Introduction...
In 2006, my pal Mike, head of the Psychotronic Film Society, decided to give away all of his VHS tapes - literally thousands of them. I went over to his house and filled up a big box with tapes, taking at least one hundred, and that was only a tiny fraction of what he'd had. These were mostly 1950s B-movies, old horror movies, some music videos, documentaries, sex n' drugs exploitation films, hot rod movies, and even some miscellaneous stuff he'd taped from television. It was a fun mix of stuff, and some of it was quite rare. No fine art here, certainly no Bergman or Goddard, but pure low-brow entertainment, a bottom-barrel pop-culture treasure trove of stuff so-bad-it-is-good.
I decided to write a quick paragraph about what was on each tape - partially to remind myself what the differnce between Hot Rod Teens and Teen Hot Rodders was - and partially as a list or catalogue of what was in this vast trove of material
Having done some movie reviews for my web site in the past, mostly longer and in-depth reviews, I felt like I wanted to write more about cinema. While keeping track of the Psychotronic collection, I decided to write at least one short paragraph about every film I saw (Psychotronic or otherwise) going back to the beginning of January 2006.
This page is the cataloge / reviews of the Psychotronic film collection tapes only.
So far, I have watched less than half of what Mike gave me - this page will expand as I get to the rest.
I have taken some care with the 'proper' film reviews (linked to below), but everything on this Psychotronic page are quickies, off the cuff descriptions of the tapes.
Click here to go back to the main page of movie reviews, with my more proper and less snarky reviews of all of the non-Psychotronic films I have seen since January 2006. Please click on all text links in the reviews to go to Amazon.com - I get pennies when you order, even if you order somethingother than what you originally clicked on.
Note: I am currently pondering the most effective methods of passing these tapes on to YOU.
I'll probably never watch most of them again.
Email if you're interested, and we can work something out.
Psychotronic Film catalogue
# 33
tape contains the film Hollywood High.
Four sexy girls romp around Hollywood. There is no plot in this movie whatsoever. It is more a series of sketches about the girls' adventures with their boyfriends, their teachers, and the cops, all of whom (girls included) are complete morons. The girls all look mighty fine in their bikinis and short-shorts, and are clad in one of these two wardrobe options - or less - in every scene. However, in closeups, you'll wish they'd stuck with the long shots. These gials are not cute. The lead girl's boyfriend is called The Fenz, and is a truly, truly wretched parody of the Fonz from Happy Days. Lots of lengthy shots of the gals frolicking on the beach. A semblance of a story develops towards the end when the gals meet a washed-up silent movie actress (June East - geddit?) who offers the girls acting lessons if their boyfriends will service her. Oh, and there's a midget too. And a food fight. And more shots of the girls frolicking in very few - or no - clothes. The only good part is the mint vintage Bentley convertible that the gals drive around in.
Video quality is very good, but the original film is pretty scratched up. 1976, 80 minutes.
#119
tape contains episodes of a series called Son of Incredibly Strange Film Festival.
This show is a series of documentaries about lowbrow film makers, narrated by a British hipster who drives around Hollywood in a convertible while yapping at the camera. The first of the 45-minute episodes is a fairly well made and interesting documentary about Ed Wood. Lots of interviews with people involved in Wood’s films. The second episode is split between documentaries about Fred Olen Ray (who makes modern exploitation films like Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers), and Doris Wishman (who made early 1960s nudist films such as Nudes from Mars and Bad Girls Go To Hell). These are interesting because Fred freely admits that his films suck, and Doris is a sweet old lady who is completely embarrassed by her work, particularly the work she did with Chesty Morgan, and some of the trans-gender exploitation films from the later 1960s and 1970s. Doris rules. The third episode is about Tom Savini (the #1 gore makeup effects guy from the 1970s and 1980s) and George A. Romero (who made all of the Night of the Living Dead zombie films).
Circa 1989. Video quality is fair. Look for two women sunbathing next to a big Tiki during Doris’s segment!
There’s also part of a cartoon called Hot Stuff, a silly retelling of primitive man discovering fire.
Then there’s the last 20 minutes from an unidentified RKO Film Noir.
#183
tape contains two Japanese anime films.
First up is three Japanese TV commercials, including one for Gundam robots.
Devil City - in Japanese with no subtitles or dubbing.
A young big city businessman must contend with a group of shape-shifting evil mystical beings. Plenty of sex, violence, and malevolent creatures, plus a crazy, Yoda-like wizard who likes to get laid, and a woman who's half-spider and favors Victoria's Secret for her wardrobe.
I watched this whole movie mostly on Fast Forward, and still felt like I got the gist of the story.
Video quality is excellent, except for a horizontal line across the screen for a bit near the beginning.
1980s. About 82 mins.
Hikaryoun - in Japanese with no subtitles or dubbing.
A little boy jumps in front of a train, but survives. A strange figure watches over him. Years later he is in high school, where he defends one of those Japanese girls who appear wearing sailor outfits in all of the anime from the class bullies. Their hot teacher scolds him in public, but is more friendly when the rest leave. The boy dates the girl he rescued. Street thugs attack, and he kicks their asses. The strange figure lurks. The teacher goes to a bar, is attacked by punkers, and kicks some ass until they develop super-speed and subdue her. The sailor girl sees a weird dude on the street, runs away, and has a surreal dream-like episode with the strange figure. The strange figure turns into a giant robot-demon. The boy shows up in an Iron Man-like suit of armor and takes care of business. Then he fights a masked samurai who turns out to be his teacher. The battle with the robot demon continues. Everyone ends up in school next day as if nothing had happened.
1980s. Hilarious music. Video quality is very good. 30 minutes.
Then, a short clip from Area 88. (2 mins), and one from Votoms (4 mins).
#229
tape contains classic pop music performances
From a 1960s British lip-sync TV show (goofy announcer has long white hair):
Unknown band - song is Little Children(?)
Animals - House of the Rising Sun and Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
Unknown band - girl drummer, song is Come Right Back(?)
Unknown band - maybe called Sounds Incorporated. Instrumental. Two saxes.
Unknown band - Beatle-ish, song is A World Without Love(?)
Herman's Hermits - Something Tells Me I'm Into Something Good
Spencer Davis Group - My Baby (or) Love The Way She Walks
Unknown band - Tobacco Road
Animals - Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
Scenes from Get Yourself A College Girl movie; school dance (w/Tikis in the room):
Unknown band - ballad, Whenever You're Around
Animals - Blue Feelin' and another song (interrupted by dialogue).
Unknown band - Thinking Of You Baby
Roxy Music performances:
Unknown TV show: Pyjamarama / Virginia Plain.
German TV: half of Do The Strand / Editions of You / In Every Dream Home...
Montreaux 1973: Pyjamarama (complete, w/Manzanera freak out)
Rolling Stones music videos (1960s):
Child of the Moon / Jumping Jack Flash (2 versions) / Spend The Night Together
We Love You (2 versions) / Standing in the Shadows (2 versions) / 100 Light Years
Ed Sullivan: Reelin and Rockin / Time Is On My Side / Could Be the Last Time
Ramones:
Rockaway Beach / interview (Rock n Roll High School)
OldGreyWT: Don't Come Close / She's The One / Go Mental
Dickies:
Knights In White Satin
Two Hours. Video quality is fair to occasionally good.
#261
tape contains the movie Having A Wild Weekend
Black and white Beatles/Monkees style zaniness with the Dave Clark Five.
Steve (played by Dave Clark, but the rest of the band play themselves) is involved with a famous model named Dinah (Barbara Ferris), who's face is all over the place as part of a huge campaign to sell meat. The boys are involved in the filming of one of her commercials, the plot of which involves the robbing of a meat market. Steve and Dinah run off from the set in their burglar outfits for an afternoon of romance. An ad agency lackey persues the fugitive model and singer to a party in the abandoned church where the band live, and then to the countryside, where they encounter a commune of mean hippies squatting in an abandoned village that the army uses for target practice. Steve and Dinah hope to make it to the island she has bought with her modeling pay. Further adventure ensues, including a pair of middle aged swingers, a costume ball, and a dude ranch. 91 mins.
Tape also contains performance footage from Stomping Ground of Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd, and Santana from the Holland festival of music, 1971. 27 mins.
Finally is a blast from the 1980s, the original MTV rocketship/astronaut top of the hour station ID with an Alan Hunter voice over, leading into a Journey live video and part of a Howard Jones video starring John Cusack!
Video quality is good.
#274
tape contains (mostly) David Letterman-related stuff taped from TV.
Various Letterman shows including a X-mas special with his family, and guests including Pat Boone, Little Richard, Terri Garr (in a very 80s leather miniskirt), Dr. Ruth, and model Carole Alt. Also a Gong Show episode with Letterman in the judges panel, and a Phil Donahue show featuring a long interview with Letterman. Seems like mostly late 1980s stuff. At the end of the tape is a short clip of two fat nude women boxing. Video quality varies but is good overall.
#276
tape contains misc stuff taped from TV.
First is an 8-minute program about Mexican Day of the Dead stuff.
Then comes the David Letterman 8th anniversary special. I’m not much of a Letterman fan - indifferent, really - but I did dig the all-to-brief montage of the musical acts who had appeared on the show over the years. Sammy Davis Jr. appears. Dave also does a parody of Mexican soap operas.
Finally is a series of old cartoons (45 mins) which are very cool -
To Duck or Not to Duck - an especially brutal Daffy and Elmer cartoon
Casper the Friendly Ghost - pilot episode. Completely different character design.
Stuffy Durma in From Wrecks to Riches (produced by Hal Seeger) - a hobo becomes rich and hates it. I've never seen this toon before (Stuffy sheds an (apparently) trademark tear at the end when his hobo pals leave his mansion...)
Secret Squirrel in Gold Rush - not as funny as I'd remembered from my childhood, but I like the completely unlikely gadgets and the Goldfinger-parody villain.
Atom Ant in Bully for Atom Ant - Ant goes to Mexico. Stereotypes abound.
Flukey Luke in Tired Gun (another cheapo Seeger toon that I never heard of). Luke, a clumsy midget cowboy private eye for whom things always work out, goes up agains Pepe Lopez, a Mexican bandito (must be a theme here).
Finally, an early Bugs and Elmer toon with Elmer as a gold prospector.
#288
tape contains old cartoons and movies
Silent cartoons:
Flix the Cat cartoon - Felix and a guy with a banjo vs. a guy trying to sleep.
Our New Home - two guys move into an island house. Flooding and gators arrive...
Krazy Kat in Grass Cutting - KK invents a combination lawn mower and go cart.
Popeye at the Carnival - Bluto makes trouble for Popeye and Olive.
The Kat in Winter Games - animated Kat can't compete with live action skiers.
Little Orphan Annie in Circus Days - this and The Kat are both super crude, very early animation.
Farmer Alfalfa's Revenge ("by Paul Terry, the Famous Cartoonist") - Alfalfa shoots at an old man.
Rooster and the Eagle, An Aesop's Fable cartoon - complete with word balloons.
High Seas (1927) - two mice adventure in a motorboat. Whales and pirates arrive.
Live action short subjects (also silent):
The Dionne Quints at Home.
Boulder City Colorado - city built to house 1500 dam workers.
New York City - shots of the city's most famous (1920s) landmarks.
Comedy Gang in Fire Chief Special - Our Gang-type kids as firemen.
Cuckoo Comedy - Mixed (illegible) - like the title, the plot is a complete mystery.
Officer Larry O'Day on his first case.
Tom Mix in Riding For Life - Tom defeats Madero's cattle rustlers.
Total time for above: 52 mins. Video quality is good, but some of the source films are rough.
Betty Boop sound cartoons:
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame, Chess Nuts, Bimbo's Initiation, Boop Oop A Doop, Dizzy Red Riding Hood, Betty Boop's May Party, I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You w/Louis Armstrong, Snow White w/Cab Calloway, Bamboo Isle w/Royal Samoans, Morning, Noon and Night w/Rubinoff, Old Man In the Mountain w/Cab Calloway, I Heard w/Don Redman and Orchestra, Bimbo in Silly Scandals
Total time for above: 92 mins. Video quality is very good.
More toons:
Felix the Cat (untitled), and Felix Dines and Pines (1927, both originally silent, with contemporary piano soundtrack), Superman (animated) in Jungle Drums (WWII era), Amos and Andy (animated) in The Lion Tamer.
