Olga Bisera Movies
Though not Ian Fleming's most famous James Bond novel, 1962's The Spy Who Loved Me was distinguished by the unique device of telling the story from the heroine's point of view; in fact, Bond doesn't make an appearance until the book is two-thirds over. This would hardly work in the film world's Bond franchise, so the original austere plotline of the novel was eschewed altogether in favor of a labyrinthine story involving outer-space extortion. The leading lady, a "hard-luck kid" in the original, is now sexy Russian secret agent Barbara Bach, who joins forces with Bond (Roger Moore, making his third appearance as 007) to foil yet another megalomaniac villain (Curt Jurgens), who plans to threaten New York City with nuclear weaponry. Beyond the eye-popping opening ski-jump sequence, the film's best scenes involve seven-foot-two Richard Kiel as steel-toothed henchman Jaws. Fifteen scriptwriters worked on The Spy Who Loved Me; only two were credited, including Bond-film veteran Richard Maibaum. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, (more)
A mother discovers a horrifying secret about her young son's imaginary friend in this gothic shocker based on Henry James' The Turn of the Screw and directed by the late Marcello Aliprandi. Twelve-year-old Martino may as well live alone at his family's sprawling Venetian villa. Largely ignored by his wealthy, self-absorbed parents and left with few playmates with whom to pass the day, Martino soon falls under the spell of an imaginary friend named Luca. When Martino's mother begins to investigate her son's increasingly hostile invisible playmate, a revelation about her past leads her to believe that Luca may in fact be the vengeful spirit of the child she lost before Martino was born. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Natalie Delon, John Phillip Law, (more)
- 1974
- R
This women-in-prison movie has everything that fans of the genre seek: abusive lesbian guards, catfights, a beautiful innocent, and a conspiracy to seek a cache of heroin whose location only the innocent one knows about. The prison uniforms on these beautiful women don't conceal their charms too often. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- 1973
- R
This sequel to Superfly has former drug dealer Youngblood Priest living in Rome with his lover. His life has become peaceful and he is utterly bored, so when a gun-smuggling African revolutionary shows up, he decides to help him overthrow the tyrant who is running the rebel's country. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
