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On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.
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The people behind it
Lionel Stander
Richard
Donald Pleasence
George
Françoise Dorléac
Teresa
Jack MacGowran
Albie
Iain Quarrier
Christopher
Jacqueline Bisset
Jacqueline
Renée Houston
Christopher's Mother
William Franklyn
Cecil
Geoffrey Sumner
Christopher's Father
Robert Dorning
Philip Fairweather
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A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.
The story of former Ulster Volunteer Force member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffin's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
Jesse becomes reunited with Willy three years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.
A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who hunt humans for sport, and that he is their new prey.
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
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