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30 IS A DANGEROUS AGE, CYNTHIA (1968) $14.99 
run time: 85 minutes. Color. UK.
directed by: Joseph McGrath
description: In his first starring role minus his longtime partner Peter Cook, Dudley Moore plays a 29-year-old who goes through an identity crisis when approaching the "three-oh" mark. He wants to be a successful Broadway composer before reaching 30 and also wants to be happily married. Unfortunately, he's so busy as a night-club musician that he hasn't any time to realize his goals. Enter sexy Suzy Kendall (Mrs. Moore at the time), who inspires Dudley to reinvigorate his quest for success and connubial bliss. 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia delivers a satisfactory quota of laughs and sixties "mod" camera trickery. WATCH CLIP
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A FLEA IN HER EAR DVD (1968) $14.99 
run time: 94 minutes. Color. FRANCE / USA.
directed by: Jacques Charon
description: A Flea In Her Ear is a comedic sex romp about a wife suspicious of her husband's activities away from home. Gabrielle (Rosemary Harris) is convinced her attorney husband Victor (Rex Harrison) is seeing another woman because of his inattention to her amorous needs. Gabrielle sets up a meeting with her husband at a bordello-hotel, and he is completely unaware that the woman he is going to meet will be his own wife. She soon discovers just who is being unfaithful to their wives after meeting a number of lovers and both faithful and unfaithful husbands. Louis Jourdan and Rachel Roberts also star in this light situation comedy containing turn-of the-century-sensibilities.
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A LOVELY WAY TO DIE DVD (1968) $14.99 
run time: 100 minutes. Color. USA. Widescreen.
directed by: David Lowell Rich
description: Schuyler (Kirk Douglas) is a hard-boiled detective who turns in his badge when he believes the criminals are being handled with kid gloves and too much respect. He is hired by prominent attorney Fredericks (Eli Wallach) as a bodyguard for his client Rena (Sylva Koscina), who is accused of murdering her husband. Schuylur keeps one eye on his beautiful suspect while trying to uncover more information about the murder. The detective soon comes to believe that Rena is being framed for the murder. Singer Jackie Wilson delivers the song A Lovely Way To Die during the opening credits of this murder mystery.
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ANGEL, ANGEL, DOWN WE GO DVD (1969) $14.99 
run time: run time: 93 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Robert Thom
description: A.K.A. "Cult of the Damned" Tara Nicole (Holly Near) is an 18-year-old girl from a wealthy family. She rebels against her parents by taking up with a rock band lead by Bogart (Jordan Christopher). Singer Lou Rawls and Roddy McDowell make up part of the band, whose members end up seducing the young teen and her mother Astrid (Jennifer Jones). Tara's mom makes her first and last jump from an airplane with a faulty parachute and her father (Charles Aidman) is found hanging from the diving board poolside. The band manages to wreck Tara's life in this implausible feature. Holly Near would go on to become a feminist folk singer and begin a series of college tours in the 1970s, promoting peace.
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ANNA DVD (1967) $14.99  
run time: 87 minutes. France. Color. English subtitles.
directed by: Pierre Koralnik
description: Released in 1967, this was the first color film made for French TV. Starring Anna Karina (of Jean-Luc Godard film fame), Marianne Faithfull (who sings one song) & Serge Gainsbourg (who also wrote the amazing music). Anna is a bizarre pop art/comedy/musical filled with bright vibrant colors, strange, hallucinatory scenes and some of the best songs Serge ever wrote. The story is about a man obsessively looking for a woman he saw in a photograph. A truly charming and entertaining movie that every Gainsbourg fan should see.
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THE APRIL FOOLS DVD (1969) $14.99  
run time: 95 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Stuart Rosenberg
description: Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker (Jack Lemmon) leaves a rowdy Company party early with the stunning Catherine (Catherine Deneuve), whom it turns out is herself unhappily married - to the boss. They spend an innocent night in New York becoming more and more attracted to each other, so that when Catherine announces she intends to leave her husband and return to Paris Howard asks to go along too. In the cold light of morning problems and pressures from spouses crowd in.
