Albert Zugsmith

Albert Zugsmith

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Albert Zugsmith (April 24, 1910 – October 26, 1993) was an American film producer, film director and screenwriter who specialized in low-budget exploitation films through the 1950s and 1960s. With a background in music promotion (Ted Weems, Paul Whitman) public relations (one of his clients in depression era Chicago was Al Copone), journalism and brokering communication properties (radio, newspaper, early television), Zugsmith became independently wealthy and began producing films at RKO during the Howard Hughes years. Zugsmith's most significant credits are a string of four genre masterpieces produced in the late 1950s, all for Universal Studios: the science-fiction classic The Incredible Shrinking Man, Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind, and the camp exploitation films produced for MGM High School Confidential and The Girl in the Kremlin. An archive of some of his shooting scripts and screen plays are housed in the Special Collections department at the University of Iowa.

  • Title: Albert Zugsmith
  • Popularity: 1.3534
  • Known For: Production
  • Birthday: 1910-04-24
  • Place of Birth: Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
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  • Also Known As: Albert H. Zugsmith, Kentucky Jones, Gunnar Steele, Al Zugsmith
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Albert Zugsmith Movies

  • 1980
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    Douglas Sirk: Über Stars

    Douglas Sirk: Über Stars

    1 1980 HD

    Douglas speaks about some of the stars he has directed, like Asta Nielsen, Lili Dagover, Zarah Leander, George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman, and many others.

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  • 1972
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    The Thing with Two Heads

    The Thing with Two Heads

    4.778 1972 HD

    A rich but racist man is dying and hatches an elaborate scheme for transplanting his head onto another man's body. His health deteriorates rapidly, and doctors are forced to transplant his head onto the only available candidate: a black man from death row.

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  • 1964
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    Fanny Hill

    Fanny Hill

    3.9 1964 HD

    Young, pretty and innocent, Fanny Hill has lost her parents and must find her way in life amidst the perils of turbulent 18th-century London. She's fortunate enough to rapidly find a place as chambermaid of the effusive Mrs. Brown, who lives in a large house teeming with female 'relatives' in negligée and with very relaxed manners. She also insists that Fanny alone meets various gentlemen who show an ardent interest in her.

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  • 2008
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    Acting for Douglas Sirk

    Acting for Douglas Sirk

    1 2008 HD

    The stars and director of 'Written on the Wind' and 'The Tarnished Angels' talk about director Douglas Sirk's techniques. Archival interviews originally appeared in the documentary "Douglas Sirk: Uber Stars" (Eckhart Schmidt, 1980)

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  • 1958
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    Touch of Evil

    Touch of Evil

    7.75 1958 HD

    A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, setting off a deadly struggle over power, justice, and truth.

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  • 1964
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    Fanny Hill

    Fanny Hill

    3.9 1964 HD

    Young, pretty and innocent, Fanny Hill has lost her parents and must find her way in life amidst the perils of turbulent 18th-century London. She's fortunate enough to rapidly find a place as chambermaid of the effusive Mrs. Brown, who lives in a large house teeming with female 'relatives' in negligée and with very relaxed manners. She also insists that Fanny alone meets various gentlemen who show an ardent interest in her.

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  • 1968
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    Sappho Darling

    Sappho Darling

    3.167 1968 HD

    A pretty young girl named Sappho is, despite her boyfriend's best efforts, determined to remain a virgin until she marries. One day she picks up a beautiful, busty hitchhiker named Brigitte, and finds herself attracted to the sexy young blonde.

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  • 1957
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    The Incredible Shrinking Man

    The Incredible Shrinking Man

    7.505 1957 HD

    A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.

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  • 1956
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    Star in the Dust

    Star in the Dust

    4.786 1956 HD

    The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at sundown. At the casino, betting is 8 to 3 he won't make it. The cattlemen are set to rescue Sam; the farmers hope to lynch him before he can be rescued; and Hall schemes for escape with his girl Nellie. But Sheriff Jorden is most concerned with finding out who hired Hall: a leading suspect is the sheriff's future brother-in-law.

