Daily Archives: December 23, 2016

Back Page (1934) Anton Lorenze, Peggy Shannon, Russell Hopton, Claude Gillingwater, Crime, Drama

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Peggy Shannon plays a young female reporter who is fired from a big city newspaper, then decides to take over a troubled small town newspaper. She encounters difficulties with small town politics, getting advertisers to help keep the paper afloat, and issues with 1930’s feminism in the resistance she receives from the town’s residents to her attempts to run the newspaper. An insightful story of a woman’s determination to succeed in an era long before the women’s rights movement.
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Top Girl (1996) Joe D’Amato, Carla Solaro, Robert Madison, Sonia Topazio, Romance, Erotic

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Patricia (Carla Solaro) is a young beautiful girl living in a small town. One day she has the chance of a lifetime, as she is chosen among many other girls to play the main role on a TV series. She leaves everything behind and moves to Los Angeles to begin a new life. Once there she becomes a TV star and falls in love with Mike (Robert Madison), the cynical and unscrupulous manager of the network. But to find her she still has much to learn.
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Wild Orchid II Two Shades of Blue (1991) Zalman King, Nina Siemaszko, Wendy Hughes, Tom Skerritt, Drama, Romance, Erotic

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Blue is a teenage girl who lives with her Jazz playing father Ham. Ham gets very sick and dies, and now Blue must support herself somehow. Elle, the headmistress at a brothel, talks her into living and working at her establishment. She decides to leave the business and lead a normal life. Elle is hellbent to see that she never has one.
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Firecracker / Naked Fist (1981) Cirio H. Santiago, Jillian Kesner, Darby Hinton, Rey Malonzo, Action, Drama, Thriller

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Martial arts expert Susanne arrives in the Philippines in search of her missing sister. After a little homework, she infiltrates an dope peddling organization and falls for the mob’s top ass-kicker, only to find out her sister isn’t missing, but dead, and her new beau’s behind it! Revenge is sweet in this Cirio Santiago film with a surprising amount of brutal impalements, not to mention a buzzsaw to the face and some sexy knife action. Our girl Susanne gets attacked at the worst times, too. She fights a group of thugs in her underwear TWICE, eventually going topless with her fists of fury still a-flyin’!
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