Ann Smyrner Movies

Love starved women flock to the male brothel known as the "yellow house." Run by a retired military man, the General keeps strict rules for the studs in his corral. No unwanted pregnancies, and absolutely no falling in love with the female clientele. On of the young men of the brothel falls for a pretty young woman outside the yellow house. Comedy ensues when the woman turns out to be the daughter of the rigid General. Faced with a moral dilemma, he considers selling the house when the young man's intentions turn out to be honorable. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Unlike Clint Eastwood, who in the 1960s was cast as the Man With No Name, Beyond the Law star Lee Van Cleef has a name, and a very functional one. Van Cleef is known to one and all as Bandit Turned Sheriff. Actually, a more appropriate cognomen would be Bandit Turned Sheriff But Still a Bandit, since Van Cleef only pretends to reform so that he can steal a cavalry payroll. Since it's hard to watch Beyond the Law with a straight face to begin with, the producers wisely decided to turn this spaghetti western into a semi-comedy. Released in Italy in 1967 as Al Di La Della Legge, Beyond the Law was distributed in the US in 1971. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In this comedy, set in an Austrian mountain village, the town leaders conspire to attract tourists by touting a mythical "fountain of love" that runs nearby the village. When the minister of tourism discovers this, she immediately sends her agents to check out the veracity of the potentially scandalous water. After the village mayor declares a 3-day ban on sexual activity, he then plugs up the fountain. When the agents come, they find nothing. One of the agents wants to have his boss come and check it out personally, but changes his mind after he drinks some of the water. It really is an aphrodisiac! Soon tourists are arriving by the hundreds to sample the mysterious water. Unfortunately, the minister finds out and claims the water for the state. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

An American heiress is rescued from the wilds of Ceylon jungles and "new world" cities by 2 Americans. ~ All Movie Guide

In this action film, an American detective is hired by an aging millionaire to investigate the murder of his valet. The detective journeys to South Africa and discovers that the murder is linked to Nazi POWs who never went back to Germany. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

In this adventure, seven women graduate from a ritzy Swiss boarding school and decide to board a cargo boat for a little cruise. They end up partying with the ship's crew. They are docked in South America when the women encounter a young man in charge of a meteorological station on a remote Amazon island. There his father located a downed plane carrying gold bars. The son goes to the mainland to report the find, but unfortunately a mobster overhears his conversation, rushes out to the island and kills the father. The son escapes, but the crook captures some of the young women who fight both for their lives and for their virtue. Fortunately, they are saved by the young man and the rest of the women. In the ensuing struggle, the gangster escapes, but he is then killed by the police. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

The tail of a dinosaur is excavated from the frozen tundra in Lapland and shipped to the Danish Aquarium in Copenhagen for safekeeping in this hilarious sci-fi mess. Someone turns off the refrigeration, alas, and the tail thaws. Regeneration sets in with alarming dispatch and soon the serpent-like monster, named "Reptilicus" by the learned paleontologist in charge, is devouring a paper mache Copenhagen. Written in Hollywood by Danish-American Ib Melchior (the son of Wagnerian opera star Lauritz Melchior) and produced in Denmark by Saga Films and American Sid Pink Productions, Reptilicus contains filmdom's perhaps least convincing monster and some of the worst performances imaginable from a hard-working Danish stock company. Carl Ottosen stars as the American General Grayson, angrily shouting his every line for unexplained reasons. Ottosen's wooden performance is second only to that of Bodil Miller, a former Universal starlet who appears here for no apparent reason other than to accompany Ottosen's general on a pleasant night out at the Tivoli amusement park. (A low point of the film is pop star Birthe Wilke's rendition of a ditty, "Tivoli Nights", to a visibly dazed audience.) The monster, meanwhile, fights his battles in what appears to be a child's model train landscape while hundreds of extras do their utmost to look sufficiently frightened. Considering that Reptilicus himself is never in the same frame as any humans, what causes the good citizens of Copenhagen to flee in such panic must be the strange sight of Carl Ottosen brandishing a bazooka while barking orders at the fashionably gowned Miller. Reptilicus was such a financial bomb that employees at the Danish production company, Saga Films, were prohibited from speaking the name for several years. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide