Catch Me a Spy(1970)

Synopsis

Dick Clement directed this late-in-the-game spy thriller, starring Kirk Douglas. Douglas plays Andrej, a drone that smuggles books out of communist countries. Unfortunately for Andrej, he is mistaken for a spy and gets into a series of convoluted situations. Fabienne (Marlene Jobert), who lives with Sir Trevor Dawson (Trevor Howard), a randy British minister, is the slinky sex-bomb who finagles Andrej into the heart-thumping predicaments.

Director

Dick Clement

Cast

Kirk Douglas – Kirk Douglas – Marlène Jobert – Trevor Howard – Trevor Howard – Tom Courtenay – Patrick Mower

Misc. Info

Genre: Comedy

Runtime: 94 minutes

Dynamite Chicken(1969)

Synopsis

A collection of skits, parodies, musical performances, and film clips supposedly relating to the peace… This film contains a collection of commercials, interviews, and music featuring Joan Baez, Richard Pryor, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Lenny Bruce, Andy Warhol, and Allen Ginsberg.

Director

Ernest Pintoff

Cast

Ace Trucking Co. – Jim Buckley – Linda Boyce – Lenny Bruce – Ron Carey

Misc. Info

Genre: Comedy

Runtime: 76 minutes

Fake-Out(2009)

Synopsis

Gangster’s girlfriend hangs out in a Las Vegas hotel with her cop protectors while she waits to testify.Just as the singing star Bobbie Warren (Pia Zadora) finishes her act, she is clapped into handcuffs by police lieutenant Thurston (Telly Savalas) and jailed in a woman’s prison until she tells them about her mobster boyfriend. Eventually, she gets out, but not unscathed — she was raped while in prison — and when she is back in Vegas, her life is in danger from the mob and a few hitmen…

Director

Matt Cimber

Cast

Pia Zadora – Desi Arnaz Jr. – Telly Savalas – G. Wesley Stevens – Larry Storch

Misc. Info

Genre: Crime – Thriller – Action – Comedy – Romance

Runtime: 96 minutes

Ginger in the Morning(1972)

Synopsis

Veteran art director Gordon Wiles occasionally wielded the directorial megaphone in both films and television with mixed results. Ginger in the Morning is an aggressively “small” picture, its success or failure totally reliant on the rapport between its stars. A young Sissy Spacek plays the title character, a gangly teenaged hitchhiker who thumbs a ride from travelling salesman Joe (Monte Markham). He is drawn to her free-spirited outlook on life. She, in turn, is attracted by his conservative…

Director

Gordon Wiles

Cast

David F. Doyle – Beatrice Kay – Fred Ward – Monte Markham – Mark Miller – Marion Charles

Misc. Info

Genre: Drama – Comedy – Romance

Runtime: 90 minutes