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Gold, a review by GSyren

Title	Gold (5-060082-518430)
Director	Peter R. Hunt
Actors	Roger Moore, Susannah York, Ray Milland, Bradford Dillman, John Gielgud
Produced	1974 in United Kingdom
Runtime	124 minutes
Audio	English PCM Mono
Subtitles	None
Overview	Roger Moore and Susannah York star in Wilbur Smith`s explosive 1974 international conspiracy thriller, set in the South African goldfields and directed by Peter Hunt (On Her Majesty`s Secret Service). A ruthless global cabal of financial investors plan to manipulate the price of gold on the world market - by sabotaging one of South Africa`s top gold mines and flooding it with millions of gallons of water. All they need is someone to take the blame. Manager Rod Slater (Roger Moore) seems the perfect choice. He s brash, rough and impulsive - just the sort of man to make a fatal mistake. As Slater embarks on an affair with Terry (Suzannah York), the heiress granddaughter of mine owner Hurry Hirschfeld (Ray Milland), the conspiracy tightens all around him and thousands of lives hang by a thread... Based on a best-selling novel by Wilbur Smith and filmed entirely on location in South Africa, Gold is an unforgettable thriller with a breath-taking climax and a fantastic cast which also includes John Gielgud and Bradford Dillman.
My thoughts	A disaster movie and
My rating	4 out of 5

(From Reviews and ramblings by Gunnar on November 16th, 2013)

Twice Told Tales, a review by addicted2dvd

Twice Told Tales: Midnite Movies Double Feature (1963/United States) Trailer |IMDb |Wikipedia | MGM Home Entertainment Director: Sidney Salkow Writing: Nathaniel Hawthorne (Original Material By), Robert E. Kent (Screenwriter) Length: 120 min. Rating: NR Video: Widescreen 1.66:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Mono Subtitles: French, Spanish

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Stars:
Vincent Price (1911) as Medbourne/Rappaccini/Pyncheon
Sebastian Cabot as Dr. Carl Heidigger
Brett Halsey as Giovanni Guasconti
Beverly Garland as Alice Pyncheon
Richard Denning as Jonathan Maulle
Mari Blanchard as Sylvia Ward

Plot:
It's spine-tingling terror... in triplicate! "Virtuoso of horror" (Los Angeles Times) Vincent Price dials up the depravity in this spellbinding trilogy of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "all-chiller" (LA Herald-Examiner) classics! Featuring "a demented genius! Poisonous plants! Oozing blood! [And] a corpse in a wedding gown" (The Film Daily), Twice Told Tales spins three diabolical nightmares of madness, mayhem and murder most foul!

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Feature Trailers

This is one that is in Danae Cassandra's collection. My first thought when I saw the opening credits... Vincent Price! A favorite of mine... can't go wrong here. And it didn't go wrong. I enjoyed this one quite a bit... it isn't my favorite Vincent Price movie out there... but it is definitely a good one.. one I hope to add to my own collection at some point.

This film is an anthology... it has 3 separate stories in the one film.... all three starring Vincent Price. My favorite segment is the last one... very good. Followed by the first segment... which I also enjoyed quite a bit. the second segment unfortunately left some to be desired. But over all I would say this one is definitely worth the time put in to watch it. Recommended.

 

Scorecard:
TV Eps: 14
Movies: 7

(From Month Long Horror/Halloween Marathon on October 7th, 2014)

Pete's Pilots, a review by addicted2dvd

Doogie Howser, M.D.
Neil Patrick Harris stars as Douglas "Doogie" Houwser, a whiz kid who breezed through high school in 9 weeks, graduated from Princeton at 10 and passed his medical board at 14. But as a 16-year-old doctor, Doogie must now find a way to balance the demands of professional medicine with the everyday pressures of being a teenager. In this debut season, Doogie experiences his first kiss, loses his first patient, fights the system at Eastman Medical Center, and discovers some unique lessons about life, death and growing up with help of his best friend Vinnie (Max Casella), his parents (Belinda Montgomery and James Sikking), his new girlfriend Wanda (Lisa Dean Ryan), his boss Dr. Canfield (Lawrence Pressman) and more. When you're a boy genius, life can be a mystery: This is Doogie Howser, M.D.

Pilot
Doogie needs to pass one test to get his driver's license, and another when he treats a critically ill boy.

My Thoughts:
I was just coming out of my teens when this series originally aired. And I instantly found this sitcom not only funny but fascinating. I always thought this series had one of the best opening scenes for the pilot episode. It introduces the character of Doogie perfectly. To this day I get a kick out of the opening scene of this episode. This is one series I am thrilled I have every episode of. After watching this episode I could see myself doing a marathon of the entire series run!

My Rating:

(From Pete's Pilots on December 29th, 2009)