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  • 1957
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    Man in the Shadow

    Man in the Shadow

    6.704 1957 HD

    In a modern cow town, the powerful ranch owner’s henchmen kill a ranch hand, prompting the sheriff to investigate despite facing strong opposition. He finds an unlikely ally in the rancher's overprotected daughter, but their quest for justice puts them both in danger.

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  • 1959
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    The Beat Generation

    The Beat Generation

    5.2 1959 HD

    A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.

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  • 1955
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    Female on the Beach

    Female on the Beach

    5.662 1955 HD

    Lynn Markham moves into her late husband's beach house the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell from the cliff. To her annoyance, Lynn finds both her real estate agent and Drummond Hall, her beachcomber neighbor, making themselves quite at home. Lynn soon has no doubts of what her scheming neighbors are up to, but she finds Drummond's physical charms hard to resist. And she still doesn't know what really happened to Eloise.

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  • 1960
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    College Confidential

    College Confidential

    5.8 1960 HD

    Sociology professor Steve MacInter is conducting a survey at Collins College about the mores and lifestyles of the young people. Some of the good citizens begin to find exception to his sociological survey when they find out it includes questions about sex. Reporter Betty Ducayne receives an anonymous tip that the good professor is engaging in corruption of youth and when Steve's past comes up to haunt him, all heck breaks loose.

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  • 1960
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    College Confidential

    College Confidential

    5.8 1960 HD

    Sociology professor Steve MacInter is conducting a survey at Collins College about the mores and lifestyles of the young people. Some of the good citizens begin to find exception to his sociological survey when they find out it includes questions about sex. Reporter Betty Ducayne receives an anonymous tip that the good professor is engaging in corruption of youth and when Steve's past comes up to haunt him, all heck breaks loose.

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  • 1962
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    Confessions of an Opium Eater

    Confessions of an Opium Eater

    5.609 1962 HD

    Vincent Price stars in this early '60s adaptation of Thomas De Quincey's thriller about an opium addict trying to solve a mystery in San Francisco's Chinatown.

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  • 1957
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    The Tattered Dress

    The Tattered Dress

    5.2 1957 HD

    After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top New York defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly.

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  • 1956
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    Raw Edge

    Raw Edge

    6 1956 HD

    A Texan arrives in Oregon and seeks justice for his innocently-hanged brother.

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  • 1960
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    Sex Kittens Go to College

    Sex Kittens Go to College

    3.063 1960 HD

    Collins College needs a new department head for their science department, so Doctors Carter and Zorch consult Thinko, the campus computer, and come up with Dr. Mathilda West, who has degrees in lots of things, but turns out to be disruptively attractive as well.

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  • 1973
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    Violated!

    Violated!

    4.9 1973 HD

    Previously lost rape and revenge mystery about a swastika-carving masked marauder that brutalizes women in Los Angeles.

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  • 1973
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    Violated!

    Violated!

    4.9 1973 HD

    Previously lost rape and revenge mystery about a swastika-carving masked marauder that brutalizes women in Los Angeles.

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  • 1966
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    Movie Star, American Style or; LSD, I Hate You

    Movie Star, American Style or; LSD, I Hate You

    6 1966 HD

    Producer/director Albert Zugsmith's acid-therapy "comedy," complete with a tinted trip sequence "in hilarious LSD color." A suicidal film star named Honey Bunny is sent by her producer to a rest home run by an unhinged Dr. Horatio, who gives his patients LSD as a cure. The wacky patients include female impersonator Skippy Roper as an effeminate dress designer, a midget, a fat lady, and lots of actors, directors, and producers, including Zugsmith himself.

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  • 1961
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    Dondi

    Dondi

    3.429 1961 HD

    World War II GIs adopt an Italian war orphan.

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  • 1969
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    Two Roses and a Golden Rod

    Two Roses and a Golden Rod

    2.333 1969 HD

    In this steamy morality play, a Hollywood screenwriter lusts after his beautiful 16-year-old daughter -- who reciprocates his feelings -- while his wife finds herself torn between her spouse and her lesbian inclinations.

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  • 1960
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    The Private Lives of Adam and Eve

    The Private Lives of Adam and Eve

    2.333 1960 HD

    A modern couple dream that they are Adam and Eve.

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  • 1957
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    The Girl in the Kremlin

    The Girl in the Kremlin

    4.7 1957 HD

    In Moscow 1953, four terrified women prisoners are brought before Joseph Stalin, who chooses the beautiful Dasha. He punishes her by shaving off her long hair. Moments later, a plastic surgeon leads Stalin into the operating room and transforms his face so that he is unrecognizable. He vanishes, but OSS agent Steve Anderson searches for him in Europe.

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  • 1955
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    The Square Jungle

    The Square Jungle

    5.9 1955 HD

    Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.

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  • 1960
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    College Confidential

    College Confidential

    5.8 1960 HD

    Sociology professor Steve MacInter is conducting a survey at Collins College about the mores and lifestyles of the young people. Some of the good citizens begin to find exception to his sociological survey when they find out it includes questions about sex. Reporter Betty Ducayne receives an anonymous tip that the good professor is engaging in corruption of youth and when Steve's past comes up to haunt him, all heck breaks loose.

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  • 1960
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    The Private Lives of Adam and Eve

    The Private Lives of Adam and Eve

    2.333 1960 HD

    A modern couple dream that they are Adam and Eve.

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  • 1971
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    The Manson Massacre

    The Manson Massacre

    1.5 1971 HD

    A monk-robed Manson-like cult leader who lives in a coffin, is transported around in a black hearse. At times he gets sadistic with his girl followers. Ivor, the cult leader , is taking in various young woman and seducing them before sending them out to do his evil acts. We also get to see flashbacks of the early Cult family and the start of his madness.

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  • 1971
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    The Manson Massacre

    The Manson Massacre

    1.5 1971 HD

    A monk-robed Manson-like cult leader who lives in a coffin, is transported around in a black hearse. At times he gets sadistic with his girl followers. Ivor, the cult leader , is taking in various young woman and seducing them before sending them out to do his evil acts. We also get to see flashbacks of the early Cult family and the start of his madness.

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  • 1965
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    The Incredible Sex Revolution

    The Incredible Sex Revolution

    2.667 1965 HD

    Troubled young lass Margaret 'Peggy' Bardot candidly discusses her sexual hang-ups with a psychologist. Bardot's past negative experiences are related in flashback while the psychologist does his to figure out the root cause of her problems.

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  • 1970
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    The Phantom Gunslinger

    The Phantom Gunslinger

    4 1970 HD

    The Phantom Gunslinger is set in the town of "Tucca Flats." The peaceful life of the town is disrupted by the arrival of a gang of bandits, including Algernon, Big Sam, Cookie, and some others. The sheriff leaves town, but not before naming Bill as his successor. Bill, unfortunately, doesn't carry or even know how to use a gun, and the outlaws take over Tucca Flats. But with the help of some Indians, a suit of armor, and springs on his shoes, Bill manages to run the gang out of town.

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  • 1966
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    Psychedelic Sexualis

    Psychedelic Sexualis

    3 1966 HD

    A young man lies by a highway with a rifle, shooting people in cars. As the police close in, he kills himself. In flashbacks, his girlfriend explains why it all happened.

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  • 1966
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    Psychedelic Sexualis

    Psychedelic Sexualis

    3 1966 HD

    A young man lies by a highway with a rifle, shooting people in cars. As the police close in, he kills himself. In flashbacks, his girlfriend explains why it all happened.

