DVD Dribble: Martini Movies
The New Centurions
This 1972 film pairs up George C. Scott and Stacy Keach as a couple of nightshift police partners, with Scott in the role of gruff mentor. In a unique slant on the standard police action drama, the movie features a mix of comedy and sudden violence. Other '70s icons even make an appearance as Eric Estrada and Isabel Sanford are also in the cast.
The New Centurions is based on a novel by Joseph Wambaugh.
This film is currently available.
The Anderson Tapes
What do you get when you mix Sean Connery, the mafia, a heist and a younger Christopher Walken? The answer is The Anderson Tapes.
The film's story revolves around Duke Anderson (Connery), who has been recently released from prison and is in the works with the mob to pull off an entire apartment robbery. What Anderson doesn't know is that the mafia has only hired him to relive the good old days before they became pencil pushers and some competition may beat him to the punch.
The Anderson Tapes is now available with most retailers.
The Garment Jungle
This 1957 black and white classic stars Lee J. Cobb and Kerwin Mathews.
A Korean War vet returns home to find that thugs are extorting his widowed father's dress shop in the garment district. It's up to Mathews to enlist help from a labor union in order to stop the mob's brutal tactics.
This film is now available for purchase.
Affair in Trinidad
This 1952 Martini Movie features a young Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford.
Hayworth, in the appropriate role as a nightclub dancer, must work in cahoots with a police investigation after the murder of her husband. This spy thriller is also part romance, as Hayworth's brother-in-law, played by Ford, becomes entangled into her dark life.
Affair in Trinidad is now available for purchase.
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$ (Dollars) teams up the indomitable Warren Beatty as a slick con man and the fantastic Goldie Hawn, as a high-class hooker. The pair becomes involved in a European bank heist and must escape with their money after burning several bridges.
This 1971 movie is now in stock in stores and online.