EROTISSIMO DVD (1968) $14.99 modcinema exclusive!
run time: 85 minutes. Color. FRANCE. Widescreen. English subtitles.
directed by: Gerard Pires
description: A married woman in her 30's (Annie Girardot) tries to spice up her sex life with her distracted husband Philippe (Jean Yanne) under the deluge of sexy Swedish movies, sexy advertising on the streets, sexy intimate clothing in ladies' shops, and even talks about sex and marital infidelity with her mother and female friends. Philippe, a general manager of a dynamic company specializing in baby products becomes preoccupied with an upcoming tax audit. Even the presence of a beautiful fashion model who lives with Annie's brother fails to divert his attention. This amazing and colorful work of 60's pop art features an original psychedelic soundtrack by french composer William Sheller & singer-songwriter Michel Polnareff, and don't miss the cameo by monsieur Serge Gainsbourg! WATCH CLIP

BLONDE IN BLACK LEATHER DVD (1975) $14.99
run time: 101 minutes. Color. ITALY.
directed by: Carlo Di Palma
description: A mysterious leather-clad figure on a motorcycle rides into a deserted rural town in Italy, to the tune of Riz Ortolani's harmonica-driven score. The figure is Miele (Monica Vitti), a motor-mouthed pathological liar supposedly traveling to meet her gangster boyfriend, Big Louie. Miele brushes open the swinging doors of a laundress (Claudia Cardinale) to abandon her hubby and flee to Naples. What follows is a fun-filled road trip, with Miele's dishonesty increasingly transparent as Claudia gains confidence and proves the savvier of the pair.

30 IS A DANGEROUS AGE, CYNTHIA (1968) $14.99
run time: 85 minutes. Color. UK.
directed by: Joseph McGrath
description: In his first starring role minus his longtime partner Peter Cook, Dudley Moore plays a 29-year-old who goes through an identity crisis when approaching the "three-oh" mark. He wants to be a successful Broadway composer before reaching 30 and also wants to be happily married. Unfortunately, he's so busy as a night-club musician that he hasn't any time to realize his goals. Enter sexy Suzy Kendall (Mrs. Moore at the time), who inspires Dudley to reinvigorate his quest for success and connubial bliss. 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia delivers a satisfactory quota of laughs and sixties "mod" camera trickery. WATCH CLIP

QUEST FOR LOVE DVD (1971) $14.99
run time: 87 minutes. Color. UK.
directed by: Ralph Thomas
description: This science fiction/fantasy is loosely based on a story by John Wyndham (best known for The Day of the Triffids). Scientist Collin (Tom Bell) stumbles across a parallel world in which President Kennedy is not shot, Vietnam hasn't happened, and Ottilie (Joan Collins), the woman he loves, dies unexpectedly of a heart condition. While he is happy enough with the rest of his new world, he can't stand by and let his true love die in his original world, and he determines to return to his own place and time to save her.

STAND UP AND BE COUNTED (1972) $14.99
run time: 90 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Jackie Cooper
description: Sheila Hammond (Jacqueline Bisset) is a fashion magazine reporter who returns to her home town in order to write an article about the progress of the liberation of the women. Arriving at the town she is very surprised to see that her sister and also her mother agree very much with the feministic arguments. On the flight to her hometown of Denver, Sheila meets old boyfriend (Gary Lockwood) an airline pilot, and the two rekindle their interest in each other. At home, Sheila is further taken aback to learn that her younger sister Karen (Lee Purcell) is the militant leader of another "Women's Lib" group.

FOUR DIMENSIONS OF GRETA DVD (1972) $14.99 includes 3D glasses!
run time: 97 minutes. Color. UK.
directed by: Pete Walker
description: Tacky British sleaze at its most glorious and dubious - featuring possibly the worst German accent ever committed to film, enough pubic hair to stuff two sofas, and some of the worst acting and limb contortions ever seen. Greta was Britain's very first 3D feature film and was directed by Pete Walker (House of Whipcord, Cool It, Carol!, The Big Switch) WATCH CLIP

NEGATIVES (1968) $14.99
run time: 98 minutes. Color. UK.
directed by: Peter Medak
description: An unmarried London couple tries to interject some life into their romantic pursuits in this mystery. Theo (Peter McEnery) and Vivien (Glenda Jackson) take over the used furniture store owned by Theo's father, who is dying of cancer. Reingard (Diane Cliento) is the German neighbor who produces a photograph of WWI flying ace the Red Baron, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Theo. The couple then takes delight in enacting elaborate fantasies in which Theo is first the notorious turn-of-the century killer, Dr. Crippen and then the Red Baron. Things take a deadly turn when the couple invite a photographer in to film them. Theo goes so far as to buy a vintage airplane to put on the roof of his home. Vivien wishes to participate in the fantasy, but Theo becomes violent.

