7.11.15

Blood calls to blood (1968)

aka Sangue Chiama Sangue.
"Who did this to you?"
Sancho (Fernando Sancho) and his gang attack a monastery, stealing some sacred artifacts and killing many of the the monks, including the brother of Andrej (Stephen Forsyth). On hearing his brother's fate Andrej sets about finding Sancho on the trail of revenge.
Plays with all the cliches of the genre without any great effect.

nest of vipers (1969)

aka La Notte dei Serpenti. Night of the Serpent. Nest of Vipers ...Ringo Kill!
"You must pay like all the others, get out!"
Lieutenant Hernandez (Pistilli) hatches a plot with a local bandit, but needs someone to take the fall for it. Between them they pick local drunkard Luke (Luke Askew), but all they see is a drunken bum, not that man he once was...
Story of murder and redemption with an intricate plot, that takes its time to unfold, and is all the better for it.

yesterday's hero (1979)

"Nice work if you can get it."
Rod Turner (Ian McShane) is an over the hill and alcoholic football, but he wants one last crack at stardom. He finds help from ex-girlfriend Cloudy Martin (Suzanne Somers), a pop star who pursuades her partner Clint Simon (Paul Nicholas) to place him with his team.
Never able to develop the dramatic possibilities to make it beyond a typical b-movie.

and the same to you (1959)

"Oh I am most sorry, did I hurt you?"
The new vicar of a parish Rev Mullet (Leo Franklyn) learns that he has to share the church hall with a boxing gym and its canny promoter Wally Burton (William Hartnell). He's under orders to get them out, but his son Dickie (Brian Rix) is convinced he has a talent for boxing and they need money to repair the roof.
Out for the count before it even gets going, despite having Vera Day as the love interest and the comic talents of Syd James and Tommy Cooper.

and the same to you (1959)

"Oh I am most sorry, did I hurt you?"
The new vicar of a parish Rev Mullet (Leo Franklyn) learns that he has to share the church hall with a boxing gym and its canny promoter Wally Burton (William Hartnell). He's under orders to get them out, but his son Dickie (Brian Rix) is convinced he has a talent for boxing and they need money to repair the roof.
Out for the count before it even gets going, despite having Vera Day as the love interest and the comic talents of Syd James and Tommy Cooper.

and the same to you (1959)

"Oh I am most sorry, did I hurt you?"
The new vicar of a parish Rev Mullet (Leo Franklyn) learns that he has to share the church hall with a boxing gym and its canny promoter Wally Burton (William Hartnell). He's under orders to get them out, but his son Dickie (Brian Rix) is convinced he has a talent for boxing and they need money to repair the roof.
Out for the count before it even gets going, despite having Vera Day as the love interest and the comic talents of Syd James and Tommy Cooper.