Excitement! Entertainment! Plus! The Revolt of the Faceless Humanoids! (February, 1965)

 

 

 

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Full review of Goliath and The Vampires at the Brewery.

Poster campaign for Goliath and The Vampires at the Archive.

The T.A.M.I. Show (1964) Screen Entertainment Co. :: Screencraft International :: Theatrofilm :: American International Pictures / EP: William Sargent Jr. / P: Lee Savin / AP: Al Ham / D: Steve Binder / W: William Sargent Jr. / C: Jim Kilgore / E: Kent Mackenzie, Bruce B. Pierce / M: Jack Nitzsche / S: James Brown, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, The Barbarians, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Lesley Gore, The Supremes, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Jan and Dean

Goliath and The Vampires (1961) Ambrosiana Cinematografica :: American International Pictures / EP: Dino De Laurentiis / P: Paolo Moffa / D: Sergio Corbucci, Giacomo Gentilomo / W: Sergio Corbucci, Duccio Tessari / C: Alvaro Mancori / E: Eraldo Da Roma / M: Les Baxter, Angelo Francesco Lavagnino / S: Gordon Scott, Leonora Ruffo, Jacques Sernas, Gianna Maria Canale, Rocco Vitolazzi, Mario Feliciani, Vanoye Aikens, Annabella Incontrera

The Roughest Ride in Town! (September, 1969)

 

 

 

 
Helles Belles (1969) American International Pictures / P: Maury Dexter / AP: Hank Tani / D: Maury Dexter / W: R.G. McMullen, James Gordon White / C: Kenneth Peach / E: John F. Schreyer / M: Les Baxter / S: Jeremy Slate, Adam Roarke, Jocelyn Lane, Angelique Pettyjohn, Michael Walker

God Forgives — I Don’t (1967) Cronocinematografica S.p.a. :: Productores Exhibidores Films Sociedad Anónima :: American International Pictures / P: Enzo D’Ambrosio / D: Giuseppe Colizzi / W: Giuseppe Colizzi, Gumersindo Mollo / C: Alfio Contini / E: Sergio Montanari / M: Carlo Rustichelli / S: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Frank Wolff, Gina Rovere, José Manuel Martín

Strange Temptations! Being Devoured in a Manner Inconceivable to the Human Mind! (October, 1963)

 

 

 

Couple of imports this go around, one Italian the other Russian. The second feature most infamously for Francis Ford Coppola’s re-editing and inserting a monster fight into Nebo zovyot, whose monsters are so hilarious phallic in a TAb-A goes into Slot-B sense that one can only watch and boggle.
 

 
Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World (1961) Panda Film :: Gallus Film :: American International Pictures / P: Salvatore Billitteri, Luigi Carpentieri, Ermanno Donati / D: Riccardo Freda / W: Oreste Biancoli, Duccio Tessari, George Gonneau, Lee Kresel / C: Riccardo Pallottini / E: Ornella Micheli / M: Les Baxter / S: Gordon Scott, Yôko Tani, Hélène Chanel, Dante DiPaolo

Battle Beyond the Sun (1959) A.P. Dovzenko Filmstudio :: The Filmbgroup / P: Roger Corman / D: Mikhail Karzhukov, Aleksandr Kozyr, Francis Ford Coppola / W: Mikhail Karzhukov, Yevgeni Pomeshchikov, Aleksey Sazonov / C: Nikolai Kulchitsky / E: L. Mkhitaryyanch / M: Yuli Meitus, Carmine Coppola / S: Ivan Pereverzev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Konstantin Bartashevich, Linda Barrett, Frederick Farley, Mary Kannon

10,000 Sights! 10,000 Thrills! (June, 1960)

 

 

 

 

 

 
Goliath and the Barbarians (1959) Alta Vista Productions :: Standard Produzione :: American International Pictures / EP: James H. Nicholson, Samuel Z. Arkoff / P: Emimmo Salvi / D: Carlo Campogalliani / W: Gino Mangini, Emimmo Salvi, Nino Stresa, Giuseppe Taffarel / C: Bitto Albertini / E: Franco Fraticelli / M: Les Baxter, Carlo Innocenzi / W: Steve Reeves, Chelo Alonso, Bruce Cabot, Giulia Rubini, Arturo Dominici

A Dog’s Best Friend (1959) Robert E. Kent Productions :: United Artists / P: Robert E. Kent / D: Edward L. Cahn / W: Orville H. Hampton / C: Kenneth Peach / E: Michael Minth, Grant Whytock / M: Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter / S: Bill Williams, Marcia Henderson, Roger Mobley, Roy Engel, Harry Dean Stanton

A Fistful of Spaghetti! (June, 1969)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
I could argue which is Leone’s best, this or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. But, lets just sit back and enjoy the art of Frank McCarthy instead.

