The Abductors (1957)
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2008 UFO Conference Special (part 11 of 11)
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Abductors
$14.52 Don Schain directed this second installment in the Ginger series starring Cheri Caffaro as the blond heroine. In this episode, Ginger must rescue three cheerleaders who have been forced into white slavery. The usual sexual and violent escapades ensue. Cult-film devotees will recognize one of the cheerleaders as Jeramie Rain, then-wife of Richard Dreyfuss and star of Last House on the Left (1972). Caffaro returned the following year in Schain's Girls Are for Loving. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi |
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Ginger: Ginger/The Abductors/Girls Are for Loving [3 Discs]
$32.64 Cheri Caffaro. Includes Ginger (1970/90 min/NR), Ginger: The Abductors (1972/103 min/R) and Ginger: Girls Are For Loving (1973/90 min/R). 3 DVDs. Color/fullscreen. |
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Journey to Freedom (1957)
$5.82 Journey to Freedom (1957) |
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Retrospecs: 1957 [With Greeting Card]
$5.12 Retrospecs: 1957 [With Greeting Card] |
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Swan Lake: The Bolshoi Ballet (1957)
$22.47 Meant for ballet aficionados, Swan Lake is a routinely filmed performance of the Bolshoi Ballet with no additional footage or subplots. Chief ballerina Maya Plisetskay emotively dances the part of Odette, the Queen of the Swans, the woman who will be doomed to take on the form of a swan unless she can find her true love. Nicolai Fadeyechev dances Prince Siegfried, the Queen's counterpart, equally looking for his own true love. Will the potential lovers meet? Not if the Evil Spirit (Vladimir Levashev) has anything to say about it. He wants to keep Odette under his spell, forever. Unfortunately, the camera is not always where it should be in tracking the performers, there is a color shift, and other flaws render the film less than equal to the performance itself. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi |
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Rock Baby Rock It
$18.14 The 1957 rock & roll cult classic. Stomper Time Records DVD. 2005. |
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Ginger
$16.34 Director Don Schain cast his wife, Cheri Caffaro, as the sexy heroine of this violent action film. Caffaro, who had won a Brigitte Bardot look-alike contest as a teenager, stars as Ginger, the frequently nude crimefighter who battles a vice ring in New Jersey. The sleazy antics on display include bondage and castration, which proved so popular with drive-in crowds that Ginger returned in The Abductors (1971) and Girls Are for Loving (1973). ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi |
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Suicide Kings
$6.9 Television director Peter O'Fallon made his feature film debut with this independent film that pays obvious homage to the style of Quentin Tarantino, with plenty of violence and funny, talkative hit men. Suave gangster Charlie Barrett (Christopher Walken) meets four young men who have taken over his regular booth at a popular bistro. Charmed by the swaggering kids, he agrees to take a ride with them, but they give him a sedative and he awakens in a deserted mansion, taped to a chair with one of his fingers missing. One of his abductors, Avery (Henry Thomas), says that he has a sister who has been kidnapped and they need two million dollars to get her back, as well as a finger to exchange for her severed digit. Charlie phones his lawyer Marty (Cliff De Young), who calls a henchman, Lono (Denis Leary), who investigates the kidnappings and gives Charlie enough information to start playing each of his inexperienced abductors against the others. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi |
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The Scratch
$10.63 An apprentice investigator finds his plan to rescue a kidnapped hacker turning deadly when a hidden agenda is revealed in this violent tale of betrayal and revenge. A hacker has downloaded something he shouldn't have, and now he's being held captive as his abductors attempt to track down the missing information. Recognizing the opportunity to profit by the downloaded booty if he can just reach it before the kidnappers, the novice detective recruits a crack team to get the job done. But the simple heist turns deadly when greed gets the better of one member of the team, and his trusting cohorts get a nasty surprise. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi |
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Flight of the Navigator
$8.66 The year is 1978: 12-year-old David Freeman (Joey Cramer), playing in the woods near his home, is knocked unconscious. He awakens and heads home, only to find strangers living there. He also finds that the year is 1986, and that he's been officially missing for eight years. NASA officials determine that David was abducted by aliens during his blackout, and hope to scan the boy's brain in order to unlock a few secrets of the universe. Answering the call of a strange, unseen force, David boards a well-hidden spaceship and takes off, guided by the jocular voice of a computer named MAX (voiced by none other than Paul Reubens, aka Pee-Wee Herman). Realizing that he can't fit in to 1986 so long as he's a child of the '70s, David hopes to retrace the steps of his alien abductors and get back to his own time. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi |