Archive for January, 1967
007 You Only Live Twice
In 1967 the US and Soviet Russia reach a new crisis when Jupiter 16, a US space capsule, is captured in Earth orbit by a strange rocket ship. The US accuses the Soviets of the space hijacking, even though Great Britain believes the alien ship landed in the Sea Of Japan. Her Majesty’s Secret Service now swings into action by “killing” James Bond in Hong Kong - a ruse so Bond can move about Japan unmolested by his enemies. Working with, and enjoying the exotic hospitality of, Japanese SIS and its commander “Tiger” Tanaka, James uncovers evidence that a major chemical company is smuggling liquid oxygen for rocket fuel, and his and Tanaka’s investigation leads to an extinct volcano that is the source of the space hijacking - just as a Soviet spacecraft is grabbed by the alien rocket and a previously scheduled US launch is pushed upward with America’s strategic forces on full battle alert, forcing James and Tanaka to confront the true source of the space hijackings - SPECTRE, and its ruthless leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
007 You Only Live Twice DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.90 out of 10 (9678 votes)
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Actors: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsuro Tamba, Teru Shimada, Karin Dor, Donald Pleasence, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, Charles Gray, Tsai Chin, Peter Fanene Maivia, Burt Kwouk, Michael Chow,
Tags: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Adventure, Action, airplane-accident, assassination-attempt, astronaut, based-on-novel, blockbuster, british, burial-at-sea, cat, cave, chase, chinese, cigarette, eaten-alive, elevator, explosion, fake-marriage, faked-death, famous-score, fifth-part, forklift, gas, geisha, gyrocopter, helicopter, hero, hijack, hitman, hong-kong, interracial, interracial-relationship, island, james-bond, japan, katana-sword, knife, magnet, martial-arts, mi6, monorail, mysterious-villain, nasa, ninja, official-james-bond-series, organized-crime, orient, piranha, poison, prosthetic-limb, redhead, rocket, rocket-launching, safecracker, secret-agent, secret-headquarters, secret-organization, sequel, ship, space, spacecraft, spacewalk, spy, submarine, sumo-wrestler, television, title-spoken-by-character, twenty-one-gun-salute, underwater, violence, volcano, wedding-ceremony, wooden-leg, ww3
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Wait Until Dark
After an airplane trip, a young woman asks Susie’s husband, Sam, to keep a doll for her to avoid spoiling the surprise of her daughter’s gift. But the real reason is to avoid her partner, Harry Roat, whom she hopes to cheat of the drugs hidden in the doll. Harry discovers her treachery, murders her and leaves the body in Susie’s apartment, where he has tracked Sam and the doll. He concocts an elaborate plan, involving Mike and Carlino, small-time hoods, to get Susie, who recently lost her sight in a fire, to reveal the doll’s hiding place. They lure Sam away and take advantage of Susie’s blindness, posing as an old friend, a police detective, and a father-son pair of eccentrics. Susie eventually catches on and, with the help of her young neighbor, Gloria, shows everyone that she is indeed “a world-class blind lady.”
Wait Until Dark DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.80 out of 10 (5518 votes)
Director: Terence Young
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Jack Weston, Samantha Jones, Julie Herrod, Robby Benson, Jean Del Val, Gary Morgan, Frank O’Brien,
Tags: Drama, Crime, Thriller, airport, apartment, assumed-identity, atmospheric, based-on-play, betrayal, blind, blind-girl, blind-woman, blindness, claustrophobic, closet, corpse, criminal, darkness, deceit, disguise, doll, drug-trade, drugs, gasoline, heroin, hostage, house-breaking, housewife, impersonation, light-bulb, loss-of-eyesight, marriage, match, military-veteran, murder, neighbor, new-york-city, paranoid, photographer, police, psycho-thriller, psychological-thriller, psychopath, refrigerator, revenge, safe, stabbing, suspense, telephone-box, tense, veteran, visually-impaired-person, witness, woman, woman-in-jeopardy
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Two for the Road
The ten-year marriage of Mark and Joanna Wallace is on the rocks. In flashback they recall their first meeting, memorable moments in their courtship and early wedded life, their travels through Europe, their broken vow never to have children, and their increasing tensions that led to both of them having extra-marital affairs.
Two for the Road DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.40 out of 10 (2123 votes)
Director: Stanley Donen
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney, Eleanor Bron, William Daniels, Gabrielle Middleton, Claude Dauphin, Nadia Gray, Georges Descrières, Jacqueline Bisset, Judy Cornwell, Irène Hilda, Dominique Joos, Yves Barsacq, Roger Dann, Jacques Hilling,
Tags: Romance, Drama, Comedy, europe, extramarital-affair, flashback-sequence, love, marriage, multiple-time-frames, nonlinear-timeline, number-in-title, road-movie
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