The VHS Archives: Jean-Claude Roy's THE KILLER (1973)

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THE KILLER

Jean-Claude Roy's L'insolent (1973)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: Mogul Communications, Inc.

Catalog: MOG1038

Box Type: Clamshell

Year of Release: 1987

Runtime: 89:19

Print: 1.66:1 / English / No subs

Extras: None

About the Film

Director: Jean-Claude Roy

Year of Release: 1973

Country of Origin: France

Stars: Henry Silva, Andres Pousee, Philippe Clay, Georges Geret, Robert Dalban

AKAs: The Insolent, Deadly Sting, The Killer Shows No Mercy 

Verbatim Box Synopsis

For ex-con Henry Silva this is the big one. The perfect crime. The scam that will set him up for life.

With meticulous planning, he puts together his team. The target is fixed. The fences are lined-up. The heist is on and the prize is gold.

But this is a robbery with a difference. The bullets are blanks. The cops are actors. Silva ends up with the money. For the mobsters fencing the bullion, it's a truckload of fake gold.

But the action is only just starting. Silva has been conned himself.

The scene is set for a bloody carnage.

 U.S. Mogul Communications sleeve!

U.S. Mogul Communications sleeve!

Looking for The Killer on VHS? It's not readily available, but I did find a foreign DVD on Amazon. I don't know anything about this release, so buy at your own risk!

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© 2012 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

The VHS Archives: Bruce Le & Joseph Velasco's THE NINJA STRIKES BACK (1982)

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THE NINJA STRIKES BACKS

Bruce Le & Joseph Velasco's Xiong zhong (1982)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: All American Video
Catalog: AAV103
Box Type: Clamshell
Year of Release: ?
Runtime: 83:55
Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs
Extras: None

About the Film
Director: Bruce Le, Joseph Velasco
Year of Release: 1982
Country of Origin: France / Hong Kong
Stars: Bruce Le, Jang Lee Hwang, Harold Sakata, Bolo Yeung, Andre Koob, Dick Randall, Jean-Marie Pallardy
AKAs: Eye of the Dragon, Bruce Lee Fights Back

Verbatim Box Synopsis

Ninja... a name that conjures up dread, loathing and gut wrenching fear in all who have ever had the misfortune to cross their path.  With death defying feats, a total disregard for everything human and their own very special brand of vengeance, Ninjas are a force to be reckoned with.  Ninjas deal in DEATH, in any shape or form, be it slow torturous death, letting their victims scream themselves into a state of oblivion, or death can come like a streak of lightning... so fast that the victim's head goes on talking for seconds after being severed by the flashing blade.  So, when the two greatest masters in the art of sudden death collide in combat, it becomes two death-dealing human fighting machines in the battle of the century.

U.S All American Video sleeve! 

Dutch World Home / Centre Video Int. sleeve, originally scanned by "Harm"!

German UFA Video sleeve! 

Italian Avo Film sleeve! 

French Proserpine sleeve, taken from Nanarland! 

Alternate French Proserpine sleeve, also taken from Nanarland! 

Yet another alternate French Proserpine sleeve! 

French TeleK7 sleeve, originally scanned by "Airbeez"!  This was one popular movie in France!

Bonus ninja fight clip, uploaded by ChanWeiMan1828!

Looking for The Ninja Strikes Back on VHS? It's available on Amazon here. However, a better option is Media Blasters' anamorphic DVD, released in their RareFlix, Vol. 3 box set!

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© 2011 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

The VHS Archives: Jean Luret's THE DAUGHTER OF EMANUELLE (1975)

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THE DAUGHTER OF EMANUELLE

Jean Luret's La fille d'Emmanuelle (1975)

The VHS Archives Factsheet
Label: All American Video
Catalog: AAV106
Box Type: Clamshell
Year of Release: ?
Runtime: 90:10
Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs
Extras: None

About the Film
Director: Jean Luret
Year of Release: 1975
Country of Origin: Belgium / France
Stars: Lawrence Casey, Sarah Crespi, Greta Vayan, Macha Magall
AKAs: The Daughter of Emmanuelle, Pussy (No, seriously.)

Verbatim Box Synopsis

This is the emotional and evocative story of the daughter of Emanuelle.  A daughter born out of wedlock after her father is critically wounded in Korea.

Some twenty years later the daughter is a top fashion model in Paris and as infamous as her mother.

The daughter falls in love with an older man returned to the city to try and recall his past.  Emanuelle is devastated -- could this be the man that left her for Korea all of those years before.

U.S. All American sleeve!

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© 2011 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

The VHS Archives: Claude Mulot's CONTRACT TO KILL (1971)

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CONTRACT TO KILL

Claude Mulot's La saignee (1971)

The VHS Archives Factsheet
Label: Imperial Video Corp.
Catalog: IVC112
Box Type: Clamshell
Year of Release: 1983
Runtime: 83:00
Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs
Extras: None

About the Film
Director: Claude Mulot

Year of Release: 1971

Country of Origin: France / Italy
Stars: Bruno Pradal, Charles Southwood, Gabriele Tinti, Ewa Swann, Patti D'Arbanville, Sydney Chaplin
AKAs: The Contract, The Mafia Contract, The Blood Letting

Verbatim Box Synopsis

What would you do if you walked into a room and saw two bullet-riddle bodies -- the killer still standing over them?  THOMAS CHANARD runs for his life!  He recognizes the murderer, GINO LONGUA, a prominent member of the New York syndicate, and he knows LONGUA will put out a contract on him --that he will be the next to die, if they find him.  Where would you be safe if you were worth $30,000 -- DEAD.  THOMAS runs home to the small French village he left two years ago -- to the girl he loved, but couldn't have.

