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The Adventurers (1970)
1970s Movies

The Adventurers (1970)

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Dax Xenos (Bekim Fehmiu), a 10-year old boy in the South American country of Corteguay, witnesses the rape and murder of his mother by government soldiers and runs to his father, Jaime (Fernando Rey), who is with a band of revolutionaries. Jaime’s men capture the government soldiers, give Dax the privilege of personally executing his mother’s murderers, and then take the boy to their hideout in the mountains where he meets Amparo (Leigh Taylor-Young), the daughter of revolutionary leader Rojo.

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I Saw What You Did (1965)
1960s Movies

I Saw What You Did (1965)

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I Saw What You Did movie storyline. With true William Castle-style flamboyance the advertisements for I Saw What You Did intrigued non-etymologically inclined audiences by warning them that this suspenseful thriller was about uxoricide. He then had some of the theaters where the film was shown equipped with seat belts so frightened audience members wouldn’t flee the theater in a panic. It was a spooky film, but wasn’t all that scary.

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Spartacus (1960)
1960s Movies

Spartacus (1960)

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Spartacus movie storyline. In 73 B.C., a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a gladiatorial school run by Lentulus Batiatus (Sir Peter Ustinov). The uprising soon spreads across the Italian Peninsula involving thousand of slaves. The plan is to acquire sufficient funds to acquire ships from Silesian pirates who could then transport them to other lands from Brandisium in the south.

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