Olga Schoberova Movies
- 1978
This oddball satire, a favorite of cult film festivals, is set in Prague during 1900. There, pulp fiction hero Nick Carter looks into a series of murders. Eventually he finds the killer, a large carnivorous plant named Adele. The film was created in the style of a silent melodrama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michal Docolomansky, Rudolf Hrusínsky, (more)
- 1967
Adapted from the novel by C. Virgil Gheorghiu, this satirical concentration-camp drama from Turkish-born French director Henri Verneuil stars Anthony Quinn as Johann Moritz, a Romanian peasant who experiences the horrors of World War II when the Nazis invade his country. Because local police chief Dobresco (Gregoire Aslan) is anamorous towards Moritz's wife Suzanna (Virna Lisi), he has the lowly fieldhand falsely labeled a Jew and sent to a work camp. Moritz's troubles continue to mount, as his wife is threatened with losing their property unless she divorces him. Also starring Michael Redgrave, La Vingt-cinquième heure is also known as The 25th Hour, though it should not be confused with and bears no resemblance to the 2002 Spike Lee film of the same name. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, (more)
Lemonade Joe is a sweet-natured Czechoslovakian spoof of Hollywood westerns. Hero Lemonade Joe (Carl Fiala) is so named because he refuses to drink the "hard stuff" when he saunters into the local saloon. The plot exaggerates all the supposedly standard cowboy cliches, including dance hall girls with golden hearts, masked rustlers, and the sundown showdown. Halfway through, director Oldrich Lipsky (a graduate of Prague's Satirical Theatre) has nowhere further to go and begins repeating himself--then finds that he has to take certain plot threads seriously in order to expedite a happy ending. Nonetheless, the overall cheerfulness and virtuosity of the project won Lemonade Joe plenty of critical praise in 1966 (the year of its American release, though it actually was made two years earlier). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Olga Schoberova, Kveta Fialova, (more)
- 1964
There's something positively monolithic about the title Massacre at Marble City. The film's status as a western is, however, given away by its alternate title, Conquerors of Arkansas. And its country of origin is revealed by its original title, Die Golsucher von Arkansas. Brad Harris and Horst Frank star in this German actioner, wherein all heroes and villains converge upon Marble City for a cathartic shoot-out. Until we saw production stills of Massacre at Marble City, we didn't know that the Alps were in Arkansas. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1964
A horrible and bloody Indian raid on a small town sends the townspeople to the local fort for help and protection. With only a handful of men left in his command and his hand tied by massive Army red tape and regulations, the Captain of the fort enlists the aid of frontiersman Clint
McPhearson (played by Brad Harris) to help him figure out why the Comanches are on the warpath. It turns out that the Indian leader Black Eagle is reluctantly sending his people in battle to revenge the deaths caused by a renegade marauding band of fake soldiers. ~ Cub Koda, All Movie Guide
McPhearson (played by Brad Harris) to help him figure out why the Comanches are on the warpath. It turns out that the Indian leader Black Eagle is reluctantly sending his people in battle to revenge the deaths caused by a renegade marauding band of fake soldiers. ~ Cub Koda, All Movie Guide