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THE BIG SWITCH DVD (1969) $14.99  
run time: 77 minutes. Color. UK.
directed by: Pete Walker
description: In this crime drama, a playboy gambler has a passionate one-night stand with a beautiful woman. During the night, he briefly leaves and when he returns, finds her dead. Not wanting his name in the papers, the man tries to avoid the police. He soon finds himself victimized by extortionists, headed by his own boss and the girl, who only feigned death. They try to force him into breaking a notorious crimelord out of prison, but he is not so easily swayed. WATCH CLIP
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CAN HIERONYMUS MERKIN EVER FORGET MERCY HUMPPE AND FIND TRUE HAPPINESS? DVD (1969) $14.99  
run time: 107 minutes. UK. Color.
directed by: Anthony Newley
description: One of the strangest (and most infamous) cinematic ego trips in film history, starring Anthony Newley as a song-and-dance man who reviews his debauched past. He begins the film wearing huge, Elton John-ish sunglasses (possibly as some kind of warped tribute to "8 1/2"),
while lecturing his mother and daughter in a surreal desert setting. Elements of Fellini and even Jodorowsky are present (albeit in a very bizarre way). Newley also produced, directed, wrote the screenplay and music for the film. The Holy Grail for Newley fans, and an essential addition to the collections of Golden Turkey fans. With Joan Collins, Milton Berle, George Jessel, Stubby Kaye, and Playmate Connie Kreski. WATCH CLIP
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CLEGG DVD (1969) $14.99  
run time: 87 mins. UK. Color.
directed by: Lindsay Shonteff
description: Gilbert Wynne stars in this British programmer as Harry Clegg, detective. His mission: To track down the crazed prostitute responsible for a string of murders. When he catches up to his quarry, Clegg learns that a wicked man is truly responsible for the carnage. Gilly Grant costars as the killer hooker, who bears the risible moniker Suzy the Slag. WATCH CLIP
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COLOR ME DEAD (1969) $14.99 
run time: 97 minutes. Color. UK.
directed by: Eddie Davis
description: Frank Bigelow (Tom Tryon) is an accountant who mistakenly discovers some wrongdoing by an unscrupulous uranium development company. His drink is spiked with a slow-acting poison, which he discovers after stomach pains bring him in to the hospital. While Frank searches for the antidote, he uncovers other victims who have already died. The trail leads back to the uranium company and the shady board of directors. Frank races against borrowed time to save his own life in this routine crime drama. Carolyn Jones appears as Paula, the sympathetic girlfriend and loyal secretary.
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THE DAY THE FISH CAME OUT DVD (1967) $14.99  
run time: 109 mins. GREECE / UK. Color.
directed by: Mihalis Kakogiannis
description: This Greek-British comedy film was directed and written by Michael Cacoyannis who also designed the film's costumes. A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who are dressed so casually that the pilots assume that they are all gay). The pilots are not to make themselves known and can't contact the rescue team. The secrecy causes a comedy of errors including the desolate Greek Isle deciding that since tourists have now arrived, they have to become touristy. Starring Tom Courtenay, Colin Blakely, Candice Bergen, and Sam Wanamaker.
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DEATH LAID AN EGG DVD (1968) $14.99  
run time: 87 mins. Italy. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: Giulio Questi
description: Incredible film from Giulio Questi (Django, Kill... If You Live, Shoot!). Marco (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and his wife Anna (Gina Lollobrigida) run a chicken farm. Anna's niece Gabriella (Ewa Aulin) and Marco are having an affair and plot Anna's murder. Unbeknownst to those 2 Anna and her lover, Mondaini, are cooking something up in order to go after Marco...The rest is a wild ride that is one of the best examples of the genre. A highly recommended Euro-trash masterpiece. Includes theatrical trailer!
