Paul Frees

Jon Lormer

Virginia Ann Lee

France Nuyen

Dimension 5

Dimension 5 (1966)

Shirley Booth

Shirley MacLaine

Anthony Perkins

It's 1884 in Yonkers, New York. Dolly Gallagher-Levi is a Jane-of-all-Trades, but her latest and most lucrative venture is as a matchmaker, setting men up with women with the intention of matrimony. This job is ironic as she was previously married herself, not enjoying the experience. Her latest client is older penny-pinching retail store owner, Horace Vandergelder, who works his two young meek clerks, Cornelius Hackl and Barnaby Tucker, to the bone. As Horace won't give them a day off, Cornelius and Barnaby plot to close the store and sneak into New York for the day, their mission to meet and kiss a girl. In New York, Cornelius spots Irene Molloy, a young female milliner upon who he sets his sights. On their meeting, Cornelius is unaware that she is also one of Horace's possible brides. Beyond what happens between Horace, Cornelius and Irene, Dolly herself may be ready for matrimony again despite her words to the contrary.—Huggo

The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker (1958)

Mimi Gibson

Dana Wynter

Royal Dano

After escaping from prison, wrongfully-convicted James Lake is picked up on the highway by wealthy Leslie Whitlock. Whitlock knows the description of the fugitive prison inmate from the news bulletins from his car radio. He suspects that his passenger is the escapee but has a diabolic plan in mind: He intends to have his rich wife murdered in order to inherit her wealth but needs a patsy to take the blame. Therefore, he offers Lake $10,000 dollars to kill his wife. Lake, who is not a hardened criminal, refuses but he is blackmailed into accepting the contract by Whitlock who threatens to hand him to the police. Whitlock suggests Lake strangle his wife, take the contract money, and escape into Mexico. At the mansion, Whitlock introduces Lake to his wife Ellen as a hitchhiker who should be lodged for the night because of the bad weather, and unsuspecting Ellen offers Lake the guest room for the night. However, the police are already combing the neighborhoods and warning the residents about Lake's escape from prison. Furthermore, his escape has been quickly published in the evening newspapers. Lake's chances of escaping his predicament seem slim.—nufs68

If He Hollers, Let Him Go!

If He Hollers, Let Him Go! (1968)

Agnes Moorehead

Ricardo Montalban

Tom Drake

Young and inexperienced Sister Ann has just arrived at her next posting at Samaritan House, a Dominican order located in a disreputable neighborhood of Ghent, Belgium. Sister Ann is enthusiastic, progressive but naive, all which irks one of the senior sisters, Sister Cluny, especially the fact that Sister Ann has a prized material possession, a guitar she's named Adele. Sister Ann considers Adele and her music to be her friends. Contrary to Sister Cluny, the Mother Prioress believes Sister Ann will be a welcome addition to their order. This posting is to be the training ground for Sister Ann and others to become missionaries in Africa. Sister Ann's path takes a detour when the order's Father Clementi hears Sister Ann sing. He believes Sister Ann should record her music and as a favor asks Robert Gerarde of Primavera Records for recording time. Unknown at the time the request is made, Robert and Sister Ann are old friends who attended the Paris Conservatory of Music together five years earlier before she became a nun. Robert believes Sister Ann could be a recording sensation, keeping true to her style of music of religious based folk songs. As Sister Ann becomes more famous, which includes an appearance on the The Ed Sullivan Show (1948), Sister Ann increasingly wonders if she truly is doing the work of God, as she admits she enjoys the adulation of being a celebrity and despite the financial gain to the church. This question, which was important previously in dealing with a precocious local boy named Dominic Arlien (after who she named one of her songs) and his troubled family, becomes all the more important after a specific incident which threatens Dominic's life.—Huggo

The Singing Nun

The Singing Nun (1966)

Peggy Rea

Dana Elcar

Dub Taylor

The story, set in Kansas during the 1920s, covers less than a year in the life of a Black teenager and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations, and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values.—alfiehitchie

The Learning Tree

The Learning Tree (1969)

John Wayne

Anthony Zerbe

Richard Jordan

A band of drunken thugs overruns a small village in the Indian Nation that is run by Minister Goodnight and his daughter Eula and proceed to violate and kill the villagers. Miss Goodnight teams up with ruthless Marshal Rooster J. Cogburn to go after them and bring them to justice.—Christopher D. Ryan

