salome's last dance (1988)

"Let the play commence."
Oscar Wilde (Nickolas Grace) gets a surprise when he visits a brothel, as he finds them staging a the premiere of his play "Salome".
Russell explores this classic play in his patented bawdy style.

downtown (1975)

Aka Down Town. DownTown: Die nackten Puppen der Unterwelt.
Cynthia (Lina Romay) hires private detective Al Pereira (Jesús Franco) to take compromising photos of her husband, and finds himself declared the prime suspect in the man's subsequent murder.
Franco throws everything into this cheesy and ponderous ode to a particular part of Lina Romay's body!

sinner: the secret diary of a nymphomaniac (1973)

AKA Le journal intime d'une nymphomane.
"They say that love makes the world go round, and all is fair in love and war."
Linda Vargas (Montserrat Prous) picks up Ortiz (Manuel Pereiro) in the bar where she works, and after seducing him, kills herself. He is immediately arrested, and it looks bad, as he is covered in her blood and holding the knife she killed herself with. So it is up to his wife, Rosa (Jacqueline Laurent) to investigate the death, and she soon learns of Linda's tragic decent into sex and drugs following her sexual assault by Ortiz as a young girl.
An interesting concept turned into a lackluster tale of depravity.

Celestine, Maid at Your Service (1974)

AKA Célestine... bonne à tout faire.
"Oh!".
Celestine (Lina Ronay) escapes from the brothel, and becomes a maid, which thrives idyllic family life. But soon Celestine start to give way to their sexual attraction to the new maid.
Bawdy and unfunny sex comedy.

the price of wisdom (1935)

"She has what doctors call night athletics."
Mary Temple (Mary Jerrold) is a precocious young woman determined to get ahead in business. But her plans are interrupted when Alfred Blake (Robert Rendel) sweeps her off her feet and takes her to London. Things are going well until she meets Peter North (Roger Livesey), who has invented a new chemical process. She agrees to fund its development, but Alfred doesn't take kindly to her new partnership...
Breezy romantic drama, that doesn't quite spark to life, but flickers occasionally.

penny points to paradise (1951)

aka Double or Quits.
"You had an accident."
Harry Flakers (Harry Secomebe) wins £100,000 on the pools and goes on his annual holiday to Brighton with best pal (Spike Milligan). There they are immediately beset by counterfeiting conmen...
The Goons (Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellars) come together to make their first and not particularly great film together.

gordon's war (1973)

"You cats are crazy."
Gordon (Paul Winfield) returns from a four year stint in 'Nam to find his Harlem neighbourhood is now rife with drugs. So he does what any self respecting vet would do, sets up a vigilante gang to take down the people responsible...
A run of the mill Blacksploitation, notable only for being Grace Jones first on screen performance.

20 questions murder mystery (1950)

The doctor and the police say it was suicide!"
A Fleet Street newsman, Bob Beacham (Robert Beatty), sniffs out a story after listening to an anonymous question on a radio gameshow. He links the question to a subsequent series of murders, whilst the killer taunts him through questions sent to the show. Complicating matters is fellow journalist Mary Game (Rona Anderson) who is also chasing the story, and is often one step ahead of Bob.
Interesting story with a nice interplay between Robert Beatty and Rona Anderson.