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A DEGREE OF MURDER DVD (1967) $14.99  
run time: 76 mins. Germany. Color.
directed by: Volker Schlondorff
description: Despite its film noir trappings, director Volker Schlondorff's dispassionate thriller transcends its sub genre to become a more broad-based study of alienation and angst in West Germany during the 1960s. Clearly a product of its times, the film stars erstwhile sex symbol Anita Pallenberg (Performance) as Marie, who shoots her ex-lover (Werner Enke) when he comes to her apartment and attempts to rape her. Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, who was dating Pallenberg at the time, makes a brief appearance in the film as well as writing and performing the bouncy, psychedelic score just months before his untimely death.
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DIAMONDS FOR BREAKFAST DVD (1968) $14.99  
run time: 102 minutes. Color. UK.
directed by: Christopher Morahan
description: Marcello Mastroianni marks his English language film debut in this featherweight caper film directed by first-time director Christopher Morahan. Mastroianni plays the owner of a London boutique who also happens to be the fourth in line to succeed the Russian throne. Mastroianni, feeling that the collection of Russian imperial jewels actually belongs to him, determines to steal them and return them to their rightful owner -- himself. To carry out his plan, he puts together a cadre of pulchritudinous female crooks (led by Rita Tushingham) and arranges for his gal gang to model the imperial jewels at a fashion show. But, as usual, complications set in to mess up his plans. WATCH CLIP
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DUFFY DVD (1968) $14.99  
run time: 101 mins. UK. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: Robert Parrish
description: In this caper comedy, Duffy (James Coburn) is a shaggy bohemian living in Tangiers who is approached for a less-than-legal business proposition by two half-brothers, carefree Stephane Calvert (James Fox) and stuffy businessman Antony Calvert (John Alderton). Charles Calvert (James Mason) is a mean-spirited multi-millionaire who shows his sons little affection and isn't very interested in cutting them in for the family fortune. While the Calvert Brothers are persuasive, Stephane's beautiful girlfriend Segolene (Suzannah York) is even more so, and Duffy finds that he not only wants to steal the cash from Charles, but the girl away from Stephane. Journalists and fans frequently asked Mr Coburn to name his favorite film, he once responded "I think my favorite is still Duffy, Flint was a cat but Duffy was real. He had something to say."
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EROTISSIMO DVD (1968) $14.99 modcinema exclusive! 
run time: 85 minutes. Color. FRANCE. Widescreen. English subtitles.
directed by: Gerard Pires
description: A married woman in her 30's (Annie Girardot) tries to spice up her sex life with her distracted husband Philippe (Jean Yanne) under the deluge of sexy Swedish movies, sexy advertising on the streets, sexy intimate clothing in ladies' shops, and even talks about sex and marital infidelity with her mother and female friends. Philippe, a general manager of a dynamic company specializing in baby products becomes preoccupied with an upcoming tax audit. Even the presence of a beautiful fashion model who lives with Annie's brother fails to divert his attention. This amazing and colorful work of 60's pop art features an original psychedelic soundtrack by french composer William Sheller & singer-songwriter Michel Polnareff, and don't miss the cameo by monsieur Serge Gainsbourg! WATCH CLIP
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EYE OF THE CAT DVD (1969) $14.99  
run time: 97 mins. USA. Color. Theatrical Version.
directed by: David Lowell Rich
description: This offbeat potboiler from Psycho scripter Joseph Stefano involves a plot hatched by mod couple Wylie (Michael Sarrazin) and Kassia (Gayle Hunnicutt) to murder Wylie's wealthy, cat-loving aunt Danny (Eleanor Parker). There's only one hitch in their scheme, but it's a doozy: Wylie suffers from a severe case of ailurophobia -- an irrational fear of all cats. In order for their plot to succeed, the pair must first eliminate Aunt Danny's legions of feline companions...which turns out to be much more difficult than expected, thanks to a sly, deadly counter-plot. Notes on alternate versions: This is the original "more intense" theatrical version featuring the plots original supernatural elements and an army of killer housecats. WATCH CLIP
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EYE OF THE CAT DVD (1969) $14.99  
run time: 102 mins. USA. Color. TV Version.