Rooster Cogburn

Rooster Cogburn (1975)

Sean Connery

Jackie Coogan

Sue Ane Langdon

Samson Shillitoe is a New York City-based poet of great promise and some renown, but he's troubled, which causes problems. He is four months behind in alimony payments, unable to clear that outstanding debt with his day job as a carpet cleaner. But he sees this as not so much his problem: it's for the courts, the police, and his ex-wife Beverly. He has difficulties not acting upon his general attraction to women; in return, they act on the same attractions. He is in the process of writing his epic poem, and has been for five years and counting, but he's got a severe writer's block--and might be substituting sex for that inability to write. His long-suffering, loyal, current wife, working-class Rhoda Shillitoe, believes Samson's problems might lead him to attempt suicide. He is already prone to violent outbursts, although any violence toward her she knows is only in jest; she knows he'd never physically hurt her on purpose. When she sees psychotherapist Dr. Oliver West on a TV talk show, she believes he could solve Samson's problems. Samson doesn't want to talk to Dr. West about his life, but he agrees to see him largely out of circumstance; his creative juices are starting to flow again and he thinks he could use Dr. West's place as a place to write while hiding from the police who are after him. But Samson's association with Dr. West has its own complications, most specifically with Dr. West's unhappy wife, Lydia West, who is neglected by her husband; and with Dr. West's colleague Dr. Menken, who is looking for a human subject to test his new surgical procedure: lobotomy.—Huggo

A Fine Madness

A Fine Madness (1966)

Wendell Holmes

Susan Hayward

Simon Oakland

Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Two men she knows murder an older woman. When they get caught, they start to think that Barbara has helped the police to arrest them. As revenge, they tell the police that Barbara is the murderer.—Mattias Thuresson

I Want to Live!

I Want to Live! (1958)

Martin Landau

William Smith

Glenn Ford

Television writer and director Elliott Nash and his wife Nell have a happy marriage. One day a blackmailer informs Elliott that he has nude photos of his wife Nell, taken when she was only 18 years old. The blackmailer, a certain Dan Shelby, threatens to ruin Nell's reputation and her Broadway stage career if Elliott refuses to pay a ransom. Elliott agrees to pay the blackmailer but the demands increase and Elliott becomes a nervous wreck and a workaholic in his attempt to earn more money for the blackmailer. Elliott even considers selling his house in order to raise the 25 thousand dollars the blackmailer demands. Nell is unaware of the blackmail scheme and often worries about Elliott's state of mind. In desperation, Elliott decides to lure the blackmailer to Elliott's home for a large final payment and kill him. But Elliott is no killer and his planning for the imminent premeditated murder is amateurish at best.—nufs68

The Gazebo

The Gazebo (1959)

Richard Kiel

Connie Stevens

William Conrad

The spitting image of her mother at that age, early twenty-something Cassie Duquesne never really knew her parents, Duke and Melinda Duquesne, having been sent to live with her aged maternal aunt in Wisconsin after Melinda abandoned the family when Cassie was an infant, Melinda's whereabouts since unknown. Twenty years ago, Duke and Melinda were at the top of the profession as a magician - The Great Duquesne - and his on-stage assistant respectively, they specializing in illusions of the macabre and gore. Cassie reenters the realm of her father's life when she returns to Los Angeles to attend his funeral, which is as theatrical as his life in that he vowed in his life to emerge from the dead. Beyond this issue, Cassie learns that she is the sole beneficiary of her father's $300,000 estate, with which those arguably closest to him, Buzz Sheridan and Dolly Bast, his longtime manager and housekeeper respectively, are outwardly all right in Duke's want to bring Cassie back, she who they state he loved from afar despite Cassie's belief that he never loved her in not seeking her out in life. There is one caveat to Cassie getting that inheritance: she must live for seven consecutive nights - midnight to dawn - in her father's isolated mansion. Getting over her initial antagonism toward him, Cassie is able to navigate through most of the unexpected occurrences in the mansion with the help of a man she meets, Val Henderson, they determining those occurrences all part of the illusions of the Great Duquesne's professional life. Cassie is however unaware that Val is really a reporter out to get a story. As more and more terrifying and inexplicable occurrences happen at the house, the questions become if someone is trying to frighten Cassie into losing the inheritance, and/or if the Great Dusquesne really has risen from the dead. The answers may partially be found in the locked room in the house which Cassie cannot get into as the Great Dusquesne had the only key which was buried with him.—Huggo