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  • 1969
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    The Very Friendly Neighbors

    The Very Friendly Neighbors

    1 1969 HD

    Lisa, a beautiful Hollywood starlet, grows tired of her playboy husband, Charlie, and attempts to seduce her newlywed neighbor's husband. Lisa settles for a lesbian bout with the wife when her advances are spurned by the husband. Charlie likewise begins to look elsewhere for satisfaction. He goes to Hollywood swim parties with his employer and witnesses him seduce a virgin by hypnosis. Lisa and Charlie decide to engage in group sex with their neighbors, but after a short time the newlyweds' feeling of guilt forces them to withdraw. Lisa and Charlie then engage in mate swapping with Charlie's employer and his new bride, his hypnosis victim. Eventually, Lisa becomes tired of the same sex partners and begins to search for new lovers.

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  • 1952
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    Captive Women

    Captive Women

    4.625 1952 HD

    In post-apocalyptic New York, three tribes of survivors (the Norms, the Mutates and the Upriver People) vie for the right to exist. When the treacherous Upriver People attack the Norms, kill their chief and take their people captive, two Norm refugee men must find a way to ally with the Mutates, who have previously kidnapped Norm women in an effort to reproduce healthy children, to rout the Uprivers, who also seek to kill off the Mutates.

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  • 1968
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    The Chinese Room

    The Chinese Room

    5 1968 HD

    An unorthodox doctor makes a house call to the Acapulco abode of a mushroom addict.

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  • 1952
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    Invasion, U.S.A.

    Invasion, U.S.A.

    3.286 1952 HD

    A group of American witness the deadly invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union.

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  • 1956
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    Written on the Wind

    Written on the Wind

    6.936 1956 HD

    Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his daughter, Marylee, is the town tramp. Mitch harbors a secret love for Kyle's unsatisfied wife, Lucy -- a fact that leaves him exposed when the jealous Marylee accuses him of murder.

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  • 1968
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    The Chinese Room

    The Chinese Room

    5 1968 HD

    An unorthodox doctor makes a house call to the Acapulco abode of a mushroom addict.

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  • 1956
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    Red Sundown

    Red Sundown

    6.1 1956 HD

    When his life is saved in a shootout by a fellow gunman whose life he in turn had saved, Alex Longmire promises to give up his way of life. Riding into town he finds the only job available is deputy to sheriff Jade Murphy, an honest man caught between small farmers and a local cattle baron. And he has a pretty daughter. So Longmire decides to stay and see if he can use his expertise with firearms for good.

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  • 1958
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    High School Confidential!

    High School Confidential!

    5.3 1958 HD

    A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, nihilistic beat poetry, and some incredible '50s slang.

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  • 1961
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    Dondi

    Dondi

    3.429 1961 HD

    World War II GIs adopt an Italian war orphan.

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  • 1961
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    Dondi

    Dondi

    3.429 1961 HD

    World War II GIs adopt an Italian war orphan.

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  • 1957
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    The Tarnished Angels

    The Tarnished Angels

    6.765 1957 HD

    In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.

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  • 1962
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    Confessions of an Opium Eater

    Confessions of an Opium Eater

    5.609 1962 HD

    Vincent Price stars in this early '60s adaptation of Thomas De Quincey's thriller about an opium addict trying to solve a mystery in San Francisco's Chinatown.

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  • 1953
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    Port Sinister

    Port Sinister

    4.5 1953 HD

    A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor, where it came to rest after an earthquake many years before. A scientist wants to study it, some thugs want the treasure alleged to be stored there, a bunch of mutated giant crabs living there attack them all.

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  • 1953
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    Sword of Venus

    Sword of Venus

    5 1953 HD

    An enemy of the Count of Monte Cristo frames his son for a murder in order to exact revenge and steal the family fortune.

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  • 1960
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    Sex Kittens Go to College

    Sex Kittens Go to College

    3.063 1960 HD

    Collins College needs a new department head for their science department, so Doctors Carter and Zorch consult Thinko, the campus computer, and come up with Dr. Mathilda West, who has degrees in lots of things, but turns out to be disruptively attractive as well.