directed by: David Lowell Rich
description: This offbeat potboiler from Psycho scripter Joseph Stefano involves a plot hatched by mod couple Wylie (Michael Sarrazin) and Kassia (Gayle Hunnicutt) to murder Wylie's wealthy, cat-loving aunt Danny (Eleanor Parker). There's only one hitch in their scheme, but it's a doozy: Wylie suffers from a severe case of ailurophobia -- an irrational fear of all cats. In order for their plot to succeed, the pair must first eliminate Aunt Danny's legions of feline companions...which turns out to be much more difficult than expected, thanks to a sly, deadly counter-plot. Notes on alternate versions: This is the Network-TV version with a different "less intense" last half-hour, replacing the plot's supernatural element and an army of killer housecats with one somewhat-menacing housecat and a person with a paranoid delusion. This was made from outtakes and a few new scenes filmed in 1971, shortly before it aired. WATCH CLIP
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GENERATION DVD (1969) $14.99  
run time: 109 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: George Schaefer
description: This exercise in late-sixties "mod"-ness is based on William Goodhart's Broadway play, which originally starred Henry Fonda. David Janssen takes over Fonda's role as the harried father of rebellious daughter Kim Darby. It was bad enough when Darby married kooky Peter Duel and moved to Greenwich Village. Now Darby is pregnant, and she and her husband insist upon partaking of that new hippie craze known as "natural childbirth," dispensing with the aid of an obstetrician. Fortunately for the Establishment status quo, Darby's husband gets cold feet, and loyal family doctor Carl Reiner is brought in when the kid is ready to come out of the chute.
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HAMMERHEAD DVD (1968) $14.99  
run time: 100 mins. UK. Color.
directed by: David Miller
description: Hammerhead (Peter Vaughan) is a dangerous international criminal suspected by British Intelligence of trying to steal NATO defense secrets. In desperation, a young, charming soldier of fortune is called in to match wits and guts in man-to-man combat with Hammerhead. His name is Charles Hood (Vince Edwards) and he operates in London (the wilder parts) and moves on to the Portuguese coast in pursuit of Hammerhead and pursued by pert, kooky London model Sue Trenton (Judy Geeson). Please note: this movie has non-removable Japanese subtitles.
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THE HAPPENING DVD (1967) $14.99  
run time: 101 mins. USA. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: Elliot Silverstein
description: A group of young drifters (Faye Dunaway, Michael Parks, George Maharis, and Robert Walker Jr.) kidnap wealthy businessman Roc Delmonico (Anthony Quinn) just for kicks. They keep him captive, demanding a ransom for his safe release. However there is no one - wife, Mafia associates or mother - willing to part with the $200,000 ransom. Demonico is dismayed that no one appears unduly concerned about his fate and joins forces with the kidnappers to plot his revenge, blackmailing his once nearest and dearest into parting with $3,000,000 in hush money. The theme song from The Happening proved to be a major hit for Diana Ross & the Supremes -- in fact, a much bigger hit than the movie itself.
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HARD CONTRACT DVD (1969) $14.99  
run time: 106 mins. USA. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: S. Lee Pogostin
description: John Cunningham (James Coburn) is a cold-blooded assassin sent by his superior Ramsey (Burgess Meredith) to murder three people in Europe. He takes off for Spain where he meets a foursome of jet-setting socialites. Sheila (Lee Remick) is a wealthy divorcee who falls for John. Alexi (Patrick Magee) is a former Nazi weasel who has eyes for Sheila. Adrianne (Lilli Palmer) is a social butterfly who plays Cupid for John and Sheila. Sterling Hayden and Claude Dauphin also star in this romantic story of how love can soften a man's stone-cold heart.
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THE INCIDENT DVD (1967) $14.99
run time: 107 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Larry Peerce
description: After mugging a helpless old man, two switchblade-wielding punks (Martin Sheen and Tony Musante) take over a subway car, terrorizing its occupants. In Stagecoach fashion, all the best and worst qualities of the passengers are brought to the surface by the presence of danger. Among the passengers are angry black man Brock Peters and his supplicative wife Ruby Dee, ex-alcoholic Gary Merrill, timorous Jewish couple Jack Gilford and Thelma Ritter, blowhard Ed McMahon, and homosexual Robert Fields. It is furloughed army private Beau Bridges who puts an end to Sheen and Musante's reign of terror. Based on Ride with Terror a 1963 TV play by Nicholas E. Baehr, The Incident is an unpleasant but undeniably fascinating character study. And yes, that cute young blonde playing Alice Keenan is Donna Mills.
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IN SEARCH OF GREGORY DVD (1969) $14.99  
run time: 90 mins. UK. Color.
directed by: Peter Wood
description: In this psychological drama, Catherine (Julie Christie) is an attractive young woman living in Rome who is infatuated with a man named Gregory, whom she's never actually met. She flies to Geneva for a wedding ceremony and imagines Gregory to be an athlete in an advertising poster she sees at the airport; she's lost in fantasies about him, even as her brother Daniel (John Hurt), with whom she once had an incestuous relationship, attempts to seduce her. While she misses meeting Gregory, she does run into the sports star from the poster (Michael Sarrazin); but soon discovers that his chiseled looks don't match his drab personality. WATCH CLIP
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INTERLUDE DVD (1968) $14.99  
run time: 113 mins. UK. Color.
directed by: Kevin Billington
description: Stefan Zelter (Oskar Werner) is a classical orchestra conductor who is sued for libel after statements made in a newspaper interview. He finds himself blacklisted and out of work and leaves his wife Antonia (Virginia Maskell) to be with the reporter Sally (Barbara Ferris). His wife nobly tells him he must never give up his music even though the two may never reconcile. Comedian John Cleese has a straight role as a television publicist and Donald Sutherland plays the role of a mutual friend whose marriage is on the rocks. WATCH CLIP
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JIGSAW DVD (1968) $14.99  
run time: 97 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: James Goldstone
description: In this thriller, Jonathan Fields (Bradford Dillman) awakens in a strange apartment and finds a dead woman floating in the bathtub after he suffered an LSD-flashback the night before. Finding blood upon his hand, he can only wonder how he is involved in the woman's death. He hires private detective Arthur Belding (Harry Guardino) who has him take another dose of LSD in order to see if he can remember what had happened. Pat Hingle, Hope Lang, Susan Saint James, James Doohan and Michael J. Pollard also star in this psychedelic murder mystery with a groovy soundtrack by Quincy Jones.
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JOANNA DVD (1968) $14.99  
run time: 114 mins. UK. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: Michael Sarne
description: Genevieve Waite plays Joanna, a promiscuous art student with Walter-Keane-wide eyes, a vacant face and baby monotone voice. She wanders about 1960's London, being surprised in beds where she doesn't belong, being lectured by her grandmother when she oversleeps at home, searching for commitment, and falling in love with an African American nightclub owner (played by Calvin Lockhart) Donald Sutherland plays a dying, kind-hearted aristocrat that Joanna befriends. Christian Doermer also gives a fine performance, as an art school instructor, who — with Mr. Lockhart and Mr. Sutherland — gathers Joanna into something like a serious, conventional life again. Featuring an eclectic mixture of surrealistic filming techniques and beautiful imagery from director Michael Sarne, who went on to direct 1970's Myra Breckinridge, then disappeared from view. WATCH CLIP
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THE JOKERS DVD (1967) $14.99  
run time: 94 mins. UK. Color.
directed by: Michael Winner
description: Two brothers looking to avoid becoming pawns of the establishment come up with a better way of making a living -- through theft -- in this satiric comedy. David Tremayne (Oliver Reed) is a successful London architect, and his younger brother Michael (Michael Crawford) is weighing his options after being kicked out of school. The brothers share a bemused disgust with the world around them and a desire to get through life without the burden of labor.