Two on a Guillotine

Two on a Guillotine (1965)

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Joan O'Brien

The story opens in 1843, New Orleans. Roguish gambler Paul Regret (Stuart Whitman) has a duel with a man over a woman and despite attempting to just try and wound him when he fires at him, Regret kills him. When he discovers that the man is in fact the son of a Louisiana judge, he goes on the run to escape the death penalty. Whilst on a riverboat, he is approached by a mysterious woman named Pilar (Ina Bolin), who has one of her men called Amelung (Michael Ansarra) find out who Regret is. Regret is originally suspicious but Pilar convinces him she is interested in Regret and not his money and they fall for each other.The next morning, Texas Ranger captain Jake Cutter (John Wayne) turns up in his room to arrest him. His assignment is to take him to the Texas Rangers headquarters to be handed over to a Louisiana marshal. Before they depart the boat, Regret wants to say goodbye to Pilar but she's gone. With Jake on horseback and Regret on a slower mule to discourage escape, the two travel across the plains. They come to a ranch that Jake used to own. After his wife died, he decided to sell the ranch to a family. As Jake is approaching the family home,he notices some smoke. The ranch has been attacked by Indians and the entire family have been massacred. After Jake gets him to bury the victims, Regret sees an opportunity to escape. He knocks Jake out with a shovel to the head and takes the horse leaving Jake with the mule.Back at Ranger's headquarters a man, Ed McBain, who was arrested for gun running tells Jake and Major Henry (Bruce Cabot) that he was on his way to a town called Sweetwater to sell the stolen army rifles to a contact that he's never met before. Jake goes undercover and takes the McBain's place as the gunrunner in order to go and meet the contact. He arrives at the hotel in Sweetwater to meet his contact who turns out to be Tully Crow (Lee Marvin). Crow tells Jake that his partial scalping was the act of a Comanche tribe and before he was killed he was saved by a group called the Comancheros - the group he's now working for. Crow searches the wagon for the guns and they are not there. Jake tells Crow that he buried the guns because he wasn't sure if he could trust his contact. The two go on a night out to get to know each other before they make a deal. First they get drunk in a saloon and Crow shoots the place up. Then they go on to a quiet restaurant and decide to join a group of men in a poker game. As they introduce themselves, Jake sees that one of the card players is Paul Regret. Regret looks uneasy and Jake is quick to introduce himself as Ed McBain. They shake hands and Crow appears suspicious of the two men. Jake wins a few hands and Crow becomes increasingly angry that he's losing. Crow accuses Jake and Regret of cheating. Jake tells him he's just drunk and tries to leave. As he walks away ,Crow pulls his gun and Jake whips around and shoots him. Jake thanks Regret for not giving his real identity away but he tells Regret he isn't off the hook. Regret is still a wanted man and Jake arrests him again. He takes him out to the desert and gets him to dig up the rifles that he'd buried.They arrive at a ranch where a family lives that Jake knows. The ranch is occupied by the Texas Rangers who are on a Comanche patrol. The major and the patrol pull out and leave Jake and Regret and a couple of injured Rangers behind. Regret and the Rangers share a meal inside with the rancher and his son while his pregnant wife rests in bed. The wife sees Comanches coming across the river to attack the ranch. Despite been outnumbered, Jake, Regret and the few rangers that are still there including the young Tobe (Patrick Wayne ,and the rancher and son do their best to fend them off. During the shootout, Regret gets away on an available Indian pony. Jake thinks he's escaped his custody again. Regret reappears with Major Henry and the rest of the Rangers to take care of the Comanches. Feeling like they owe Regret something, Jake asks the Major if he can have a word with the judge about a reprieve for Regret for helping to save their lives. Inside the cabin, the rancher's wife gives birth and the rancher suggests naming the baby Cutter after Jake. But Jake refuses and suggests the boy should be named after Regret for his good deed.Jake and Regret eventually arrive at the judge's office and Regret is told that the Rangers plan to commit perjury in order to prevent him from been sentenced. They make him a Texas Ranger with the understanding that he has actually been one for a couple of years so if anyone asks he couldn't have been in New Orleans for the duel and killing.Jake