COLOR ME DEAD (1969) $14.99
run time: 97 minutes. Color. UK.
directed by: Eddie Davis
description: Frank Bigelow (Tom Tryon) is an accountant who mistakenly discovers some wrongdoing by an unscrupulous uranium development company. His drink is spiked with a slow-acting poison, which he discovers after stomach pains bring him in to the hospital. While Frank searches for the antidote, he uncovers other victims who have already died. The trail leads back to the uranium company and the shady board of directors. Frank races against borrowed time to save his own life in this routine crime drama. Carolyn Jones appears as Paula, the sympathetic girlfriend and loyal secretary.

THE KILL (1973) $14.99
run time: 79 minutes. Color. HONG KONG.
directed by: Rolf Bayer
description: It is nice to see Richard Jaeckel in a full-fledged leading role, even in a shabby internationally-produced thriller like The Kill. Set in Macao, the film finds Jaeckel cast as a two-fisted, womanizing private detective. He has been assigned to track down an international crime ring, run by the sort of folks who have no qualms about knocking someone off just to keep in practice. Judy Washington provides much of the film's pulchritude. The Kill was released shortly after Jaeckel received his Academy Award nomination for Sometimes a Great Notion, suggesting that the film had been made much earlier, but held up for distribution until the time was ripe.

KILLER FORCE DVD (1976) $14.99
run time: 101 minutes. Color. IRELAND / SWITZERLAND / USA.
directed by: Val Guest
description: "They were professionals who killed for hire. But the man who hunted them killed for pleasure!" Head of company security, Harry Webb (Telly Savalas) fears that a diamond theft is about to take place at their major mining complex deep in the desert. He quickly manages to become very unpopular, particularly with Claire Chambers (Maud Adams) a celebrated cover girl, daughter of the mine administrator. She is visiting the man she loves, Mike Bradley (Peter Fonda) who is responsible for security at the mine. Nelson, the mine administrator, gives Bradley a curious mission - to help him pull off the biggest heist in history. Christopher Lee, O.J. Simpson, and Hugh O'Brian co-star in this exciting 70's action thriller written and directed by Val Guest.

MICKEY ONE DVD (1965) $14.99
run time: 93 minutes. B&W. USA. Widescreen.
directed by: Arthur Penn
description: Often described as a French New Wave film made in Hollywood, Arthur Penn's 1965 art movie enters the unsettlingly paranoid world of a nightclub comic on the run from the Mob. Having fooled around with the wrong blonde and gambled himself into an unpayable debt, an entertainer (Warren Beatty) flees to Chicago, where he hides out and changes his name to Mickey One. He hooks up with Jenny (Alexandra Stewart) and Castle (Hurd Hatfield), the owner of the nightclub Xanadu, but he cannot shake the paralyzing conviction that he's being pursued no matter where he is.

THE INCIDENT DVD (1967) $14.99
run time: 107 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Larry Peerce
description: After mugging a helpless old man, two switchblade-wielding punks (Martin Sheen and Tony Musante) take over a subway car, terrorizing its occupants. In Stagecoach fashion, all the best and worst qualities of the passengers are brought to the surface by the presence of danger. Among the passengers are angry black man Brock Peters and his supplicative wife Ruby Dee, ex-alcoholic Gary Merrill, timorous Jewish couple Jack Gilford and Thelma Ritter, blowhard Ed McMahon, and homosexual Robert Fields. It is furloughed army private Beau Bridges who puts an end to Sheen and Musante's reign of terror. Based on Ride with Terror a 1963 TV play by Nicholas E. Baehr, The Incident is an unpleasant but undeniably fascinating character study. And yes, that cute young blonde playing Alice Keenan is Donna Mills.

