Double Feature
House of Cards (IB Tech Print)
The blood-hot diary of the people who fight the war of intrigue across the face of the globe! A retired American boxer, broke in Paris, is hired to look after the eight-year-old son of a wealthy widow. But he soon finds himself ensnared in an international conspiracy in this spellbinding Hitchcockian thriller. George Peppard, Inger Stevens, and Orson Welles star.
- Director
- John Guillermin
- Writer
- Screenplay by James P. Bonner [Irving Ravetch & Harriet Frank, Jr.] based on the novel by Stanley Ellin
- Starring
- George Peppard, Inger Stevens, Orson Welles, Keith Mitchell, Maxine Audley
- Year
- 1968
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 105 minutes
From Hell to Victory
Six friends (George Peppard, George Hamilton, Horst Bucholz, Annie Duperey, Jean-Pierre Cassel and Sam Wanamaker) meet in a Paris café in 1939 and vow to return each year at the same time for a reunion. But the impending world war lasts longer than anyone thought, and it delays their rendezvous, with bittersweet results. The sextet separate and go their separate ways, some ending up in the military and some in the French Resistance. Umberto Lenzi (Paranoia, Nightmare City) directed under the pseudonym Hank Milestone. The gorgeous cinematography – at least what isn’t stock footage from other previous Italian war epics – was lensed by future Almodóvar cameraman José Luis Alcane and the score is by Riz Ortolani (Mondo Cane, One on Top of The Other). Co-starring Capucine, Ray Lovelock and Howard Vernon.
- Director
- Umberto Lenzi
- Starring
- George Peppard, George Hamilton, Horst Buchholz, Ann Deperey, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Capucine, Sam Wanamaker
- Year
- 1979
- Country
- Italy/Spain/France
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 97 minutes