Samuel Z. Arkoff
1) Dillinger
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Through all their outrageous escapades, the Dillinger gang maintained a certain mystique in the eyes of the American public. To a citizenry in the depths of the depression, the gang seemed almost like heroes, who enlivened their days with fabulous feats of crime. This glimpse of the lives of those involved in the most interesting crime saga in American history.
2) Mad Max
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In the ravaged near future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them. But they underestimate one officer: Max Rockatansky. And when the bikers brutalize Max's best friend and family, they send him into a mad frenzy that leaves him with only revenge to live for.
5) Futureworld
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"Futureworld" begins where "Westworld" left off, a magnificent computerised complex where each guests' wildest fantasies are fulfilled, and robots do all the work. Two reporters feel something is not as it appears to be, and set out to investigate.
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Criterion collection volume 770
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"At once tongue in cheek and scary as hell, Dressed to Kill revolves around the grisly murder of a woman in Manhattan and how her psychiatrist, her brainiac teenage son, and the prostitute who witnessed the crime try to piece together what happened while the killer remains at large"--Container.
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Comedy of Terrors: The Hinchley and Trumbull Funeral Parlor is on the verge of financial ruin. Hinchley, 92 years old and senile, had entrusted the business to his lazy, drunken son-in-law, Trumbull. To make matters worse, their landlord is now threatening to evict them. Forced to act, Trumbull devises a murderous scheme that will drum up new "customers" and pay back his landlord at the same time.
Raven: Based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Craven...
9) Cooley High
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"Set in the 1960s, Cooley High is a slice-of-life tale of high school students coping with the challenges of everyday life growing up in the Chicago housing projects. 'Preach' and 'Cochise' are two black high school students, and best friends, who see their lives irrevocably changed by circumstance"--Container.
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Beach blanket bingo. Singing sensation Sugar Kane parachutes onto the beach in a rigged publicity stunt, and Frankie, Dee Dee and the gang decide to take sky diving lessons -- How to stuff a wild bikini. Continuing antics of Frankie and Dee Dee. When Frankie goes into the reserves, he fears Ricky will steal Dee Dee away, so with the help of a witch doctor he sends sea beauty Cassandra as a distraction.
13) The trip
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When TV commercial director Paul Groves suffers a crisis due to a crumbling marriage and stagnating career, he begins to experiment with LSD to free himself artistically.
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When a mysterious substance oozes from the ground, a farmer sees that it acts as a growth hormone and thinks his fortune is made. But when rats, chickens, worms and wasps begin sampling the potent substance, they morph into bloodthirsty giants. Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps, and as they try to escape they discover that the entire island is crawling with of oversized animals.
16) The Earthling
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"Patrick Foley is a hard-hearted, no-nonsense loner who spent his life exploring the world and avoiding his feelings. When he returns to his remote Australian birthplace, he is met with more than the average outback wildlife. Fate throws him together with young Shawn Daley, a recently orphaned, city-bred boy with little hope and even less self-reliance. How can he take a pampered little child into the perilous, wild country without risking both their...
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War-Gods of the deep: The adventure begins when the widowed ruler of a sub-oceanic kingdom spies a woman on the land who closely resembles his late wife. Believing that she is the reincarnation of his beloved spouse, the mer-king orders his gill men to kidnap her.
At the earth's core: When the experiment of a scientist and professor goes awry, their "iron core" leads them to the underground kingdom of Pellucidar, where the Wing People are ruled by...
18) X
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A scientist experimenting with eyesight develops a formula to see through solid objects. But as he continues testing the drug on himself, he soon finds himself looking into the very face of reality.
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Shout select volume 26
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The Billy Jack cycle in widescreen with updated commentary. In "Born losers" (1967), Tom Laughlin introduced the character of Billy Jack, a mixed-race Native American, ex-Green Beret, and Vietnam vet who just wants to be left alone. When a vicious motorcycle gang launches a reign of terror on a small town, he finds he must stand up and fight while others hide in fear. Billy Jack kills the leader of the gang, but is accidentally slain by a deputy sheriff....
20) The Norseman
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An 11th-century Viking prince sails to North America to find his father, who on a previous voyage had been captured by Native Americans.