Total time: 36 mins. Video quality good.
#291
tape contains R-rated movie trailers.
Note that most of the time, when you see trailers for R-rated movies, the trailers themselves contain no content that isn't suitable for all ages, so they can show the trailer in front of G or PG movies. This tape contains trailers that are R-rated in themselves - so they contain all of the sex and violence seen in the actual movie. Most of them are late 1970s and early 1980s horror, gore, and exploitation films (natch). Alternately hilarious and extremely intense. Video quality is good.
Walking the Edge, Jungle Warriors, Blood Sucking Freaks (really, really disturbing), Hellhole (Spinal Tap, anyone?), Don't Open Till Christmas (with Caroline Munroe... singing), Godzilla 1985, The Big Score, Make Them Die Slowly (this shit is seriously violent. I mean it), Ninja 3 The Domination, Satin's Sadists, The Depraved, The Ghastly Ones, I Spit On Your Grave, Beyond The Door, The Flesh Is Hot, Girl On A Chain Gang, Scum of the Earth.
These aren't so intense (at least the trailers aren't) and the video quality isn't so hot:
Hollywood Vice Squad, Friday the 13th Part V, Scarface, The House by the Cemetery, Zombie Island Massacre, The Final Terror, Avenging Angel, sudden Death, Cannibal Holocaust, Amityville 3D, Life Force, DefCon 4, The Company of Wolves, UFO Target Earth, Final Exam.
Some more explicit ones, video quality improves:
The Blood on Satan's Claw, Tower of Screaming Virgins, Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon, Mansion of the Doomed, Guyana Cult of the Damned, Mad Doctor of Blood Island.
90 mins
#315
tape includes the film Mom and Dad and some burlesque trailers.
The 1945 movie Mom and Dad is an insane piece of propaganda, issued within a few months of the end of World War II. We know this is a patriotic bit of film making, intended for the good of our nation, since it begins with the national anthem being played over some shots of the US flag. We then move into 70 minutes of quaint insanity, followed by a half hour of serious and rather disgusting insanity. The film starts off innocuously enough, with an opening text crawl warning us that parents and/or teachers need to discuss "hygiene" issues with teen agers, lest they develop venereal diseases or other 'problems' associated with intimate contact (i.e. babies). We then meet a typical all-American family consisting of a gee-whiz-type teenage son, a perky older daughter, a severely uptight and conservative mother, and a rather modern and permissive dad. Mom has a set of values that would make the most prissy Victorian schoolmarm want to tell her to lighten up. She doesn't think that telling her kids the facts of life is appropriate at all, and that they'll learn all about it after they're married, and that they have no need to know any sooner. Dad thinks the kids ought to be in the know, but cows to mom's wishes and keeps his trap shut. Daughter makes out with the cool new kid in class, and ends up pregnant. Her beau leaves town and ends up dead.
There is a kind, smart, progressive teacher in class who wants to give the children education in hygiene, and is fired for his efforts by a coalition led by mom. The words 'pregnant' and 'sex', are never said at any point in the film. Finally - this is at the 70-minute point I mentioned - the teacher is allowed to teach, and he goes on to show the high school kids three films that will probably scar them for life. Hell, they scarred ME for life. These films are of the type made by companies like Coronet: one film on how women get preggers, one on V.D., and one on Cesarian sections. The first of them is no big deal, using animation of a woman's insides to explain - in what I thought was a sort of unclear and confusing manner - the birds and the bees. But the second two films are probably the most disgusting and graphic things I have seen to date. Let that sink in, especially after you read some of the other reviews of films in this collection. The idea that this stuff was shown to school kids in the 1940s - and probably right into the 1960s - is unthinkable, but probably true. The V.D. movie tells us that we'll get sick if we have sex, and then shows some truly disturbing images of people suffering from the advanced stages of syphilis and gonorrhea. These people's faces and limbs are basically completely rotted away, covered with huge patches of decayed putrified flesh. Seeing this film as a kid in 1945 would definitely put the fear of god into me, and make me never, ever, want to fuck, at all, ever. The C-section movie is even worse. Someone put a camera about a foot away from some woman's belly, and left it running through her entire operation. The unflinching eye of the camera shows every incision, every bit of ripping, tearing tissue, and the (something other than gentle) hands of the doctor roughly yanking the baby out. Huge, nasty Frankenstein stitches close the woman back up.
This material makes up the last half hour of the movie, interspersed with a little bit of additional story. Overall, this movie is a big and rather effective piece of propaganda, made by someone who thought that instituting Sex Ed classes into our schools would be a good thing, while simultaneously insuring that once kids know about sex, they'll go out of their way to avoid partaking in it. Effective on all counts.
The tape is rounded off with about 20 minutes worth of teaser trailers for burlesque movies and similar fare.
Video quality is fairly good, but the sound and picture of the source material are a bit murky.
#319
tape includes misc cartoons, a James Bond documentary, and some demented stop-motion.
Galaxy Rangers in Badge of Power. Bad 1980s synth score, a magician who's incantation includes "Obi Wan Kenobi", a jive-talking Jermiane Jackson wannabe ranger, and an evil queen referred to as 'your hiney' can't save this one from mediocrity. 1986.
Johnny Quest in The Invisible Monster. Well meaning Dr. Norman accidentally conjures an energy monster on a tropical island. Adventure ensues.
James Bond movies 25th anniversary special (1987). Hosted by Roger Moore. 40 mins.
Featurette on The Living Daylight (1987) 5 mins.
Short film: Le Toy Shop. Raunchy stop motion film made with 1970s/1980s action figures and dolls. This thing is seriously twisted. See Sonny Bonno screwing Miss Piggy, see an army of dildos (with faces painted on them) defending the toy shop from an evil snaggle-toothed blow up doll, and see stop motion sex toys of all genders going at it until they burst. Sick. Awesome. 1980. 13 mins.
Short film: No Strings Attached. More x-rated action figure animation from the same (uncredited) Chuck Vincent. Things get sloppy when a man and his son try to sell boy scout cookies to a horny housewife. Aliens soon arrive. 1980. 8 mins.
