Antisocial Professor Hammil's Remote Control device, which enables the user to take over any motor vehicle within 50 miles, is stolen by The Wizard, black-hooded mastermind, and his gang. Batman and Robin must prevent the Wizard from obtaining diamonds, needed as fuel for the device, and rescue magazine photographer Vicki Vale from periodic perils. Where is the Wizard's base, reached only by remote controlled submarine? Which of several suspicious characters hides beneath the Wizard's hood? Starring Robert Lowery, Johnny Duncan, and Jane Adams. This old Batman seems a bit corny by today’s standards but they still have the Batcave, the Bat Signal and more!
A rebellious punk of the beat generation spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and trouble making. He eventually kidnaps his buddy's girlfriend, kills a few police officers, and finally sees his own life end in tragedy. Starring Jack Nicholson, Georgianna Carterm and Robert Bean. It’s a wild ride in a hot rod with Jack Nicholson in his first movie! Before Easy Rider there was The Wild Ride!
In one of his earliest movies, Roger Moore stars as Romulus in the classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of Rome, finds women to be wives from the nearby Celtic-Greek kingdom of Sabina where there are a lot of women. The Sabine men are not so happy with this large-scale kidnapping and attack Rome to get their wives and daughters back. Starring Roger Moore, Mylène Demongeot, and Giorgia Moll. Ultimately the Sabines and their women became part of the new Roman Empire and the rest is history! Known historically as the Rape of the Sabines.
Maciste, the son of Hercules, arranges for himself and his new friend Bangor to be captured by a mysterious band of white-clad marauders and taken to an underground city. There the two are forced to turn an enormous wheel along with other captives as part of a gold-and-diamonds mining operation. The underground city's queen, Halis Mosab, takes note of the handsome, muscular Maciste and chooses him to be her consort if he can meet such challenges as saving the kidnapped Princess Saliura from a gigantic ape. Maciste kills the ape and carries Saliura back to the aboveground world. The white-clad marauders can't follow them if it means being caught in the sunlight which instantly dissolves them. Maciste then returns to the underground city to save the other captives. Meanwhile, high priest Kahab informs his son, Katar, that their queen is not one of them but, unbeknownst to her, was kidnapped as a small child from the "world above." Starring Mark Forest, Moira Orfei, and Paul Wynter. It is time for Hercules to enter the underground world! Mole Men—Yikes!
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!
John Peter Macallister was a Korean veteran who, after serving, decided to live in Japan, and, while there, he studied Ninjitsu and became a Ninja. Thirty years later, he learned that he has a daughter, so left to find her. Apparently, though, he can't leave the sect that he is with, because it means that he is now marked for death. He manages to escape, and, upon arriving in the States, he meets Max Keller, a drifter who has a penchant for getting involved with other people's problems and helping them out if he can. Max and Macallister hook up, with Max helping Macallister find his daughter, and Macallister teaching him the ways of the ninja. At the same time, evading Okasa, one of Macallister's students, who is now sworn to kill him. A cool Ninja TV movie pilot. First there was Kung Fu, and then there was The Master. Starring Lee Van Cleef, Timothy Van Patten, and Shô Kosugi.
Three bumbling criminals have been trying to get their hands on the computerized control system of Mr. Twister, a talking monster truck with a mind of its own. This is one of those made-in-Wisconsin movies about heavy machinery (maybe the only one). Yep, before heavy machinery bots fought it out on television, this movie stepped up to the plate. A big hit in Japan (sort of) you can watch this movie and then go and play with your own big machines. Starring Dean West, Meredith Orr, David Alan Smith. Don’t run out of gas!
Through a series of coincidences, Carrie, Dan and Dr. Hartmann all fall through a teleporter device Hartmann has invented. Transported to a what appears to be a prehistoric world in a parallel universe and unable to find the Doctor, Dan and Carrie must figure out a way to get back home. Before they can do that, however, they must deal with tribes of savage cavemen, as well as brutal warlord named Kleel who has taken a liking to Carrie and seems to be unusually well-supplied with Earth technology. Starring Richard Hatch, Kay Lenz, and Bruce Lee’s buddy, John Saxon. Things get tough in these parallel universes… hold on!
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!
Maciste, the son of Hercules, also known as Colossus, rescues Ario, the son of King Sandor, and his people from their land in a volcanic island that blows-up and they sail to the Land and Urias. They are captured by the Urias but when the Queen Amoha meets Maciste, she tells that the traitor Kermis has joined the tribe of Head Hunters and slaughtered her people, but the warrior Taro has saved them from the annihilation; however, her father King Olibauna was missing in action. She asks Maciste to help her against the Head Hunters, but Maciste tells that he is protecting the tribe of Ario. When the Urias are attacked by the Head Hunters, Maciste decides to help Queen Amoha. Starring Kirk Morris, Laura Brown, and Demeter Bitenc. It is always wise to stay clear of headhunters, unless you are the son of Hercules.
