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Dick Randall (producer)
Dick Randall (born Irving Reuben; March 3, 1926 – May 14, 1996) was an American film producer, screenwriter, actor and assistant director. He was known for his involvement in the production of exploitation films in Italy, Hong Kong, Spain, the Philippines and England, and his career covered a wide array of genres including mondo documentaries, erotica, giallo, martial arts and slasher films. Personal life A rotund cigar-smoker, Randall was born on March 3, 1926, in the Catskill Mountains, New York. He was married to New Orleans-born singer Corliss Theresa Randall (née Anselmo), who collaborated with him on several films. Career Randall's entertainment career began in the 1950s with writing gags for Milton Berle, before producing his first film, a George Jessel-narrated documentary about the 1958 World's Fair titled ''Holiday in Brussels'', in 1959. He became saddled with debt after producing two unsuccessful Broadway plays. He relocated to Italy, where he specialized in pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catskill Mountains
The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York. As a cultural and geographic region, the Catskills are generally defined as those areas close to or within the borders of the Catskill Park, a forest preserve protected from many forms of development under New York state law. Geologically, the Catskills are a mature dissected plateau, a flat region subsequently uplifted and eroded into sharp relief by watercourses. The Catskills form the northeastern end of the Allegheny Plateau (also known as the Appalachian Plateau). The Catskills were named by early Dutch settlers. They are well known in American society as the setting for films and works of art, including many 19th-century Hudson River School paintings, as well as for being a favored destination for vacationers from New York City in the mid-20th century. The region's many large resorts gave many young stand-up comedian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primitive Love (film)
''L'Amore Primitivo'' (Aka: ''Primitive Love'', U.S.) is a 1964 Italian comedy film that starred Jayne Mansfield, Mickey Hargitay, Franco and Ciccio, and Carlo Kechler. The film attempts to combine a typical Mansfield sex comedy with the mondo film genre by including footage of various native customs and rituals from around the world. It was filmed in Italy in May 1964.http://www.varietyultimate.com/search/?search=Primitive+Jayne&startYear=1964&endYear=1964 Cast *Jayne Mansfield as Dr. Jane (dubbed by Carolyn De Fonseca) * Franco Franchi as Franco, Hotel Porter * Ciccio Ingrassia as Ciccio, Hotel Porter *Mickey Hargitay as Hotel Bell Captain *Carlo Kechler as The Professor Release dates *Italy ... 17 August 1964 *United States ... 3 November 1966 *France ... January 1967 *West Germany ... 5 October 1967 *Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieces (film)
''Pieces'' ( es, Mil gritos tiene la noche, lit=The Night Has 1,000 Screams) is a 1982 slasher film directed by Juan Piquer Simón, written and produced by Dick Randall, and starring Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Frank Braña, Edmund Purdom, Paul L. Smith, Ian Sera, and Jack Taylor. The plot follows an unknown assailant killing female students at a college campus in Boston, who uses their body parts to make a human jigsaw puzzle. A co-production of Spain and the United States, ''Pieces'' was originally released in Spain in August 1982, and was distributed in the United States by Film Ventures International. Since its release, the film has attracted a cult following and has been a drive-in favorite. While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty controversy. Plot In 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts, 10-year-old Timmy Reston is abused by his mother who compares him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Clones Of Bruce Lee