Documentary: Shocking Asia. Very graphic, very un-PC. Malaysian Thaipusam rituals (including ritual scarring and torture). Bizarre Japanese aphrodisiacs and Snake Houses. Malaysian turtle poacher and monkey-harvesting apes. Indian cobra charmers and snake festivals. Amazing Kajarahal (sp?) temple of eroticism, Indian poverty and cremation rituals. Singapore Monkey God festival, whores, and transsexuals (with full frontal nudity). The grand finale is detailed and extremely graphic footage of a surgical team performing a transgender operation. Every cut is seen in well-lit closeup. It is not for the faint of heart. And that's all in the first hour... German made (in English). 1981. 90 mins.
#342
tape contains misc vintage TV material.
A 1990 David Letterman episode. Sportscaster Marv Albert, actress and model Tookie Smith, Crispin Glover, Artis the spoon man, and three backing vocalists wearing basketball outfits and pumps (an in-joke, apparently). 45 mins.
Jayne Mansfield - This Is Your Life. Her 'meteoric 7-year rise to fame' is documented. She giggles and gasps a lot. She didn't seem to know she was going to be profiled. Her surprise at each new guest brought out is genuine. This show is more entertaining that I might have figured. Gotta love live TV from the 1950s. 1970s new epilogue added (that doesn't mention her gruesome death). 25 mins.
Soupy Sales on the TV show Later. Extensive interview with Soupy. Vintage TV clips w/Sinatra, Sammy, etc. Pies in faces abound. 21 mins. 1990.
#344
tape contains the film Shanty Tramp.
Based on the costumes, sets, hairstyles, and jargon, this black and white film released in 1967 looks more like it was shot in the 1950s, and very well might have been. Lee Holland plays the tramp in question, a shameless hussy who will hit on bikers, preachers, random guys in bars, and the local token black guy. The black guy turns out to be the most moral person in the bunch, and of course he ends up being the one in trouble for being involved with the shanty tramp. The actor who plays him does his best to elevate his role to high drama, and halfway through the film things do get rather intense. What starts off as a typical so-bad-it-is-funny B-movie gets pretty serious - within the limited skills of the film makers, that is - with unexpected death, blood, and Holland running around topless.
Video quality is good but the original print has some troubles. 70 mins.
#378
tape contains Anime film Gall Force: Eternal Story.
This is a sci fi space battle adventure. A bunch of girls with various unnatural hair colors live, work, and fight on a giant space cruiser. They fight some ugly evil robot-armor clad dudes.
In Japanese with no subtitles, but story isn't hard to follow. Good animation. Some violence and nudity but neither is extreme. Also contains Japanese TV commercials for various things, mostly food products and video games.
Video quality is very good. 1 hour, 40 mins.
#412
tape contains the movie College Girls.
This cheapo black and white exploitation film starts of with a bang as a roomful of gals (one looks to be at least 40) gets a professor all hot and bothered while he is trying to teach. A younger gal seduces the professor to help her grades. Soft core porn ensues - kissing, boobs, and butts. Then a nerdy gay cheerleader guy wigs out in a locker room full of bare-assed football players. Then a Dean Martinish hepcat gets into a threesome with two chicks. He runs off in a toga to initiate a new guy into his fraternity, which ends with the two gals doing the new frat kid. Then we cut back to the professor and his wife. They can't have kids, and she won't put out; he takes her savagely. The Dean Martin guy is throwing a big party. He invites a student journalist and the professor, who are both there to do research about how kids get their kicks. The hep guy will do 'anything for kicks'. Bowls full of LSD, Goof Balls, and, er, birth control pills are being fished into and freely popped by partygoers. Gals dance around half-naked. The hipster guy is turned down by a girl he's making out with, but the professor's wife gets lucky when she tries to comfort the girl. After 62 minutes of film, there's still no real story. Then, Hipster decides that drugs, rock and roll, and a room full of girls dancing naked aren't 'kicks' enough, so he swan dives off of a balcony, almost dies, and repents upon waking up in the hospital. Everything fun is bad. The end.
67 minutes. 1968. Video quality is very good.
#417
tape contains the movies Dance Hall Racket and Racket Girls
Dance Hall Racket was written by Lenny Bruce. Super low budget flick about the goings on in a seedy nightclub. Dancing, dames, gambling, guns. Bare bones sets, bad acting, ugly dames. Bruce's jokes would improve later in his career. 55 mins.
Racket Girls is about a sleazo named Scalli who uses his girl's gym as a front for his various unsavory criminal enterprises. When his superior - actually named Mr. Big - gets wind that Scalli is skimming profits, problems arise. Starring real female wrestling stars Clara Mortensen and Rita Martinez. Lots of lengthy dialogue-free shots of the gals wrasslin' and working out in the gym have nothing to do with the plot, but comprise close to half of the running time. 67 minutes.
The last few seconds of this film are cut off - the tape ends just as the "plot" is wrapped up, there can't be much of any importance missing.
Video quality is good on both films, but the source prints are occasionally rough.
#481
tape contains the film On The Comet.
Directed by Kahel Zeman, based on the story by Jules Verne.
Takes place in 1888. Badly dubbed into English from whatever language it was filmed in, and ultra low-budget. Occasionally funny - alternately intentionally and otherwise - but oddly charming. Uses a weird mix of live action and almost Gilliam-ish animation (presumably to save cash on special effects shots). The female lead is rather fetching... probably rated G.
Video quality is fair. 76 minutes.
Then we see the first 45 minutes of the movie Destination Moon.
#505
tape contains two movies: Cool n' Crazy and Eegah
Cool n' Crazy is a typical 1950s dope-sploitation flick. Hip talking juvenile delinquents flirt with drugs during the course of a completely nonsensical and confusing plot. Not quite “good-bad”, but not “good-good” either. Video quality is fair.
Eegah is a late 1960s B-movie featuring Richard Kiel (who went on to play the character “Jaws” in the 1970s James Bond movies) as a caveman living in some hills in SoCal. A scientist, his adorable daughter, and her goofy dipshit boyfriend encounter the beast, who falls for the gal (natch). Lots of footage of the boyfriend badly lip syncing (his character plays in a band), and driving his dune buggy around the desert. Video quality is very good.
#571
tape contains a documentary on Forrest J. Ackerman and an episode of Crime Story.
