Dean Stockwell

  • Dean Stockwell & Neil Young – Human Highway (1982)

    Neil Young1981-1990CultDean StockwellSci-FiUSA

    Quote:
    The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.Read More »

  • Juan López Moctezuma – To Kill a Stranger (1984)

    1981-1990HorrorJuan López MoctezumaMexicoThriller

    ator. After a car accident one day, Cristina brings the helpful Col. Kostik (Donald Pleasence) home and then kills him in self-defense when he violently attempts to rape and murder her. Terrified, she covers up her act and hides the body, yet in spite of her husband’s efforts to protect her, a local police detective starts to figure out what really happened.Read More »

  • Dennis Hopper – Catchfire aka Backtrack (1990)

    USA1981-1990ActionCrimeDennis Hopper

    Quote:
    An artist (Foster) witnesses a Mafia hit and calls the police. At the police station she realizes that the Mafia has a man in the force, so she runs. Trailed by the police, who need her testimony, and a hitman (Hopper) hired by the Mafia, she goes to Mexico, where eventually she meets the hitman, who has become infatuated after studying her art and life to prepare for the hit.Read More »

  • Daniel Haller – The Dunwich Horror (1970)

    1961-1970CultDaniel HallerHorrorUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    Dr. Henry Armitage (Ed Begley), an expert in the occult, goes to the old Whateley manor in Dunwich looking for Nancy Wagner (Sandra Dee), a student who went missing the previous night. He and Elizabeth, a friend and classmate of Nancy’s, are turned away by Wilbur (Dean Stockwell), the family’s insidious heir, who has plans for the young girl. But Armitage won’t be deterred. Through conversations with the locals, he soon unearths the Whateleys’ darkest secret — as well as a great evil.Read More »

  • Richard Rush – Psych-Out (1968)

    1961-1970DramaMusicalRichard RushRock n' Roll MusicalsUSA

    Quote:
    Jennie (Susan Strasberg) travels to San Francisco to locate her hippie brother Steve (Bruce Dern). She meets Stoney (Jack Nicholson) in a coffeehouse and he helps her look for Steve, who Stoney has seen in his various attempts to start a rock & roll band. Stoney and his pals transform the square girl into a swinging hippie chick, complete with a mod miniskirt. Along with their buddy Dave (Dean Stockwell), they search for Steve amidst the psychedelic splendor of the Haight-Ashbury hippie haunts. Dave is killed by a car when he wanders around in an STP-induced stupor.Read More »

  • Miguel Littin – Sandino (1990)

    1981-1990ChileDramaMiguel LittinPolitics

    Synopsis:
    Narrative of a period of 8 years(1926-1934) in the life of the leader of Nicaraguan revolution ‘Sandino’ , who was known in his time as “the general of free men.”Read More »

  • Richard Fleischer – Compulsion (1959)

    Drama1951-1960CrimeQueer Cinema(s)Richard FleischerUSA

    Quote:
    Compulsion is a compelling, stylish thriller, loosely based on the famous 1924 murder trial of thrill-killers Loeb and Leopold, two homosexual students who murdered a young boy to demonstrate their intellectual superiority. Artie Straus (Bradford Dillman) is a sadistic, mother-dominated bully. Judd Steiner (Dean Stockwell) is a submissive, introverted sissy. Having been raised by wealthy, arrogant families, both Artie and Judd consider themselves above conventional morality. Unfeeling and conceited, the boys, after thRead More »

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