Jack Davis Movies

James Coburn hosts this episode of Winning Strategies, based on the gambling guides by Frank Scoblete. Especially good for the beginner or for the person who understands the basics of the game but not the strategy, this video takes place in a casino. Coburn himself is at the table where he explains the game of "21," its pitfalls and pleasures, what to watch out for, and what to try and achieve. Cards are cards and luck is luck, but there's a little bit that the player can do to get an edge, maybe making the difference between utter defeat and having some fun at the table. ~ Leslie Birdwell, All Movie Guide

When Milwaukee college student Monroe Clark (C. Thomas Howell) takes a summer job evicting his wealthy uncle's Los Angeles tenants, he ends up befriending one of the deadbeats, ex-volleyball pro Zack Barnes (Peter Horton), and the two join up together to compete in an important volleyball match. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

This violent sci-fi actioner is set in an irradiated New York City a few years following a terrible nuclear holocaust. Within the city, telepathically linked mutants abound, and people entertain themselves by attending gladiator fights to the death. The story centers on a group of mutants as they try to escape the brutal confines of the city. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Jack Hill directed this alternately brutal and campy look at desperate women behind bars. An American named Collier (Judy Brown) has been convicted of murder in the Philippines and is sentenced to a grim women's prison in the jungle, where a mysterious German woman, Miss Deitrich (Christiane Schmidtmer), is the warden, and her head guard, sadistic Lucian (Katheryn Loder), keeps her charges in line through intimidation and violence. Collier shares a cell with tough-talking bisexual prostitute Grear (Pam Grier), hard-boiled political prisoner Bodine (Pat Woodell), thick-skinned but good-humored Alcott (Roberta Collins), drug-addicted Harrad (Brooke Mills), and tight-lipped Ferina (Gina Stuart). Bodine's boyfriend is the leader of an underground revolutionary faction, and when she learns he and his comrades are in danger, she begins to plot an escape for herself and her cellmates, with travelling peddlers Harry (Sid Haig) and Fred (Jerry Frank) becoming her unwitting collaborators. Meanwhile, Lucian is stepping up her torture of the prisoners at the behest of a mysterious masked stranger, and Collier is determined to find out who is behind the systematic brutality. The Big Doll House was the first "Women In Prison" exploitation epic produced for Roger Corman's New World Pictures; it was a big hit on the dive-in and grind house circuit, and spawned dozens of imitations (which are still being produced today). By the way, that's Pam Grier singing the theme song! ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide