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  • The Boxer (1972)

    The Boxer (1972)

    Boxer Teddy Wilcox, Robert Blake leaves his manager and relocates. He finds Nick, a manager-trainer. Before Wilcoxs first fight, Nick receives a threat, Wilcox loses, or Nick will die. Despite Nicks efforts to sabotage the fight, Wilcox wins. Enraged, Wilcox orders Nick to keep away from him. Later that night, Nick is murdered. Of course, Wilcox is the primary suspect. Wilcox then tries to clear his name and find Nicks killer.

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  • Werewolves on Wheels (1971)

    Werewolves on Wheels (1971)

    A biker gang visits a monastery where they encounter black-robed monks engaged in worshipping Satan. When the monks try to persuade one of the female bikers, Helen, to become a satanic sacrifice the bikers smash up the monastery and leave. The monks have the last laugh, though, as Helen, as a result of the satanic rituals, is now possessed and at night changes into a werewolf, with dire results for the biker gang directed by: Michel Levesque. starring: Steve Oliver, [...]

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  • Turkish Star Trek (1973)

    Turkish Star Trek (1973)

    Turist Ömer Uzay Yolunda (1973) Ömer the Tourist is a recurring character in a series of comic films made in Turkey. Omer always winds up in bizarre situations. This time around, Omer gets mistakenly beamed aboard the Starship Enterprise where he’s dropped right into the middle of a Turkish rip-off of “Star Trek” episode “The Man Trap.” You get Turkish replications of all of your favorite Star Trek characters, including Mr. Spock (who is known as Mr. Spak in this [...]

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  • The Affair (1973)

    The Affair (1973)

    It was love at first sight for Marcus Simon an attorney when he saw Courtney Patterson a 32 year old composer crippled by polio. Marcus tries to slowly and gently remove the emotion barriers Courtney built around herself and give them both a chance at love and happiness.

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  • Dark Star (1974)

    Dark Star (1974)

    Directed by John Carpenter. Starring Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dre Pahich. Low-budget story of four astronauts in deep space, whose mission is to destroy unstable planets in star systems which are to be colonised.

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  • The Chinese Connection (1972)

    The Chinese Connection (1972)

    AKA Fist of Fury. The Big Boss made Bruce Lee known, but Chinese Connection is the film that truly made the Chinese audience love him and worship him. Rightfully so, for this is Lee’s best movie. He plays Chen, the top disciple of a revered kung fu master, recently killed under mysterious circumstances. Chen’s spirit burns with a sense of duty, a desire for vengeance and an indomitable will to uphold the pride and rights of his people in a [...]

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  • The Tattoo Connection (1978)

    The Tattoo Connection (1978)

    When a diamond is stolen in Hong Kong, the company insuring the diamond sends a former CIA agent to Hong Kong to retrieve it. Meanwhile, one of the thieves begins to have a change of heart because his girlfriend wants him to leave his criminal organization. Directed by Tso Nam Lee. With Jim Kelly, Sing Chen, Tao-liang Tan.

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  • Moon of the Wolf (1972)

    Moon of the Wolf (1972)

    After several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf. I just watched this movie again to see what I could remember from about 25 years ago. I remember seeing this when it first hit TV and I enjoyed it then and I enjoyed it all over again. Being from the South I didn’t find it too slow, nor a weak story. However, I must admit that I like David Jansen [...]

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  • Snowbeast (1977)

    Snowbeast (1977)

    Mystery hangs over the Rill Ski Resort in Colorado after a young skier is found dead by an animal. But no ordinary animal. The Town Sheriff and Naturalists believe it could be a Yeti – the creature that was seen for years in the Colorado Rockies and North Western America. After many other skiers are found dead, Tony Rill a good hunter sees a white creature disappearing into the woods. Worried he informs his Grandmother, the ski resort supervisor, but [...]

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  • Cold Sweat (1970)

    Cold Sweat (1970)

    Joe Martin, a quiet American, lives a quiet life in the South of France renting boats to tourists. He is happily married to Fabienne and has a twelve-year-old daughter named Michèle. But the quiet man has a past: ten years before, Joe (then Moran) had escaped with four other convicts, among whom the sadistic ex-mercenary Katanga. Seeing the latter brutally kill an M. P., Joe had abandoned his accomplices and left with the car. One night, Captain Ross, Katanga, Whitey [...]

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