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Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Lola Colt (1967)












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Storyline
Lola, a saloon dancer arrives in the town of Sant'Anna with some other dancers. The town is however terrorized by El Diablo an outlaw who wants to sell the surrounding land to the railroad company. Lola helps the colonists rebel together with Rod, a youth who has fallen in love with her.

Monday, July 23, 2012

The Arena (1974)













Starring:
  • Margaret Markov
  • Pam Grier
  • Lucretia Love

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Two thousand years ago, the people of Rome are so blasée, so used to violence, that entertaining them becomes a political problem. Someone suggests, after a hectic girl fight in a kitchen between a Nubian and a Viking slave, as a joke, that they should fight in the arena, instead of male gladiators. The idea is approved, though - and a female "Spartacus" theme follows.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
















































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Storyline
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.