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From the opening moments the jokes are flying in this entertaining movie. Newlyweds Webster and Jackie Frye are spending their honeymoon at an old country home. As soon as they arrive, they are confronted by the retired town's executioner who is intrigued with their chauffeur's neck. Next, they are greeted with the coffin of the previous owner, who happened to be a criminal. Not knowing what to do with their unwelcome guest, they call the police only to discover the coffin is empty. The "deceased's" next of kin show up to claim the body, or are they really there for another reason? This is a fast paced movie, it's only 56 minutes long, but is entertaining. So grab the popcorn, pepsi and dim the lights and enjoy this movie.

A thoughtful, well-paced film that leaves you thinking. Much better than the cover would indicate. This is the real thing as far as independent film. Nicely shot and scripted.

Adapted from Ralph Spence's play, the film opens with a montage of screaming newspaper headlines documenting the reign of terror of a mysterious simian assassin who leaves threatening letters at the homes of his victims. The film then arrives at the room of maid Patsy Kelly, who reads aloud from Romeo And Juliet before being rudely interrupted by the titular gorilla and his malevolent brand of monkeyshines. This prompts her employer (Lionel Atwill) to hire Harry, Jimmy, and Al Ritz to hunt down the gorilla, a decision he begins to regret once the mere mention of the word "gorilla" sends the trio reeling into an orgy of shaking, eye-bugging, and agitated wordplay. The brothers' investigative tactics do little to inspire confidence: When Kelly tells them she spent the evening with Shakespeare, they angrily demand to know the writer's whereabouts. The Ritzes do no better with the butler (Lugosi); they mock his accent and act aggressively, until he flips one of them in self-defense. At the stroke of midnight, Atwill is abducted, and his disappearance is followed by a series of blackouts, disappearances, and the arrival of a mysterious stranger (Joseph Calleia) purporting to be a detective. In spite of their nonstop clowning, the Ritz brothers eventually encounter the gorilla in the house's basement, though they initially mistake it for a wiseacre in a raccoon coat. Lugosi, meanwhile, has a suspiciously Clark Kent-like way of disappearing whenever trouble and excitement arrive. His mysterious absences turn out to be one of many red herrings, after it's revealed that there are two gorillas, a real trained one and a mass murderer­Calleia­who's only pretending to be a gorilla. Calleia lays out the particulars of his nefarious plot just before Lugosi apprehends him, in the process steeling himself for his fateful meeting with a Brooklyn gorilla 13 years later.

Thid DVD is essentially a documentary on Jim Corbett. He is the prime focus, and is portrayed as the man responsible for starting movement to protect tigers. It has boasted quite a lot about India and indian values. However, silently, the onus of tiger killing has been put on indians. It says that the indian kings loved killing tigers, which some britishers too picked up a little in the beginning. Jim Corbett is described as a guy who killed tigers not for his passion, but only for saving indian villagers from man-eating tigers. In these killings, Corbett realised the importance of tiger protection. It could be a true story, but I doubt its integrity. And yeah, the title of the DVD should have been more apt, for example, Jim Corbett: The Protector, in which case I wouldn't have bought it.

Animation done to music is nothing new, but "Interstella 5555" does a great job of breathing new life into this tradition. Essentially an hour-long music video animated to Daft Punk's album "Discovery", it tells a good story about kidnapping, theft, rescue, love, and adventure across space. Music being the central theme, the highly stylized anime (brought to life by the legendary Leiji Matsumoto of "Harlock", "Space Cruiser Yamato", and "Queen Emeraldas" fame) and music mix makes this a fun way to spend an hour. Epic almost on the scale of Chage and Aska's Studio Ghibli animated video "On Your Mark", "Interstella" is something relatively new, something fresh in both anime and music circles. Hopefully the success of this DVD will inspire a new generation of stylish and fun music videos. While the album itself has its high and low points, and the movie lacks any major dialogue, mixed together these minor flaws really don't matter. I would recommend this video for any anime fan or music video enthusiast. Enjoy!

