Günther Stoll Movies

When a ruthless crook kidnaps two young victims, he is out for more than he bargained. ~ John Bush, Rovi

In this spaghetti western, a quick-drawing, hard-riding granite faced, steel-eyed ex-Confederate soldier (Lee VanCleef) rides into a Texas town with the small travelling circus he works for as a stunt rider and bumps into a man who owes him $5,000. Wanting the money back, the vet decides to stay in town and it isn't long before he ends up embroiled in corruption and double-crosses as he fights to simultaneously save the townsfolk from the greedy, corrupt politician who runs the town and forces the residents to pay cripplingly high taxes and steal the crook's fortune. This is the third Sabata film and the second time VanCleef essayed the character. In the second film Adios Sabata, the title character was played by Yul Brynner. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Konrad Johannsen (Curt Jurgens) is the World War II submarine commander who made a pact with God. He agreed to become a priest if he is saved from the sinking sub. After the war, he becomes a priest in the Reeperbahn district, a seamy section of Hamburg plagued by sex, drugs and rock & roll. The local criminals seek to drive him out and employ a prostitute in an attempt to make him fall from grace and give in to the pleasures of the flesh. Konrad avoids temptation as he deals with the villains, saves fallen women and rescues fishermen is distress. Above all, he keeps his promise to God for saving his life during the war. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

This psychological drama finds Helen (Margaret Lee) wanting a divorce from her adoring husband John (Klaus Kinski). She leaves him and is killed in an auto wreck. John finds himself the target of a police investigation to determine if the death was an accident, murder or suicide. His wife had owned 90% interest in a British auto company and John is the main suspect should foul play be evident. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

An international gang of criminals pulls off a heist of $2,000,000 in foreign currency. The head of the group is known as "Major," and he boards a plane from Frankfort to meet with his cohorts in Vienna. When the plane crashes at the Vienna Airport, the mortally injured Major confesses his sins to a priest before he dies. The priest is then kidnapped by the rest of the gang, who torture him in an effort to find out where the money is hidden. To further complicate matters, one of the gang is an undercover insurance agent who is trying to recover the stolen loot. The priest, a specialist in hearing the confessions of the dying, is constantly being contacted by police who wish to partake of his services in this fast-moving crime drama. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

This extremely low-budget adventure was director Jesus Franco's second Fu Manchu film for British producer Harry Alan Towers. Christopher Lee returns as the Asian madman, who has developed a way to turn the oceans into ice as part of his plan to rule the world. Kidnapping famed Prof. Herakles (Gustavo Re), Fu forces the doctor to help him with his diabolical plan. When Herakles' health starts to fail, Fu kidnaps two more people (Guenther Stoll, Maria Perschy) for a transplant operation at his Istanbul headquarters. Fu's old rivals Dennis Nayland Smith (Richard Green) and Dr. Petrie (Howard Marion Crawford) come to Turkey to foil his evil experiments. Rosalba Neri, Jose Manuel Martin, and Werner Abrolat co-star in this poor fifth installment in the popular series. The film is so poorly conceived that -- although it was made in color -- the shipwreck caused by Fu is actually a black-and-white scene borrowed wholesale from A Night to Remember. For completists only, this disastrous entry also stars Herbert Fuchs and Tsai Chin, while Franco makes a cameo as a Turkish detective. Various versions run 92, 86, and 85 minutes. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

Author Norman Mailer's sporadic ventures into filmmaking are usually pretty bad, but never without interest. Beyond the Law co-stars Mailer and several of his cronies, including fellow-author George Plimpton and actor Rip Torn. Also in the cast is Beverly Bentley, the onetime Mrs. Mailer. Set in a New York police precinct house, the improvised plotline concerns illicit gambling, motorcycle bums and corrupt city officials. The stilted, self-conscious performances of the cast indicate that Mailer might have been better off with a real script. Only Rip Torn looks as though he's playing a character rather than playing an actor playing a character. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi