Los Angeles Grindhouse Festival 2007
To promote his then upcoming film 'Grindhouse' with Robert Rodriquez Quentin Tarantino organised a series of grindhouse film screenings that ran from 4th March 30th April in the year 2007, Most weren't on DVD at the time and some were from Tarantino's personal collection. These are those films.
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- DirectorMichael CampusStarsMax JulienDon GordonRichard PryorGoldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up King of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
- DirectorChien LeiStarsMichael Wai-Man ChanBetty Ting PeiChin HuChinese Mack tells the story of Kung fu brothers, Chow and Sii, who agree to carry out a thief's dying wish of taking stolen jewels to his wife. While searching for the thief's wife, Chow and Sii find themselves in trouble with gangsters, who have been tasked with retrieving the stolen jewels. Before long, the two "Chivalrous Knights" are caught in the middle of a war with vicious fighters.
- DirectorGiuliano MontaldoStarsJohn CassavetesBritt EklandPeter FalkA paroled gangster and his son plan to rob a Las Vegas gambling house, unaware that the casino is bitterly contested by the West Coast and East Coast mobs.
- DirectorFernando Di LeoStarsHenry SilvaRichard ConteGianni GarkoA hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.
- DirectorSam GrossmanStarsStuart GoetzDeborah WhiteDanny DeVitoBobby blows all his college savings on a van and tries to get the girl of his dreams. It's a wild time with Bobby and his friends.
- DirectorGeorge MihalkaStarsMichael ZelnikerCarl MarotteKaren StephenIt's a summer of fun for two teenaged boys who spend their time chasing two sisters, annoying a biker gang, and basically getting into typical sophomoric hijinks whenever they can.
- DirectorChuck VincentStarsMichael AbramsJohn F. GoffKashka BartisickThe director of a failing summer camp decides to invite campers from ten years ago for a free weekend event, hoping that he can trick them into fixing up the place and also get their families to provide them some financial support. The boys and girls return to the camp and play pranks on each other and try to score with the other campers and the staff.
- DirectorJohn FlynnStarsWilliam DevaneTommy Lee JonesLinda HaynesA recently-returned Vietnam POW loses his family and his right hand during a violent home invasion, and seeks retribution against those responsible.
- DirectorCharles B. PierceStarsBen JohnsonAndrew PrineDawn WellsThe story of a hooded, berserk killer who terrorized the border town of Texarkana, Arkansas in 1946--leaving no fewer than five murder victims in his wake. He was never caught. Based on one of America's most baffling murder cases.
- DirectorTa HuangStarsMichael Wai-Man ChanFan ChiangYeh FangA martial arts fighter, haunted by his past, takes a job as a dock worker in a small village. His vow never to fight again is tested by the cruel owner of the pier.
- DirectorChun-Ku LuStarsTony FerrerAlona AlegreDick ChanDecent, simple, honest Chinese farmhand and ace martial artist Tai-Lin goes to the Philippines to seek his fortune. He befriends scruffy petty street hoodlum Siao-Mao and gets a job as a dock worker. When Tai-Lin discovers that the people he works for are involved in a crime syndicate that specializes in smuggling opium, he quits his job and joins forces with two fellow martial artists against the evil organization.
- DirectorSergio MartinoStarsBarbara BouchetEdwige FenechDayle HaddonFive short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor. In one sketch, Marty Feldman plays a bodyguard, hired by her father to watch a young woman; he watches her a little too closely. In another, while Barbara Bouchet's husband is out of town on business, a stranger offers her twenty million lire in return for sex. Three times he offers, three times she protests and then consents, only to find out in the end that both the man and his sixty million lire are -- oh, but that would spoil the ending. :-)
- DirectorFranz AntelStarsTony CurtisMarisa BerensonMarisa MellWhile hiding from the royal authorities,Giacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his look-alike: Giacomino, a fugitive petty con man. Meanwhile, the Arabian Caliph and his wife are arriving in Venice for a state visit, and she insists on a night with the legendary lover. Through a series of erotic encounters and mistaken-identity comedies, Giacomo and Giacomino make their way back to Venice for their appointment with the Caliph's wife.
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraMauro BologniniPhilippe de BrocaStarsMichèle MercierEnrico Maria SalernoGabriele TintiA collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
- DirectorBill BerryStarsRoy JeffersonLe TariHaskell V. Anderson IIIA group of black Vietnam vets go up against the Ku Klux Klan.
- DirectorHorace JacksonStarsDion GossettChristopher TownesRenny RokerGossett continually rebels against the white establishment. The boy finds he can expect no back-up of his attitude at home, where his parents wallow in self-indulgence, so he feels that a show of force is his only option.
- DirectorJosé María ForquéStarsSue LyonFernando ReyGloria GrahameA beautiful young woman marries a blind old man for his money. She carries on an affair with her husband's valet, but soon finds herself in the middle of a murder-for-money plot involving the household servants.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsMartine BrochardJohn RichardsonInes PellegriniA maniac killer in a red cape and hood is killing off American tourists on a tour bus by gouging out their eyeballs.
- DirectorRalph BakshiStarsBarry WhiteCharles GordoneScatman CrothersRabbit, a country-born trickster, takes over the organized crime racket in Harlem, facing opposition from the institutionalized racism of the Mafia and corrupt police.
- DirectorPichaBoris SzulzingerStarsBernard DhéranClaude BertrandRoger CarelShame, the ape man of the jungle, sets off to rescue his woman, June, when a gang of giant penises kidnaps her.
- DirectorNeal IsraelBradley R. SwirnoffStarsPhil ProctorHoward HessemanBeans MoroccoA committee investigating TV's first uncensored network examines a typical day's programming, which includes shows, commercials, news programs, you name it. What they discover will surely crack you up! This outrageous and irreverent spoof of television launched the careers of some of the greatest comedians of all time.
- DirectorRoger VadimStarsRock HudsonAngie DickinsonTelly SavalasCalifornia State Police Captain Sam Surcher investigates a string of teenage-girl murders at Oceanfront High School.
- DirectorRichard LernerStarsJerii WoodsCheryl SmithHelen LangAloha High cheerleaders, who wield considerable power in their ineptly run school, struggle against real estate developers aiming to merge their school with a rival one in order to turn the location into a shopping mall.
- DirectorMin-Hsiung WuStarsYuan YiChing-Ching ChangMing-Ming HsiaoTo Pa and several members of his Eagle Claw Fighting Clan are repulsed, in their attempt to rob government gold, by Chen Chen Chow, the Lightning Whipper. The clan do a second attack and are successful in getting the gold and also fatally wounding the Lightning Whipper. However...Lei Peng executes a surprise move, gets the gold, and plans to return it to the government. But the vengeful To Pa convinces the police that Lei Peng is the robber, and Lei Peng is arrested and jailed. To Pa murders Lei Peng's entire family, with the exception of a son who escapes and is befriended by the mysterious Lady Tieh. To Pa gets the gold again and takes it to his hideout. Then Chen and Mu Lan, the Lighting Whipper's son and daughter, rescue Lei Ping from jail, and Lady Tieh, Lei Ping, Chen and Mu Lan band together as the Fearless Fights and take after To Pa.
- DirectorMin-Hsiung WuStarsYi ChangMi TienYing Bai