Lyon, Sue

Lolita

When director Stanley Kubrick released his film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel about a hopelessly pathetic middle-aged professor's sexual obsession with his 12-year-old stepdaughter, the ads read, "How did they ever make a film of Lolita?" The answer is "they" didn't. As he did with his "adaptations" of Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange, and, especially, The Shining, Kubrick used the source material and, simply put, made another Stanley Kubrick movie--even though Nabokov himself wrote the screenplay. The chilly director nullifies Humbert Humbert's (James Mason's) overwhelming passion and desire, and instead transforms the story, like many of his films, into that of a man trapped and ruined by social codes and by his own obsessions. Kubrick doesn't play this as tragedy, however, but rather as both a black-as-coffee screwball comedy and a meandering, episodic road movie. The early scenes between Humbert, Lolita (a too-old but suitably teasing Lyons) and her loud, garish mother (Shelley Winters in one of her funniest performances) play like a wonderful farce. When Humbert finally fulfills his desires and captures Lolita, the pair hit the road and Kubrick drags in Peter Sellers. As the pedophilic writer Clare Quilty--Humbert's playful doppelgänger and biggest threat--Sellers dons a series of disguises with plans of stealing Lolita away from her captor. It's here more than anywhere that Kubrick comes closest to the novel. He extends Nabokov's idea of the games and puzzles played between reader and writer, Quilty and Humbert, Lolita and Humbert, etc., to those between filmmaker and audience: the road eventually goes nowhere and Humbert's reality is exposed as mad delusion. Perhaps not a Kubrick masterpiece, or the provocative film many wanted, Lolita still remains playfully fascinating and one of Kubrick's strongest, funniest character studies. --Dave McCoy

This breathtaking, erotic tour de force from Stanley Kubrick depicts a middle-aged man's (James Mason) strange passion for a nubile nymphette (Sue Lyon) Features Peter Sellers and Shelley Winters. Year: 1962 Director: Stanley Kubrick Starring: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers

The Night of the Iguana

In the sleepy village of Puerto Vallarta the defrocked Reverend T. Laurence Shannon works as a tour guide. While leading a group of school teachers he attracts the attention of their junior member Charlotte Goodall. To save money he takes the group to a rundown hotel owned by his friend Maxine Faulk. Once there his interest shifts to Hannah Jelkes a poor artist. But in the end it may be Maxine whom he stays on with.Running Time: 118 min.System Requirements:Running Time 118 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 012569677425 Manufacturer No: 67742

The Night of the Iguana may be Richard Burton's finest hour on the screen: beautifully cast as an anguished, defrocked reverend, doomed to his own purgatory in Mexico as tour guide to a group of nattering biddies. (The expression on his face as the ladies warble "Happy Days Are Here Again" on the tour bus is worth a Shakespearian monologue.) John Huston's clean, black-comic adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play is a forceful snapshot of a man down to his last chance, and the superb black-and-white location photography by Gabriel Figueroa captures the end-of-the-world vibe. The women who tempt and taunt the reverend are Ava Gardner (with her maraca-shaking beach boys), Deborah Kerr, and Sue Lyon. The movie--and its backstage publicity, with Burton and Liz Taylor carrying on their Cleopatra affair--put Puerto Vallarta on the map, but it deserves notice for Burton's gutsy acting and Huston's characteristic sympathy for life's losers. --Robert Horton

Alligator

Twelve years ago two incidents occurred that bore no similarity until now. The Kendal family decided their pet baby alligator was a nuisance and flushed him down the toilet. At the same time Slade Laboratories was conducting secret hormonal experiments with dogs and the dead dogs were disposed of in the city sewer. As the baby alligator fed on the dead dogs its body chemistry took on grotesque mutations. When several brutal murders are discovered David Madison (Forster) is put on the case. But this is no human psychopath - it is a ravaging animal-turned-monster bent on destroying everything in its wake.System Requirements:Run time: 89 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: R UPC: 012236182061 Manufacturer No: 18206

Tony Rome

The beautiful daughter of a wealthy industrialist turns up drunk and unconscious in a hotel room. To avoid a scandal the hotel house detective hires his former partner, private detective Tony Rome, to sober her up and escort her home. The next day, the girl's diamond pin is mysteriously missing. Arriving back at his houseboat, Tony is greeted by a pair of thugs who knock him out and tear his boat apart, desperate to find the pin. Tony's problems are just beginning, When he gets to his office he's in for a grisly surprise. His ex-partner is waiting for him with a bullet through his head.

Evel Knievel

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Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: UN
Release Date: 19-MAR-2002
Media Type: DVD