MURDER AT THE WORLD SERIES DVD (1977) (TV) $14.99
run time: 97 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
description: A disturbed young man (Bruce Boxleitner) who had tried out for the Houston Astros baseball team and been rejected, plots to take his revenge by a series of kidnappings during the World Series. Janet Leigh & Murray Hamilton led an all star cast in this "movie of the week" which included Lynda Day George, Karen Valentine, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, and Michael Parks. Murder at the World Series premiered on March 20th, 1977. WATCH CLIP

SUPERTRAIN "EXPRESS TO TERROR" (1979) (TV) $14.99
run time: 92 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Dan Curtis
description: Considered one of the biggest, most expensive failures in network history, Supertrain was sort of a landlocked version of The Love Boat. It followed passengers on an atomic-powered transcontinental train that could go from New York to Los Angeles in 36 hours, equipped with all of the amenities of an ocean liner including a disco nightclub, beauty salon, doctor on staff and gymnasium. In this pilot episode titled Express to Terror, the inaugural run of the Supertrain is marked by intrigue when a mysterious assassin on board the the train makes repeated attempts on the life of a passenger.

OUTSIDE CHANCE (1978) (TV) $14.99
run time: 94 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Michael Miller
description: Dinah Hunter (Yvette Mimieux) is a Los Angeles advertising executive who stumbles into a waking nightmare during a road trip from L.A. to New York when she's terrorized by two hitchhickers who steal her car. Then, she ends up in smalltown jail by a corrupt sheriff who hates outsiders. When her jailer tries to rape her in the holding cell, she kills him, escapes and becomes a fugitive in which she ends up back on the road with one of her hitchihker tormenters who could prove her innocence. This made-for-tv movie is a sequel to the 1976 feature film Jackson County Jail.

SEE THE MAN RUN (1971) (TV) $14.99
run time: 72 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Corey Allen
description: Robert Culp stars in this TV movie as a failed actor who accidentally intercepts a phoned-in ransom demand for a kidnapped teenage girl. Deciding to cash in on this happenstance, Culp and his wife (Angie Dickinson) work out an extortion scheme based on the actor's skill with vocal impersonation. He calls the kidnap victim's father, pretending to be the kidnapper and making monetary demands; then he redials the kidnappers and pretends to be the distraught father, awaiting further instructions. In this way he hopes to intercept the ransom money and leave everyone else hanging. Culp's conscience gets the better of him--with fatal results. WATCH CLIP

REVENGE FOR A RAPE (1976) (TV) $14.99
run time: 92 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Timothy Galfas
description: "I'm fine, but you look like you've been through hell!" Revenge For A Rape is an intense television drama about three men who attack and rape a man's wife while on a camping trip. The victims husband Dr.Travis Green (actor Mike Connors from the 1960's private detective series Mannix) takes it upon himself to track them down. The victim, Amy Green (made-for-television movie veteran Tracy Brooks Swope) plays the wife and Robert Reed (playing very against type) delivers a strong and effective role as Sheriff Paley.

FAMILY FLIGHT (1972) (TV) $14.99
run time: 74 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Marvin J. Chomsky
description: The family in "flight" is played by Rod Taylor, Dina Merrill and Kristoffer Tabori. While taking an airborne vacation to Mexico, the family crash-lands somewhere in the Baja peninsula. Having taken the vacation as a means to patch up a variety of differences, the family is forced to pull together to survive. At times, however, it looks like no one will return to tell the tale. Made for television, Family Flight debuted October 25, 1972.

I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME DVD (1973) (TV) $14.99
run time: 79 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Daryl Duke
description: Made for television, I Heard the Owl Call My Name is set in an isolated Indian village in British Columbia. Tom Courtenay plays a naive young Anglican priest who is caught unawares by the primitiveness and poverty of his new parishioners. Bishop Dean Jagger, who's seen it all (and looks it!), uses alternating doses of toughness and tenderness to help Courtenay reach his flock. To do this, Courtenay must first reach within himself. Exquisitely adapted from the novel by Margaret Craven, I Heard the Owl Call My Name was first presented December 18, 1973.

LAST OF THE GOOD GUYS DVD (1978) (TV) $14.99
run time: 96 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Theodore J. Flicker
description: If it hadn't been a TV movie, Last of the Good Guys might have made a good episode of Car 54 Where Are You? The main good guy is rookie cop Dennis Dugan, who is assigned to take over for an ailing veteran police officer. When the replaced officer dies, Dugan realizes that the man's widow will never receive his maximum pension. Thus, Dugan and three fellow cops contrive to convince "by the book" desk sergeant Robert Culp that the dead man is still alive. Like many films of its era, Last of the Good Guys strives for political correctness by drawing the four compassionate cops from diverse ethnic and sociological backgrounds: One black (Ji-Tu Cumbaka), one Indian (Hampton Fancher), one Asian (Richard Narita), and one ex-hippie (Dennis Dugan, of course).

DRIVE HARD, DRIVE FAST DVD (1973) (TV) $14.99
run time: 90 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Douglas Heyes
description: Producer Roy Huggins and director Douglas Heyes, Maverick veterans both, reteamed for the made-for-TV Drive Hard, Drive Fast. Brian Kelly stars as a race car driver who would have been better off sticking to the track. Upon hopping out of his slicked-up auto, Kelly gets mixed up in an unsavory love triangle involving Joan Collins and Joseph Campanella. Before long, Kelly has to keep peeking over his shoulder to avoid being hacked to piece by a machete-wielding assailant. Completed in 1969, Drive Hard, Drive Fast was not telecast until September 11, 1973.

ROLLING MAN DVD (1972) (TV) $14.99
run time: 71 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Peter Hyams
description: Dennis Weaver plays a tow-truck driver sent to prison on a trumped-up charges of attempted murder. Out after serving four years, Weaver finds himself a reluctant loner. His wife has died, and his two sons have disappeared. In seeking out his boys, Weaver also keeps an eye out for the man responsible for railroading him into jail. Whenever the script or the character threaten to lapse into cliche, The Rolling Man compensates with attractive camerawork taking full advantage of the Southern California landscape. This TV movie had all the earmarks of a pilot for a series, but there's no evidence to back up this suspicion.

SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL DVD (1970) (TV) $14.99
run time: 92 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: John Llewellyn Moxey
description: San Francisco International is a multiplotted drama set at the titular air transport center. Several storylines intersect at various junctures: A $3,000,000 cargo plane robbery, a teenaged boy whose parents are splitting up decides to rebel by commandeering an aircraft, and a violent confrontation between a nasty businessman and a an airheaded hippie. Presiding over these major and minor crises is airport manager Jim Conred (Pernell Roberts) who runs an airport, much to the chagrin of his boss, "his way." When San Francisco International became the TV series San Francisco International Airport, Lloyd Bridges stepped into the Van Johnson role. WATCH CLIP

THE COUPLE TAKES A WIFE DVD (1972) (TV) $14.99
run time: 74 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Jerry Paris
description: Contrary to popular belief, "B" pictures didn't die in the 1970's; they just changed their classification to "ABC Movies of the Week". First telecast December 5, 1972, The Couple Takes a Wife is a by-the-numbers screwball comedy with a spirited all-TV cast. Career-minded couple Bill Bixby and Paula Prentiss just don't have time to watch the kids or attend to the housekeeping. So they advertise for a "wife", to assume wifely duties around the house. Enter Valerie Perrine, who takes her job very seriously-much to the dismay of real wife Prentiss. Myrna Loy, a seasoned veteran of this sort of frothy fare, appears as Prentiss' mother, while other key roles are filled by Nanette Fabray and Robert Goulet.

TWO ON A BENCH DVD (1971) (TV) $14.99
run time: 74 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Jerry Paris
description: Long ago and far away, Patty Duke occasionally played hippie types. One can get a glimpse of Duke's "far out" period in the 1972 TV movie Two on a Bench. Psychedelic Patty finds herself eyeball to eyeball with uptight square Ted Bessell when each suspects the other of working for a notorious spy. The supporting cast includes Alice Ghostley as Duke's klepto mom, John Astin (Duke's future husband) as a psychiatrist, and Jeannie Berlin (Elaine May's daughter) in a comedy vignette. Filmed in Boston, Two on a Bench is a surprising misfire from the otherwise dependable writing team of Richard Levinson and William Link.

THE LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING CASE DVD (1976) (TV) 2-disc $19.99
run time: 148 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Buzz Kulik
description: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, based on newspaper coverage, court testimony and eyewitness accounts, was dramatized for television by J.P. Miller. Cliff DeYoung and Sian star as Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The couple's 2-year-old son Charles Jr. is kidnapped from the family's Hopewell, New Jersey home on March 1, 1932; though the ransom is paid, the child's body is found a few days later. All circumstantial evidence points to German expatriate Bruno Richard Hauptmann (Anthony Hopkins) as the kidnapper/murderer. While never seriously challenging the notion of Hauptmann's guilt, the film raises several questions concerning the fairness of his trial. The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case first aired in a three-hour timeslot on Febrary 26, 1976.

