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Foundation date 27 october 1967
The Cannon Group Inc. was an American group of companies, including Cannon Films, which produced a distinctive line of low- to medium-budget films from 1967 to 1994. The extensive group also owned, amongst others, a large international cinema chain and a video film company that invested heavily in the video market, buying the international video rights to several classic film libraries.
The company was much more popular in the United Kingdom than in its native United States, which is indicative as to why the group owned several cinema chains in the UK.
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(1988)Filmography of Cannon Group (204 films)
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The Happy Hooker (1975)
, 1h36Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, Striptease
Actors Lynn Redgrave, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Conrad Janis, Tom Poston, George Dzundza, Richard Lynch
As prostitutes are arrested in New York, a flashback begins to the life of one of them, a Dutch secretary Xaviera Hollander (Redgrave) who moved to New York in hopes of marrying her fiancé Carl (Pryor), whom she met whilst visiting her sister in South Africa.
The No Mercy Man (1973)
, 1h31Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Political films
Actors Sid Haig, Rockne Tarkington, Carol Locatell, Ron Thompson, Steve Sandor, Mike Lane
Prophet and his friends are carnies and itinerant criminals in Arizona. After robbing a liquor store Prophet and a friend evade the local Sheriff and stop at the ranch of Mark Hand, a decorated war veteran. Feeling suspicious, Mark tells Prophet he can help himself to water at a pump behind the house but covers him with a rifle. Prophet's friend overpowers Mark from behind, ties him up and beats him prior to robbing Mark's house. Attracted by the mass amount of firearms in Mark's cabinet, they are distracted by Mark's daughter Mary who Prophet's friend attempts to rape. Mary wounds him with a knife and escapes in the desert coming across the car returning home driven by Mrs Hand and Mary's brother Olie who has returned from the Vietnam War with decorations and mental illnesses. Prophet and his friend make their escape with Mark puzzled that Olie doesn't want to hunt the criminals, preferring to let the sheriff handle the matter.
Au Pair Girls (1972)
, 1h26Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Johnny Briggs, Gabrielle Drake, Elizabeth Joyce Heron, Daphne Anderson, Geoffrey Bayldon, Roger Avon
The film opens with four girls arriving at London Heathrow Airport. They are taken to the offices of Overseas Employment Agency which has arranged placements for them. The film then plays out the adventures of each of the four girls.
, 1h30Directed by Ernest Pintoff
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Red Buttons, Sylvia Miles, Alice Playten, Conrad Bain, Dick Anthony Williams, Sam Waterston
The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
, 1h33Directed by Piers Haggard
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about religion, Demons in film, Witches in film
Actors Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, Michele Dotrice, James Hayter, Wendy Padbury, Anthony Ainley
In early 18th century England. Ralph Gower (Barry Andrews) uncovers a deformed skull with one eye and strange fur on it while ploughing a field. Ralph insists that local judge (Patrick Wymark) look at it, but the skull has vanished and the judge disregards Ralph's supernatural fears. Later, many people in the village become affected by its supernatural power, including a young woman (Tamara Ustinov) who sprouts a claw, and children who find a strange claw and then behave oddly and grow patches of fur on their bodies.
I, Monster (1971)
, 1h15Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Richard Hurndall, George Merritt, Susan Jameson, Marjie Lawrence
Psychologist Charles Marlowe (Lee) invents a drug which will release his patients' inhibitions. When he tests it on himself, he becomes the evil Edward Blake, who descends into crime and eventually murder. Utterson (Cushing), Marlowe's lawyer, believes that Blake is blackmailing his friend until he discovers the truth.
Lupo! (1970)
, 1h50Directed by Menahem Golan
Origin Israel
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Yehuda Barkan
His home slated to be torn down, his business in serious financial trouble and his only daughter poised to leave the nest with her wealthy fiancé, small-time Tel Aviv second hand store owner Lupo (Yehuda Barkan) still finds the strength to keep his life, and his pride, together. But as he fights overeager housing authorities and charms his daughter's future in-laws, he finds himself the romantic target of a loud local widow.
Joe (1970)
, 1h42Directed by John G. Avildsen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, Susan Sarandon, K Callan, Frank Vitale
Advertising executive Bill Compton (Patrick), his wife Joan (Audrey Caire), and daughter Melissa (Sarandon) are a wealthy family living in New York's Upper East Side. Melissa has been living with her drug dealer boyfriend. After Melissa overdoses and is sent to a hospital, Compton goes to her boyfriend's apartment to get her clothes. He confronts and kills the boyfriend in a fit of rage. At a nearby bar he hears factory worker Joe Curran (Boyle) ranting about how he hates hippies, and blurts out that he just killed one. Joe reacts favorably, but Compton says it was a joke.
The Beast in the Cellar (1970)
, 1h41Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Beryl Reid, Flora Robson, John Hamill, Tessa Wyatt, T.P. McKenna, Vernon Dobtcheff
Soldiers in a rural military base are being brutally murdered. They suspect a wild cat. Two local ladies: Joyce Balentine (Flora Robson) and Ellie (Beryl Reid) suspect it may be their brother, Steven (Dafydd Havard); a man who has been locked in a basement for thirty years.