西部开拓史（HowtheWestWasWon）是一部1962年的史诗型式西部片。时间设定为1839年至1889年。情节是拓荒者普莱史考特一家人四代的故事，旁及各相关人事物；从中呈现半个世纪的美国西部历史。此片气势雄浑壮阔，编剧、取景、摄影、配乐、音效、导演、演员阵容，各方面俱臻上乘水平。全片包括5个部分：《急流》、《平原》、《非法之徒》，由亨利·海瑟威执导；《南北战争》由约翰·福特导演；《铁路》由乔治·马歇尔执导。故事讲述一家三代在各种时代背景下的艰难曲折，通过这个家庭从19世纪早期到1880年代半个世纪的迁徙经历，描述美国西部历史。他们从纽约出发，经历了内战，淘金热，路遇印第安人和西南部的流放者，经历各种艰难险阻，终于到达西部，并联合其他开拓者在平原上修建了铁路，把法律与正义也带到了边疆。

由巨星名导合作的西部文艺片经典作。格利高里．派克、简．西蒙斯、卡罗尔．贝克、查尔顿．赫斯登等人在威廉．怀勒的指导下均有颇具魅力的表现，片中的摄影构图尤其具现了西部大自然的美景，配乐亦有巨片的澎湃气势。毕克原为船长，他到西部与贝克结婚之后就在父亲的牧场中住下来。希斯顿是牧场的领班，但一开始便跟毕克互相敌视。与此同时，毕克的父亲贝克福与另一大地主艾维斯因为争夺水源而剑拔弩张。当地的小学老师西蒙斯被卷入双方的斗争中，毕克跟贝克婚变后爱上了西蒙斯，而希斯顿则与贝克凑成一对，继续统治着那一片锦绣大地。

George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes.While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach his human side, and find that it's an uphill battle.The film's title is a metaphor for self-promoting tycoons who perform quick financial takeovers, impose dictatorial controls for short-term profits, then move on to greener pastures.The Carpetbaggers is the kind of trashy classic most people were too embarrassed to admit they enjoyed back in the early 60s.But this Harold Robbins adaptation is so cheerfully vulgar, it's hard not to have a good time - especially given the thinly veiled portrait of Howard Hughes at its center. George Peppard plays the heel-hero, who founds an airline company in the 1920s and buys a movie studio in the 1930s, crushing friends and mistresses along the way.The high cheese factor is aided by the good-time cast: Carroll Baker as Peppard's hot stepmom, Bob Cummings (qui

毒贩克里斯的妻子带走了三百万美元和他们的儿子逃跑，克里斯在打探妻子下落的过程中枪杀了一名知情者，这起凶杀案令追查了克里斯多年的警探金宝（阿诺·施瓦辛格 Arnold Schwarzenegger 饰）终有机会将其收押，然而如令克里斯认罪伏法，金宝还必须找到他的妻子作为重要证人。警方掌握的线索及其有限，金宝和女同事只得来到某小镇，卧底装扮成老师来寻找就读于幼儿园的克里斯之子。因女同事急病，金宝只得独挑重任，和一群十分不安分的小鬼头打交道，同校的女教师乔伊丝（佩内洛普·安·米勒 Penelope Ann Miller 饰）和金宝之间擦出了火花。金宝的教师生涯渐渐顺风顺水，而这时，克里斯妻子与儿子的身份浮出水面，令金宝颇感意外……

亿万富翁范先生（迈克尔·道格拉斯）在四十八岁生日时收到弟弟（西恩·潘）的一份礼物，CRS俱乐部的游戏卡。游戏的内容为迈克尔量身定做，直指他内心深处的童年阴影和婚姻创伤。迈克尔由于好奇，渐渐投入到游戏中去，并由此结识了女侍应生克莉丝汀（黛博拉·卡拉·安格）。可是在种种恶作剧后，迈 克尔发现这一系列离奇事件并不是简单的游戏，他的生活甚至生命正被拖向深渊。当生命不断受到威胁，迈克尔一次次的告诉自己，这只是个游戏。然而游戏的策划者正把他引向何方？父亲48岁生日时坠楼自杀的场景不断在他头脑里闪现……

乔治．史蒂文斯导演的此片长二百二十余分钟，堪称同一题材片之最，同时也是正面描写耶稣生平事迹的影片中投资最大之作。剧情讲述基督耶稣自出生至钉死十字架上的故事。影片场面颇为壮观，可惜节奏太慢，剧情的进展亦不够流畅，看来相当沉闷乏味。马克斯．冯．赛多、卡罗尔．贝克等大批影星出演了此片，均有不错表现。

This film is an extremely entertaining psychological thriller with Carrol Baker excellent as a rich American widow getting away from it all at a secluded Italian villa. Enter smart aleck down on his luck playboy, Lou Castel, who has some golddigging motives behind his slick hipster seduction techniques and has no qualms about how he gets what he wants. He encourages Baker's character's incipient alcoholism and dubious self-esteem, brings in his supposed 'sister' to help drag Baker even further into a maze of sick mind games, drug addiction and group sex, all culminating in a descent into near-madness and self-destructive depravity.I won't give away anymore, suffice to say that the film delivers on its swinging sixties, Euro sleaze ambience and psychological suspense thriller credentials in spades. Director Umberto Lenzi's work has been, at best, uneven and he's churned out his share of crap. However, he made some quite good giallos and crime pictures in the sixties and seventies and th

Living in Tiger Tail County, Mississippi, middle aged Archie Lee Meighan and nineteen year old Baby Doll Meighan née McCargo have been married for close to two years. Their marriage is not based on love, but each getting what they want from the other. Their marriage agreement has them consummating their marriage on her twentieth birthday, which is in three days, the act to which Baby Doll is not really looking forward. But she does taunt him and other men with her overt baby doll sexuality, the baby doll aspect which she fosters by sleeping in their house's nursery in a crib. Baby Doll's now deceased father allowed the marriage on the stipulation that Archie Lee provide Baby Doll financial security as displayed by the most resplendent house in the south. They currently live in a dilapidated mansion with her Aunt Rose Comfort, and although Archie Lee is making some renovations on it, he no longer has the financial means to make it what Baby Doll wants as his cotton ginning ... Written b

This early 70's giallo by Umberto Lenzi is certainly among the best in his filmography and also in the whole genre. Personally I think Lenzi's best films are the funny cartoon-turned-film Kriminal, the stylish giallo Seven Blood-Stained Orchids, the explosive Napoli violenta and this. In the eighties he did plenty of film trash in form of Eaten Alive, Hitcher in the Dark or Black Demons, all of which are ripping something off andor very dull and slow moving. Knife of Ice came when the giallo boom was at its hottest and the result is convincing.Technically the film is superb, containing great cinematography in the beginning when we learn about the main character's trauma towards trains. From this point on, Lenzi shows us his ability to benefit the widescreen and, for example, the bicycle ride near the forest is genuinely beautiful! This scene also shows Lenzi's ability to build suspense, very slowly but meaningfully. After all, there aren't so many murders in the whole film, only the su