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) A Rafran-San Marco Production :: Paramount Pictures EP: Bino Cicogna / P: Fulvio Morsella / D: Sergio Leone / W: Sergio Leone, Sergio Donati, Bernardo Bertolucci / C: Tonino Delli Colli / E: Nino Baragli / M: Ennio Morricone / S: Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Gabriele Ferzetti

Actually Filmed in the Dark Corners of Our ‘Civilized World’! (April, 1968)

 

 

 

 
Sadismo (1967) Trans American Films :: American International / P: Salvatore Billitteri / D: Salvatore Billitteri / W: Philip Marx / E: Salvatore Billitteri, Fred R. Feitshans Jr. / M: Les Baxter, Al Simms / S: Terri Telli, Burt Topper

The Cobra (1967) Dollar Film :: Italian International Film :: Productores Exhibidores Films Sociedad Anónima :: American International / P: Fulvio Lucisano / D: Mario Sequi / W: Adriano Bolzoni, Gumersindo Mollo / C: Claudio Racca, Enrique Torán / E: Pedro del Rey / M: Antón García Abril / S: Dana Andrews, Anita Ekberg, Pietro Martellanza, Elisa Montés, Peter Dane

SEE! A Cast of Thousands! SEE! History’s Greatest Adventure! SEE! The Wake of the Wooden Horse! (November, 1955)

 

 

 

 

 
Ulysses (1954) Lux Film :: Paramount Pictures / P: Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti / D: Mario Camerini / W: Franco Brusati, Mario Camerini, Ennio De Concini, Hugh Gray, Ben Hecht, Ivo Perilli, Irwin Shaw, Homer (poem) / C: Harold Rosson / E: Leo Cattozzo / M: Alessandro Cicognini / S: Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano, Anthony Quinn, Rossana Podestà, Jacques Dumesnil

Fight for Your Right to a Night of Fright! (March, 1965)

 

 

 

 

 
Don’t you just love the twisted artwork in these ads? First up we have the extremely twisted, and yet hauntingly beautiful tale of a mad surgeon whose necrophiliac sexual proclivities accidentally gets his wife killed. Not to fear, he has a plan to bring her back — and all he needs is a lot of blood from an unwilling donor. Enter wife number two … And then, Central Nebraska, welcome to the wacky world and demented genius of Jesus Franco, whose awful Dr. Orlof is also on a kidnapping binge for unwilling donors to provide skin-grafts for his disfigured daughter.

The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962) Panda Film :: Sigma III Corp. / P: Luigi Carpentieri, Ermanno Donati / D: Riccardo Freda / W: Ernesto Gastaldi / C: Raffaele Masciocchi / E: Ornella Micheli / M: Roman Vlad / S: Barbara Steele, Robert Flemyng, Silvano Tranquilli, Maria Teresa Vianello, Harriet Medin

The Awful Dr. Orlof (1962) Hispamer Films :: Leo Lax Production :: Ydex Eurociné :: Sigma III Corp. / P: Leo Lax, Marius Lesoeur, Serge Newman/ D: Jesus Franco / W: Jesus Franco / C: Godofredo Pacheco / E: Alfonso Santacana / M: José Pagán, Antonio Ramírez Ángel / S: Howard Vernon, Conrado San Martín, Diana Lorys, María Silva, Perla Cristal

A Magical Power Was Destined to Fight at His Side! (January, 1983)

 

 

 

 

 
Ah, Ator — a/k/a Ator the Fighting Eagle, Joe D’Amato’s gonzo-riffic Conan the Barbarian cash-in, which, of course, was followed by another barbaric boondoggle with The Blade Master — a/k/a Ator the Invincible, but probably best known as MST3k fan favorite, Cave Dwellers, with Miles and Miles O’Keefe.

Ator (1982) / EP: Helen Szabo / P: Alex Susmann / AP: Chris Trainor / D: Joe D’Amato / W: Joe D’Amato, Michele Soavi / C: Joe D’Amato / E: David Framer / M: Carlo Maria Cordio / S: Miles O’Keeffe, Sabrina Siani, Ritza Brown, Edmund Purdom, Laura Gemser

Where Adventure Ends — And HELL Begins! (June, 1973)

 

 

 

 

 

 
Okay, now I know that last ad technically isn’t a double-feature but it still cracks me all the hell up. Inspired by Elliot Silverstein’s A Man Called Horse, which saw Richard Harris forcibly going native and suspended on a couple of meat-hooks through his chest, Umberto Lenzi’s unofficial remake finds another Brit well off the beaten path of civilization, deep in the jungles of Thailand, where he is captured by some natives who go all Mondo Cane on his ass. Yeah, we’ve got Cannibal Cinema Ground Zero, here, folks, complete with sadistic tribal rituals, wholesale animal slaughter, and who the hell knows what else will be permanently scarred into you retinas. And with its box-office success, for the next decade, Lenzi and fellow Italian director Ruggero Deodato would continually march off into the jungle to try and one up each other by heaping one atrocity on top of the other in effort to make the audience taste their popcorn twice. And you can see it all if you’re over 18 — with proof, pilgrim.

Man from Deep River (1972) Medusa Produzione :: Joseph Brenner Assoc. / EP: Giorgio Carlo Rossi / P: Ovidio G. Assonitis / D: Umberto Lenzi / W: Francesco Barilli, Massimo D’Avak / C: Riccardo Pallottini / E: Eugenio Alabiso / M: Daniele Patucchi / S: Ivan Rassimov, Me Me Lai, Prasitsak Singhara, Sulallewan Suxantat