卡罗尔·贝克

This early 70's giallo by Umberto Lenzi is certainly among the best in his filmography and also in the whole genre. Personally I think Lenzi's best films are the funny cartoon-turned-film Kriminal, the stylish giallo Seven Blood-Stained Orchids, the explosive Napoli violenta and this. In the eighties he did plenty of film trash in form of Eaten Alive, Hitcher in the Dark or Black Demons, all of which are ripping something off andor very dull and slow moving. Knife of Ice came when the giallo boom was at its hottest and the result is convincing.　　Technically the film is superb, containing great cinematography in the beginning when we learn about the main character's trauma towards trains. From this point on, Lenzi shows us his ability to benefit the widescreen and, for example, the bicycle ride near the forest is genuinely beautiful! This scene also shows Lenzi's ability to build suspense, very slowly but meaningfully. After all, there aren't so many murders in the whole film, only the suspense circulating around the murderer's identity.　　One suspect is a devil worshipper which brings new aspects to the mystery. Since the final scene takes place in a church, one can wonder if Lenzi wanted to comment on something, maybe the hypocritical morale of church and superstition. The main character (Carrol Baker) is mute which demands a lot from her face and eyes. The actress works very well, giving us a believable performance circulating around the emotions of fear and mental pain. The other actors are good, too. The finally, however, may not give too positive a sight about female sex since they all are expressed rather negatively in the film, one way or another. Still this is easily among the most noteworthy in the genre, not as bloody as the Argento films, for example, but equally suspenseful and visually also interesting.

毒贩克里斯的妻子带走了三百万美元和他们的儿子逃跑，克里斯在打探妻子下落的过程中枪杀了一名知情者，这起凶杀案令追查了克里斯多年的警探金宝（阿诺·施瓦辛格 Arnold Schwarzenegger 饰）终有机会将其收押，然而如令克里斯认罪伏法，金宝还必须找到他的妻子作为重要证人。警方掌握的线索及其有限，金宝和女同事只得来到某小镇，卧底装扮成老师来寻找就读于幼儿园的克里斯之子。因女同事急病，金宝只得独挑重任，和一群十分不安分的小鬼头打交道，同校的女教师乔伊丝（佩内洛普·安·米勒 Penelope Ann Miller 饰）和金宝之间擦出了火花。金宝的教师生涯渐渐顺风顺水，而这时，克里斯妻子与儿子的身份浮出水面，令金宝颇感意外……

This film is an extremely entertaining psychological thriller with Carrol Baker excellent as a rich American widow getting away from it all at a secluded Italian villa. Enter smart aleck down on his luck playboy, Lou Castel, who has some golddigging motives behind his slick hipster seduction techniques and has no qualms about how he gets what he wants. He encourages Baker's character's incipient alcoholism and dubious self-esteem, brings in his supposed 'sister' to help drag Baker even further into a maze of sick mind games, drug addiction and group sex, all culminating in a descent into near-madness and self-destructive depravity.　　I won't give away anymore, suffice to say that the film delivers on its swinging sixties, Euro sleaze ambience and psychological suspense thriller credentials in spades. Director Umberto Lenzi's work has been, at best, uneven and he's churned out his share of crap. However, he made some quite good giallos and crime pictures in the sixties and seventies and this is one of them (other good films by Lenzi -- SPASMO, SEVEN BLOODSTAINED ORCHIDS, ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, to name only a few).　　Unfortunately this film is ofen confused with another okay but not-quite-as-good Lenzi film that was also released briefly here in America under the same PARANOIA title (but is more commonly known, especially on video, as A QUIET PLACE TO KILL).

George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes.　　While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach his human side, and find that it's an uphill battle.　　The film's title is a metaphor for self-promoting tycoons who perform quick financial takeovers, impose dictatorial controls for short-term profits, then move on to greener pastures.　　The Carpetbaggers is the kind of trashy classic most people were too embarrassed to admit they enjoyed back in the early 60s.　　But this Harold Robbins adaptation is so cheerfully vulgar, it's hard not to have a good time - especially given the thinly veiled portrait of Howard Hughes at its center. George Peppard plays the heel-hero, who founds an airline company in the 1920s and buys a movie studio in the 1930s, crushing friends and mistresses along the way.　　The high cheese factor is aided by the good-time cast Carroll Baker as Peppard's hot stepmom, Bob Cummings (quite funny) as a cynical agent, and Elizabeth Ashley, who married Peppard, in her debut -uncharacteristically, as a good girl.　　One sad note is Alan Ladd, looking and sounding very end-of-the-line in his final role, as a man's man cowboy star.　　Elmer Bernstein's swaggering score helps goose the action along.

亿万富翁范先生（迈克尔·道格拉斯）在四十八岁生日时收到弟弟（西恩·潘）的一份礼物，CRS俱乐部的游戏卡。游戏的内容为迈克尔量身定做，直指他内心深处的童年阴影和婚姻创伤。　　迈克尔由于好奇，渐渐投入到游戏中去，并由此结识了女侍应生克莉丝汀（黛博拉·卡拉·安格）。可是在种种恶作剧后，迈 克尔发现这一系列离奇事件并不是简单的游戏，他的生活甚至生命正被拖向深渊。　　当生命不断受到威胁，迈克尔一次次的告诉自己，这只是个游戏。然而游戏的策划者正把他引向何方？父亲48岁生日时坠楼自杀的场景不断在他头脑里闪现……

Living in Tiger Tail County, Mississippi, middle aged Archie Lee Meighan and nineteen year old Baby Doll Meighan née McCargo have been married for close to two years. Their marriage is not based on love, but each getting what they want from the other. Their marriage agreement has them consummating their marriage on her twentieth birthday, which is in three days, the act to which Baby Doll is not really looking forward. But she does taunt him and other men with her overt baby doll sexuality, the baby doll aspect which she fosters by sleeping in their house's nursery in a crib. Baby Doll's now deceased father allowed the marriage on the stipulation that Archie Lee provide Baby Doll financial security as displayed by the most resplendent house in the south. They currently live in a dilapidated mansion with her Aunt Rose Comfort, and although Archie Lee is making some renovations on it, he no longer has the financial means to make it what Baby Doll wants as his cotton ginning ... Written by Huggo

少女玛丽安在放学回家路上遭遇凌辱，离家出走。找到一份微薄工作。玛丽安孤僻性格受到同室之人冷漠应待，伤心之余想要跳河自杀，被路过的麦克所救。玛丽安暂避麦克居所，但麦克不给玛丽安自由，一而再再而三地向她求婚。玛丽安最终答应了麦克。玛丽安的母亲找来，母女团圆。　　该片根据亚历克斯·卡默的小说《玛丽安》改编。

本片讲述远在1887年美国与印第安人签订和约，答应援助正受到各种如天灾、疾病、粮食短缺等问题的印第安人，驻扎在奥克拉荷马保留区。但美国政府忽略了这项协约，于是夏安族的酋长决定，返回原来的拥有比较丰盛农产的居住地。这样一来，就破坏了协议，引起了军队和夏安族的冲突，使美国内部陷入动荡与不安中。美国人与印第安人的摩擦日益增多，这时幸好有一位军官请内政部长随行化解冲突，把印第安人原居住地也划为保留区，美国与印第安人之间终于和平起来。此片是由名导演约翰．福特所拍摄的史诗型影片，在导演细腻的描写下，人性的尊严充分表达出来，并以写实手法充分诠释了当时的历史背景。

乔治．史蒂文斯导演的此片长二百二十余分钟，堪称同一题材片之最，同时也是正面描写耶稣生平事迹的影片中投资最大之作。剧情讲述基督耶稣自出生至钉死十字架上的故事。影片场面颇为壮观，可惜节奏太慢，剧情的进展亦不够流畅，看来相当沉闷乏味。马克斯．冯．赛多、卡罗尔．贝克等大批影星出演了此片，均有不错表现。