Sunday, December 26, 2010

One-Sheet of the Week: EL GOLFO (1969)

Because the lighting is so lousy in the Temple, we usually photograph our one-sheets outside in natural light. Unfortunately, there's 2 feet of snow on the ground, with no thaw in sight, so we're going to have to do something different with our "One-Sheet of the Week" feature. The way we got around the bad weather bullshit last year: we picked out the sheet we wanted to spotlight from our collection, and then we right-clicked the scan of it from the Wrong Side of the Art. Well, we don't want to do that again this year. We'd rather put up something that can't be found anyplace else on the 'Net, 'cause blowin' your mind with goodies from the archives is what we're all about. So until the weather gets better and we can take our toys outside again, this column will be renamed "Movie Ad of the Week." Cool? We'll put up one or two or a few ads and try to write a couple of sentences about the movies represented. Here goes...

One year before THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY premiered on ABC, Shirley Jones co-starred with Spanish pop singer Raphael in EL GOLFO (1969). Here's the ad for its opening in eleven New York area Spanish-language theaters in September of '69. Never saw it, but we'd like to. Is there an English dub available?

Sunday, December 19, 2010

One-Sheet of the Week: MISSION KISS AND KILL (1980)

ZHAO JI ZAI DA HENG HANG (1979)

U.S. release in 1980 as MISSION KISS AND KILL

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Jean Rollin drive-in double feature - August 1977


Jean Rollin's LES DÉMONIAQUES (1974) and LES FRISSON DES VAMPIRES (1971) on a double bill at a New Mexico drive-in theater, August 1977. Rollin died yesterday at age 72.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

This Week on 42nd Street -- 1974


Here are the double and triple features that played the Deuce thirty-six years ago this week. Theaters are listed in east-to-west order.

NORTH SIDE OF THE STEET

Rialto I: Schedule unavailable

Rialto II: Schedule unavailable

Victory: Schedule unavailable

Lyric: THE KLANSMAN / BLACK BELT

Times Square: MANDARIN MAGICIAN / BAMBOO BROTHERHOOD / CHINESE MECHANIC

Apollo: COMMUTER HUSBANDS / SUBURBAN WIVES

Selwyn: SUPERSTOOGES VS. WONDER WOMEN / BAMBOO GODS AND IRON MEN


SOUTH SIDE OF THE STREET

New Amsterdam: AMAZING GRACE / I ESCAPED FROM DEVIL'S ISLAND

Cine 42: DEATH WISH / HELL UP IN HARLEM

Harris: THE MODELS / THE RUNAWAY

Liberty: BLADE / THE NARCO MEN

Empire: Schedule unavailable

Anco: KATO AND THE GREEN HORNET / KARATE KILLERS

Sunday, December 12, 2010

One-Sheet of the Week: SLAVES IN CAGES (1971)

"SLAVER I BURO" / SLAVES IN CAGES (1971)

Advertised as being "New from Denmark," this legendary B&D/S&M roughie is actually one of three micro budgeted, non-sync-sound softcore quickies that director Lee Frost and producer Armand Atamian made using short-end scraps of film and then passed off as Danish productions through their Phoenix International Films. Go HERE for more info.

Sunday, December 05, 2010

One-Sheet of the Week: WILD WHEELS (1969)

WILD WHEELS (1969)

Rated X by the MPAA, then edited for re-rating of R

World premiere held at the Berlin Drive-In, Hartford, CT on July 2nd, 1969 with the stars and the director in attendance