The director of more than fifty films and producer of over 300 more, prolific B-movie maven Roger Corman is profiled in this...
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2011
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Aesthetically and thematically, director Larry Blamire's outrageous camp-fest Trail of the Screaming Forehead resuscitates...
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2007
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The traditional horror anthology makes a triumphant comeback in this collection of four frightfully horrific tales from...
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2006
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In a land where cartoon characters and flesh-and-blood people work side by side, one little black duck lands in a big pot of...
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2003
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Pauline Kael once wrote that since movies were so rarely great art, if one weren't interested in great trash, there wasn't...
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2001
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1999
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The hospital's future funding is jeopardized when Ross (George Clooney) bucks procedure, giving a sample of a new pain...
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1999
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Joe Dante directed this satirical action-comedy about talking tech toys accidentally juiced-up with military microchips....
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1998
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1998
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On January 2, 1995, Deep Space Nine belatedly rang in the New Year with part one of this two-part adventure. A transporter...
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1995
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In part one of this episode, a freak accident transported Sisko, Bashir, and Dax back to San Francisco in the year 2024....
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1995
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Outrageously violent, time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Fiction was widely considered the most influential...
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1994
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Some teen girls take to the road in this made-for-cable remake of the 1956 original. Set in 1957, three guy-crazy friends...
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1994
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This first theatrical feature spun off from the television series Tales from the Crypt (which was in turn inspired by the...
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1994
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A wife finds herself highly expendable as her husband and his lover continually bungle their attempts at murder in this...
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1994
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This stylish animated adventure is based on the '90s animated television series, which in turn is based on the original...
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1993
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This film noir style, made-for-TV movie contains three parts, each based on stories by three different authors (Jim Thompson,...
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1993
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The second volume in this film noir style TV-anthology series, this collection of short stories revolves around the dark...
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1993
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1992
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Set during the big San Francisco earthquake of 1990, this crime drama centers on an obsessed surveillance expert who uses...
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1992
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1992
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Eschewing any connection with previous installments of the creatively strip-mined Amityville saga, this film is actually...
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1992
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She sure did. Susan Lucci brings her daytime-drama flailing gestures to the prime time TV-movie scene in this melodramatic...
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1991
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A young stud has to raise $3,000 in three weeks if his father is to allow him to leave his company. He and his friend fail...
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Mr. Matthews
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1991
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This allegorical comedy from scriptwriter Joe Minion (After Hours, Vampire's Kiss) offers a unique twist on the standard road...
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1991
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Where the original Gremlins was a horror film spiked with comedy, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is essentially a black comedy,...
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1990
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Veteran schlock merchant Fred Olen Ray serves up this silly horror comedy with a hearty helping of gratuitous softcore skin,...
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1990
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This gangster satire involves a boss (William Hickey) who turns over the reins of his organization to an incompetent son...
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1990
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Former child star and one-time scandal magnet Drew Barrymore had her first teenage role in this offbeat thriller with comic...
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1989
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When two rival groups of surfers face off on a Southern California beach prior to a big surfing contest, things get a little...
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1989
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Ward and June Cleaver have nothing on suburban couple Ray and Carol Peterson (Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher). Together with...
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1989
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When a movie star's ghost takes to haunting a writer's home on the beach, the two put their heads together to uncover the...
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1989
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1989
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The Enterprise's Holodeck malfunctions, trapping Captain Picard in a recreation of 1941 San Francisco. In the tradition of...
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1988
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In this the third in the "Angel" series, former hooker Angel is reunited with her mom just long enough to make friends (her...
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1988
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The 1987 portmanteau comedy feature Amazon Women on the Moon lampoons several film genres in general and the 1954 sci-fi...
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1987
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Director Joe Dante infuses this science fiction comedy with the visual razzle-dazzle and manic, goofball performances typical...
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1987
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Project X is a top-secret government undertaking involving trained chimpanzees. Grounded pilot Matthew Broderick, assigned to...
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1987
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In this conclusion of a two-part story, David (Bruce Willis) attempts to escape from a chain gang in order to be reunited...
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1987
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Virtually unnoticed during its brief theatrical run, this wildly entertaining horror-comedy achieved healthy cult status...
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1986
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This high-tech spin on the slasher genre pits a group of sex-obsessed teens spending the night in a shopping mall against the...
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1986
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Fred Olen Ray always manages to attract major names to his bargain-basement actioners, and Armed Response is no exception....
