The Capture (1950)

The Capture (1950)
Director: John Sturges
Writers: Niven Busch (novel)
Niven Busch (screenplay)
Release Date: 31 January 1951 (France) more
Genre: Drama


* Cast :

Lew Ayres ... Lin Vanner / Lindley Brown
Teresa Wright ... Ellen Tevlin Vanner
Victor Jory ... Father Gomez
Jacqueline White ... Luana Ware
Jimmy Hunt ... Mike Tevlin, Ellen's Son
Barry Kelley ... Earl C. Mahoney, Finance Co. V.P.
Duncan Renaldo ... Carlos
William Bakewell ... Herb Tolin, Bolsa Grande Oil
Milton Parsons ... Thin Man Visiting Mahoney
Frank Matts ... Juan, Telvin's Hired Man
Felipe Turich ... Cpl. Juan Valdez, Payroll Guard
Edwin Rand ... Sam Tevlin (as Ed Rand)


* Plot :

Badly injured and hunted by the police, Lin Vanner takes refuge in a priest's home, and tells him what has happened. When Vanner was working in a Mexican oil field, he captured a man who was suspected of a payroll robbery, but then felt responsible when the man died in police custody.


As a result of the incident, Vanner's fiancée broke off their engagement, and he resigned from his job. He later felt compelled to visit the dead man's widow, and ended up working on her ranch. But, as he now explains to the priest, the past has quickly caught up with him.

Bedford Springs (2002)

Bedford Springs (2002)
Director: Marc Berlin
Writer: Marc Berlin (writer)
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 01:28:00



* Cast :

David Garver ... Guy
R.J. Reed ... Carl
Melissa Hickey ... Girl
Allene Quincy ... Julie (as Ali Anderson)
Elaina Vratos ... Carl's Mother
Peter Appel ... Music Store Manager
Tristan Creeley ... Young Man
Joe Dallo ... Head Poker Player
Delane Douglas ... Waitress #1
Doreen Hall ... Waitress #2
Spring Hill ... Music Store Clerk
Richard Madigan ... Homeless Man
Dan Naturman ... Hardware Store Clerk
Mario Occhicone ... Landlord
Jewel Tompkins ... Temp Agency Interviewer



* Plot :

Guy, far too intelligent for the small town he lives in encourages his friends to do something with their lives..


Even crime isn't out of the question!

Elvira's Movie Macabre: Count Dracula's Great Love (1974)

Elvira's Movie Macabre: Count Dracula's Great Love (1974)
Actors: Paul Naschy, Haydée Politoff, Rosanna Yanni, Ingrid Garbo, Mirta Miller
Directors: Javier Aguirre
Writers: Paul Naschy, Javier Aguirre, Alberto S. Insúa
Rating: R (Restricted)
#Studio: Shout Factory Theatr
Release Date: 1974
Genre: Horor Movie
Run Time: 85 minutes


* Synopsis :


Five travelers are forced to take refuge in the legendary Castle Dracula. Unfortunately, the infamous Count Dracula (Paul Naschy) is alive and well and he’s more than eager to take in his new guests.


But when one of the travelers falls in love with Dracula, she must choose between her mortal soul and an eternity as Count Dracula’s Great Love.

Network (1976)

"Network" is a 1976 American satirical film about a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System (UBS), and its struggle with poor ratings. It was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, and stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch and Robert Duvall and features Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty and Beatrice Straight.


The film won four Academy Awards, including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.


According to wikipedia, "Network" has continued to receive recognition, decades after its initial release. In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".


In 2002, it was inducted into the Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame as a film that has "set an enduring standard for U.S. American entertainment." In 2006, Chayefsky's script was voted one of the top ten movie scripts of all-time by the Writers Guild of America, East.


In 2007, the film was 64th among the Top 100 Greatest U.S. American Films as chosen by the American Film Institute, a ranking slightly higher than the one AFI gave it ten years earlier.

Scaring The Fish (2009)

Scaring The Fish (2009)
Director: Todd Miller
Writer: Ben Bettenbender
Release Date: 2009 (USA)
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 01:08:45


* Cast:

Anthony Rapp ... Gene
Max Casella ... Dennis
Chance Pinnell ... Chris
Mia Riverton ... Carol
Chrishell Stause... Robin


* Plot:


A Trifecta on the Subject of Love


Set primarily on the bank of a secluded mountain lake, the story begins when two office workers from the city are the first to arrive on a company fishing trip. But when only one other person shows up, suspicions and accusations lead to confrontation and turmoil.


Shot in six days and adapted from a stage play by the same title, this suspenseful drama reveals the opportunities lost and taken in the lives of three young men.


