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HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE! Great Old Movies  will be back next week with more reviews. In the meantime, wrap your presents carefully (lik...

This week Great Old Movies  takes a look at Italian horror films, specifically those bloody "giallo" movies or gialli  (the plur...

Franco Nero and Pamela Tiffin THE FIFTH CORD  (aka  Giornata nera per l'ariete /aka Evil Fingers /1971). Director: Luigi Bazzoni. ...

Giancarlo Giannini BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA  (aka  La tarantola dal ventre nero /1971). Director: Paolo Cavara. Inspector Tellini ...

Barbara Bouchet THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES  (aka  La dama rossa uccide sette volte /1972). Director: Emilio Miraglia. The inhabit...

Franco Agostini and Giampiero Albertino THE CASE OF THE BLOODY IRIS  (aka Perché quelle strane gocce di sangue sul corpo di Jennifer? /...

Shirley Corrigan and Anthony Steffen THE   CRIMES OF THE BLACK CAT  (aka  Sette scialli di seta gialla /1972). Director: Sergio Pastore....

SEVEN BLOOD-STAINED ORCHIDS  (aka Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso /1972). Director: Umberto Lenzi. Someone is murdering women in gris...

Craig Hill and Lino Capolicchio THE BLOODSTAINED SHADOW (aka Solamente nero /1978). Director:   Antonio Bido. Stefano ( Lino Capolicch...

Anny Papa and Andrea Occhipinti A BLADE IN THE DARK  aka La casa con la scala nel buoi/ 1983). Director: Lamberto Bava. Bruno (Andrea ...

Ben Gazzara and Fredric March THE YOUNG DOCTORS  (1961). Director: Phil Karlson. Dr. Joseph Pearson (Fredric March) is an experienced ...

Albert Finney and Susan Dey LOOKER  (1981). Written and directed by Michael Crichton. Cosmetic surgeon Larry Roberts (Albert Finney) d...

MARCELLO MASTROIANNI: HIS LIFE AND ART . Donald Dewey. Birch Lane/Carol; 1993. In this absorbing and well-written bio and career study o...

Allen Jenkins, Virginia Sale, Pamela Blake, Tom Neal THE HAT BOX MYSTERY  (1947). Director: Lambert Hillyer. Russ Ashton (Tom Neal of ...

Richard Denning and Marie Windsor DOUBLE DEAL  (1950). Director: Abby Berlin. Buzz Doyle (Richard Denning), a new arrival in town, alm...

Barbara Bach and Jean Sorel SHORT NIGHT OF GLASS DOLLS  (aka La corta notte delle bambole di vetro /1971). Director: Aldo Lado. In Pra...

Lawyer and client: Brooke Shields and Scott Glenn GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN  (2005 telefilm/mini-series). Director: Armand Mastroianni. D...

Two faces of Woody Allen WILD AND WOOLLY WOODY ALLEN . Woody Allen turns eighty-one on December 1st, 2017. Love 'im or hate ...

Woody Allen realizes what a lousy picture he's made STARDUST MEMORIES  (1980). Written and directed by Woody Allen. Filmmaker Sand...

Zelig is examined by doctors ZELIG  (1983). Written and directed by Woody Allen. "[Freud] and I broke up over penis envy. He thou...

Woody Allen as Danny Rose BROADWAY DANNY ROSE  (1984). Written and directed by Woody Allen. A group of well-known comics sit around an...

Jeff Daniels and Mia Farrow THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO  (1985). Writer/director: Woody Allen. " In New Jersey, anything can happen ...

Farrow, Hershey, and Weist HANNAH AND HER SISTERS  (1986). Written and directed by Woody Allen. " I particularly love the mother,...

Dianne Weist and the ensemble  BULLETS OVER BROADWAY  (1994). Director/co-writer: Woody Allen. " I just pity any poor folk who ha...

Jesse Eisenberg CAFE SOCIETY  (2016). Writer/director: Woody Allen. " First a murderer, then a Christian -- what did I do to des...

WOODY: THE BIOGRAPHY. David Evanier. St. Martin's; 2015. This "biography" of filmmaker, comic and actor Woody Allen is muc...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! This week Great Old Movies takes a look at some of the memorable and not-so-memorable made-for-TV movies of the 1970...