Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this he cannot stop gambling.
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Tag Archives: 1970s
Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976) Boris Sagal, Roger Moore, John Huston, Patrick Macnee
In this mystery, Holmes pursues his archenemy Moriarty to New York City, in which the villainous scoundrel has carried out the ultimate bank robbery. Read More »
F.I.S.T. (1978) Norman Jewison, Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. Read More »
Night of Dark Shadows (1971) Dan Curtis, David Selby, Grayson Hall, Kate Jackson, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A painter and his wife move into a home and find themselves plagued by ghosts and spirits of his ancestors that used to be witches. Read More »
Fragment of Fear (1970) Richard C. Sarafian, David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Crime, Mystery, Drama
A young British author is plunged into a nightmare as he tries to solve his aunt’s murder in Italy. Read More »
Un Moment d’Egarement / One Wild Moment (1977) Claude Berri, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Victor Lanoux, Christine Dejoux, Comedy
Pierre, 44, contentedly divorced, takes his teen daughter to the Côte d’Azur along with his friend Jacques and Jacques’ own teen daughter, Françoise. Read More »
I Don’t Want to Be Born (1975) Peter Sasdy, Joan Collins, Eileen Atkins, Ralph Bates, Horror
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed by the spirit of a freak dwarf who the mother once spurned. Read More »
The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972) Dick Richards, Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Luke Askew, Western
Teenager Ben Mockridge feels life in a Wild West farm town has nothing better to offer than horse-cart racing with other hicks, so he naively begs cattle company owner Frank Culpepper to engage him as the youngest cowboy for a long cattle trail to a fort. Read More »
Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970) Douglas Hickox, Beryl Reid, Harry Andrews, Peter McEnery, Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Sloane, a handsome, sexy and completely amoral young man, joins Kath’s household as a lodger and proceeds to manipulate her and her brother, Ed. Read More »
Les magiciens / Death Rite (1976) Claude Chabrol, Franco Nero, Stefania Sandrelli, Jean Rochefort, Drama, Thriller
While traveling to a resort in Tunisia, the magician and clairvoyant Professor Vestar befriends the idle millionaire Edouard Vangard and he offers a ride in his car. Read More »