Cristina Raines Movies
Manila-born leading lady Cristina Raines began showing up in American movies and TV programs in the early 1970s. Raines was seen in the small part of Maria in Robert Altman's Nashville (1975), and was confined to flashbacks as the "late" Kate Hayden in the 1973 TV movie Sunshine. Her most memorable movie role was Alison Parker, unwilling gatekeeper of Hades, in the 1977 horrorama The Sentinel. From 1980 through 1981, Cristina Raines played casino singer Lane Ballou on the prime time TV soaper Flamingo Road. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1973
- PG
In this bizarre biker movie, set in 1919, a wandering group of bikers encounter two weird sisters from Nebraska. The siblings are hereditary witches, taught by their father. One of them uses her powers to kill many of the gang members. She spares the one she is attracted to. He begins staying on her farm while her sister and another biker take off to California. On video, it is also known as The Shrieking. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1973
- R
The John Gardner novel A Complete State of Death became this bloody crime flick that united frequent action genre collaborators Charles Bronson and director Michael Winner. Bronson stars as Detective Lieutenant Lou Torry, a grizzled undercover New York City cop who ruins his career when he is caught going violently overboard while apprehending a ghetto punk. As punishment, Torry is banished all the way to the L.A. Police Department, where he begins investigating a mysterious chain of events involving ex-soldiers that seem to be Mob related. It turns out that Don Alberto Vescari (Martin Balsam), an aging Mafia chieftain, is planning the use of mentally disturbed Vietnam vets as assassins in a campaign of murder. With one broad, gory stroke, Vescari schemes to wipe out his underworld enemies, retaliating for a massacre that wiped out a generation of Sicilian mobsters 40 years earlier. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, (more)
- 1973
- R
This convoluted mystery centers upon a seductive private investigator who must look into the background of the potential recipient of an enormous inheritance. Unfortunately, she finds herself more deeply involved in the situation than she wanted to be and trouble soon follows. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