SUNSHINE (1973) & SUNSHINE CHRISTMAS (1977) DVD (TV) 2-disc $19.99
run time: 118 + 86 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Joseph Sargent & Glenn Jordan
description: A beautiful but sad story based on tape recording journals by Jacquelyn M. Helton (Cristina Raines) who died of terminal bone cancer at age twenty. She left these recordings behind for her 2 year old daughter and husband, struggling musician Sam Hayden (Cliff De Young). The sequel Sunshine Christmas follows Sam Hayden 6-7 years later, now brooding over the marriage of his sometime girlfriend. He decides to take his adopted daughter (Elizabeth Cheshire) to his home in Texas to celebrate Christmas with his family. While there, he begins to rekindle the relationship he once had with his childhood girlfriend. Sunshine and Sunshine Christmas features an original soundtrack by folk legend John Denver.

DIAMONDS FOR BREAKFAST DVD (1968) $14.99
run time: 102 minutes. Color. UK.
directed by: Christopher Morahan
description: Marcello Mastroianni marks his English language film debut in this featherweight caper film directed by first-time director Christopher Morahan. Mastroianni plays the owner of a London boutique who also happens to be the fourth in line to succeed the Russian throne. Mastroianni, feeling that the collection of Russian imperial jewels actually belongs to him, determines to steal them and return them to their rightful owner -- himself. To carry out his plan, he puts together a cadre of pulchritudinous female crooks (led by Rita Tushingham) and arranges for his gal gang to model the imperial jewels at a fashion show. But, as usual, complications set in to mess up his plans. WATCH CLIP

THE BIG SWITCH DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 77 minutes. Color. UK.
directed by: Pete Walker
description: In this crime drama, a playboy gambler has a passionate one-night stand with a beautiful woman. During the night, he briefly leaves and when he returns, finds her dead. Not wanting his name in the papers, the man tries to avoid the police. He soon finds himself victimized by extortionists, headed by his own boss and the girl, who only feigned death. They try to force him into breaking a notorious crimelord out of prison, but he is not so easily swayed. WATCH CLIP

GOAL! WORLD CUP 1966 DVD (1966) $14.99
run time: 107 minutes. Color. UK.
directed by: Ross Devenish & Abidin Dino
description: This entertaining documentary of the World Cup Soccer tournament of 1966 follows the 15 countries competing for the sport's most coveted prize. Nigel Patrick narrates, with commentary provided by Brian Glanville. The executive producer spent $336,000 on the production and used 117 cameras to record nearly 48 hours worth of action. Four editors were employed to created the final 108-minute feature.

PENDULUM DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 102 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: George Schaefer
description: Police Captain Matthews (George Peppard) believes he has successfully pinned a murder and rape conviction on Paul Sanderson (Robert F. Lyons) only to have the sentence overturned by the United States Supreme Court. When his wife Adele (Jean Seberg) is found murdered, Matthews finds himself on the other side of the law. The disillusioned suspect finds that his police cronies and friends have turned their backs on him, particularly when Senator Cole (Paul McGrath) goes on a much-publicized tirade against crime. Matthews feels something is not quite right when his police colleagues are all too eager to pin the crime on him in this engaging murder mystery.

RIVALS DVD (1972) $14.99
run time: 104 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Krishna Shah
description: Divorced mother Christine Button (Joan Hackett) runs an art gallery, her son, Jamie (Scott Jacoby) is a 10-year-old experimental filmmaker. One day Christine meets Peter (Robert Klein), a childlike 33-year-old independent guided-tour leader, who hustles her into a tour of Manhattan and after a whirlwind courtship, marries her. Distraught, Jamie regresses, and with desperate skill begins to plan Peter's murder. Rivals is that kind of one of a kind movie that could only have been produced in the 70's. It's gritty and dark yet sweet and romantic.

INNOCENT BYSTANDERS DVD (1972) $14.99
run time: 107 minutes. Color. UK.
directed by: Peter Collinson
description: Innocent Bystanders stars Stanley Baker as a Bondlike British secret service agent. In collaboration with fellow spies Geraldine Chaplin and Dana Andrews, Baker is sent behind the Iron Curtain to locate a Russian scientist who has escaped from Siberia. There's a likelihood that the scientist was permitted to escape so that he can spy on the Good Guys. Baker must decide if the escapee is to be rescued or eliminated. The level of sadism and bloodshed in Innocent Bystanders is such that at times it makes the James Bond films look like models of decorum.

THE TRAP DVD (1966) $14.99
run time: 102 minutes. Color. CANADA / UK.
directed by: Sidney Hayers
description: Every ten years or so, the all-purpose title The Trap is applied to a film about psychological rather than physical entrapment. This 1966 British/Canadian coproduction stars Oliver Reed as a roughhewn fur trapper of the 1890s. He has missed the annual "wife auction" due to inclement weather, and must settle for what's left: a timorous mute girl, played by Rita Tushingham. Though she lives in mortal terror of her husband, Tushingham nurses Reed through a near-fatal illness. The awe-inspiring location photography of The Trap frequently upstages the strenuous dramatics of its stars.

THE LAST CHILD DVD (1971) (TV) $14.99
run time: 71 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: John Llewellyn Moxey
description: In the badly-overpopulated future of 1994, each couple is only allowed one child and people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very draconian set of laws. A young married couple (played by Michael Cole and Janet Margolin), pregnant with their second child (the first died shortly after birth) enlist the help of an elderly former US Senator (Van Heflin in his final screen performance) to help them escape to Canada as they are persued by a Population Control agent (Edward Asner). This Aaron Spelling produced ABC "Movie of the Week" originally aired on October 5th, 1971. WATCH CLIP

SMASH-UP ON INTERSTATE 5 DVD (1976) (TV) $14.99
run time: 91 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: John Llewellyn Moxey
description: A disaster movie opening with an enormous multi-vehicle crash on a Californian highway. After the opening stunt-filled action, a flashback of the crash victims' lives prior to and leading up to the accident. The closing replays the entire "smash up" from various angles and in slow motion, depicting much carnage and indifference to the victims. An all star cast led by Robert Conrad, Buddy Ebsen, Scott Jacoby, Vera Miles, Tommy Lee Jones, Donna Mills, and many more. WATCH CLIP

THE LONGEST NIGHT DVD (1972) (TV) $14.99
run time: 71 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Jack Smight
description: The Longest Night is a harrowing made-for-TV movie based on a real-life kidnapping. Karen Chambers (Sallie Shockley) is abducted from the home of her parents (David Janssen & Phyllis Thaxter) and held for ransom. Her captors (James Farentino & Skye Aubrey) entomb her in a homemade coffin buried several feet underground, with an air hose as her only conduit to the outside world. As the police close in on the kidnappers and search for the girl, she desperately tries to stave off hysteria and to prevent the cutting off of her air supply. This movie was originally shown as an ABC Movie of the Week on September 12, 1972.

A TASTE OF EVIL DVD (1972) (TV) $14.99
run time: 71 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: John Llewellyn Moxey
description: Screenwriter Jimmy Sangster and John Llewellyn Moxey, longtime collaborators in the field of British psychological-horror efforts, once more combined their skills for the American TV movie Taste of Evil. Barbara Parkins plays a young rape victim, recently released from a mental institution. She begins experiencing "flashbacks" to her rape; are these merely illusions, or is she being systematically tortured by a mystery villain? Barbara Stanwyck, Roddy McDowell, William Windom, Roddy McDowell and Bing Russell (Kurt's father) express varying degrees of concern and menace.

THE ELEVATOR DVD (1974) (TV) $14.99
run time: 75 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Jerry Jameson
description: An all-star "disaster" flick set in an elevator: is there no limit? This made-for-TVer top-bills James Farentino as a bank robber suffering from claustrophobia. Fleeing from his latest crime, the criminal is forced to take an elevator, populated with the likes of Roddy McDowall, Craig Stevens, Teresa Wright, Myrna Loy and Carol Lynley. Naturally, the elevator stalls between floors, high above ground level. The Elevator debuted as an ABC Movie of the Week on February 9, 1974.