The Ackerman video was shot ultra-low budget, and consists of Ackerman giving a tour of his legendary collection of Sci-Fi and horror memorabilia. Ackerman comes off as a friendly old 70-something, with a real love for the genre he'd been collecting for over 60 years at the time the video was shot (1987). I could do with more shots of 'the stuff' and less of ol' Forry, but this doc is still great viewing for fans of classic SF and horror. Quality is good, 87 mins.
The Crime Story episode - "Pauli Taglia's Dream" - two gangster characters get nuked (in typical 1980s Cold War plot!) and have to escape an Army hospital. It is a campy, silly gangster drama set in the early 1960s, and filmed in a very 1980s style. Mamie Van Doren shows up in one scene, Michelle McCabe plays a nurse, and the guy who played Buffalo Bill in Silence of The Lambs is in it too. Features the original recordings of Wipe Out, In Dreams, and a weird lip-sync interlude of I Fought the Law with some 1980s big-hair girls in day-glo vinyl. Quality is fair, 47 mins.
#608
tape contains various Sub-Genius-related material.
Devo: RU Experienced music video. 1984. 4 mins.
Sub-Genius propaganda reel: devival footage, found footage collages, claymation, interviews.
2+ hrs. ca.1984
#685
tape contains "music potpourri"
First is most of David Lynch's Industrial Symphony Number One, 64 mins.
One song by what might be early Soundgarden (live, crap quality).
One song by a power pop punk trio, 1990s (live, very good quality).
Diamanda Galas: "Two excerpts from Eyes Without Blood" (live, good quality).
Einsturzende Neubauten: "Sand" (live, fair quality).
Back to the maybe-Soundgarden, as above.
Then some more of Industrial Symphony.
Buzzcocks doing Fiction Romance (live, sound is good, camera is static, perhaps from sound board).
Rolling Stones with Eric Clapton and John Lee Hooker (live, video quality excellent)
Final conclusion of Industrial Symphony.
All above: 38 mins.
#756
Various short films and music videos (most of this tape is 'fair' video quality):
Lee Press On Limbs (fake commercial, animated).
Gynecologist From Hell (fake movie trailer).
Archies' Riverdale friends sing God Save The Queen (Sex Pistols).
1970s porno reel: a girl and a dog, with funny music overdubbed. Truly disturbing.
Sam Kinnison music video (Wild Thing) w/ Bon Jovi, Billy Idol, Slash, Aerosmith, Dangerfield. 1988
Tim Burton short film: Vincent
Cartoon: Further Adventured of Super Screw (1970s line drawings, music by the Cure. The moral: yes, it CAN be too big).
Barnes and Barnes: Fish Heads music video.
Another 1970s porn reel, this one with only humans.... but one of them is a midget.
They Might Be Giants music video (title?).
Tim Burton short film about a boy who builds a Frankenstein-style lab to resurrect his dog.
1950s movie trailers: Devil's Partner, Screaming Skull, Killer Shrews, Alligator People.
All above total about 1 hour and 15 mins.
Then...
Gwar music video/documentary: The Next Mutation (50 mins).
#770
tape contains the film Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS
The first of what was apparently a series of Ilsa films (also see tape #890), involves a Nazi prisoner camp run by the evil Ilsa, a middle aged nympho who lives to torture and maim. She and her two blonde cronies like to screw the male prisoners and then castrate them, when not conducting torture experiments on the (usually nude) female prisoners. One prisoner, the German-American named Wolfe is a good enough lay that Ilsa lets him keep his pecker, and even invites him back for more. Thusly distracting Ilsa, Wolf gives his fellow prisoners have time to plan an escape. This thin plot is supplemented with lots of sex scenes and even more scenes of torture. This stuff is extremely graphic, with long and lingering shots of women being boiled, plus plenty of hangings, pus, burning, electrocution with giant dildos, maggots, pliers to the toes, blade wounds, nipple clamps, and pee. It is all shown in detail and it is fucking disgusting.
This is a store-bought (pre-recorded) tape (with cover art) so the video quality is good. 1974, 96 mins.
#779
tape contains the film Hearts of Darkness.
Documentary on the making of Apocalypse Now, filmed and edited by Apocalypse director Francis Ford Coppola's wife, Elanor. Tape also contains a short clip of Elanor Coppola on a television talk show discussing the documentary. This doc was not included on the new 2006 2-DVD Apocalypse Now reissue.
Video quality is very good, but this was taped off of Showtime, and there is about 12 minutes of misc. kack at the beginning of the tape. Hearts of Darkness is about 100 mins.
#783
tape contains the film Killer Shrews and some 1950s trailers.
First up are 20 mins worth of trailers for The Blob, The Alligator People, War of the Colossal Beast, The Vampire's Coffin, the Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy, and Attack of the Puppet People, plus a short interview with Bela Lugosi. Then a cartoon called Tale of Two Kitties, taped off of Night Flight - two cats act like Abbott and Costello and encounter an early version of Tweety Bird. Finally, a real Abbott and Costello sketch.
And then the main attraction:
"What is the world's most vicious animal", asks a man in the trailer, looking right into the camera as he gestures with his pipe, "is it the lion?, the tiger?, the rhino?... no, it is the killer shrew".
There are some B-movies in this collection, and most of 'em are pretty bad. This one though, defines bad. I am not sure who went to see a movie called Killer Shrews. Maybe a few thousand teenagers in 1959, perhaps while at the drive-in with their pals, not really worried about what was showing that night. Certainly the title or subject matter weren't sufficient to draw in even the geekiest of giant-atomic animal horror fans. And yet, someone wrote this, directed it, convinced someone to pay for it, advertise it, promote it... and it was probably completely forgotten... until now!
The captain of a small cargo boat lands on a tiny island to drop off some supplies, and to pick up a passenger. On the island are a genetic scientist, his young daughter (Ingrid Goude showing us that having been Miss Universe 1957 got her absolutely zilch) and a handful of other associates. Doc is working on making people smaller so that our resources will last longer (yeah, whatever). Instead, he has inadvertently created a gaggle of giant, killer shrews! They're running rampant on the island, and every night they attack the compound. The boat can't leave due to an impending hurricane, and the inhabitants must spend the night fighting off the nightly shrew attack.