In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by natural disasters, and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself. These in turn try to hunt the two men down—in the Slipstream. Filmed in Turkey with all sorts of weird aircraft, this is an imaginative Sci-Fi movie with a different kind of Skywalker. Starring Bob Peck, Mark Hamill, Bill Paxton and Kitty Aldridge.
Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals. Starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour. The last of the great Bob Hope-Bing Crosby comedies and the only one in color! We all want to go to the magical Hindu world of Bali, the last of the great Cham civilization!
In this unusually broad comedy for Fairbanks, the acrobatic leading man plays "Coke Ennyday", a cocaine-shooting detective who is a parody of Sherlock Holmes. Ennyday is given to injecting himself from a bandolier of syringes worn across his chest, and liberally helps himself to the contents of a hatbox-sized round container of white powder labeled "COCAINE" on his desk. Fairbanks' character lampoons Sherlock Holmes (also a user of cocaine in his books) with checkered detective hat, clothes and even car, along with the aforementioned propensity for injecting cocaine whenever he feels momentarily down, then laughing with delight. A device used for observing visitors, which is referred to in the title cards as his "scientific periscope." bears a close resemblance to a modern closed-circuit television. A very strange and hip mini-movie from 1916. Fairbanks is superb as usual.
Ev, along with her husband, Harold, and their lawyer friend Martin, are scuba diving while on vacation in Puerto Rico. When they resurface, they gradually conclude that an unexplained, temporary interruption of oxygen has killed everyone on the island... maybe even the world! Starring Betsy Jones-Moreland, Antony Carbone, and Robert Towne. There’s gonna be some drinkin, and then there’s gonna be some fighting… over the last woman on Earth!
Dr. Jeremiah Morley becomes convinced that the world is headed to an inevitable worldwide nuclear war. He organizes an expedition made up of a team of expert scientists and an atomic-powered rock-boring vehicle called a "cyclotram" to find a subterranean environment where holocaust survivors could live indefinitely. When funding falls through, independently rich adventurer Wright Thompson underwrites the project under the condition that he be allowed to go. As the group goes deeper beneath the Earth's crust, personalities clash, tempers flare, and the dangerous journey claims the lives of several expedition members. Then they come upon an enormous underground expanse with its own ocean and phosphorescent light. Starring Bruce Kellogg, Otto Waldis, and Jim Bannon. Look out Hollow Earth, here we come! The movie that started the Hollow Earth craze!
Burt Reynolds plays Caine, a gunrunner who becomes stranded in a small port called Port Sudan in the Red Sea. He meets an attractive woman who propositions him to dive into shark-infested waters off the coast for scientific research. Caine realizes the woman and her partner are actually treasure hunters. Filming took place for nine weeks in 1967, in Manzanillo, Mexico, which stood in for the Sudan. During production, one of the film's stuntmen, Jose Marco, was attacked and killed on camera by a white shark that broke through protective netting. The attack was captured on film and prompted a photo spread in Life magazine. The title was changed to Shark! to cash in on the controversy. It was later re-issued as Maneater when Jaws came out. A great adventure film!
The California-Yucatan Railroad, being built for the good of Mexico, is under siege by a gang of terrorists hoping to force its sale; no one can prove their connection to profiteer Marsden. Manuel Vega, aged co-owner, calls in the aid of his nephew James, great-grandson of the original Zorro. Alas, James seems more adept at golf than derring-do; but after he arrives, Zorro rides again! Can the black-clad man on horseback defeat a gang supplied with airplanes and machine guns? It’s a great retro-serial with Zorro against evil forces! With John Carroll and Noah Berry.
Young cavalry officer Jeff Stewart returns to his home in the west after the Civil War to find that a ring of crooked politicians has taken over the county, bleeding the citizens with 50% of value on the main trail, and protecting the rustlers that raid the cattle ranches. With the permission of the state governor and the assistance of Kate Wells, the postmistress, Jeff plans to open another trail to beat the toll. He also decides to resurrect an ancestor of his who, in a similar situation, took the law in his own hands—Zorro. With the aid of Pancho, Zorro manages to thwart the conspirators and exposes the guilty culprits. Starring George Turner, Peggy Stewart, and Roy Barcroft. A great Zorro Retro-Western with lots of whip action! Look out Indiana Jones!
Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, vet Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of hoards of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the streets are overrun by killer spiders, trapping a small group of towns folk in a remote hotel in rural Arizona. Yowks! Starring William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, and Woody Strode. A great look at the Sedona area in the 1970s starring Captain Kirk from Star Trek!
Nona Brooks, former member of a stranded theatrical troupe, earns a temporary living singing in a café in Duakwa, British Rhodesia, Africa. The café owner is secretly in league with two foreign agents with a goal of making the natives restless. American explorer Larry Mason leaves for the jungle with his servant, Jeff and a safari. Nona escapes the café into the jungle but is followed by the agents as, unknowing to her, she is carrying a report of the agent's activities. She joins the safari just as all hands are captured by a tribe of natives. Starring Arline Judge, John 'Dusty' King, and Mantan Moreland. A great safari-gorilla film of the 40s!