THE CITY DVD (1977) (TV) $14.99
run time: 78 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Harvey Hart
description: Miami Vice superstar Don Johnson and Star Wars' Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill, come face-to-face in this action-charged police adventure. Hamill plays an unpredictable psychotic who reveals a deadly grudge against a famous country singer (Jimmy Dean) who punched him in the face when he was a baby. Robert Forster teams up with Johnson to protect the singer and track down the assailant. Hamill stalks the singer, murdering a detective along the way. The killer terrorizes the singer's family, leaving their dead dog on the lawn and threatening the wife and small son at knifepoint. While investigating the case, the police duo come upon family connections between the singer and the killer that pull together the pieces of this tense thriller.

WATCHED! DVD (1974) $14.99
run time: 97 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: John Parsons
description: When government attorney Mike Mandell (Stacy Keach, Jr.) begins to suffer from a mental disorder that periodically transforms him into another mobster personality known as "Sonny," his strange behavior doesn't escape the notice of narcotics agent Gordon Pankey (Harris Yulin). As Gordon observes Mike, the man becomes more and more paranoid that he is being watched. The score for this film was created by the jazz group Weather Report.

TO KILL A CLOWN DVD (1974) $14.99
run time: 84 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: George Bloomfield
description: When a young hippie married couple (Blythe Danner & Heath Lamberts) retreats to an isolated island to attempt to salvage their failing relationship, they find that they are the targets of a military-brat sociopath (Alan Alda) and have to join forces to combat him. Way ahead of its time for addressing the problems of soldiers returning from combat. Adapted from the short story Master of the Hounds by Algis Budrys.

FOOTSTEPS DVD (1972) (TV) $14.99
run time: 73 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Paul Wendkos
description: A has-been football coach (Richard Crenna) tries to make a comeback after being hired by a small college to shape up its football team. Soon after, he finds himself in trouble with local gambling czar who doesn't want the team to improve. Based Hamilton Maule's novel, Paddy, this made-for-television movie (also known as "Nice Guys Finish Last") aired on CBS on October 3rd, 1973 and received a Golden Globe award nomination for "Best Movie Made for TV." Co-starring Joanna Pettet, Forrest Tucker, Ned Beatty, and Clu Gulager.

THE GUN DVD (1974) (TV) $14.99>
run time: 71 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: John Badham
description: Designed along the lines of the old multistoried film Tales of Manhattan (albeit with a tragic ending), the Richard Levinson/William Link TV-movie effort The Gun "stars" a .38 caliber revolver. Our first glimpse of the gun is as it is being assembled in the factory. From this point on, it passes through several hands, both legally and otherwise. After it has ruined--or, at least, radically altered--several lives, the gun is purchased by a homeowner...who has a curious, impulsive little boy. When originally telecast, The Gun ended with a "crawl" listing the most recent dates of accidental handgun deaths in the United States; the last date was November 13, 1974--which was also the day that The Gun made its network debut. WATCH CLIP

THE MAN WHO COULD TALK TO KIDS DVD (1973) (TV) $14.99
run time: 74 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Donald Wrye
description: Peter Boyle plays a social worker who deals with "special needs" children. Most of Boyle's energies are devoted to communicating with an emotionally disturbed teen (Scott Jacoby). The difficulty of the job is doubled by the fact that the boy is alienated from his anguished parents (Robert Reed, Collin Wilcox-Horne), who may unknowingly be part of the problem. Filmed in semi-documentary fashion, The Man Who Could Talk to Kids transcends its "disease of the week" earmarks to become a TV movie of lasting value. The film also helped Peter Boyle shake his bullheaded Joe screen image. WATCH CLIP

THE BAIT DVD (1973) (TV) $14.99
run time: 71 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Leonard Horn
description: Donna Mills was still in her "imperiled heroine" career stage when she starred in the made-for-TV The Bait. Mills is a policewoman who goes incognito to solves a baffling series of rape-murders. Almost as deadly as the rapist is the sexism Mills must suffer from her superior officer (Michael Constantine)--which at times is played for laughs. Based on a novel by former policewoman Dorothy Uhnak, who must have been appalled at the liberties taken with her work by this film, The Bait was the pilot for an unlaunched weekly TV series.

