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seven guns for the macgregors (1966)

aka Sette pistole per i MacGregor.
"These gingo's are much to soft. This one won't last another five minutes!"
Gregor MacGregor (Robert Woods) and his six brothers journey to Las Mesas, to sell some horses, but all they find is trouble, ending up in jail. Whilst the sons are getting into trouble, their father and the ranch comes under attack from some Mexican bandits, led by Santillana (Leo Anchóriz). Meanwhile back in town, the brothers manage to break out, only to find that their horses have been stolen, so they decide on a plan to get back at Santillana.
Entertaining but not essential romp.

gone to earth (1950)

aka The Wild Heart.
"Will you marry me Hazel, I'll give you a good home, and try and be a good husband..."
A wild and beautiful gypsy (Jennifer Jones), becomes the obsession of the local squire (David Farrar), but his fox hunting ways are diametrically opposed by the gypsy's animal loving beliefs.
A Victorian melodrama lifted by the genius of Powell and Pressburger, and the charisma of Jennifer Jones.

american mary (2012)

"Thank you Lance."
Medical student, Mary Mason (Katharine Isabelle), is extremely bright but broke. The end to her money worries comes unexpectedly when she finds herself in the world of unlicensed surgery, performing body modification on willing subjects, all too willing to pay for her talents, but this effects her psychologically more than she suspects.
The Soska Sisters produce an interesting horror, playing out a love story to Asian horrors such as Audition.

repo! the genetic opera (2008)

"I am living out a lie."
It's 2056 and GeneCo, a company headed by Rotti Largo (Paul Sorvino), has become all powerful, offering an eager public painkillers and organ transplants via loan schemes, but if you don't keep up the payment plan, then they send in the repo men to repossess!
A genre of one here, a beautiful and intriguing horror, played out as an opera! But do you want your protagonists interacting via song all the time?

dreams that money can buy (1947)

"You're no longer a bum! You are an artist!"
Joe (Jack Bittner) sets up a business selling and reading the dreams of clients.
Experimental collaboration featuring the great and the good of surrealism, including Man Ray, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and John Cage, provide what they are good at, bizarre and beautiful dream sequences. One for the art lovers out there.

secrets of a door-to-door salesman (1973)

aka Naughty Wives.
"Let him be young. Let him be heterosexual. Let him be Jewish!"
Lobster fisherman David Clyde (Brendan Price) ups sticks to London and lands in at a boarding house full of young women, who take a shine to him, and decide to find him a job. The first, as a porn actor, doesn't work out, so he opts for door-to-door salesman, but all the while he pines for a Ukrainian Au-pair (Jean Harrison), he had previously helped on his way down to London.
Whilst this is the usual lame British 70's sex comedy, it displays something above most in this genre. The nudity is supplied by the likes of Felicity Devonshire, Jean Harrington, Sue Longhurst, and Victoria Burgoyne. Whilst Chic Murray brushes down his policeman's uniform for another cameo appearance. Interestingly this was set to be Jonathan Demme's directorial debut, but he fled back to LA and Roger Corman, when he fell out with the producers, and only filmed the opening scenes.