The Losers

VERDAMMT, VERKOMMEN, VERLOREN - THE LOSERS

(Damned, Depraved, Lost - The Losers)

aka THE LOSERS

NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM 5983

AUSTRIA 1971

"Now the Army Has Its Outlaws. . .In the Most Savage Action Picture of All Time!"

Starring William Smith, Bernie Hamilton and Adam Roarke

Directed by Jack Starrett

Fanfare Films

USA 1970

A portion of this movie is seen in the Quentin Tarantino film, "Pulp Fiction." It is showing on the TV in the hotel room the morning after Butch's boxing match.

The Girl Can't Help It

SCHLAGERPIRATEN (HIT PIRATES)

aka THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT

ILLUSTRIERTE FILM-BÜHNE Nr. 3651

WEST GERMANY 1957

IT'S GOT THE HEAT! AND THE BEAT!

Starring Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien, Julie London, Fats Domino, The Platters, Little Richard and His Band, Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps, Eddie Fontaine and Eddie Cochran 

Directed by Frank Tashlin

20th Century Fox

U.S.A. 1956

In this film, Eddie Cochran performs "Twenty Flight Rock". That song's influence was so great 

in Liverpool, that Paul McCartney's ability to memorise the words and perform the song impressed John Lennon enough to ask him to join his group, then known as "The Quarrymen", which later became The Beatles.

Ciao Manhattan

ADDIO MANHATTAN

aka CIAO MANHATTAN

NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM NR. 6612

AUSTRIA 1974

"The Citizen Kane of The Drug Generation"

Starring Edie Sedgwick, Wesley Hayes & Isabel Jewell

Directed by  John Palmer & David Weisman

Court Pictures / Maron Films /  Sugarloaf Films Inc.

U.S.A. 1972

The film is dedicated to Edie Sedgwick and ends with the actual headlines announcing Sedgwicks' death. The film originally followed the excessively hip lives of Sedgwick and fellow Warhol superstar Paul America, as they lived life in the fast lane (literally speeding down the West Side Highway on massive amounts of amphetamine).

The Happening

 

DIE MEUTE (THE MOB)

aka THE HAPPENING

NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM 4707

AUSTRIA 1967

"Hear "The Supremes" Sing the Swinging Hit Song...From the Swinging Hit Picture!"

Starring Anthony Quinn, George Maharis, Faye Dunaway and Michael Parks

Directed by Elliot Silverstein

Horizon Pictures

U.S.A. 1967

Four hippies kidnap a retired Mafia mob boss and hold him for ransom. This was Faye Dunaway's film debut.