The Moon-Spinners (1964)

The Moon-Spinners (1964)

British musicologist Frances Ferris (Joan Greenwood) and her late teen niece Nikky Ferris (Hayley Mills) are travelling through Crete recording Greek folk songs for the BBC. In the usually quiet coastal town of Aghios Georgios, they manage to get a room at an inn called “The Moon-Spinners”, despite the people at the inn being busy preparing for a wedding, and no one there, except Alexis (Michael Davis), the young teen son of the proprietress Sophia (Irene Papas), he who is fond of spouting current popular Americanisms in his slightly broken English, seeming to want them there.

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Mackenna's Gold (1969)

Mackenna’s Gold (1969)

Mackenna’s Gold movie storyline. Sheriff McKenna (Gregory Peck) kills an old Indian Chief in a shootout. While going through a sack, he discovers an old Map that leads to “Canyon del Oro.” Soon McKenna becomes surrounded with a rag tag group of citizens and criminals who want part of the Gold for themselves. During their journey they encouner hostility from within and outside the group.

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