What's Good For The Goose (1969)

British comedian Norman Wisdom stars as Timothy Bartlett, a boring middle-class banker whose life is a predictable routine. After the sudden death of his boss, Timothy is next in line to go to the banking conference being held in Southport. On the way down south, he reluctantly picks up a couple of young hitchhikers, Nikki (Sally Geeson) and Meg (Sarah Atkinson). However he can't get Nikki out of his mind and goes to all the local hip spots hoping to find her. Fortunately, he does run into her and her mod friends and quickly becomes part of the scene. During this midlife crisis he not only has an affair with the young nymph, but dons the hippie clothes and attitudes of the youth of the day. Nevertheless, it all must come to an end when the week is up and Timothy must return to his real life.

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The Soul Brothers Of Kung Fu (1977)

A trio of young Chinese refugees (including Bruce Li) are rescued from a raft at the beginning of the film. They settle in Hong Kong and try to make a life for themselves. However, the forces of wrong work against their good natures and cause them to always be in battle in this plotless film.

Initially, the duo help out a young black man (Carl Scott) who is being beat up by some thugs who work for the boss. After that, the boss and his goons are constantly fighting our heroes every opportunity they get. The film tries to put some plot in by having Li compete in a martial arts competition. When he beats the competitor that the evil head honcho has entered into the contest, things gear up. A trio of killers are hired to finish off Li. Of course they don't succeed and the gangster must find way to annihilate Li that is a little closer to home.

Alternate Titles: Bei Po, Kung Fu Avengers, The Last Strike

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Possessed (1931)

Joan Crawford stars as Marian Martin, a small town girl that works in a paper box factory. She wants more out of life than to settle down and marry the hard-working local boy Al Manning (Wallace Ford). One night she strikes up a conversation with Wally Stuart (Richard "Skeets" Gallagher), a rich lush who is hanging out on the back of a train drinking champagne. He invites her to New York where she ends up meeting rich lawyer Mark Whitney (Clark Gable). Mark and Marian fall madly in love, but three years later they still are only having an affair, with Marian posing as the rich divorcee Mrs. Moreland to keep up appearances. When Mark is given the opportunity to run for Governor, he must make a decision between his ambition and his heart.

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Lisa And The Devil (1974)

This is a surreal thriller by Italian director Mario Bava stars Elke Sommer as Lisa and Telly Savalas as The Devil. The story is set in Italy with Lisa as an American tourist who wanders away from her tour group as they study a fresco of the devil carrying away the dead. She enters a shop and encounters Savalas who has an uncanny resemblance to the demon in the painting. Lisa rushes out of the store but suddenly is very lost. Eventually she gets a ride with a rich couple and their chauffeur, but soon the car breaks down. Fortunately the are right in front of a large estate house and are invited in by the butler who just happens to be Savalas. The residents of the house are a young man who is quite taken by Lisa and his blind mother. Lots of bizarre situations occurs that include lots of dummies of the people, a man who appears only to Lisa and a past love triangle with a woman who looks uncannily like Lisa. What exactly is going on is not for rational analysis.

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Five Steps To Danger (1957)

Sterling Hayden stars as John Emmett in this cold war drama based on the book "The Steel Mirror" written by Donald Hamilton of Matt Helm fame. Emmett has the misfortune of having his car break down on the way to his month-long fishing vacation. Fortunately for him Mrs. Ann Nicholson (Ruth Roman) offers him a ride as far as Santa Fe, as long as he shares in the driving. She is in a rush to get to the city and meet up with a Dr. Reinhart Kissel. It seems that Ann is a native of Berlin and has the secret plans for an Intercontinental Missile that she must deliver to Kissel. However, some baddies have gotten word that she is carrying the plans and try to stop her. But luckily for the couple, the FBI are also in the know and try to prevent the Communists from getting to them and the blueprints.

