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impact (1963)

"at least he's in good hands."
Journalist Jack Moir (Conrad Phillips) is framed by The Duke (George Pastell), the boss of an armed robbery gang, and on his release only has one thing on his mind.
Another film set mainly on the Butcher's nightclub set, featuring a by the numbers script, and acting to match.

the cat creature (1973)

"The symbol of baast!"
An Egyptian mummy comes back as a cat to exact revenge and find its amulet. On its trail is archeologist Prof. Edmond (David Hedison) and detective Marco (Stuart Whitman).
TV film, that piles on the guest stars, from Gale Sondergaard, to John Carradine, to produce a passable story that pays homage to previous cat creature features.

timerider: the adventure of lyle swann (1982)

"You just gotta get serious."
Moto-cross champion Lyle (Fred Ward) is racing in the desert, when a time machine experiment catches him and flings him back into the old west.
Lacking a charismatic hero is just the first of this scant film's failings...

abrahan lincoln: vampire hunter (2012)

"It falls to us Abraham, the hunters, to keep the balance, to ensure that this remains a nation of men and not monsters."
Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) sees his mother murdered by a vampire, and vows to hunt down her killer, Jack Barts (Marton Csokas). But first he needs to learn how to kill the undead. A task that Henry Sturges (Dominic Cooper) sets about teaching him.
A roller coaster of a script, (in that it has pacing issues), which entwines real events with fiction, and throws in some action pact sequences to keep you watching.