There is no safety in the past.  THOMAS is caught in a whirlpool of violence he can't control, that pulls him deeper into the emotional depths he has always tried to avoid.

The overwhelming reality of the contract builds to an unbelievably bloody climax which will leave the viewer breathless!

U.S. Imperial Video Corp. sleeve! 

U.K. Nutland Video sleeve, courtesy of "movie-samurai"!  Be sure to check out his Iver Film Services tribute site!

U.K. Shaftesbury sleeve, courtesy of MMTowns!

U.S. theatrical trailer, uploaded by "robatsea2009"!

Looking for Contract to Kill on VHS? It's available on Amazon here.

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© 2011 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

The VHS Archives: Pierre Tchernia's THE DOWN-IN-THE-HOLE-GANG (1974)

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THE DOWN-IN-THE-HOLE-GANG

Pierre Tchernia's Les Gaspards (1974)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: Imperial Video Corp.

Catalog: IVC110
Box Type: Clamshell
Year of Release: 1983
Runtime: 85:58
Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs
Extras: None

About the Film
Director: Pierre Tchernia
Year of Release: 1974

Country of Origin: France

Stars: Michel Serrault, Philipe Noiret, Charles Denner, Michel Galabru, Gerard Depardieu
AKAs: The Holes

Verbatim Box Synopsis

This is an hysterical farce about a group of people who live in the catacombs below the streets of Paris.  The Denver Post referred to it as "...one of the funniest movies of the year ... a gem not to be missed." The Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror Films named this the "Best Fantasy Film" of 1977.  As the comedy unfolds the viewer will understand why this film has been favorably compared to both the "Pink Panther" films and the films of Frank Capra.

 U.S. Imperial Video Corp. sleeve!

Looking for The Down-in-the-Hole-Gang on VHS? It's available on Amazon here. You can also get it on DVD here.

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© 2011 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

Project Mogul: Luigi Batzella's SABOTAGE! (1979)

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SABOTAGE!

Luigi Batzella's Strategia per una missione di morte (1979)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: All American Video

Catalog: AAV117

Box Type: Clamshell

Year of Release: ?

Runtime: 79:29

Print:  1.33:1 / English / No subs

Extras:  None

About the Film

Director: Luigi Batzella

Year of Release: 1979

Country of Origin: Italy / France

Stars: Richard Harrison, Gordon Mitchell, Gino Turini, Olivier Mathot

AKAs: Black Gold, Black Gold Dossier, Plan for a Death Mission

Verbatim Box Synopsis

A party of commandos are sent by an oil exploration company on a deadly mission of sabotage.

Benson leads the strike force and in the violent battle that follows the sabateurs reach their objective.

Explosives wreck the derricks, pipelines and oil tanks... the whole plant is turned into a burning inferno of fire and destruction.

A story of high suspense and human drama.

U.S. All American Video sleeve!

  

German Top/pic sleeve!

Italian Cinehollywood sleeve!

Notes
Bob Monell from I'm in a Jess Franco State of Mind had the following amusing remarks about this film: "Crazed use of stock footage, some of it reversed [!]. I asked Alain Petit, one of the scriptwriters, about this and he told me Eurocine ignored his screenplay and just cut and pasted it together. Demented music also. Harrison looks miserable."

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© 2011 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

Project Mogul: Alfonso Brescia's SPECIAL FORCE (1968)

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SPECIAL FORCE

Alfonso Brescia's Testa di sbarco per otto implacabili (1968)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: Mogul Communications, Inc.

Catalog: MOG1023

Box Type: Clamshell

Year of Release: 1987

Runtime: 94:05

Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs

Extras: None

About the Film

Director: Alfonso Brescia

Year of Release: 1968

Country of Origin: Italy / France

Stars:  Guy Madison, Peter Lee Lawrence, Erika Blanc

AKAs: Hell in Normandy, Bridgehead for Eight Ruthless Men

Verbatim Box Synopsis

Enemy troops leave senseless destruction and suffering in their wake turning everything into a bloody battlefield.  Thousands of innocent civilians and killed and hundreds of thousands made homeless.

 

A group of undercover soldiers behind the lines are captured trying to infiltrate and sabotage enemy defenses.

 

The American High Command immediately starts operation "Gambit" to storm the enemy occupied zone and repress the aggressors.

 

Thus, eight highly trained human fighting machines are recruited and parachuted behind enemy lines to blow up and destroy their defenses.

U.S. Mogul Communications, Inc. sleeve!

Mogul Communications sales ad, courtesy of 
Spaghetti Cinema's William Connolly!

 Danish VideoCenter sleeve, courtesy of Hans-Jorn Reimer and his 
Danish Ex-Rental VHS Appreciation Group!

Norwegian Video-Huset sleeve, courtesy of Dag-Johnny Elnes!

Looking for Special Force on VHS?  It's available on Amazon here.

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© 2011 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.