Alfonso Brescia Movies

Director Alfonso Brescia, best known as "Al Bradly," made mediocre thrillers for over 25 years, but this is among his more watchable efforts. Taking ideas from both Klute and Body Double (which was released in Italy as Murder in a Red Light), the film deals with a model named Starlet (Florence Guerin), who leads a double life. At night, Starlet becomes Sherry, a Times Square prostitute, in order to search for her brother's killer. Her brother was a Marine who had been involved in a game of hot potato with a live hand-grenade on a boat returning from Lebanon. The game had ended tragically when the grenade went off, killing three men and injuring six others, castrating one of them. Now someone is stalking New York and stabbing ex-Marines to death, leaving fake hand-grenades between their legs after castrating them. Hard-boiled policeman Flanigan (David Hess) thinks Starlet is putting herself in too much danger, so he intentionally exposes her double identity, then poses as her to catch the real killer. The major clue is a musical cigarette lighter which plays "Greensleeves," and there are a number of red herrings and a twist involving a homosexual affair, but the real killer is obvious within 10 minutes. Still, any film that involves Florence Guerin nude and David Hess in drag is worth seeing for curiosity value alone. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

This actioner offers a little bit of everything, ranging from voodoo to karate, as it follows the attempts of a mercenary and a lovely female photographer who team up to take on a murderous druglord/slaver who runs his own little country in the middle of the South American jungle. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Director and former stunt coordinator Chuck Bail takes the help for this fast-paced action thriller about a Harvard-graduate physicist whose efforts to create a safe source of energy are thwarted by nuclear waste-dumping baddies. David Lowell (Stephen Collins) has discovered the secret to clean energy, and he's ready to share his gift with the world. In just a few days, Hayley's Comet will pass over the Grand Canyon, and David will capture the energy from the high-frequency sound waves emitted from the enormous space rock. Unfortunately, there are those who would rather continue to profit from conventional forms of energy, and they're not afraid to use force to get their way. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

This crime drama focuses on the false accusation of murder placed on a Neapolitan peddlar. ~ Rovi

Sirpa Lane, star of the notorious art-house porno The Beast, returns to star in this unofficial sci-fi sequel produced five years after the original and featuring the triumphant return of the lusty, well-endowed man-beast. The story gets under way as Captain Larry (Vassili Karis) stops off at a local watering hole for a cool glass of Uranus Milk. After striking up a conversation with stunning blonde Sondra (Lane), Captain Larry is confronted by an angry merchant named Juan who had been attempting to work his charm on the girl. A barroom brawl ensues, and after Captain Larry defeats Juan he swipes a vial from him and takes Sondra home. The next day, Captain Larry receives word that the vial contained a highly valuable space mineral. The Star Fleet wants Captain Larry to travel to the planet where the mineral was found and bring back more, and they've assembled a skilled crew to accompany him on the mission. Sondra is a member of Captain Larry's crew, but she's distracted from her mission by recurring dreams where she's wandering through the woods and ravaged by a hirsute stranger. Upon arriving on the planet, Captain Larry discovers that it is ruled by an enormous robot that possesses the only known traces of the prized space mineral. Now, in order to accomplish his mission, Captain Larry and his crew will be forced to do battle with a powerful race of aliens that will fight to the death to protect their precious natural resource. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

In this sci-fi adventure, two of Earth's brightest scientists find themselves abducted by aliens, desperate to save their world from certain death. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

In this softcore Italian sex film, Sonia Viviani plays Serenella, the niece of a married couple, who attempts to cause a divorce by spreading gossip about their promiscuous sex lives. She's miffed because the Sicilian husband Vito (Tuccio Masumeci) only got married for his wife's money, and they both sleep around. Director Alfonso Brescia (aka Al Bradly) is better known for his Westerns, awful science-fiction films, and a few giallo thrillers like Omicidio a Luci Blu. Daniela Giordano is the main reason to watch this film, along with exploitation veterans Dagmar Lassander, Malisa Longo, Aldo Giuffre, and Giacomo Furia. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

Don't look for Moe, Larry and Curly (nor even Shemp or Joe Besser) in The Italian-Chinese The Three Stooges vs. the Wonder Woman. The terrible trio in this film is played by Yueh Hua, Nick Jordan and Mark Hannibal. These "stooges" are slapstick-prone warriors who do battle against an Amazonian high priestess (May May Wong) and her buxom followers. Not only is the title misleading, but so are the production credits: the "Al Bradley" listed as director is really Alfonso Brescia. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi