December 1, 1941, a Japanese fleet of 30 warships sails for Hawaii; when diplomatic negotiations in Washington fail, the task force commander, Adm. Isoroku Yamaguchi, receives orders to attack Pearl Harbor. Following the devastating aerial assault on December 7, flight navigator Koji Kitami returns to Japan and Keiko, his childhood sweetheart. Although deeply in love with the young woman, Koji fears that marriage will make him less worthy as a naval officer. During the next few months, he participates in many successful raids on U. S. and British ships and planes, but during the battle at Midway he becomes less certain of the invincibility of the Japanese fleet. While he is aboard the carrier Hiryu , the vessel is attacked by U. S. dive bombers and badly damaged. Officers order the ship abandoned, but rather than leave it as a prize of war, a Japanese destroyer is given instructions to sink the carrier. As the Hiryu goes down, Koji and others give a final salute.
— TCM.com







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Horst E. Brandt & Heinz Thiel – Heroin (1968)

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This East German movie was co-produced with studios in Hungary and Yugoslavia, with many interesting location shots (border checkpoint to West Berlin, the Gellert bath in Budapest, and more). The plot is about French drug dealers, who obtain heroin somewhere in the Middle East, and smuggle it in several steps to East Berlin, and from there to France (or so it appears), killing when necessary. The hero is an officer of East German customs, who with detective work, some masquerade, and occasional violent action ultimately unravels the whole network, of course with the support of the local customs departments.






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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

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