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Showing posts with label 1968. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1968. Show all posts

Monday, December 10, 2012

Joanna (1968)


























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Joanna follows a 17 year old girl (Genevieve Waite) who comes to London and falls into the swinging cosmopolitan of the big city; before associating herself with some high-rollers via her connections to the art world. Indulging in random holidays abroad - courtesy of her newfound friend Lord Sanderson (Donald Sutherland) -  and casual sex, courtesy of the rest of her male friends. However, when Joanna eventually falls in love with Gordon (Calvin Lockhart, The Baron, Uptown Saturday Night), her life begins to catch up with her, causing her endless trouble and problems. Michael Sarne displays the changing attitudes to love and sex in the 1960’s through the eyes of a promiscuous young art student, all the while highlighting issues with racism, drugs and sexual politics.

Sunday, July 8, 2012

If He Hollers, Let Him Go! [a.k.a. Dead Right] (1968)


















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James Lake (Raymond St. Jacques, Cotton Comes to Harlem) is an escaped black convict imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit. Leslie Whitlock (Kevin McCarthy) offers James money to kill his wife, Ellen (Dana Wynter). He declines and tried to look up his old flame Lily (Barbara McNair), but discovers his own brother is now married to the sultry nightclub singer. James returns to Leslie, and the trio travel toward a mountain retreat. James and Ellen escape and try to find the murder who framed James years before. He experiences prejudice from the police and civilians alike before the trail leads to the man who set him up. Based on the best selling novel by Chester Hines.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

For Love Of Ivy (1968)





















































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He's a player. She's being played. Is true love in the cards? When high-rolling hustler Jack Parks (Poiter) is blackmailed into seducing a client's naive young housekeeper, love is the last thing on his mind. But Jack has never met anyone live Ivy Moore (Lincoln)...and now he's really beginning to care for her just as she discovers the truth.