Strike Force (1975)

Strike Force (1975)
Director: Barry Shear
Writers: Sonny Grosso (story) Roger O. Hirson (writer)
Release Date: 12 April 1975 (USA)
Genre: Crime - Drama - Sport - Thriller
Runtime: 01:14:00


* PLot:

A New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring. This Action crime Drama centers on the exploits of a special strike force that is comprised of a federal agent, a state trooper (Richard Gere), and a New York City police officer who busted up a ring of drug dealers. The film, an authentic, thrilling detectives-find-the-crooks Drama, has plenty of the grit and language, and neighborhood concern that we have come to expect from New Yorkers.


* Cast:

Cliff Gorman ... Detective Joey Gentry
Don Blakely ... FBI Agent Jerome Ripley (as Donald Blakely)
Richard Gere ... Trooper Walter Spenser
Edward Grover ... Captain Peterson (as Ed Grover)
Joe Spinell ... Sol Terranova
Marilyn Chris ... Faye Stone
Mimi Cecchini ... Mrs. Morelli

Wake (2003)

Wake (2003)
Director: Roy Finch
Writer: Roy Finch (written by)
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 01:32:00


* PLot:

In the film, "Wake", the fateful reunion of four brothers quickly dissolves into a night of drinking, deceit, perversions, and death. They don't realize until it is too late that the party they are having is, in fact, a wake.


* Cast:

Blake Gibbons ... Raymond Riven
Gale Harold ... Kyle Riven
John Winthrop Philbrick ... Jack Riven
Dihlon McManne ... Sebastian Riven
Martin Landau ... Older Sebastian Riven
Muriel Kenderdine ... Mother
Dusty Paik ... April
Rainer Judd ... Dusty
Robert Witham ... Police Officer
Judy Griffith ... Bartender
Charles Kozlosky ... Bartender
Melissa Henderson ... Billy Budd's Bar Patron




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Born to Win (1971)

Born to Win (1971)
Director: Ivan Passer
Writers: David Scott Milton (original story and screenplay)
Ivan Passer (screenplay)
Release Date: 3 November 1972
Genre: Drama - Comedy



* Cast :


George Segal ... J (JJ)
Karen Black ... Parm
Paula Prentiss ... Veronica
Jay Fletcher ... Billy Dynamite
Hector Elizondo ... Vivian
Robert De Niro ... Danny
Ed Madsen ... Detective
Marcia Jean Kurtz ... Marlene
Irving Selbst ... Stanley
Tim Pelt ... Little Davey
José Pérez ... Junior Conception (as Jose Perez)
Sylvia Syms ... Cashier (as Sylvia Simms)
Jack Hollander ... Harry
Alex Colon ... Bus Boy
Max Brandt ... Store Clerk


* Plot :


Days and nights are touch and go for Jay Jay (George Segal) a petty thief and Heroin addict who runs errands and commits robberies to support his habit. He met his girl friend Parm (Karen Black) one night while stealing her car and they stick together through everything Jay Jay gets involved in. While delivering a package of illicit drugs for local drug dealer and pimp Geek (Hector Elizondo) Jay Jay decides to steal it but is caught by the Police who agree to let him go if he turns "narc" and sets up the Geek in a sting operation with detective Danny (Robert De Niro), something Jay Jay doesn't want to do because he feels it will insure his death. Jay Jay arranges a meeting between Geek and Danny and gets some drugs for himself and shares with his friend Billy (Jay Fletcher) but the drugs turn out to be bad. Jay Jay and Parm decide to leave New York and on the way they are stopped by the Police who arrest Parm for possession of drugs. When Jay Jay goes back to Geek he is given some drugs but feels sure they are bad but is also so driven by his addiction that he is frozen with indecision.

Boy With A Knife

Boy With A Knife(1956).
Producer: Dudley Pictures Corp.
Runtime: 19 minutes

Jerry, an "at-risk" young man, uses his knife as an "equalizer" to solve his frustrations stemming from his unhappy home, which is dominated by his stepmother. A group worker reaches Jerry and helps him to transcend his anger. Director: Laslo Benedek. Narrator: Richard Widmark. With Chuck Connors.

Delinquency Prevention is the broad term for all efforts aimed at preventing youth from becoming involved in criminal, or other antisocial, activity. Increasingly, governments are recognizing the importance of allocating resources for the prevention of delinquency. Because it is often difficult for states to provide the fiscal resources necessary for good prevention, organizations, communities, and governments are working more in collaboration with each other to prevent juvenile delinquency.

With the development of delinquency in youth being influenced by numerous factors, prevention efforts are comprehensive in scope. Prevention services include activities such as substance abuse education and treatment, family counseling, youth mentoring, parenting education, educational support, and youth sheltering.