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  • 1960
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    Sex Kittens Go to College

    Sex Kittens Go to College

    3.063 1960 HD

    Collins College needs a new department head for their science department, so Doctors Carter and Zorch consult Thinko, the campus computer, and come up with Dr. Mathilda West, who has degrees in lots of things, but turns out to be disruptively attractive as well.

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  • 1969
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    Two Roses and a Golden Rod

    Two Roses and a Golden Rod

    2.333 1969 HD

    In this steamy morality play, a Hollywood screenwriter lusts after his beautiful 16-year-old daughter -- who reciprocates his feelings -- while his wife finds herself torn between her spouse and her lesbian inclinations.

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  • 1960
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    Platinum High School

    Platinum High School

    6 1960 HD

    At an exclusive military academy on Sabre Island, rich young delinquents think money puts them above the law. Enter Steve Conway - there to investigate the death of his son, who he had been told died in an accident.

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  • 1959
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    The Big Operator

    The Big Operator

    5.8 1959 HD

    A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him.

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  • 1958
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    The Female Animal

    The Female Animal

    5.8 1958 HD

    Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house. Vanessa's sexy, alcoholic adult daughter Penny accidentally meets Chris, who rescues her from an 'octopus' boyfriend. Before you know it, Chris is involved with both mother and daughter, and his only way out is to take a job in a Mexican picture about man-eating orchids...

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  • 1959
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    Night of the Quarter Moon

    Night of the Quarter Moon

    5.3 1959 HD

    A POW marries a woman he meets in Mexico. Controversy erupts when people find out that she's one-quarter black.

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  • 1958
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    The Female Animal

    The Female Animal

    5.8 1958 HD

    Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house. Vanessa's sexy, alcoholic adult daughter Penny accidentally meets Chris, who rescues her from an 'octopus' boyfriend. Before you know it, Chris is involved with both mother and daughter, and his only way out is to take a job in a Mexican picture about man-eating orchids...

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  • 1959
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    Girls Town

    Girls Town

    3.421 1959 HD

    Chip is killed accidentally while trying to rape a blonde girl, who runs. Silver becomes the number one suspect even though she has an alibi, but due to previous brushes with the law she's sent to Girls Town, a home for young women in trouble with the law which is run by nuns. Silver is rebellious and causes trouble at the school, and her friend Sarafina totters near the brink of self-destruction because of an infatuation with a young singer. Meanwhile Chip's father hires a detective to find out the truth, and Chip's friend Fred gets Silver's sister in trouble at a drag race. Silver has a lot of problems all right.

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  • 1957
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    Slaughter on 10th Avenue

    Slaughter on 10th Avenue

    5.4 1957 HD

    A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up with a "code of silence" amongst all potential witnesses.

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  • 1968
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    Sappho Darling

    Sappho Darling

    3.167 1968 HD

    A pretty young girl named Sappho is, despite her boyfriend's best efforts, determined to remain a virgin until she marries. One day she picks up a beautiful, busty hitchhiker named Brigitte, and finds herself attracted to the sexy young blonde.

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  • 1969
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    The Very Friendly Neighbors

    The Very Friendly Neighbors

    1 1969 HD

    Lisa, a beautiful Hollywood starlet, grows tired of her playboy husband, Charlie, and attempts to seduce her newlywed neighbor's husband. Lisa settles for a lesbian bout with the wife when her advances are spurned by the husband. Charlie likewise begins to look elsewhere for satisfaction. He goes to Hollywood swim parties with his employer and witnesses him seduce a virgin by hypnosis. Lisa and Charlie decide to engage in group sex with their neighbors, but after a short time the newlyweds' feeling of guilt forces them to withdraw. Lisa and Charlie then engage in mate swapping with Charlie's employer and his new bride, his hypnosis victim. Eventually, Lisa becomes tired of the same sex partners and begins to search for new lovers.

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  • 1963
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    Zigzag

    Zigzag

    1 1963 HD

    Lost Filipino thriller by Ronald Remy, Al Zugsmith producing. George Nader stars.

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