Herbert G. Luft

This film essay explores the strange case of G.W. Pabst, the Austrian filmmaker who was considered a giant of early cinema before his reputation went behind a cloud.

A satanic cult kidnaps 3 young people and Priest Donald Pleasence and Costas Skouras must save them from the hands of this evil.

When boredom, pride and a mad second of misjudgement leaves a hunter shot dead by one of five combat veterans also hunting in the Canadian hills, it is expected a police investigation will follow, but when the veterans discover the incident has not been reported, the leader of the team, Major Rex suspects the other party maybe plotting revenge. Convinced that he, his party, and their families will be targets themselves he decides to beat his suspected assailants at their own game, grouping together more army comrades and stocking up an arsenal of weapons for the forthcoming battle.

A mad scientist (Donald Pleasence) crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow.

The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable position. Although his allegiance is to Britain, his mother was from an aristocratic Bavarian family, and he spent his summers in Germany as a child. When Geoffrey is approached by a German spy who offers him a chance to defect, he reports the incident to his superiors, but instead of arresting the spy they suggest that he accept her offer--and become an Allied agent. In Germany, among old friends, Geoffrey discovers that loyalty is more complicated than he expected, especially when he finds himself aboard the maiden voyage of a powerful new prototype Zeppelin, headed for Scotland on a secret mission that could decide the outcome of the war.

A visitor to the Everglades swamps in Florida encounters and falls in love with an uneducated girl. But he finds competition for her affections from the unlikely and mysterious A. Beauregard Lincoln. He also discovers danger from nature in the form of vicious alligators and from the mystical in the form of a voodoo witch doctor.

한 때 매춘부였던 켈리는 시골의 작은 마을 그랜빌로 이사와 판매원으로 살면서 새로운 삶을 시작한다. 어느 날 마을의 경찰서장 ‘그리프’를 만나고 그와 함께 행복한 시간을 보낸다. 그러나 이 행복을 산산조각 낼 엄청난 사건이 터지고 마는데... 켈리는 인간과 세상의 본질을 목격하고 한없는 절망과 폭력의 회오리에 빠져든다. 이 영화의 오프닝 시퀀스는 인간의 폭력성을 묘사하는데 탁월했던 사무엘 풀러의 진가를 확인할 수 있는 절대 놓치지 말아야 할 명장면이다.

할리우드 B급 영화의 거장으로 알려진 사무엘 풀러의 대표작으로 광기에 사로잡힌 미국 사회를 특유의 박진감 넘치는 스타일로 그린 작품이다. 영화는 흑백으로 촬영했지만 후반부 주인공의 환상 장면은 컬러다. 정신병원에서 일어난 살인사건의 전말을 밝혀 퓰리쳐 상을 타기위해 야심을 불태우는 민완기자 자니 배릿은 살인사건의 전모를 취재하려고 정신병자로 가장해 병원에 잠입한다. 바렛은 정신병자들 속에서 차츰 자신이 미쳐가고 있다는 사실을 깨닫는 동시에 살인자를 밝혀내게 된다. 하지만 자신을 껴안는 애인을 알아보지 못할 정도로 완전히 미쳐 파멸한다. 풀러는 당대 사회상을 정신병동이라는 비정상적 공간으로 전유하여 고발하고자 했다.

Juvenile delinquency is the topic is this late fifties flick.

An American businessman travels to Hong Kong to find out why his tea plantation isn't making money. When he gets there he discovers that his business partner has been growing something on the plantation, but it isn't tea. Complications ensue.

A young American businessman visits Communist Berlin and meets a young German woman. When the Communist government attempts to pass a resolution condemning the motives of the democracies, the girl defies them. Although even the Communist leadership expresses concern with his government's doctrines, her life remains at risk. The businessman urges the girl to escape with him to the Allied zone, but she refuses, preferring to stay to fight for her ideals.