The Phantom of the Opera 1925 (Silent Movie)

The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 silent film directed by Rupert Julian adaptation of the Gaston Leroux novel of the same title. The film featured Lon Chaney in the title role as the masked and facially deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to force the management to make the woman he loves a star. It is most famous for Lon Chaney's intentionally horrific, self-applied make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film's premiere.


The film also features Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, John St. Polis and Snitz Edwards. According to Wikipedia, the only surviving cast member is Carla Laemmle (born 1909), niece of producer Carl Laemmle, who played a small role as "prima ballerina" in the film when she was about 15.


The movie was adapted by Elliott J. Clawson, Frank M. McCormack (uncredited), Tom Reed (titles) and Raymond L. Schrock. It was directed by Rupert Julian.

The Last Woman on Earth (1960)

he Last Woman on Earth is a 1960 American science-fiction film produced and directed by Roger Corman. It tells the story of three survivors of a mysterious apocalypse which appears to have wiped out all human life on earth. The screenplay is by Robert Towne, who also appears in the film billed as "Edward Wain". The music was composed and conducted by Ronald Stein.

* Plot :

Harold Gern, a successful businessman from New York who has been in a lot of legal trouble recently, is spending a holiday in Puerto Rico with his attractive wife Evelyn, whom he married "between trials". They are joined by Martin Joyce, Gern's friend and lawyer, who has come to discuss legal matters. Not in the mood to talk business, Gern invites him along on a boat trip during which all three try out some newly bought scuba diving equipment. When they resurface they realize to their astonishment that they are unable to breathe without using their oxygen tanks. They climb back into their boat and find Manuel, their servant, dead on board—asphyxiated.


Unable to start the engine, they row ashore. With 40 minutes worth of oxygen left they enter the jungle, where, due to the plants giving off oxygen, they can soon breathe normally again (and light a cigarette to calm their nerves).


Gradually it dawns upon the three that they might be the only survivors in the area, maybe in the world. They briefly speculate on what has happened ("an act of God … or bigger and better bombs") but try to "keep that kind of talk to a minimum" and mainly concern themselves with becoming self-sufficient, for example by moving to a villa near the beach. The two men teach themselves how to fish—as only animals that live in the water have survived—but when they see insects again they realize that they must have survived inside their eggs. Accordingly, they feel that in the long run they will have to move North to a colder climate—to avoid an insect problem and also problems with food preservation and to increase their chances of meeting other survivors.


Very soon the Gerns and Martin Joyce can no longer cope with the triangular situation. Although they still keep up appearances—Evelyn is still wearing jewelry, and Harold Gern, a tie for their seafood dinners—Martin points out to Gern that neither the latter's marriage certificate nor his money mean anything any more. Evelyn feels attracted to the lawyer, who eventually tells her husband what he really thinks of him ("The way you made your money stank. […] And furthermore, Harold, you stink."). After a short fistfight Martin pretends to be leaving the couple but at the last moment Evelyn hops into the car, and the two lovers drive off. Harold hotwires the other car and follows them. At the harbour another fight between the two men ensues during which Martin is fatally injured. The two survivors are left wondering where they will go or what they will do now.

La Nouvelle Vague: Alain Robbe-Grillet's "Trans Europ Express"

The New Wave was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced by Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood cinema. Although never a formally organized movement, the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of classical cinematic form and their spirit of youthful iconoclasm and is an example of European art cinema. Many also engaged in their work with the social and political upheavals of the era, making their radical experiments with editing, visual style, and narrative part of a general break with the conservative paradigm.


Alain Robbe-Grillet was one of the most notorious figures of the French New Wave. According to Wikipedia, he wrote screenplays, notably for Alain Resnais' 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad, a critical success considered to be one of the finest French films of the 1960s. It was followed by a number of films written and directed by Robbe-Grillet himself: "Trans-Europ-Express" (1966), his two French-Slovak films "L'homme qui ment/Muž, ktorý luže" (The Man Who Lies) (1968), "L'Eden et après/Eden a potom" (Eden and After) (1970), "Glissements progressifs du plaisir" (The Slow Slidings of Pleasure) (1974), "Le jeu avec le feu" (Playing with Fire) (1975), "La belle captive" (The Beautiful Captive) (1986), and many others.


Trans-Europ-Express is a 1966 film written and directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Marie-France Pisier. The title refers to the Trans Europ Express, a former international rail network in Europe. The film has been variously described as an erotic thriller, a mystery, and a film-within-a-film. Screenwriting guru Robert McKee classifies Trans-Europ-Express as a "nonplot" film, that is a film that does not tell a story.