Watch Easy Rider (1969)

Easy Rider is one of the all time Cult Classics of the latter part of the 60s Era. Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda play a group of bikers who decide to hit the road, and make a journey from L.A.to New Orleans in search of America.

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Peter Fonda as Wyatt, Dennis Hopper as Billy and Jack Nicholson as George Hanson.

Plot;

Two young "hippie" bikers, Wyatt and Billy sell some dope in Southern California, stash their money away in their gas-tank and set off for a trip across America, on their own personal odyssey looking for a way to lead their lives. On the journey they encounter bigotry and hatred from small-town communities who despise and fear their non-conformism. However Wyatt and Billy also discover people attempting 'alternative lifestyles' who are resisting this narrow-mindedness, there is always a question mark over the future survival of these drop-out groups. The gentle hippie community who thank God for 'a place to stand' are living their own unreal dream. The rancher they encounter and his Mexican wife are hard-pushed to make ends meet. Even LSD turns sour when the trip is a bad one. Death comes to seem the only freedom. When they arrive at a diner in a small town, they are insulted by the local rednecks as weirdo degenerates. They are arrested on some minor pretext by the local sheriff and thrown in jail where they meet George Hanson, a liberal alcoholic lawyer. He gets them out and decides to join them on their trip to New Orleans in time for Mardi Gras.

 

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The Guns of Navarone

Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn and David Niven are the Allied saboteurs assigned to infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island to destroy the guns of Navarone in this thrilling World War II adventure.

The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 film based on the 1957 novel of the same name about World War II by Scottish thriller writer Alistair MacLean. It stars Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn, along with Anthony Quayle and Stanley Baker. The book and the film share the same basic plot: the efforts of an Allied commando team to destroy a seemingly impregnable German fortress that threatens Allied naval ships in the Aegean Sea, and prevents 2,000 isolated British troops from being rescued.

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The film opens with an aerial view of the Greek Islands, and a narrator (James Robertson Justice), setting the scene. The year is 1943, and 2000 British soldiers are holed up on the island of Keros in the Aegean near Turkey. Rescue by the Royal Navy is impossible because of massive guns on the nearby island of Navarone. Time is short, because the Germans are expected to launch an assault on the British forces, to draw Turkey into the war on the Axis' side.

Efforts to blast the guns by air have proven fruitless, so a team has been hastily assembled to sail to Navarone and blow up the guns. Led by Major Roy Franklin (Anthony Quayle), they are Capt. Keith Mallory (Gregory Peck); Andrea Stavros (Anthony Quinn), a Colonel in the defeated Greek army; Corporal Miller (David Niven), an explosives expert; Greek-American street tough Spyros Pappadimos (James Darren); and "Butcher" Brown (Stanley Baker), an engineer and expert knife fighter.

Disguised as Greek fishermen on a decrepit boat, they sail across the Aegean Sea. They are intercepted by a German boat and boarded. On Mallory's signal, they attack and kill all the Germans and blow up the patrol boat. Afterwards, Mallory confides to Franklin that Stavros has sworn to kill him after the war, because he was inadvertently responsible for the deaths of Stavros' wife and children.

Their landing on the coast that night is hampered by a violent storm. The ship is wrecked and they lose part of their equipment, most notably the food and medical supplies. Franklin is badly injured while scaling the cliff, the injury later becoming infected with gangrene. They find that the cliff is in fact guarded after all. Miller, a friend of Franklin, suggests that they leave Franklin to be "well cared for" by the enemy. Mallory, who assumes command of the mission, feels that Franklin would be forced to reveal their plans, so he orders two men to carry the injured man on a stretcher.

After Franklin tries to commit suicide, Mallory lies to him, saying that their mission has been "scrubbed" and that a major naval attack will be mounted on Navarone. Attacked by German soldiers, they split up, leaving Andrea behind with his sniper rifle, while they move on to their next rendezvous point. They contact local resistance workers, Spyros's sister Maria (Irene Papas) and her friend Anna (Gia Scala).

The mission is continually dogged by Germans - clearly there is a major intelligence leak - but they make their way across the rugged countryside, but are captured by German Lieutenant Muesel (Walter Gotell) when they try to find a doctor for Franklin. Muesel and later Captain Sessler (George Mikell) of the SS fail to persuade the commandos to tell them where Miller's explosives are. A ploy on Stavros' part where he pretends to betray the others and instead attacks the Germans, allows the group to overpower their captors.

They take the Germans' uniforms and leave, but leave Franklin behind so he can get medical attention. Franklin is injected with the truth drug scopolamine by Sessler and gives up the false "information", as Mallory had hoped. As a result, German units are deployed away from the guns and in the direction of the supposed "invasion" route.

While making final preparations for the destruction of the guns, Miller discovers that most of his explosives have been sabotaged and deduces that Anna is the saboteur. She pleads that she was coerced by the Germans into treachery, but while Mallory and Miller argue over her fate, complicated by Mallory's seduction by Anna the night before, Maria shoots her dead as a price of disloyalty. The team splits up to carry out their objectives: While Mallory and Miller go for the guns, Stavros and Pappadimos are to create a distraction in the city; Maria and Brown are assigned to steal a boat for their escape. Mallory and Miller find a way into the heavily fortified gun emplacements. Locking the main entrance behind them, Mallory and Miller set obvious explosives on the guns and hide more below the elevator leading to the guns. The Germans finally cut through the thick emplacement doors, but Mallory and Miller make their escape by diving into the sea. Despite Miller's inability to swim, they make it to the stolen boat, but learn that Pappadimos and Brown have been killed. Stavros is wounded and has difficulty swimming, but Mallory manages to pull him in.

