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Showing posts with label 1970. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1970. Show all posts

Monday, December 10, 2012

Leo the Last (1970)






















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Storyline
Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his father's London town house for rest. With him are social-climber Margaret, to whom he is engaged, and Laszlo, who is planning a counter revolution which will restore Leo to the kingship of the monarchy. Leo is shocked to discover the one exclusive neighborhood has degenerated into a ghetto inhabited mainly by poor blacks on the brink of desperation. His nearest neighbors are the Mardi family and their beautiful daughter, Salambo, who catches his eye as does her boy friend the procurer Roscoe. Using the excuse of watching birds he watches them closely through field glasses with the coolness and detachment of a scientist watching insects under a magnifying glass. When Salambo is forced to become a whore in order to keep her family together, Leo, despite the pleadings of Margaret and Laszlo who has just about ... 

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Night Chase (1970)








































Starring:
David Janssen once again plays a man on the run, this time as a Baltimore businessman on the lam after shooting his wife's lover. Thinking that he is a murderer, Janssen boards Yaphet Kotto's taxi at the Los Angeles Airport...and orders him to drive to the Mexican border. During their harrowing and suspenseful ride, similarities of their respective lives are revealed, and deep bonds are formed between the men. These new bonds serve them well when the inevitable police chase eventually catches up with them.