Lolita

When director Stanley Kubrick released his film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel about a hopelessly pathetic middle-aged professor's sexual obsession with his 12-year-old stepdaughter, the ads read, "How did they ever make a film of Lolita?" The answer is "they" didn't. As he did with his "adaptations" of Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange, and, especially, The Shining, Kubrick used the source material and, simply put, made another Stanley Kubrick movie--even though Nabokov himself wrote the screenplay. The chilly director nullifies Humbert Humbert's (James Mason's) overwhelming passion and desire, and instead transforms the story, like many of his films, into that of a man trapped and ruined by social codes and by his own obsessions. Kubrick doesn't play this as tragedy, however, but rather as both a black-as-coffee screwball comedy and a meandering, episodic road movie. The early scenes between Humbert, Lolita (a too-old but suitably teasing Lyons) and her loud, garish mother (Shelley Winters in one of her funniest performances) play like a wonderful farce. When Humbert finally fulfills his desires and captures Lolita, the pair hit the road and Kubrick drags in Peter Sellers. As the pedophilic writer Clare Quilty--Humbert's playful doppelgänger and biggest threat--Sellers dons a series of disguises with plans of stealing Lolita away from her captor. It's here more than anywhere that Kubrick comes closest to the novel. He extends Nabokov's idea of the games and puzzles played between reader and writer, Quilty and Humbert, Lolita and Humbert, etc., to those between filmmaker and audience: the road eventually goes nowhere and Humbert's reality is exposed as mad delusion. Perhaps not a Kubrick masterpiece, or the provocative film many wanted, Lolita still remains playfully fascinating and one of Kubrick's strongest, funniest character studies. --Dave McCoy

Lolita

When director Stanley Kubrick released his film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel about a hopelessly pathetic middle-aged professor's sexual obsession with his 12-year-old stepdaughter, the ads read, "How did they ever make a film of Lolita?" The answer is "they" didn't. As he did with his "adaptations" of Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange, and, especially, The Shining, Kubrick used the source material and, simply put, made another Stanley Kubrick movie--even though Nabokov himself wrote the screenplay. The chilly director nullifies Humbert Humbert's (James Mason's) overwhelming passion and desire, and instead transforms the story, like many of his films, into that of a man trapped and ruined by social codes and by his own obsessions. Kubrick doesn't play this as tragedy, however, but rather as both a black-as-coffee screwball comedy and a meandering, episodic road movie. The early scenes between Humbert, Lolita (a too-old but suitably teasing Lyons) and her loud, garish mother (Shelley Winters in one of her funniest performances) play like a wonderful farce. When Humbert finally fulfills his desires and captures Lolita, the pair hit the road and Kubrick drags in Peter Sellers. As the pedophilic writer Clare Quilty--Humbert's playful doppelgänger and biggest threat--Sellers dons a series of disguises with plans of stealing Lolita away from her captor. It's here more than anywhere that Kubrick comes closest to the novel. He extends Nabokov's idea of the games and puzzles played between reader and writer, Quilty and Humbert, Lolita and Humbert, etc., to those between filmmaker and audience: the road eventually goes nowhere and Humbert's reality is exposed as mad delusion. Perhaps not a Kubrick masterpiece, or the provocative film many wanted, Lolita still remains playfully fascinating and one of Kubrick's strongest, funniest character studies. --Dave McCoy

Bad to the Bone 4 Movie Pack

Warriors Take a ride with the notorious "Revengers" biker gang along the back roads of rural Florida where danger deception and murder lurk around every corner. The gang's gritty and emotional leader Gion Bodine tracks down his wife's killer Snake in an intense savage manhunt that comes to a shocking unimaginable ending - one that's sure to keep you guessing until the very end. Climb aboard and hold on tight for a riveting tale of vigilante bikers fast women and cold-blooded murder that will leave you gasping for air and begging for one more breath-taking ride!Runtime: 89 minutesCC & CompanyMotorcycle mechanic C.C. Ryder (Joe Namath) joins "The Heads" an outlaw biker gang. Fellow gang members menace fashion journalist Ann (Ann-Margret) when her limo breaks down in the desert but C.C. comes to her rescue. The bikers disrupt a motocross evRuntime: 93 minutesEvel Knievel George Hamilton produced and starred in this appealing bio-pic of real-life stunt daredevil Evil Knievel. Actual footage of Knievel's famous motorcycle stunts and early life are remembered in flashback in the fleeting moments before a big jump. The cast includes familiar drive-in movie faces like Vic Trayback Sue Lyon Judith Baldwin and Dub Taylor. Much of the movie was filmed on location in Knievel's hometown of Butte Montana.Runtime: 89 minutes Angels Hard As They Come A band of schizo bikers meets a van of wasted hippies in a weird ghost town and their mutual anarchy evolves into a free-form orgy. This biker movie glows with raw primitive energy rustic location shooting a progressive rock score and a group of the most unscrubbed characters you re ever likely to see. A fascinating 70 s look at hippy culture vs. biker culture the two groups seem originally destined for compatibility with goal-less philosophy and wandering nomadic lifestyle but the disparity between the pacificism of the hips and impulsive war-like misery of the alcoholic bikers soon erupts into all-

End of the World

Andrew Boran, a brilliant professor, has decoded messages from outer space which accurately predict major natural catastrophes occurring throughout the globe. The aliens responsible for these transmissions are about to lure the unwitting scientist and his beautiful wife into aiding them in their murderous plan...The total annihilation of our planet.

Tony Rome

The beautiful daughter of a wealthy industrialist turns up drunk and unconscious in a hotel room. To avoid a scandal the hotel house detective hires his former partner, private detective Tony Rome, to sober her up and escort her home. The next day, the girl's diamond pin is mysteriously missing. Arriving back at his houseboat, Tony is greeted by a pair of thugs who knock him out and tear his boat apart, desperate to find the pin. Tony's problems are just beginning, When he gets to his office he's in for a grisly surprise. His ex-partner is waiting for him with a bullet through his head.