The script is horrible, the acting is pretty bad, the sets all seem to be inside one little house - except a few scenes in the woods behind the house - and the special effects, such as they are, are sub-Ed Wood bad. The shrews are - seriously - dogs with toupees of some sort, basically some little bit of furry fabric strapped to the back of a cocker Spaniel. They trot along (I mean violently peruse) while wagging their tails happily (I mean making gestures of intimidation) and playfully leap up on the actor's laps (I mean attack viciously) while the humans board themselves up in their house a la Night of the Living Dead. The black guy gets it first, and the Hispanic guy buys it next, followed by some other dude, and then The Guy Whos Fault It Is. Too bad. There's a paper-mache rat with some big sharp teeth used for the occasional closeup of the shrews. The film feels really long at 68 minutes, and is completely free of any suspense or anything at all scary as the heroes use metal washtubs as 'tanks' to walk to the boat during the dog, I mean shrew, invasion.
Then there is about five blank minutes on the tape, and then part of a Golden Turkey show with Richard Roeper and Michael Medved about the best 'bad' movies ever, including Wild Women of Wongo, and the usual well-known schlock like Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, They Saved Hitler's Brain, and Mothra. John Wayne and Susan Hayward show up in The Conqueror - the movie that famously gave 91 of the 200 people who worked on it radiation poisoning due to the film set's proximity to a nuclear testing site.
Video quality for the feature is good, from a surprisingly clean and clear source print (probably because it was never shown - the print didn't wear out). The Roeper show was having some reception problems when it was taped, but it is entertaining.
#805
tape contains the movie The Human Vapor
Pre-recorded (store-bought) tape (original sleeve missing). 1960s(?) Japanese sci-fi feature dubbed into Engrish. An ex-test pilot who hates his new job as a librarian accepts an offer from a shady scientist. The pilot is molecularly re-arranged so that he change from his normal solid state into a cloud of vapor - and back - at will. He uses his new power to rob banks in order to give support to a beautiful actress whom he is in love with. The actress had once been famous and is looking to make a comeback after a bout of poor health. The cops are on our gaseous protagonist's (vapor) trail, but even with the help of the lead cop's perky reporter girlfriend, it is not easy to apprehend The Human Vapor!
82 mins. Quality of tape is excellent; source film is pretty good.
#822
tape contains the film Blood Orgy of the She-Devils.
This film is exactly what the title implies. In fact, the she-devils sacrifice a young hippie guy - after dancing around to the sound of their high priestess' incantations - in the very first scene of the movie. Then we learn that "the Sorbo is one of the 72 demonic presences known to all witches since time immemorial". No one you have ever heard of is in this film, which was directed by Ted V. Mikels. Weird psychedelic synthesizer music by Carl Zitter. Taped from TV, so if there was any intense sex and violence, it was neutred. Still a creepy, funny train wreck of a cult film full of hot, insane witchy women who can't act to save their Satanic lives.
Barely 90 mins., including commercials. 1973.
#835
tape contains Coming Attractions.
Mostly black and white film trailers from 1950s and 1960s adult films. Hilarious dramatic voice overs, exotic music, and lots of nudity. "Bunny and Clod", "The Velvet Trap", "The Girl From Pussycat", "Julie Is No Angel", "Campus Heat", "The Fabulous Bastard From Chicago", etc.
Fifteen trailers, 51 minutes.
Pre Recorded Tape (released by Class-X video in 1982) - quality is excellent
#853
tape contains more misc stuff...
A montage of lots of corny and cheap looking fight scenes from Japanese sci fi and monster TV shows, 1950s to 1980s. Tons of great moments crammed into 4 minutes.
A montage of an intense preacher with farts dubbed in. Funnier than I want to admit. 3 mins.
Stigmata: The Transfigured Body. A documentary about female body piercing, scarification, corsetry, and tattooing. Interview subjects range from the reasonable to the radical feminist perspective. Lots of close up footage of the body mods being performed on hairy girls. Not for the squeamish. 27 mins.
Winnie the Pooh cartoons with dialogue from Apocalypse Now dubbed in. Funny. Sick. 8 mins.
Peanuts cartoon with dialogue from Blue Velvet dubbed in. 2 mins.
Archie cartoon with Sex Pistols dubbed in. 4 mins.
Videodrug - techno music and kaleidoscopic computer graphics. 30 mins.
Videodrug Three - techno music and kaleidoscopic computer graphics. 27 mins.
Emergency Broadcast Network video. News clips cut together in ironic ways over music that ranges from house-ish to jammish. Well produced, often clever. 17 mins.
#890
tape contains one movie: Isla Tigress of Siberia
1977 Canadian production full of sex and violence (and lots of both), but not nearly as graphic as the first Ilsa film (tape 770). Begins in 1953 in a Siberian Gulag where Ilsa - the huge-breasted sexpot in charge of the prison - and her four main enforcers pass the time by torturing the prisoners (including feeding them to their pet tiger), drinking, and gang banging each other. Ilsa is only satisfied when taking it in two holes from two of her guards. Every night the guards wrestle or out-drink each other until only two are standing - the winners get to take care of the boss lady. When Stalin falls from power, Ilsa splits. The flick picks up in 1977 Montreal, where Ilsa is running a chain of whore houses, which she swindled away from the Mob with the help of an evil doctor who she brought with her from the gulag. The Doc (of course) has invented a mind control device. Some Russian hockey players who have just won a game during the 1976 Montreal Olympic games go a-whorin’, and run afoul of Ilsa when she recognizes their coach as being someone she’d failed to torture to death in Russia. All hell breaks lose. Video quality starts off very good but seems to get a little mushy towards the end. (About 1:40)
#922
tape contains the film Diary of a Lost Girl.
Louise Brooks can't get a break in life in this classic silent film. Controversial at the time of it's release, it contains suicide, alcoholism, prostitution, child abuse, and more wholesome stuff. Louise is still a beauty some 75 years later. The music and title cards are from a fairly recent restoration and are of good quality. The source print of the film is decent.
Video quality is very good. 100 minutes.
#939
tape contains the film Diabolique.
This is the classic 1955 thriller by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Simone Signoret and Vera Clouzot. A conservative and beautiful - but physically fragile - young woman runs a boarding school for boys. Her jerk of a husband treats the boys badly, and has recently ended an abusive affair with one of the teachers. The teacher plots to kill the husband, and attempts to get the wife to participate. The two women plot the perfect murder... but will the man stay dead? Great twist ending. Director winds up the tension and the performances are solid. It drags a bit around the 90 minute mark, but it ultimately one of the better pieces of cinema in this collection.
