Charles Southwood Movies
- 1981
An unhappy Frenchwoman is living in Los Angeles, alone with her son now that her boyfriend has left for good. She works typing for a filmmaker, on a beach that is as bleak and desolate as she feels at this juncture in her life. The daily routine is hard to bear in the face of her loneliness, and only the relationship with her son offers any chance of recovery from a deadening despair. This fictional film was meant to be seen alongside the director Agnes Varda's documentary on wall paintings in L.A. titled Murs, Murs. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Sabine Mamou, Mathieu Demy, (more)
- 1973
Testa T'Ammazzo, Croce . . . Sei Morto . . . Mi Chiamano Alleluja was the original title of this spaghetti western. Also, Guns for Dollars was but one of its English-language titles: others include They Call Me Hallelujah and A Fistful of Lead. George Hilton is one of four mercenaries who fight in the Mexican revolution for fun and profit. Warfare is forgotten as the scroungy quartet search for a hidden fortune in gold. Some of the best scenes pit Hilton against a Russian Cossack who, by default, is also one of the good guys. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1972
In this satirical French comedy, Rosemunde (Annie Girardot) earns her living selling relics to the Catholic church. She manufactures them using a specialized machine made by her grandfather, which transforms corpses into bone. Needless to say, since she must have dead bodies in order to do this, the police take an interest in her affairs. In order to fend off their inquiries, she concocts a scheme using a hippyish Jesus-cultist, who is a dead-ringer for conventional notions of how Jesus looked. To everyone's surprise, he has some supernatural gifts of his own. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Annie Girardot, Bernard Blier, (more)
- 1972
In order to fight gangsters, the local townspeople and some hippie tourists overcome their differences in this French comedy/thriller. The villagers had hoped to lure a richer slice of the tourist trade to their town, but what they got were a bunch of fairly grungy hippies. After putting up with their antics for a while, the locals run the hippies out of town, but not far. The Countess' estate is nearby, and she wants them on her land to irritate the gangster who has forced his company on her. When the gangster makes the mistake of alienating the townspeople, his goose is cooked. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- André Pousse, Jean Lefebvre, (more)
- 1971
Deported from the U.S., Henry (Charles Southwood) and his girlfriend Marie (Nathalie Delon) just want to lay low, living the easy life on a South Sea island. Instead, they are unwillingly drawn into a series of wild adventures involving wayward Nazis (including Curt Jurgens), the Mafia, and sundry other hazardous types. This adventure comedy is in French. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Charles Southwood, Natalie Delon, (more)
- 1971
In this French crime/action thriller, set in New York City, the young French waiter who stumbles on a killing at his restaurant could not be considered lucky, by any means. He decides to leave New York and return to France to avoid pursuit by the mobster who committed the murder. Unfortunately, he has left too powerful a memento with his American mistress for her to forget that she loves him, for she is pregnant. Even though she marries another, this only adds another person to the list of people searching for him: police, mobster, mistress, mistress's husband. Things look even worse for him when the mobster and the police join forces. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
Genre specialist Mario Bava takes a rare trip out to the plains in this rousing comedy-Western that turns the work of iconic spaghetti Western specialist Sergio Leone on its head. When Roy Colt (Brett Halsey) and Winchester Jack (Charles Southwood) fail to make a living at living dishonestly, Roy resolves to dissolve the partnership and earn an honest dollar in Carson City. Unexpectedly greeted upon arrival at Carson City with a badge and a gun, newfound sheriff Roy gets that old familiar feeling when the nervous citizens entrust him with a replica of a stolen treasure map that is said to lead to a bounty of buried gold. Unfortunately for Roy, the mysterious Reverend Teodoro Corra, a dynamite-toting Russian outlaw; his old partner Jack; a Jewish desperado named Berenstein (Mauro Bosco); and a wanted Native American seductress (Marilù Tolo) are also gunning for the gold. By the time Roy reaches the Indian burial ground where the gold is said to be buried, it's anyone's guess as to who will get the gold first. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Brett Halsey, Charles Southwood, (more)
When a bounty hunter watches an Old-West gold heist he sets out after the bandits in hopes of making their loot his. ~ Rovi
- Starring:
- George Hilton, Charles Southwood, (more)
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