BENGAL TIGER (1936) Cliff Ballenger (
Barton MacLane, better known for supporting roles in WB crime dramas) is the lion - tamer, who just cannot come to terms with the fact that the tiger Satan, is just not going to be tamed. One night, he comes home drunk, and goes into the arena with Satan, and is about to be killed, when his friend Carl Homan (
Paul Graetz) comes to his aid, and takes the brunt of the attack. He dies. Learning of Homan's daughter, Ballenger takes it upon himself to support her, and even marries her; but she does not love him, and being introduced to the circus performers, falls for one. Ballenger, learns of it, and tries to murder the guy with the tiger.
Dark Tower (1943) Stephen Torg (
Herbert Lom) is a hypnotist who rives a failing circus by hypnotizing a female acrobat so she can perform on a high wire without balancing aids. But, he seduces her, and all the performers hate him. Fairly good plot.
Hitler Kaput! /
Hitler goes Kaput (2008) A Russian-made comedy about a Russian spy in the guise of an SS officer. I kept expecting that Python guy dressed as a British officer to show up, and complain about how silly it was. Even though it is set in the late 1944/early 1945 time, they have all the hi-tech gizmos of the current time, including laptop computers. Very silly.
ACROSS 110TH STREET (1972) Mafia guys are in run-down apartment in NY, making exchange of goods for money with Harlem gang guys, when guys dressed as cops break in & demand all the money. One has a sub-machine gun, and when a Mafia guy goes for his own gun, wipes them out. The thieves/ murderers scoop-up all the money, and run. The Mafia top guys cannot abide such a thing, and intend to get the perps before the cops can.
Capt. Mattelli (
Anthony Quinn) is a racist/old 3rd degree, style- type and is nearing retirement. he resents Lt. Pope (
Yaphet Kotto) who is the new guy, and is in charge of the investigation. Plenty of conflict between the two gangs, and, likewise between the Capt. & the Lt., both because of rank & race. Very intense!
MANIAC (1963) Hammer film; remains very intense, despite its age. Man rapes girl, her father kills him with acetylene torch, goes insane asylum instead of prison. 4 years later, along comes the hero, Jeff Farrell (
Kerwin Mathews) who becomes interested in the girl, now 19, but her stepmother seduces him, and lures him into a plot to help her husband (the maniac) escape from the nut house.
The ending was very satisfying!