SCARING THE FISH is a fast-paced, tension-filled story that looks at three very different angles of love; captivating viewers from its gripping characters to its thought-provoking conclusion.

Battle of the Worlds

Battle of the Worlds (1961)
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Writers: Ennio De Concini (story) & Ennio De Concini (screenplay)
Release Date: March 1963 (USA)
Genre: Science - Fiction
License: Public Domain
Length: 01:23:51


Battle of the Worlds (Pianeta degli uomini spenti, Il) is an Italian science-fiction film released in 1961. An English-dubbed version was released in the United States in 1963. The film was directed by Antonio Margheriti and starred Claude Raines, Bill Carter and Maya Brent.


* Plot :


Dr. Fred Steele (Umberto Orsini) and Eve Barnett (Maya Brent) work together at an astronomical station on a bucolic island. Steele has just had his request for a transfer approved, and he and Eve look forward to leaving the island and getting married. However, their budding romance is quickly put on hold as the station's scientists learn they must deal with a rogue planet -- "The Outsider" -- that has entered the solar system, and which is on a collision course with Earth.


The brilliant but cantankerous Professor Benson (Claude Rains), living in an adjacent greenhouse with his dog Gideon, predicts that the Outsider will not strike the Earth but will simply make a close pass -- a prediction that no other scientist will endorse. Meanwhile, a military base on Mars encounters the stray planet on its approach to Earth, and Commander Robert Cole and his wife Cathy quickly travel to the island outpost from Mars to help with the effort.


The base scientists are elated when the Outsider passes the earth at a distance of 95,000 miles, just as Benson predicted. But Benson himself is stunned when the Outsider takes up an orbit round Earth. He concludes that the Outsider must be controlled by an alien intelligence, and he calls upon the world's scientific governing council to destroy it without delay.


Against Benson's wishes, an expedition is launched to make a close study of the new planet. As the exploratory spacecraft approach, a number of disc-shaped alien spaceships emerge from beneath the planet's surface, destroying the Earth vessels.


The phantom planet begins spiraling inward toward the Earth, creating hurricanes and storms, and the beginning of the end appears to be near. Professor Benson discovers that the alien ships are computer-controlled, and he devises a way to seize control of them from the Outsider. Benson is given the opportunity to join an expedition to the Outsider, to learn something of its underground base. Meanwhile, a plan is hatched to launch an all-out attack against the planet, in the hope that a massive nuclear strike will break the planet apart.


Benson's expedition discovers a race of humanoid creatures dead at the controls of their planet-spaceship, as the automated systems continue their work without purpose. But the expedition has overrun its allotted time, and the order is given to begin the attack. It is a race against time as the members of the expedition try to get back to the ship before the nuclear warheads strike. Cathy is mortally wounded in the attempt to flee the Outsider.


Benson refuses to leave, insisting that life without scientific knowledge is not worth living. The warheads reach their target, and the Outsider is successfully destroyed. As the exploratory ship returns to Earth, Commander Cole speaks Benson's epitaph: "Poor Benson -- if they'd opened up his chest, they would only find a formula where his heart should have been".

The Terror

The Terror (1963)
Director: Roger Corman
Writers: Leo Gordon and Jack Hill (screenplay)
Release Date: 16 May 1964 (Japan)
Genre: Drama - Fantasy - Horror - Mystery - Thriller
Length: 01:20:00

The Terror is a 1963 American horror film produced by Roger Corman. It was also released as Lady of the Shadows, The Castle of Terror and The Haunting.


Although credited to Corman, parts of the film were shot by Francis Ford Coppola, Monte Hellman, Jack Hill, and Jack Nicholson. Corman shot footage of Karloff and other actors walking across the sets and downstairs with the belief that he would be able to make sense of them later. In the next three days Coppola, Helman and Hill all tried to do something. Nicholson, who was keen to get directing experience himself, also took a turn behind the camera.


In the early 1990s, actor Dick Miller, who plays Karloff's major domo, was hired to shoot new scenes to use as a framing sequence for an oversea's version of The Terror. Under this scheme, the main action of the film is presented in flashback. Today, the film is in the public domain because of missing copyright indication.


Leftover sets from other AIP films were used when shooting the film, notably those from The Haunted Palace, a Vincent Price horror film made the same year. The tree against which Sandra Knight expires was the same one Price was tied to and burned in Palace.


Clips from the film were used years later in the 1968 Karloff movie Targets.


* Plot :


Set in 1806, the film tells the story of a lost French soldier (Jack Nicholson) saved by a strange young woman named Elaine (Sandra Knight). She looks like Ilsa, the baron's (Boris Karloff) wife, who died 20 years ago.