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Santa Claus is kidnapped by the Martians to bring joy and presents to Mars.

Dr. Chen has been kidnapped by gangsters and his young martial-arts student will do anything to save his master.

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"In a hypothetical country in South America, Jeff Dawson and his partner Dutch Peterson have invested all their savings in a lease contract to explore oil. However, their expectation ruins when bandits blow the derrick of the oil well with dynamite and they get stranded in the town without any money. In despair, they accept the risky transportation of nitroglycerin to raise US$ 800.00 and Dutch is shot in the leg by road thieves; but Jeff discovers that their employer is a trickster and they...

"Gangster Alexander Ward, his girl friend, Gypsy Boulet, and two henchmen come to Deadwood, South Dakota with the idea of stealing a few gold bars. They enlist the aid of a local ski instructor, Gil Jackson, and plan to use him as a guide out of the territory after the robbery. However, a blizzard forces them to take refuge in Jackson's cabin, where Gypsy lowers the inside temperature by giving the cold shoulder to Ward, her former sweetie until she saw Jackson. Ward don't care, as he plans to...

The Emperor's armies have developed a new weapon: a thrown blade that can remove someone's head from long distance. As the paranoid Emperor begins decapitating anyone he fears might be a threat, his guard Mau Tang becomes disillusioned with the excesses of his master. He leaves his post and takes up the quiet life of farming and raising a family. Eventually, though, his past catches up with him, and he must find a way to fight the flying guillotine if he is to save his head.

Set in 1967 tn Venice. Calif., the lilm follows the waif of the title as she drifis from bad to ,orse.

Two variations may be noted by Western students in 'The Caravan Trail'... First, the singing hero, Eddie Dean, is billed as one who refuses to pack a gun because he once killed a man and it hurt his feelings. This is embarrassing because he is made Town Marshal by the villains when the old Marshal gets shot in the back. He gets around it by being handy with his dukes, and by boldly inaugurating a new custom in the cactus belt. He swears in three bandit gunmen who happen to be old friends of...

A cancer researcher on a remote Caribbean island discovers that by treating the natives with snake venom he can turn them into bug-eyed zombies. Uninterested in this information, the unfortunate man is forced by his evil employer to create an army of the creatures in order to conquer the world.

The characters keep intersecting, separating and recombining until the inevitable, of course, occurs. The denouement is downbeat - this is, after all, Jim Thompson's terrain - but the assurance and integrity of the filmmaking are uplifting."

For its purpose, 'Pioneer Justice' serves well. It's a fast-moving, action-crammed film which, though lacking in finesse, will keep the kiddies on the edge of their seats. Scripting, thesping and production are strictly coin-savin' standard but there's no stinting on the gunfighting, hoof-beating or knuckle-scraping. Yarn revolves around efforts of 'Lash' La Rue and his crusty sidekick, Al St. John, to track down the leader of a group of varmints trying to drive the law-abiding ranchers out of...

Musical hillbilly opus starring John Carradine, Martha O'Driscoll, and Eddie Dean is "out of the rut of the motheaten oatrunner formula and in the groove with an upbeat musical score, a zany laugh-getting script and a good cast... one of PRC's [Producers Releasing Corp.] best offerings to date. It's a hillbilly mule opera with a tongue-in-cheek treatment... A total of eight numbers, all highly listenable and several of sock quality.... Cast is topped by John Carradine who's taken off the leash...