Video quality is very good.
#949
tape contains two long-form programs of vintage material.
Rhino video presents Teenage Theater, hosted by Mamie Van Doren. This episode is called Teenage Confidential, and is a collection of the best clips from 1940s to 1960s Juvenile Delinquent films.
The reel containing the speech sampled into the Ministry song So What is on this tape.
1987. 55 minutes. Excellent quality.
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies. Sensational documentary of Hollywood murders, suicides, gays, and other scandals. Includes segments on Fatty Arbuckle, Ramon Navarro, Sharon Tate (Polanski / Manson, etc), the Rebel Without a Cause curse (Nick Adams, James Dean, Sal Minneo, Natalie Wood), Thelma Todd, Jean Harlow, Albert Decker, Lupe Velez, Paul McCullough, Carole Landis, George Reeves, Freddie Prinze, Lenny Bruce, Charles Chaplin, Errol Flynn, Frances Farmer, Vivian Leigh, Clara Bow, James Dean, Bela Lugosi, Jayne Mansfield, more.
1988. 80 minutes. Excellent quality.
#978
tape contains the movie Ziegfeld Follies.
In this full screen technicolor thrillfest, William Powell plays Florenz Ziegfeld, who is having cocktails up in heaven. He reminisces about the good old days while cool stop-motion puppets re-enact the glory days of the Ziegfeld Follies in 1907. Then he begins to wonder what it would be like to have a Follies 'now' (1950s). Fred Astare, Gene Kelley, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn, Red Buttons, Lena Horne, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, and bunches of other celebrities put on a big colorful song and dance revue just for you. There are elaborate costumes, giant sets, comedy sketches, and lots of showtunes. I would say that this whole thing is totally gay, except for the fact that there are bevvies of beautiful babes all over the place, which is probably why ol' Mike added this G-rated spectacle to a collection of videos which are otherwise completely filled with sex and violence. 109 mins.
Tape also contains a CNN obit for Marlene Deitrich (2 mins) and some other news footage that CNN aired that day, including the LA riots.
#1015
tape contains more stuff taped from television.
Nightmare Before Christmas featured on Good Morning America. Nice Burton and Elfman interviews. 16 mins.
Hollywood Babylon episode: Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Rourke. Show is kind of badly produced. The gal who plays Jayne in dramatizations is a really homely brunette; a film clip of Jayne and Mickey Rooney on the Golden Globes is worth a view. 28 mins with commercials.
AMC in Hollywood - documentary about Mary Pickford, Tony Duquette, Coy Watson, and Lon Chaney. 30 mins. 1993.
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue 25th Anniversary Special. Segments with Cheryl Teigs, Elle MacPherson, Christie Brinkley, Yvette and Yvonne Sylvander, Carol Alt, Cathy Ireland. Surprisingly interesting show (really), particularly the parts in Africa with Brinkley, who almost gets trampled by a pissed off elephant. And, of course, plenty of footage of dames in swimsuits frolicking in the surf. Tape ends during Ireland. 46 minutes, with commercials.
#1088
tape contains vintage cereal commercials.
Store-bought (pre-recorded) compilation of 1950s and 1960s cereal commercials. There is a good 50 or more of them on the tape. Most of them feature cartoon characters such as Yogi Bear, Bugs Bunny, Rocky and Bullwinkle, or Casper. Others star the cereal character themselves such as the suave Sugar Bear, Captain Crunch, and the Trix Rabbit. Particularly impressive are The Freakies, who put on a full production number, introduce eight characters, and sell sugared cereal in less than a minute. Lots of fun stuff here, lots of forgotten brands, and early intros to the stuff that put our generation onto the road to adult onset diabetes.
58 minutes, tape quality is very good, but source material varies widely.
#1154
tape contains The Frank Sinatra Timex Show.
First episode: "To The Ladies".
With Lena Horne, Mary Custer, Juliette Prowse, Barbara Heller, Elenor Roosevelt, and 35 showgirls.
Lena sings two songs, Barb does two comedic routines, Mary does two operatic numbers, Juliette does two dance numbers - a cha-cha with four Frank look-alikes and a ballet with the fellas and the showgirls, Frank and Lena sing a duet. Lena, Mary, Juli, and Barb do a round-robin thing. Frank interviews Mrs. Roosevelt. Frank sings: I've Got You Under My Skin, A Lonely Town(title?), When My Heart Stood Still. Mrs. Roosevelt recites the lyrics to High Hopes.
Feb. 15, 1960. Black and white. Very good quality. 54 mins.
Second episode: "Bing and Dean present...".
Dean Martin, Mitzi Gaynor, Bing Crosby sing High Hopes. Frank, Dean, and Bing banter and sing Together, Good Old Songs, and Start Off Each Day with a Song. Mitzi does a dance number. The fellas compete for Mitzi's attention while singing Cheek to Cheek. Dino sings Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams.
Frank sings Day In Day Out, Talk To Me, High Hopes (AGAIN! - and with a literal army of little kids), Just One of Those Things, Angel Eyes, The Lady is a Tramp.
John Cameron Swayze and Noni Carrol hawk Timex watches a few times with goofy demonstrations.
Jimmy Durante shows up for the finale.
October 19, 1959. Black and white. Quality is fair. 54 mins.
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tape contains three features: Iceland, Hawaii Calls, and a William Wellman documentary.
Iceland is a black and white feature made during the American occupation of Iceland in WWII. In addition to providing feel-good propaganda for the wartime audiences, the film primarily seems to have been made to show off the ice skating talents of star Sonja Henie (as Katrina). She can't decide between Cpl. James Murfin, an American soldier stationed in Iceland (John Payne), or the sincere but nerdy local guy who loves her. Murfin just wants a piece of ass, and when Katrina falls for him for real, he has to ditch her, because he does have a conscience and doesn't want to hurt her. Hilarity and ice skating ensue. Sammy Kaye and his Orchestra do some fine numbers and also some really lame ones. Osa Massen and Joan Merrill co-star, one as Henie's sister Helga, and the other is Kaye's singer (Murifn's ex!). Both are hot. And the singer's dresses rock. Half-an-hour into the movie, there's a truly bizarre musical set-piece, beginning with a patriotic Andrews Sister-ish quartet, and then moving into a Chinese festival in Iceland (on skates), and then into a sort of Flamenco thing (on skates), and then into a huge Hawaiian production number with palm trees in the snow, and renditions of Lovely Hula Hands, and Hawaiian War Chant (on skates). Anyway, things get complicated, but everytinhg works out in the end. On skates.
1940s, 80 minutes. EP mode (six-hour mode)
Hawaii Calls concerns a white kid and a Hawaiian kid who stow away on an ocean liner bound for Hawaii. They befriend a funny and bizarre guitar player who figures out that the white kid can sing. They run afoul of the captain, but also befriend a kindly native woman grade school teacher (a knockout, natch) who is involved with a fella who's involved with some sort of government secrets. Got it? Arriving on the islands, the teacher takes the kids in. She speaks choppy pidgin-English (like all 'natives' in old movies) even though she's clearly played by a Caucasian actress. They all take a night boat to Maui, where there's a big musical luau scene with some nice group hula numbers. The kids end up getting off the hook for stowing away by helping to foil the nebulous plot about some shifty Asians stealing US defense secrets. That's secondary. Mostly it is about the musical numbers and the scenery. Raymond Paige and his Orchestra show up in this one doing songs by Harry Owens and other early Hawaiian hitmakers.
1938, 70 minute. EP mode (six-hour mode)
Wild Bill is a documentary about film director William Wellman. This is a really good doc if you like Wellman's movies. Wellman's first movie, Wings, won the first-ever best picture Oscar, and Wellman went on to make dozens of movies right through the 1950s. Interviews with Jane Wyman, Sidney Poitier, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Clint Eastwood, etc.
Video quality on Iceland is very good, on Hawaii Calls is so-so, and on Wild Bill is good, but was taped from television (2 hours w/commercials). Middle 1990s. EP mode (six-hour mode)
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tape contains the film Hot Rods To Hell
When Tom (Dana Andrews) gets hit head-on by a drunk driver on Christmas eve, he becomes partially disabled, and embarks on a new career as the owner of a motel in the desert. He drags his wife Peg (Jeanne Crain) and their two kids to their new home, where they run afoul of some teenage hotrodders. These teenagers don't seem too menacing, and in fact they come off like nothing other than bored rich kids. The same actors, with no costume change, could have easily played the square, victimized kids in another film. Tom is understandably a little twitchy about auto safety, so he gets pretty bent out of shape at the antics of these kids. The hotrodders have nothing else to do than to hassle the hapless hoteliers, and hit on Tom and Peg's daughter... and they do these things for the bulk of the film. Tom sulks around, feeling emasculated because his disability keeps him from standing up to the reckless autopunks. Things get worse when the family discovers that they've bought into the local party hotel - and guess who likes to "have a ball" there. Groovy soundtrack. The bad girl (Mimsy Farmer) is a looker too.
Taped from TCM, quality is very good, in full-screen bright technicolor. The 1967 version of Casino Royale precedes the main film.
About 1 hour 40 minutes, 1967.
Tape also contains a little bit of Broadway Melody of 1936, starring Jack Benny and Eleanor Powell.
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tape contains: VHS copy of Blaze Starr Goes Nudist DVD (including supplements).
Supplements: Blaze strip tease (2 reels, 14 mins total), trailer (2 mins), Doris Wishman archives (missing).
Feature: Blaze is stressed out about her publicist and her manager/fiancee, so she joins a nudist colony. Tits and ass ensue... but no full-frontal. Blaze is a truly wretched actress. Shot in ultra-vivid Eastman Color, with a really nice jazz-lounge score and even an Yma Sumac-ish exotica track (all possibly by JJ Kendall). Great interiors, like a 1963 interior design catalog.
1963, 74 mins. Video quality is very good.
15 min. gap, then -
27 mins of Discovery channel show Real Gangs of New York (w/commercials) and 15 mins of a beauty pageant for twins.
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tape contains eleven minutes of home-made horror movie trailers.
First is an eight-minute short film about a girl vampire. It was shot on VHS in Chicago, and makes Ed Wood look like a genius. It is really, really, really badly made. Mike Flores, the guy who assembled this whole video collection has a part in it. Then is a three-minute 'trailer' for a film about a wolfgirl. Even worse. Sorta hilarious. Dated March 23, 1996, made by David "The Rock" Nelson.
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tape contains The Filth and the Fury, Julien Temple's 1999 documentary on the Sex Pistols.
Store bought (pre-recorded) tape. This is a great documentary containing archival and new interviews telling the story of the Sex Pistols.
Video quality is excellent. About 1 hour 45 mins.
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tape contains the movie Heavy Metal with very complete DVD extras.
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tape contains two complete films in EP mode.
Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa - 2 hrs. 19 mins.
Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa - 3 hrs. 35 mins.
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tape contains three movies in EP mode
Manhunter
Silence of the Lambs
Usual Suspects.
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tape contains three movies in EP mode
Another Thin Man
Thin Man Goes Home
Shadow of the Thin Man
and some music videos by Kate Bush.
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tape contains one movie in EP mode
Orphee (Orpheus) by Jean Cocteau.
This is in my top five films, ever.
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tape contains the complete contents of the Devo laserdisc "The Complete Truth About De-Evolution".
Includes two copies of each of Devo's music videos - a version with commentary by Mothersbaugh and Casale, and one without (just the tunes!), plus lots of other short films and archival footage. Some of this material was NOT on the DVD release.
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EP mode tape with three films on it.
Nights of Cabiria - about 2 hours. A masterpiece by Felinni.
Many people consider this one of Felinni's greatest films, but it is not one of my favorites from him. I love La Dolce Vida and 8 1/2, and some of his others, but this story of the life of a whimsical whore (played by the Italian comedienne Goulietta Masina - Felinni's wife) just doesn't do much for me. Maybe you will like it though - everyone else seems to.
Trailers and a long interview for Nights of Cabiria - 36 mins.
The White Shiek - about 76 mins (video cuts out at points leaving only audio (grr...). Another by Felinni.
A Special Day - with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, directed by Ettore Scola.
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