Invaders of the Lost Gold is an exploitation film that really does throw in everything but the kitchen sink. It was helmed by British director by Alan Birkinshaw, a former TV cameraman who had directed the self explanatory home-grown sex comedy Confessions of a Sex Maniac and the sex and horror film Killer's Moon. Unlike many contemporary Brit exploitation directors who either retired (Pete Walker, Stanley Long) or struggled on in the declining British film industry (Derek Ford, Norman J Warren), Birkinshaw spent much of the 1980's in Europe working for legendary globe trotting producers Harry Alan Towers and Dick Randall.

Here under the thumb of the latter, Birkinshaw spins a tall tale whose opening documents a little known incident in WW2 in which the Japanese army faced off against a tribe of unkempt Filipino head-hunters (or rather some blacked up extras in fright wigs). Despite their heavy firepower the Japanese come off noticeably worse and the enthusiastic head-hunters soon have a few severed heads to waive in the audiences faces. The only survivors are three Japanese soldiers who, forced to leave a large consignment of gold behind, vow to return. '36 years later' ruthless British businessman Rex Larson (welwyn garden city born actor Edmund Purdom) is up to no good and using less than democratic ways to separate the aged Japanese soldiers from a map of where the gold is hidden. Larson's boss Douglas Jefferson, an upper-crust Englishman in a safari jacket then ensembles a motley crew of street fighters, mercenaries and unclassifiable toughs to journey back into the jungle for the gold. Much to Larson's annoyance his boss has also enlisted the services of Larson's nemesis, hard-living hard drinking american Mark Forrest played by Stuart Whitman fresh from his Jim Jones gig in Guyana-Crime of the Century (1980).

Likely to disappoint anyone expecting 'part Cannibal Holocaust and part Raiders of the Lost Ark' (as the mondo crash DVD cheekily sells it as), Invaders of the Lost Gold is a standard but not unenjoyable jungle adventure. Birkinshaw throws in some unconvincing gore, a little nudity and fans of his Killer's Moon will be pleased to know that continuity is still not Birkinshaw's strong point (just try and figure out what fate is meant to befall secondary character 'Maria' on her ill-fated swim). Surprisingly though, while Birkinshaw's british films ear-mark him as a man who could deliver a high amount of exploitation film goods on a micro budget (no doubt what brought him to Dick Randall's attention) here his direction seems pedestrian and at times the proceedings threaten to drag dangerously to a halt. The best thing about Invaders of the Lost Gold, and what keeps it so watchable, is the eclectic 'all star' cast which as well as Messrs Purdom and Whitman also includes Woody Strode, Laura 'Black Emanuelle' Gemser, Harold Sakata making an odder job of it than usual and looking hopelessly lost as Whitman's 20 years younger love interest Glynis 'Dempsey and Makepeace' Barber in a role she'd be forgiven for leaving off her CV these days. Invaders is best approached on the level of 'I'm an exploitation film celebrity get me out of here' with the cast fighting off attacks from crocodiles, snakes, booby-traps and suffering in (both on and probably off screen) believably hellish locations. The print used for the DVD is in a very scratched condition and the only extras are trailers for some dodgy 1970's kung-fu titles which look far worst than the main feature.

A very solid MMA event. This was King of the Cage's first venture into PPV and it was definitly a show to be proud of. Not a single one of the nine fights went the distance. Javier Vazquez shows why he is one of the best 155 pounders in the world. A main event with a little bit of contraversy. Pride veterans Quinton Jackson and Akira Shoji. And two rising stars in Phillip Miller and Joey Villasenor. 9 matches in all. An excellent DVD that will be well worth your time. Exciting fights.

This kind of movie is needed to counter all the booty shakin and bling blinging going on

This DVD is very funny. The comedians featured for the most part are hilarious and will keep you laughing if not crying. The host Jeff Garcia is also very funny and is in the show in between acts.

This is a great old-sckooler Directed by Chen Shao Ping
and staring: Carter Wong, Chen Sing, Casanova Wong, Doris Lung
(look out for Dragon Lee cameo). This is a Crash Cinema release
and is presented in 2.35.1 aspect ration, with a nice clean picture for a movie this old ...
I give it 4 out of 5 stars, give it a try!!