is assigned to go and track down the Comancheros and he requests that Regret be partnered with him. They wander the desert in a wagon with Tobe following in the distance on horse, ready to report back to the Rangers when they uncover the Comanchero hideout. Jake and Regret eventually attract a group of Comanches. They tell the Comanches that they have rifles for the Comancheros. The Comanches take them to the hideout where Jake and Regret discover a secret society of thieves and murderers. Jake tells them they have rifles for them but the firing pins are missing and they are just a sample of what they can offer. Aemlung, the man from the riverboat who saw Regret, orders that they be taken prisoner and tied up by their wrists. Pilar, the woman from the boat who fell for Regret arrives and instantly recognizes Regret and orders that the two men be cut down. The two of them are put on trial by the wheelchair bound but ruthless leader of the community, Graile (Nememiah Persoff), who is Pilar's father. Because of her personal feelings for Regret, she defends them stating that it would be best to let them live as they can provide them with a continuous supply of guns and also use their skills. Graile agrees and gives Jake and Regret a tour of his home and explains the society that he has created. He invites the Jake and Regret for dinner and they spend the time beforehand scoping out the hideout for a possible escape.As sunset approaches, Tobe is in the desert on his way to get help from the rangers but he is ambushed and killed by two Comanches. At Graile's hideout, Pilar tells Jake and Regret that she will have horses prepared ready for their escape. But Jake has no intention of leaving without arresting Graile and he steals a gun from one of the Comacheros and is ready to confront Graile at dinner. As they sit around the dinner table talking, Pilar tells her father that she plans to go away with Regret but she wants her father to leave as well before the Rangers arrive. Graile says he won't leave his empire that he has built and Jake pulls the gun on him. Aemlung walks in with the dead body of Tobe wrapped up in a blanket. Jake gets Regret to take care of Aemlung with his fists because he doesn't want to fire his gun and signal Graile's men. Regret subdues Aemlung and Graile calls in his huge henchman Gordo. After a struggle with Jake and Regret, Jake knocks Gordo out with the pistol. Regret and Pilar get ready to leave and Jake unwraps the rug to look at the dead body and tells Graile that he's going to take pleasure from watching him hang.Jake, Regret and Pilar get ready in the wagon to sneak out with Graile and Aemlung and Pilar's loyal man Esteban. But as they try to quietly depart, Graile shouts out and his henchmen wake up. The mother of a man who was earlier executed by Graile, runs up to the wagon and stabs Graile in the back with a knife. As Regret drives off, Aemlung jumps from the back of the wagon and is untied by his men. A chase ensues with the Comancheros who kill Esteban and later they run into a group of Comanches who join in. Jake is in the back firing his rifle and throws the cover off the wagon so it is dragging behind them and sets fire to it to stop the pursuit from getting too close. Riders get ahead of the wagon and Regret loses control and the wagon flips over. Jake, Regret and Pilar take cover behind the wagon. The Rangers arrive to rescue them. Pilar sees that her father is dead from the knife wound. Amelung tries to kill Jake but Regret shoots him. The story ends with the Rangers cleaning out the headquarters of the Comancheros. Jake says farewell to Regret who is riding south with Pilar.

The Comancheros

The Comancheros (1961)

Peg Stewart

Anne-Marie Martin

Rebecca Balding

The "Boogens" are scaly monsters that look somewhat like giant turtles with lots of sharp, nasty teeth. They are released from an abandoned, boarded-up silver mine in Colorado and proceed to do away with character after character—

The Boogens

The Boogens (1981)

Bette Davis

Cyril Delevanti

Jean Hagen

After the funeral of her brother-in-law, Edith Phillips learns that Margaret de Lorca, her rich twin sister, had tricked her way into marriage with the man she also loved. So she kills Margaret and assumes her identity and life-style. However, her life becomes complicated by her late sister's sleazy boyfriend, Tony Collins and Sgt. Jim Hobbson, a Los Angeles detective who loved the "dead" Edith.—alfiehitchie

Dead Ringer

Dead Ringer (1963)

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5.5 / 10

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7.5 / 10

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6.8 / 10

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