Karl Lanchbury Movies
- 1974
This Hammer-flavored gothic outing (originally titled Daughters of Dracula) involves the sanguinary exploits of two female vampires (Marianne Morris and Playboy centerfold Anulka) who bed down together in a queen-sized coffin by day and seduce male and female victims by moonlight, leading to lots of steamy soft-core sex scenes followed by copious amounts of the red stuff. One of their victims (Murray Brown) falls in love with Moore, even as he grows increasingly anemic due to her nutritional requirements. Moody photography and lush sets enhance the film's fatally hedonistic atmosphere, and the stars assay temptingly feline performances that render their characters' seductive powers chillingly real. This was a late entry in the European "lesbian vampire" sub-genre, a 1970s phenomenon made popular by such filmmakers as Jean Rollin and Jess Franco that made a comeback in the late 1990s. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marianne Morris, Anulka Dziubinska, (more)
When she is hassled by a murdering madman, a beautiful model realizes that she will have to elude the crazy fiend, or lose her life. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1973
- R
Spanish sexploitation merchant Joseph Larraz helmed this mystery about a model who witnesses a killing; when she tries to convince the authorities of what happened, she realizes she no longer can find the murder site. Also titled Scream and Die. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
- 1970
A young man and his aunt live in a small cottage in the secluded woods in this X rated exploitation murder thriller. The aunt is into group sex and lesbianism while her nephew desires more than one partner for his satisfaction. He takes pictures of the action, particularly when a blonde female model from London joins in the fun. She is willingly seduced by the aunt and the nephew. She is forced to remain at the macabre cottage when she stumbles across photographic evidence in the darkroom. He films an attack and rape of the woman in the woods before the trio settles down to sipping whisky and playing strip poker. Karl Lanchbury, Vivian Neyes and Pia Anderson portray the three sex fiends. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Karl Lanchbury
Timothy Bartlett (Norman Wisdom) is a middle-aged banker who is sent to a seaside resort for a banker's convention. He fears the meetings will be frightfully dull, but things change when two amorous hippie girls take Timothy for a sail on the sea of love. Timothy goes middle-aged crazy, making a spectacle of himself in hippie clothes as he tries to fit into the swinging scene. Nude dips in the ocean are followed and preceded by wild parties as he tries to recapture the days of his flaming youth. After he feels remorse and embarrassment over his behavior, he calls on his wife to join him at the convention to rekindle their love in this lowbrow comedy. The British rock group The Pretty Things provides the music. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Norman Wisdom, Sally Geeson, (more)
- 1967
Created by Alan Melville, the British sitcom The Whitehall Worrier was introduced as "The Mallard Imaginaire," the July 5, 1966 presentation of the BBC anthology Comedy Playhouse. Robert Coote starred as the Right Honourable Mervyn Pugh, an incredibly thickheaded MP. Pugh's stupidities were offset by the comparative brilliance of wife Janet (Moira Lister) and children David (Karl Lanchbury) and Michelle (Celia Hewitt). Lasting six episodes, The Whitehall Worrier was originally telecast from February 17 to July 13, 1967. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Robert Coote, Moira Lister, (more)
- 1962
The Webster Boy is a case of a weak script and strong actors combining for a mediocre tale about a love triangle. John Cassavetes is Vance Miller, an American with a serious gambling addiction who is just through with serving time and ready to finally go back to England. His objective is to find his long-lost love Margaret (Elizabeth Sellars) and try to start life over with her. When he does find Elizabeth, she is happily married to Paul (David Farrar) and is the mother of fourteen-year-old Jimmy (Richard Sullivan). As Vance upsets the apple cart trying to win Elizabeth away, young Jimmy faces taunts at school and a sadistic school master -- and doubts as to who his real father might be. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- John Cassavetes, Elizabeth Sellars, (more)
