A Chinese immigrant named Chin How lands in a small Texas town inhabited by hard-nosed cowboys who don't take kindly to outsiders. The town folk soon realize that Chin is no ordinary drifter and he quickly gains a reputation for his unbeatable fighting skills. When word of Chin's skills spread to Stanley Spencer, the owner of the states largest cattle ranch, Chin lands a job working for Spencer as a fellow cowboy. Friend soon becomes foe when Chin realizes he is working for a cattle smuggler bent on brutalizing Mexican farmers and anyone else who stands in his way. Starring Chen Lee, Klaus Kinski, and Carla Romanelli. Kung Fu comes to the West, spaghetti style! For some reason, Klaus Kinski is in a number of spaghetti westerns.
A reporter who has had an affair with the daughter of the U.S. President is sent to Hungary. There he is bitten by a werewolf, and then gets transferred back to Washington, where he gets a job as press assistant to the President. Then bodies start turning up as the werewolf strikes. Yikes! Sounds like the way things are going these days. Starring Dean Stockwell, Katalin Kallay, Henry Ferrentino and Michael Dunn.
A woman and her niece move into an ancestral house in the Amish countryside haunted by two ghosts from the Revolutionary War. Ruth Bennett and her niece Sara Dunning move into the house of Ruth's recently deceased aunt and shortly thereafter they learn the house is possessed by two ghosts of the original owners who were from the time of the Revolutionary War. Shortly after arriving Ruth discovers a family Bible hidden in a secret compartment of a roll top desk. Contained within is the name of the original owner which includes the name of his deceased wife and also a name that has been crossed out in ink. As the movie progresses we learn the identity of this person and the reason for it being obliterated through the possession of niece Sara and Pat McDougal. Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Egan, and Michael Anderson Jr. Gotta love Barbara Stanwyck in one of her last movies, a haunted house mystery!
An alien civilization, which is facing eminent extinction, kidnaps two famous genetic scientists from Earth. A troop of soldiers is dispatched to combat the humanoid robots and rescue the victims. Starship troopers look out! Starring Antonio Sabato, Yanti Somer, and Malisa Longo. One of those Italian sci-fi movies from the late 70s in the wake of the first Star Wars movie.
A contained deadly organism from Mars is being transported via train. Once released, a group of people will have to survive The Alpha Incident. The film starts by revealing that a microorganism from Mars has been brought to Earth and is being delivered by a train. One of the train engineers gets curious and decides to peek where the probe from Mars is being contained. He ends up releasing the diseased organism that can be passed from person by person like a deadly virus through close contact. A small town train station in Moose Point, Wisconsin is expecting the cargo to arrive in the morning, and once it's revealed that the virus was released, a biochemist stuck in the station has to lockdown the entire place leaving everyone in quarantine until they can figure out how dangerous the organism is. Yikes, a Martian virus! Starring Ralph Meeker, Stafford Morgan, and John F. Goff.
A nerdy high school super whiz experiments with a chemical which will transform his guinea pig "Mr. Mumps" from a gentle pet into a ravenous monster. In a fit of rage against his tormentors at the high school, Vernon Potts (Pat Cardi) goes on a killing spree, eliminating all of those who ever picked on him—the Gym Coach, the School Jock, The Creepy Janitor (Mr. Griggs) & his hated teacher, Ms. Grindstaff. In the end he gets the jock's girlfriend for himself but his happiness is short-lived as the potion turns him into a monster hunted by the towns lame police Lieutenant—Bosman. Starring Pat Cardi, Austin Stoker, and Rosie Holotik. Yea, high school pretty much sucks.
In 1905, an English anthropologist has discovered a frozen monster in the frozen wastes of Manchuria which he believes may be the Missing Link. He brings the creature back to Europe aboard a trans-Siberian express, but during the trip the monster thaws out and starts to butcher the passengers one by one. Starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and Telly Savalas. This is not a train to be on! Is it a bigfoot or an alien?
Also known as Assignment Terror. Aliens from a dying world plot to conquer Earth by preying on man's superstitions. Bringing two dead scientists back to life, they use their knowledge to re-animate various monsters, including the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky, Frankenstein's monster, the mummy Tao-Tet, and the vampire Count de Meirhoff. Starring Michael Rennie of The Day the Earth Stood Still, Karin Dor, and Craig Hill. An Italian horror movie with all the monsters you could possibly want… wait, where are the Mole Men?
A scientist doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days. However, the "adult" fetus turns into a homicidal psycho and looks for a new formula to prevent her from aging further. Starring Rock Hudson, Barbara Carrera, Diane Ladd. Looks like genetic experiments and cloning gone wild. Haven’t they learned anything? Maybe Rock Hudson’s last movie. You look it up.
Beautiful wildlife photographer Terry and her brother Art go to Venezuela for a photo shoot. They hire Jim Pendrake to guide them through the jungle. However, the trio run afoul of evil local hunter Caribe who ultimately wants to feed them to piranhas. Starring William Smith, Peter Brown, and Ahna Capri. One of those “Bummer Trips to South America” kind of movies from the early 1970s. Peter Brown is famous from the LAWMAN television series of the 1960s (1958–1962).
Miraculously still alive after his hanging, gunfighter James Devlin defends a young widow's ranch from a vicious land grabber. Starring Steve Forrest, Dean Jagger, Will Geer and Sharon Acker. A pretty good TV movie western that was filmed at the Old Tucson studios in Arizona. I guess you could call it a Fajita Western.
Walter Brennan is back as the clever and funny over the hill Texas Ranger Nash Crawford in this TV movie sequel to The Over the Hill Gang. This time the gang must face corruption in their own hometown. The gang put their heads together to clean up their town, take back the rule of law, and rehabilitate the town lush (played by Fred Astaire) along with way. Starring Walter Brennan, Fred Astaire, Edgar Buchanan, Andy Devine, and Chill Wills. It’s great to see Fred Astaire and all these old coots in this comedy western.
Earth is attacked by an intergalactic villain and his army of robotic androids. Someone needs to stop them. Get your ray guns out because it is time to save Earth! Starring Yanti Somer, Gianni Garko, and Malisa Longo. One of several low-budget science fiction entries cranked out in the wake of STAR WARS by the Italians. You could say that it is a spaghetti sci-fi. Got to love those cute robots, look out R2-D2!
Based on an actual event, this is the tragic story of Saskatchewan fugitive Almighty Voice (Gordon Tootoosis), a Cree Indian who isarrested for stealing government livestock out of desperate hunger. Starring Donald Sutherland, Gordon Tootoosis, and Chief Dan George. Always good to see Chief Dan George in a movie!
A soldier deserts his outfit the night before a major battle, after receiving an urgent message. He heads across the border to Mexico to marry his pregnant girlfriend before she gives birth. Her father had forbidden their marriage, but the soldier is determined. Circumstances turn the soldier into an outlaw who vows vengeance on everyone involved. Starring George Hilton, Ernest Borgnine, and Alberto de Mendoza. George Hilton is a look-alike Clint Eastwood and you have to love Ernest Borgnine, he was great in Escape From New York!
A soldier deserts his outfit the night before a major battle, after receiving an urgent message. He heads across the border to Mexico to marry his pregnant girlfriend before she gives birth. Her father had forbidden their marriage, but the soldier is determined. Circumstances turn the soldier into an outlaw who vows vengeance on everyone involved.
Avoided by everyone for being half Native-American, the reclusive horse breeder, Chino Valdez, takes great pride in training his beautiful free-roaming mustangs. Then, unexpectedly, the young teenage runaway, Jamie Wagner, (Vincent van Patten) turns up at his door in search of food, shelter, and work, and just like that, an almost father/son relationship commences. However, the death of a young filly will be the harbinger of trouble, as the ruthless local cattle baron, Maral, is bent on eradicating the menace of the unpredictable man. Can Chino keep his horses, his land, and the woman he loves? Charles Bronson in Chino Valdez while his real-life wife, Jill Ireland stars as his girlfriend, Catherine.
Sony Chiba is Terry, a tough, mercenary, master of martial arts. When an important business magnate dies, leaving billions to his daughter, the Mafia and Yakuza try to hire Terry to kidnap the daughter. When they refuse to meet his exorbitant price, then try to kill him to conceal their secret plans, he promptly offers his services to protect her. Much ultra-violent martial-arts fighting action, as expected, ensues. Yep, the Japanese had to get into the Martial Arts movies of the 70s. First there was Bruce Lee and then there was Sony Chiba. Take ‘em down Street Fighter!
After receiving word about a mysterious skeleton unearthed in the Arizona desert, a father and his daughter visit the man who has it and grab the skull as they escape a shack the gargoyles have attacked. Once they do so, they, as well as the town, are besieged by a colony of gargoyles living in some nearby caverns. Who can stop these flying devils? Shown on television in 1972 and in theaters in Europe, it was the most-watched television movie of all time! Starring Cornel Wilde, Jennifer Salt, Grayson Hall, and Scott Glenn. Look out Mothman!
Intent on stealing the ultimate instrument of destruction, the rapid-fire Gatling gun, the U.S. Cavalry deserter, Private Sneed, betrays his country for personal profit. To ensure that he can sneak out of the country with the machine gun, Sneed tricks the irenic preacher, Reverend Harper, into accompanying him; however, Lieutenant Wayne Malcolm and his small patrol unit manage to apprehend him, retrieving the gun. But, under those circumstances, the fearsome Apache warrior, Chief Two-Knife, is willing to offer mountains of gold, or even sacrifice some of his men, to get his hands on Richard J. Gatling's devastating invention, and no one can stop him and his hordes. It’s up to Lieutenant Malcolm, a scout named Runner, Jim Boland the rancher, and the ingenious man nicknamed Tin Pot to put an end to the dangerous ambition of the Apache leader. Starring Guy Stockwell, Robert Fuller, and Barbara Luna. In this movie, Patrick Wayne was billed as John Wayne Jr.
