Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo • 1969 • Italy
Starring Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Renato Salvatori
Gillo Pontecorvo's follow-up to his revolutionary bombshell THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS is a similarly explosive, politically subversive epic starring Marlon Brando as William Walker, a nineteenth-century British mercenary dispatched as an agent provocateur to the fictional Caribbean island of Queimada. His three-part mission: trick the slaves into revolt, grab the sugar trade for England, then return the workers to servitude. But the flames of rebellion that Walker stokes cannot be so easily controlled
Directed by Giuliano Montaldo • 1969 • Italy
Starring John Cassavetes, Britt Ekland, Peter Falk
After serving twelve years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain (John Cassavetes) finds himself the pawn of a ruthless mob runt’s rebellion against a high-level don. When McCain discov...
Directed by Dario Argento • 1970 • Italy
Starring Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Eva Renzi
In his stunning first film as writer-director, Dario Argento singlehandedly created the giallo genre and instantly emerged as the filmmaker critics worldwide hailed as the “Italian Hitchcock.” Tony Musante an...
Directed by Sergio Corbucci • 1970 • Italy
Starring Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance
Yodlaf Peterson (Franco Nero) is a suave Swedish arms dealer with a love for fast money. Vasco (Tomas Milian) is a trigger-happy bandit with a hatred of suave Swedish arms dealers. But when the two men te...