''The Clones of Bruce Lee'' (Cantonese: 神威三猛龍; Korean: 蛇形三傑 ''Death Penalty on Three Robots''; Taiwanese: 複製人李小龍：三龍怒火) is a 1980 Bruceploitation martial arts film capitalizing on the death of actor and martial arts star Bruce Lee in 1973. The film gathers together several of the many Lee imitators who sprang up after the icon's death (including Dragon Lee, Bruce Le and Bruce Lai), alongside performers from the real Lee's films and other veterans of the Hong Kong movie industry. It has been called "The Mount Rushmore of Bruceploitation films". Synopsis Immediately after the death of Bruce Lee in Hong Kong, Colonel Colin (Andy Hannah) of the Special Branch of Investigations asks Professor Lucas ( Jon T. Benn), a brilliant scientist, to take samples of the late master's brain tissue. Using these samples, Lucas creates three perfect clones of Lee: Bruce Lee 1 ( Dragon Lee), Bruce Lee 2 (Bruce Le), and Bruce Lee 3 (Bruce Lai). They are train ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruceploitation
Bruceploitation (a portmanteau of "Bruce Lee" and "exploitation") is an exploitation film subgenre that emerged after the death of martial arts film star Bruce Lee in 1973, where filmmakers from Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea cast Bruce Lee look-alike actors ("Lee-alikes") to star in imitation martial arts films, in order to exploit Lee's sudden international popularity. Bruce Lee look-alike characters also commonly appear in other media, including anime, comic books, manga, and video games. History When martial arts film star Bruce Lee died on July 20, 1973, he was Hong Kong's most famous martial arts actor. When ''Enter the Dragon'' became a box office success worldwide, many Hong Kong studios feared that a movie without their most famous star in it would not be financially successful and decided to play on Lee's sudden international fame by making movies that sounded like Bruce Lee starring vehicles. They cast actors who looked like Lee and changed their screen names to var ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women-in-prison Films
The women in prison film (or WiP film) is a subgenre of exploitation film that began in the early 20th century and continues to the present day. Their stories feature imprisoned women who are subjected to sexual and physical abuse, typically by sadistic male or female prison wardens, guards and other inmates. The genre also features many films in which imprisoned women engage in lesbian sex. WiP films are works of fiction intended as pornography. The films of this genre include a mixture of erotic adventures of the women in prison. The flexible format, and the loosening of film censorship laws in the 1960s, allowed filmmakers to depict more extreme fetishes, such as voyeurism (strip searches, group shower scenes, catfights), sexual fantasies (lesbianism, rape, sexual slavery), fetishism ( bondage, whipping, degradation), and sadism (beatings, torture, cruelty). Prior to these films, another expression of pornographic women in prison was found in "true adventure" men's magazines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Kelly (martial Artist)
James Milton Kelly (May 5, 1946 – June 29, 2013) was an American athlete, martial artist, and actor. After winning several karate championships, Kelly rose to fame in the early 1970s appearing in various action films within the martial arts and blaxploitation genres. Kelly played opposite Bruce Lee in 1973's ''Enter the Dragon'', and had lead roles in 1974's ''Black Belt Jones'' as the title character and '' Three the Hard Way'' as Mister Keyes. Kelly died of cancer on June 29, 2013, at age 67. Early life and athletic career Kelly's father ran a locker-rental service for Navy personnel. He began his athletic career at Bourbon County High School in Paris, Kentucky, competing in basketball, football, and track and field. He attended the University of Louisville on a football scholarship, but left during his freshman year after a coach referred to a black teammate with a racial slur. Instead he began to study Shorin-ryu karate. Kelly began his martial arts career under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Dimension
''Death Dimension'' (also known as ''Death Dimensions'', ''Freeze Bomb'', ''Icy Death'', ''The Kill Factor'', and ''Black Eliminator'') is a 1978 American B-list action thriller and martial arts film by Al Adamson starring Jim Kelly, Harold Sakata, George Lazenby, Terry Moore, and Aldo Ray. Plot A rogue scientist, Dr. Mason (T.E. Foreman), who invents a weather control device, is unknowingly being funded by gangster leader nicknamed "The Pig" (Sakata). Upon discovering that the Pig plans to use the device for blackmail instead of ending droughts as he had planned, Mason kills himself. In order to prevent the secrets of the device from falling into the hands of the Pig, shortly before his death the scientist implants assistant Felicia's forehead (Patch Mackenzie) with a microchip containing the plans. As the Pig is planning on selling the plans to the highest bidder he has her chased by his henchmen. The local police chief, Captain Gallagher (Lazenby), gets put on the case ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blacksploitation
Blaxploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s. The term, a portmanteau of the words "black" and "exploitation", was coined in August 1972 by Junius Griffin, the president of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood NAACP branch. He claimed the genre was "proliferating offenses" to the black community in its perpetuation of stereotypical characters often involved in crime. The genre does rank among the first after the race films in the 1940s and 1960s in which black characters and communities are the protagonists and subjects of film and television, rather than sidekicks, antagonists or victims of brutality. The genre's inception coincides with the rethinking of race relations in the 1970s. Blaxploitation films were originally aimed at an urban African-American audience but the genre's audience appeal soon broadened across racial and ethnic lines. Hollywood realized the potential profit of expanding the audiences of blaxp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajita Wilson
Ajita Wilson (January 12, 1950 – May 26, 1987) was an American transgender actress who starred in European exploitation and hardcore films in the 1970s and 1980s. Biography Wilson was born in Brooklyn a biological male. She started out as a drag entertainer in the red-light district of New York. Wilson had sex reassignment surgery in the mid-1970s. She also did some fashion modeling work. Wilson died from a brain hemorrhage on May 26, 1987, at age 37. Partial filmography *''The Nude Princess'' (1976) - Princess Mariam *''Gola profonda nera'' (1977) - Claudine *''Sylvia im Reich der Wollust'' (1977) - Cula Caballé *''La sorprendente eredità del tontodimammà'' (1977) *''Mavri Aphroditi'' (English titles: ''Black Aphrodite'' and ''Blue Passion'') (1977) - Tamara *''La bravata'' (1977) - Jeanette *''D'improvviso al terzo piano'' (1977) *''Amori morbosi di una contessina'' (1977) *''L'amour chez les poids lourds'' (English title: ''Truck Stop'') (1978) - Calypso (uncredited) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardcore Pornography
Hardcore pornography, or hardcore porn, is pornography that features detailed depictions of sexual organs or sexual acts such as vaginal, anal or oral intercourse, fingering, anilingus, ejaculation, and fetish play. The term is in contrast with less-explicit softcore pornography. Hardcore pornography usually takes the form of photographs, films, and cartoons. Since the mid-1990s, hardcore pornography has become widely available on the internet, making it more accessible than ever before. Etymology A distinction between "hardcore pornography" and "borderline pornography" (or "borderline obscenity") was made in the 1950s and 1960s by American jurists discussing obscenity laws. "Borderline pornography" appealed to sexual prurience, but had positive qualities, such as literary or artistic merit, and so was arguably permitted by obscenity laws; "hardcore pornography" lacked such merits and was definitely prohibited. In ''Roth v. United States'' (1957) the government brief disting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl In Room 2A
''The Girl in Room 2A'' (Italian: ''La Casa della Paura'') is a 1974 giallo film directed by William Rose, starring Daniela Giordano and Angelo Infanti. Synopsis Margaret Bradley is young girl just paroled from jail who rents a room in house owned by Mrs. Grant. Soon, she is being stalked by a sadistic cult led by a mysterious killer in red vestments. Cast * Daniela Giordano as Margaret Bradley * Angelo Infanti as Frank Grant * John Scanlon as Jack Whitman * Rosalba Neri as Alicia Songbird * Brad Harris as Charlie * Frank Latimore as Johnson * Giovanna Galletti as Mrs. Mary Grant * Dada Gallotti as Claire * Nuccia Cardinali as Mrs. Craig * Karin Schubert as Maria * Raf Vallone as Mr. Dresse Reception Donald Guarisco from Allmovie criticized the film's cinematography, "amateurish performances", "limp" pacing, and direction. Guarisco concluded his review by writing, "''The Girl In Room 2A'' is such an uninspired proposition that even hardcore giallo fans might want to think ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