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The Second Best Secret Agent In The Whole Wide World (1965)

This James Bond rip-off starts with a promising pre-credit sequence of an assassination in an British park involving a woman and some twin babies in a pram. Sammy Davis Jr. then sings the theme song before the excitement quickly comes to a halt.

The secret agent in question is Charles Vine (Tom Adams). He is brought in to protect a foreign scientist who has invented Re-Grav, a process that reverses gravity. The Russians want to get their hands on it and would do anything to get it, or so it seems. There are many attempts on the life of the scientist which Vine successfully foils. But who exactly is behind the killings: the Russians, the British or someone else?

Alternate Titles: Licensed To Kill, Secret Service

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Killing Cabos (2004)

Very funny Mexican film that starts off quite surreal before settling into an entertaining adventure taking place over the course of one crazy night. Jaque (Tony Dalton) and Mudo (Kristoff) have the unclothed, unconscious body of their tyrannical boss Cabos (Pedro Armendariz, Jr) in the trunk of their car. After being rear-ended by a crazed, cross-eyed bus driver, they call their friend Ruben (Joaquin Cosio) to help them sort out the situation. Ruben was once know as "Mascarita", a masked Mexican wrestler, but don't ever call him that or he'll beat the crap out of you. Ruben shows up with his bodyguard Tony The Cannibal (Silverio Palacios) who helps him get out of some scrapes with a team of aggressive rugby players. And finally, there's vicious Botcha (Raul Mendez). He thinks that he has kidnapped Cabos. Not only has he got the wrong man, but he can't even get any response from the family when he contacts them threatening to kill him if he doesn't get retribution.

Alternate Titles: Matando Cabos

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Behind Locked Doors (1948)

This Poverty Row noir film is directed by Budd Boetticher and stars Richard Carlson as Ross Stewart, a dime-store detective who's just opened shop. Literally before the paint has dried on his office door, he gets his first case. Kathy Lawrence (Lucille Bremer), a pretty newspaper reporter, desires to hire Stewart to help her find a crooked judge who is wanted by the police. She has already done some investigating on her own and believes that he is hiding out in a private sanitarium. Stewart is to enter the mental hospital disguised as a patient and find out for sure if the judge has refuge there. Even though Stewart befriends a kindly orderly, he also gets abuse from the sadistic caretaker. Being a low-budget film there really aren't that many other patients to be seen with the exception of the dangerous inmate "Champ" (Tor Johnson) who blindly beats up whomever is in his path believing that he is in the wrestling ring.

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Uptown Saturday Night (1974)

Comedy starring Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby as two working class friends. One night they decide to go uptown to Zenobia's, a posh gambling hall/nightclub. While having an advantageous winning streak at the crap table, the club is suddenly invaded by a gang of masked men who rob all the customers of their money and their valuables after making them strip down to their underwear.

The next day things look worse when Poitier finds out that a winning lottery ticket is in the wallet that was robbed from him the night before. Together the two friends are determined to find out who was behind the robbery and get the wallet back. They end up employing the services of a crooked detective (Richard Pryor), a poseur politician (Roscoe Lee Browne), and a Godfather-like mob boss (Harry Belafonte) before finally finding the culprit.

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Hopscotch (1980)

Walter Matthau stars as Miles Kendig, an excellent CIA field man. He regretfully gets unceremoniously demoted to a desk job by his new boss Myerson (Ned Beatty) after he fails to apprehend a key KGB agent (Herbert Lom). Kendig decides to go rogue and travels to Saltzburg, Austria to hook up with Isobel (Glenda Jackson), an old friend and former agent. Once there, he resolves to get back at the agency by writing his explicit memoirs and sending copies to all the intelligence agencies around the world. As each chapter gets sent out, more damaging information about the CIA and their methods gets publicized. Determined to stop Kendig, the agency sends out its top agents including Cutter (Sam Waterston), Kendig's replacement. However, Kendig is always one step ahead of them, leading them on a wild goose chase.

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