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Werken van Arthur Marks

Perry Mason (50th Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Director; Director — 21 exemplaren
Perry Mason: Collection One (Seasons 1-3) (2015) — Director — 7 exemplaren
Friday Foster [1975 film] (1999) — Director — 6 exemplaren
Perry Mason: Season 8, Volume 2 (1965) — Director — 5 exemplaren
Perry Mason: Season 9, Volume 1 (2013) 5 exemplaren
J.D.'s Revenge (1976) 4 exemplaren
Perry Mason: Season 8, Volume 1 (1964) 4 exemplaren
Detroit 9000 (2003) 4 exemplaren
Perry Mason: Season 7, Volume 2 (1964) — Director — 4 exemplaren
Perry Mason: Seasons 7-9 — Director — 4 exemplaren
Bucktown 3 exemplaren
Bonnie's Kids [1972 Film] (1973) — Director — 3 exemplaren
Perry Mason (Seasons 4-6) — Director — 3 exemplaren
The Roommates 2 exemplaren
Coffy / Friday Foster — Director — 2 exemplaren

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Good cast, especially Turman chewing the scenery as a man possessed by a 30-years ago murder victim out for revenge, is let down by poor script that only picks up in the last 15 minutes. The New Orleans setting--in the depressed mid-70s--is nice.
 
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datrappert | Jan 30, 2022 |
Wildly plotted, unpredictable and hugely entertaining slice of grindhouse cinema. The plot by director Arthur Marks sees the two children of the recently deceased town tramp Bonnie – Ellie (Tiffany Bolling) and Myra (Robin Mattson) – killing their drunken predator stepfather and heading-off to live with their rich Uncle Ben (Scott Brady) in his El Paso mansion. Ben, however, is a ruthless vice and crime boss and sucks Ellie and Myra into one of his plots involving laundering dirty cash. Things don’t go according to plan and Ellie and Myra soon have the cops and a couple of hired hitmen on their trail. Marks’ script is absolute drive-in gold – it is unrelentingly sleazy, full of strange left field turns and populated with a set of totally amoral characters, including Ellie and Myra. It manages to squeeze in sex, nudity, lesbianism, violence, murder, suicide, teen angst, wild dialogue, car chases, gun battles and an unexpectedly downbeat ending. Marks directs with energy, pace and absolute efficiency, the film moving at speed from one improbably sleazy set up to the next. Tiffany Bolling and Robin Mattson are great in the lead roles as the sexy, uninhibited, amoral teenagers who bring real scuzzy flair to their roles. Alex Rocco and Timothy Brown are great as a pair of hitmen hot on their trail. One is white and one is black, and they bring a neat line in buddy banter – an obvious inspiration for “Pulp Fiction”. Overall “Bonnie’s Kids” is absolute drive-in gold; a hard-to-beat slice of exploitation thrills and sleazy noir shenanigans with a pair of great femme fatale leads.… (meer)
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calum-iain | May 25, 2019 |
A cool wee exploiter that sees cantankerous construction boss Walter McCoy (Keenan Wynn) returning from an excursion to Las Vegas with a new wife in tow – the young, sexy Karen (Judith Brown). McCoy’s two sons, Steve (Andrew Robinson) and Paul (Peter Hooten) think they will be cut out of the old man’s will and don’t take too kindly to the new arrival. It isn’t long, however, before the shady Karen is back in contact with scammers from her sordid Vegas past and sexing-up Steve, who is soon blindly infatuated with her. Things quickly tumble out of control into cross, double-cross and murder. Writer / producer Robert Blees and director Arthur Marks serve up a noir style thriller with plenty of added sexy exploitation frills. The story has a range of inconsistencies and falls apart if studied too closely but the tumbling plot twists, the non-stop intrigue, the cool contrivances, the breakneck pace and regular splashes of sex and violence ensure that it is highly engaging and entertaining throughout. Robert Birchall provides some glossy cinematography and Luchi De Jesus’ score has an appropriately groovy feel to it that works well with the various sordid onscreen shenanigans. Judith Brown is great as the femme fatale of the piece playing the role of the ruthless, manipulative Las Vegas whore who has lucked-out with plenty of amoral brio and sexy charm. Andrew Robinson is appropriately hapless as the easily manipulated sap Steve and Keenan Wynn makes for an enjoyably rambunctious bully and take-no-nonsense family patriarch. Overall “A Woman For All Men” is a classy and trashy, noir-tinged exploitation effort that features plenty of sordid goings-on, a superbly sexy and seductive femme fatale and any amount of plot twists and red herrings on the way to one final killer twist.… (meer)
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calum-iain | Apr 20, 2019 |
An effusive and beautiful set of friends - Carla (Marki Bey), Heather (Pat Woodell), Beth (Roberta Collins) and Brea (Laurie Rose) - spend summer at the idyllic location of Lake Arrowhead. They pass the days dancing, partying and trying out various men. Things are looking great for the girls until a mysterious, black-robed killer begins a murder spree. Although a good half decade before the slasher boom, "The Roommates" carries all the classic tropes of the genre, but doesn't have the emphasis in the right places. The film, therefore, starts out as a sunny all-girls-together light comedy, turns a touch more dramatic when potential boyfriends appear, before veering into murder territory in the final third and climaxing in a gun massacre at a country club . Along the way there is some pretty quirky dialogue and oddball social commentary from co-writers John Durren and director Arthur Marks - some of it pretty anachronistic and very much of its time. Harry J. May provides plenty of bright sunlight, which together with the groovy hairstyles, colourful clothes and breezy sunshine pop-like background music gives the film a faux-acid fried feel. The four leads are beautiful and charming with Marki Bey possibly the best as a hot librarian unapologetic about her enthusiastic sampling different men. The great Uschi Digard also pops up in a great scene-stealing cameo during the worlds tamest orgy sequence. "The Roommates" therefore is a weird and wonderful piece of '70s (s)exploitation that delivers plenty of beautiful women, some strange slices of social commentary and some lunatic melodrama; as well as prefiguring the slasher boom and the American love affair with the mass shooting.… (meer)
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calum-iain | Nov 3, 2018 |

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20
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Leden
82
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3.9
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4
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