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“Halloween” is a 1978 American slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut. The film tells the ...
“Papillon” is a 1973 historical period drama prison film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. The screenplay by Dalton Trumbo and Lorenzo Semple Jr. was based on the 1969 autobiography by the French convict Henri ...
One of screen icon John Wayne’s finest twilight films, THE COWBOYS was a box-office hit in 1972. John Wayne stars as a rancher who will lose his livestock unless he can transform a ragtag ...
“The Changes” posits a Britain where a sudden enveloping noise emanating from all machinery and technology causes the population to destroy them. The resulting upheaval displaces many people and reverts society to a pre-industrial ...
“Puppet on a Chain” is a 1971 British thriller film directed by Geoffrey Reeve and starring Sven-Bertil Taube, Barbara Parkins and Alexander Knox. It is based on the novel Puppet on a Chain by ...
“Don’t Look Now” (Italian: A Venezia… un Dicembre rosso shocking) is a 1973 independent British-Italian film directed by Nicolas Roeg. It is a thriller adapted from the short story by Daphne du Maurier. Julie ...
“Peur sur la ville” (or “Fear over the city”) is a 1975 French crime film directed by Henri Verneuil and staring Jean Paul Belmondo. These are familiar names to me from my childhood. Another familiar ...
“Candleshoe” was the second film in Disney’s deal with child actress Jodie Foster, who plays teen orphan Casey, running amok in the streets of urban Los Angeles until she’s literally purchased from her unfeeling foster ...
The third film from the Sabato trilogy was titled “Return of Sabata” (in original “È tornato Sabata … hai chiuso un’altra volta”) and featured once again Lee van Cleef as the title character. From what ...
The second movie of the “Sabata trilogy” was titled “Indio Black, sai che ti dico: Sei un gran figlio di…”, roughly translated as “Indio Black, you know what I’m going to tell you … You’re ...
Henri Verneuil is one of Ennio Morricone’s favorite French directors. They worked together for quite a few movies and these days we are getting releases of the scores for some of them. “La casse” (“The ...
I get an instant reaction when the raw percussion from the first cue comes in. I feel that sweet sting of nostalgia in my heart and just turn the volume up. This sound, the raw ...
Sette Contro Tutti AKA Seven Rebel Gladiators is a 1965 Italian historical drama film. The ruthless Roman tribune, Vadio, joins forces with the evil Morakeb to take over the throne of Aristea, usurping King Krontal ...
Whenever a Jerry Goldsmith release comes along I get a little worried. I know most film music fans get excited, but I get worried because there are enough moments when I can’t connect with his ...
It seems there is a bonanza of David Shire music to be uncovered these days. Nearly every major label is releasing one of his old scores and giving them the special edition treatment. It’s Intrada’s ...
“L’arucana: Massagro degli dei” or “Massacre of the gods” is an Italo-Spanish-Chilean drama from 1971 about a period known as “The conquest of Chile”. From what I read “L’Araucana” is a 16th century epic poem ...
“Canterbury N.2 (Nuove Storie D’Amore Del ‘300)” is a 1973 movie which imagines the famous writer of “The Canterbury Tales”, Geoffrey Chaucer, stuck in a far away in because of bad weather. Along with other ...
“Man on a swing” is a 1974 crime thriller that pretends to be inspired from a real story. A clairvoyant comes to the aid of a police chief in investigating a murder. The clairvoyant keeps ...
“Game of death” was the last unfinished movie for Bruce Lee. It’s not even a movie really…just a collection of outtakes, interviews and unfinished scenes. But this strange movie benefits from a special score…John ...
“Diamonds are forever” has another one of the most memorable Bond theme songs. Shirley Bassey unique voice gives John Barry’s music and Don Black’s lyrics just what they needed to turn into a powerful ballad. ...
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