The destroyers appear on schedule. The Germans remove the explosives planted on the guns and fire. The first salvo falls short. The second brackets the lead ship, which means the third will likely be on target. However, just as the guns are prepared to fire again, the elevator descends low enough to trigger the hidden explosives. The guns and fortifications are destroyed in a spectacular explosion. Franklin hears it from his hospital bed and smiles.

Mallory and Miller are taken on board the destroyer, while Stavros, who has fallen in love with Maria, decides to return to Navarone with her and shakes hands with Mallory, having given up his planned vengeance when Mallory risked his life to save him.

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You Can't Win 'em All (1970)

You Can't Win 'em All aka: The Dubious Patriots / Soldiers of Fortune / Zwei Kerle aus Granit / Les Baroudeurs .

Directed by Peter Collinson, starring Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson, Michèle Mercier
Two former U.S. Army soldiers, Adam and Josh, join a band of Turkish mercenaries in 1922 Turkey whom are hired by Osman Bey, a local governor, to escort his tree daughters to Smyran and to protect a gold shipment that is to accompany them. Nobody is aware that Elci, a local colonel, plans to steal the gold for himself, while a rebel general persues all parties involved.

Aircraft sequences were flown and coordinated by Charles Boddington and Louis Benjamin. The aircraft were owned by ex-RCAF pilot Lynn Garrison who shipped several of his SE-5 replicas from Ireland to Turkey for the production. They had previously featured in The Blue Max and Darling Lili and would go on to star in Von Richthofen & Brown, Zeppelin, Waldo Pepper, and numerous TV commercials.

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Houseboat (1958)

Houseboat is a 1958 romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Paul Petersen, Charles Herbert and Mimi Gibson. The movie was directed by Melville Shavelson, who also directed the original 1968 version of Yours, Mine and Ours.
Cary Grant plays a government attorney who can't seem to shake his bad fortune. Living on a houseboat, widowed and left with three unruly kids, he hires Sophia Loren as a governess. The magnetic Loren and the charming Grant add up a cheeky, urbane comedy.

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Tom Winters (Grant), has been separated from his wife for three years and their divorce is pending when she is killed in a car crash. He returns home from Europe to find his three children - David, Elizabeth, and Robert - in the care of his wife's family. The children's grandparents intend to raise Elizabeth, and Tom's sister-in-law Carolyn (Hyer) plans to take in David and Robert. The children wish to stay with their aunt and grandparents in the country, but Tom decides to take the children back home to Washington DC, where he works in the State Department.

The children resent their father's presence and, at an outdoor Watergate concert, Robert runs away. He is found by Cinzia Zaccardi (Loren), the daughter of a famous Italian conductor. She, too, is running away and is enchanted by little "Roberto" and his harmonica. When she brings him back home to Tom's apartment, he offers her a job as a maid, which she eventually accepts.

Carolyn, now recently divorced from her husband, offers Tom and the children her old guest house, which was supposed to be moved to a new foundation before the family arrives. However, while on the way to their new home, they encounter the house being towed down the road, and stop the driver, Angelo Donatello (Guardino). Angelo, distracted while staring at Cinzia, accidentally hits their parked car with his tow truck, and parks the house on a train track. While Angelo flirts with Cinzia and Tom checks the car for damage, both of them ignoring warnings from David (Petersen), an oncoming train smashes the traveling guest house. Angelo, feeling guilty, offers Tom his weekend home: a houseboat.

The houseboat is a leaky, dirty mess, but Tom decides to buy it from Angelo. Once moved in, Tom discovers that Cinzia is unable to cook, do laundry or make "American coffee". Upon learning this, Carolyn and others mock Cinzia and her role in the household. However, Cinzia is able to befriend David, who complains that his father treats him like a "lame brain", and convince Elizabeth that her father loves her. The entire family becomes very fond of Cinzia.

Meanwhile, Tom is spending evenings at the country club with Carolyn, who has harbored a secret crush on him her entire life. She helps Tom buy a gaudy gold dress for Cinzia, for her date with Angelo. Cinzia, who at first believes she's being asked on a date with Tom, transforms the dress into a gorgeous gown, stunning both Angelo and Tom. Angelo, frightened at how beautiful and classy she looks, cancels the date.



Carolyn arrives at the boat with Captain Alan Wilson (Murray Hamilton) and his wife. Alan, who has already had quite a few drinks, jokes about Cinzia's suspicious living arrangement with Tom, and slaps her on the behind as she serves drinks. She throws a drink on him in retaliation. Tom asks Alan to leave the boat, but Carolyn takes Alan's side, so Tom asks all three of the guests to leave.



David cheers Cinzia up, and they make plans to go fishing, but Tom ruins his son's plans by asking Cinzia to the country club. Once there, Tom reconciles with Carolyn and they agree to get married, but when Tom starts to tell Cinzia the news, he realizes he is in love with her. When Alan congratulates Tom for proposing to Carolyn, Cinzia gets upset and runs away, but Tom catches her, and a little while later, David unhappily finds them kissing in a rowboat.

The children don't want Cinzia to marry their father. David calls Cinzia ugly, Robert rejects her as his mother, and Elizabeth wants to continue sleeping in the same bed as her father. Discouraged by this, Cinzia returns home to her father (Cianelli). But Tom comes after her, and her father convinces them to get married because they love each other.

The wedding takes place on the houseboat. At first, the children refuse to participate in the ceremony, even though their father pleads with them. However, as the ceremony begins, Elizabeth and David join Tom and Cinzia at the altar, and Robert plays "Here Comes the Bride" on his harmonica before joining his new family.

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