YESTERDAY'S HERO DVD (1979) $14.99
run time: 95 minutes. Color. UK / AUSTRALIA.
directed by: Neil Leifer
description: Jackie Collins melodramatic screenplay about a soccer player and his road to fame and fortune. Rod Turner (Ian McShane) is a has-been soccer whiz who one day gets a second chance to reach for the brass ring. He joins a team owned by a playboy rock star (Paul Nicholas) and managed by Jake (Adam Faith), a vicious, mean-spirited devil. In spite of the manager and a suddenly complex personal life as he gets involved with the rock star's girlfriend (Suzanne Somers), Rod is determined to make this second chance work.

A SEVERED HEAD DVD (1970) $14.99
run time: 98 minutes. Color. UK. Widescreen.
directed by: Dick Clement
description: This sophisticated black comedy sex romp is based on the novel by Iris Murdoch, which she also turned into a stage play (with J.B. Priestley). Ian Holm, is hapless wine-taster Martin Lynch-Gibbon who has both a mistress (Jennie Linden) and a nymphomaniac wife, Antonia Lynch-Gibbon (Lee Remick). His best friend, psychiatrist Palmer Anderson (Richard Attenborough), is having an affair with Antonia. Palmer's half-sister Honor Klein (Claire Bloom) is having sexual relations with him also, which he is slightly apologetic about. The wine taster has had a lifelong antagonism for his friend's half-sister, but after his wife and mistress leave him, he takes up with Honor.

THE IMMORTAL DVD (1969) (TV) $14.99
run time: 74 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Joseph Sargent
description: The Immortal is the pilot film for a TV series that reversed the concept of Run For Your Life: Instead of a hero with only a few years to live, the hero of The Immortal can never die! Injected with an experimental serum, Christopher George finds that his blood system has built up an immunity to all diseases and that his ageing process has been halted. That should have been the end of the story, but a dying millionaire (Barry Sullivan) hopes to drain George of his blood and transfuse it to his own body. George is forced to go into hiding; in the subsequent series, he did the "Fugitive" bit, travelling from town to town and touching the lives of the citizens therein.

A MATTER OF TIME DVD (1976) $14.99
run time: 96 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Vincente Minnelli
description: Singer and actress Liza Minnelli teamed up with her father, legendary director Vincente Minnelli, to make this evocative drama. Nina (Liza Minnelli) is a popular film star who, in the midst of a press conference, finds herself remembering her life before her big break, when she worked as a chambermaid at an Italian hotel which had seen better days. In the course of her duties, Nina meets Countessa Sanziani (Ingrid Bergman), an aging and eccentric woman who regales Nina with tales of her glamorous younger days. As the Countessa tells her more stories of her days of wealth and adventure, Nina imagines herself living out the same exciting stories, and soon the Countessa encourages her to find the courage to live out her own dreams.

LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS! DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 96 minutes. Color. UK.
directed by: Peter Coe
description: Three sailors on shore leave engage in a series of comedic sexual pursuits in Lock Up Your Daughters!. Jim Dale, Ian Bannen, and Tom Bell hit dry land with one thing on their minds -- something that lands everyone in jail in this comedic romp. Susannah York, Glynis Johns, and Elaine Taylor become the objects of the lovesick sailors' alleged affections. The farcical proceedings are witnessed by Lord Foppington (Christopher Plummer), the aristocratic dandy who shudders in horror over the trouble the three salts cause in their efforts to spice up their love lives. This film version is taken from the musical of the same name, sans the music.

A FLEA IN HER EAR DVD (1968) $14.99
run time: 94 minutes. Color. FRANCE / USA.
directed by: Jacques Charon
description: A Flea In Her Ear is a comedic sex romp about a wife suspicious of her husband's activities away from home. Gabrielle (Rosemary Harris) is convinced her attorney husband Victor (Rex Harrison) is seeing another woman because of his inattention to her amorous needs. Gabrielle sets up a meeting with her husband at a bordello-hotel, and he is completely unaware that the woman he is going to meet will be his own wife. She soon discovers just who is being unfaithful to their wives after meeting a number of lovers and both faithful and unfaithful husbands. Louis Jourdan and Rachel Roberts also star in this light situation comedy containing turn-of the-century-sensibilities.

TAKE SOME GIRLS DVD (1971) $14.99
run time: 84 minutes. Color. UK.
directed by: Lindsay Shonteff
description: Take Some Girls (AKA Excitement Girls: The Story Of A High-Class Film) ran for a year in one London's West End cinema wearing out three 35mm prints. It's a sex comedy which captured the mood of the seventies, and showed how guerilla filmmakers of the time made films and the girls who wanted to be in them.