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1986
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Explorers turns out to be much ado about nothing, but it's so sublimely assembled we're willing to overlook the sappy climax....
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Charles Drake
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1985
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Martin Scorsese's After Hours is a dark, tragi-comic tale of a fish out of water, centering on an uptight, white-bread...
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1985
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Endlessly imitated, The Terminator made the reputation of cowriter/director James Cameron -- who would go on to make 1997's...
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1984
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"Don't expose him to bright light. Don't ever get him wet. And don't ever, ever feed him after midnight." This sage advice is...
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1984
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Based on the popular television series created by Rod Serling, this film of horror and the supernatural tells four separate...
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1983
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Director Allan Arkush knew whereof he spoke in Get Crazy. A longtime employee of Fillmore East, a popular rock-concert locale...
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1983
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This thriller follows an heiress who is being driven insane so some unscrupulous thieves can get their hands on her fortune....
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1983
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Low-budget and cheap, the sci-fi adventure Space Raiders liberally raided Star Wars and the previous Roger Corman film...
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1983
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Heart Like a Wheel stars Bonnie Bedelia as real-life racing champion Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney. Overcoming sexist hurdles,...
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1983
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High school athlete Tom Cruise would do anything to escape the dull provincialism of his home town. Cruise's bullying coach...
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1983
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A little-seen film, suppressed by Paramount studio executives and never released theatrically in the U.S., this drama is a...
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1982
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Tony (Tony Danza) is apprehensive about his upcoming reunion with his father Angie (Donnelly Rhodes), a merchant seaman who...
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1982
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This groundbreaking, darkly comic horror film from director Joe Dante changed the look and feel of werewolf movies in ways...
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1981
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Scott B and Beth B, successful makers of short, experimental films made The Vortex an attempt at a "camp" film with a...
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1981
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1981
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Originally divided into four segments and now cut to three, National Lampoon Goes to the Movies is a story about a man who is...
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1981
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B-movie specialist Steve Barkett directs this sci-fi shocker about a pair of astronauts who return from a mission in space...
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1980
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1980
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This is a crazy horror-film spoof in which the enthusiastic leads provide laughs just by the strength of their...
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1980
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The notorious madam Xaviera Hollander travels to Tinseltown to film her illustrious autobiography in this comedy. The trouble...
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1980
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Escaping from her childhood life of poverty and abuse on the farm, in the 1930s, Polly Franklin (Pamela Sue Martin) sets her...
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1979
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The 11th Victim was partially based on the activities of California's Hillside Strangler. Bess Armstrong stars as a Des...
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1979
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Rock 'n' Roll High School is a prime example of a 1970s movie phenomenon: a cult film that was deliberately designed to be a...
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1979
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The sophomore effort for director Joe Dante, a future protégé of Steven Spielberg, this low-budget, high-camp horror spoof of...
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Buck Gardner
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1978
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Three mammarous carhops team up to save their fast-food drive-in from financial ruin in this low-budget exploitation outing....
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1978
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The Corvette Ken Dantley's (Mark Hamill) class has been restoring in their high-school shop class is nearly completely fixed...
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1978
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The time is 1964, and the Beatles, already a hugely popular group, are about to go on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first...
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1978
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An Italian mechanic (Terence Hill) finds that he has inherited a billion-dollar company from his dead uncle, but he needs to...
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1977
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Game Show Models transcends its exploitational nature with some truly penetrating satire. A group of well-endowed young...
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1977
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Martin Scorsese combined the splashy atmosphere of the old studio musical with an unromanticized marriage story in his...
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1977
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Walter Paisley
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1976
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1976
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1976
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1975
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Barbara Peeters's Summer School Teachers concerns three gals from Idaho going to teach at Regency High in Southern...
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1975
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Ben Gazzara stars in this low-level depiction of legendary gangster Al Capone, who rose to command the mob underworld in...
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1975
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In this action film, trucker Carrol Jo Hummer (Jan-Michael Vincent) borrows money to purchase a truck of his own, only to...
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1975
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1975
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A tough biker gang comprised of African-American women heads off to find a member's mother and her abductor in this...
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1974
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Playboy Playmate Jeanne Bell stars as T.N.T.. Jackson ("...she'll put you in traction!") in this popular blaxploitation film...
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Screenwriter
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1974
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Angie Dickinson essays the title role in Big Bad Mama. This Depression-era crime caper casts the future star of Police Woman...