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KISS KISS... BANG BANG DVD (1966) $14.99  
run time: 106 mins. ITALY. Color. Widescreen. English language.
directed by: Duccio Tessari
description: Kirk Warren (Giuliano Gemma) a former spy, is to be executed because he tried to steal a million dollars. But he is saved by Colonel Smithson because Sir Wilcox has prepared a mission for him. Warren has to steal a secret formula in Switzerland and try to expose the real identity of Mr. X. Kirk leaves London and Alina, his girl, together with three clumsy friends to accomplish his not so secret mission. But Kirk's great love is always a million dollars and not a secret formula. Kiss Kiss...Bang Bang, directed by action-flick perennial Duccio Tessari, did manage to get good bookings thanks to the Bond-generated fascination with gimmick-and-gadget-laden espionage agents.
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LA PRISONNIÉRE DVD (1968) $14.99  
run time: 106 minutes. Color. FRANCE / ITALY. Widescreen. English subtitles.
directed by: Henri-Georges Clouzot
description: Stanislas Hassler blazes the development of modern art in his gallery, packed with works of surprising shapes, colours and textures, and where exhibitions turn into media events. Gilbert Moreau is one of the artists whose sculptures are on display in the gallery. His wife, Josée, is intrigued by the stern Stanislas, who devotes his free time to photography in an apartment that highlights his sophisticated artistic tastes. But besides enlarged pictures of calligraphic samples, Stanislas is amassing a collection of photographs that reveal a disturbed character. H.G. Clouzot's final film veers from claustrophobic mind games to swooning romance to 60's Pop Art psychedelia - without ever once losing the iron grip that was its director's trademark.
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LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS! DVD (1969) $14.99 
run time: 96 minutes. Color. UK.
directed by: Peter Coe
description: Three sailors on shore leave engage in a series of comedic sexual pursuits in Lock Up Your Daughters!. Jim Dale, Ian Bannen, and Tom Bell hit dry land with one thing on their minds -- something that lands everyone in jail in this comedic romp. Susannah York, Glynis Johns, and Elaine Taylor become the objects of the lovesick sailors' alleged affections. The farcical proceedings are witnessed by Lord Foppington (Christopher Plummer), the aristocratic dandy who shudders in horror over the trouble the three salts cause in their efforts to spice up their love lives. This film version is taken from the musical of the same name, sans the music.
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LUV DVD (1967) $14.99  
run time: 95 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Clive Donner
description: Harry (Jack Lemmon) is a barely functional human. He meets an old friend who is having marital problems as Harry is about to leap off of a bridge. His friend (Peter Falk) decides that Harry is the man to take his wife (Elaine May) away from him so that Falk can be with his girlfriend. May and Lemmon have an instant attraction and in a short while Lemmon is wearing Falk's suits and Falk is free. But, May soon discovers that Lemmon is the world's worst roommate. WATCH CLIP
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MICKEY ONE DVD (1965) $14.99   run time: 93 minutes. B&W. USA. Widescreen. directed by: Arthur Penn description: Often described as a French New Wave film made in Hollywood, Arthur Penn's 1965 art movie enters the unsettlingly paranoid world of a nightclub comic on the run from the Mob. Having fooled around with the wrong blonde and gambled himself into an unpayable debt, an entertainer (Warren Beatty) flees to Chicago, where he hides out and changes his name to Mickey One. He hooks up with Jenny (Alexandra Stewart) and Castle (Hurd Hatfield), the owner of the nightclub Xanadu, but he cannot shake the paralyzing conviction that he's being pursued no matter where he is.
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THE MINX DVD (1969) $14.99  
run time: 91 minutes. USA. Color.
directed by: Raymond Jacobs
description: B-movie mega-star JAN STERLING, late in her venerable career, must have been desperate for work when she signed on to The Minx. A wonderful actress who always gave 110% in such faves as High School Confidential, Split Second, Female on the Beach, and Love in a Goldfish Bowl, Sterling energetically throws herself into the role of Louise Baxter, the aging wife of the young stud villain of the movie, Henry Baxter (ROBERT RODAN), who looks like the typical he-man leading man of the 60s, but whose voice is deep Darth Vader. ... In between are artfully depicted sex scenes, dancing at Harlow’s, and original music (and a brief appearance) by one-hit wonders THE CYRKLE ("Red Rubber Ball"). There’s also an ironic twist at the end with a very important moral: none. From a 35mm corporate-and-carnal print.
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