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1974
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Isaac Hayes puts his gun where his groove is in his role as hard-case bounty hunter Mack "Truck" Turner, three years after...
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1974
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In this violent prison drama, an imprisoned criminal finds himself flooded with offers to spring him if only he will reveal...
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1973
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This crime drama is the fourth in Roger Corman's series of sexy "nurseploitation" films. Three curvaceous health care workers...
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1973
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In this sexploitation film from Roger Corman's New World films, three buxom student teachers use alternative methods to...
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1973
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If you think that Oliver Stone invented the "political paranoia" movie, take a glance at Executive Action sometime. Based on...
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1973
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One of the best films by often-underrated director Robert Aldrich, this stark, brutal Western is also an effective allegory...
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1972
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A trio of toothsome psychiatric nurses tangle with a psycho killer and other travails in this third entry in Roger Corman's...
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1972
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The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids for Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a...
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1971
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Brendan (Jerry Lewis) is an eccentric multimillionaire who is rejected for military service in this misfired comedy. Eager to...
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Screen Story
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1970
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Jo-Jo (Fabian) is a racecar driver recruited to drive for a wealthy racing promoter. When he's not on the fast track, he...
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1968
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The Long Ride Home is the British title for the Columbia Civil War western A Time for Killing. The stars are Glenn Ford, a...
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1967
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Roger Corman directed this psychedelic odyssey concerning the curative properties of LSD, with a surrealistic screenplay...
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1967
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1967
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Schlockmeister Roger Corman produced this graphically violent chronicle of the Chicago gangster wars of the 1920s and the...
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1967
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1966
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Jason (Chuck Connors) rides into a small town to visit Frank Allison (John Anderson), who once saved his life. Unfortunately,...
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1966
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Jason Evers guest stars as wounded GI Jim Cully, an ill-tempered Virginia hillbilly who trusts absolutely no one. While Kirby...
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1966
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Directed by versatile standup comedian Lenny Weinrib, Wild Wild Winter is more palatable in its comic scenes than its musical...
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1966
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Ski Party is essentially a beach-party flick with snow and capri pants replacing the surf and bikinis. Frankie Avalon and...
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1965
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The Beatles are coming! The Beatles are coming! Or so the members of the Alpha Beta sorority who are trying to raise $10,000...
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1965
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The "lost woman" of the title is Rita Marlowe (Ruta Lee), an alcoholic singer whom Ben Cartwright hopes to rehabilitate. But...
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1963
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Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) is a brilliant but unorthodox researcher whose work with human sight has yielded an...
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1963
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In this horror chiller, an intriguing, beautiful woman (Sandra Knight) keeps re-appearing to early 19th-century Lt. Duvalier...
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Stefan
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1963
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Roger Corman's success with low-budget adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe tales continued with this third installment, the first...
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1962
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A warmed-over relic of the Cold War, Capture That Capsule was produced, co-written and directed by Will Zens. Orson Welles he...
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Ed Nowak
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1961
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Perhaps the greatest movie ever shot in two days, Little Shop of Horrors was originally conceived as a followup to...
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Fouch
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1960
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Clu Gulager delivers a deliciously over-the-top performance as demented gangster Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, who spends most of...
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1959
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A fine example -- perhaps the best available -- of "B"-movie overlord Roger Corman's "Weekend Wonders" from the...
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Walter Paisley
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1959
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This goofy but entertaining horror cheapie from producer-director Roger Corman and company involves the efforts of a...
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1959
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Wanting to cash in on the launching of Russia's Sputnik satellite, director Roger Corman hastily made this Earthlings vs evil...
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1958
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Sometimes it pays to specialize, but not when you're a criminal pursued by police detectives Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith...
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1958
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The lurid title of this Roger Corman production refers to the Hawaiian Islands, where the film was shot in its entirety....
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Mitch
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1957
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1957
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One of Roger Corman's finest science-fiction endeavors of the 1950s, Not of This Earth is an excellent film by any standards....
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1957
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1957
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Sabra Tanner (Susan Cabot) is a member of an exclusive sorority on a small California campus. Wealthy, attractive, and...
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1957
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1957
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1956
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In this western, a gunfighter is finally released from prison and returns to his hometown only to discover that it is being...
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1956
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Though Roger Corman was still new to sci-fi in 1956, he made up for lost time with the above-average quickie It Conquered the...
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1956
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In 1870s Arizona, Anne LeBeau (Joan Taylor) is caught between two cultures in a conflict that may kill her and her brother...
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1955
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