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Foundation date 1 january 1942
Embassy Pictures Corporation (later known as Avco Embassy Pictures and later Embassy Films Associates) was an independent studio and distributor responsible for such films as The Graduate, The Lion in Winter, Carnal Knowledge, This Is Spinal Tap and Escape from New York.
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(1981)Filmography of Embassy Pictures (163 films)
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The Daydreamer (1966)
, 1h41Directed by Jules Bass
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Mermaids in film, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Paul O'Keefe, Jack Gilford, Ray Bolger, Margaret Hamilton, Burl Ives, Sessue Hayakawa
It is early in the 19th century. The thirteen-year-old Hans Christian Andersen (called "Chris" for short; portrayed and voiced by Paul O'Keefe) is known in his native village of Odense, Denmark, as an incurable daydreamer. Actually, the boy's reveries are an escape from the hardships of his family's life.
Picture Mommy Dead (1966)
, 1h22Directed by Bert I. Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about families
Actors Don Ameche, Martha Hyer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Wendell Corey, Signe Hasso, Maxwell Reed
Susan Shelley thinks her father, Edward, killed her mother, Jessica, years ago. Newly released from an asylum after 3 years, she is reunited with her father and a new stepmother, Francene, but suspicious goings-on threaten to push her over the edge.
, 1h40Directed by Eduardo De Filippo
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Crime
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Raquel Welch, Eduardo De Filippo, Regina Bianchi, Leopoldo Trieste, Tecla Scarano
Alberto is a sculptor who sometimes has trouble separating his fantasies from reality. He shares a home in Naples with his Uncle Nicola. One night after meeting the beautiful Tania, he dreams that his neighbour, Amitrano, has been murdered by his family. He reports it to the police. Later he tells the police that he may have just imagined it but the police refuse to believe him, knowing that Amitrano was a gangster, and arrest him. Then Amitrano appears and demands Alberto's passport so he can escape to South America. Eventually Alberto and Tania flee from Naples.
The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966)
, 1h33Directed by Daniel Petrie
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Spy films, Films about dogs
Actors Laurence Harvey, Daliah Lavi, Lionel Jeffries, Eric Sykes, Eric Portman, Denholm Elliott
Where the Bullets Fly (1966)
, 1h28Directed by John Gilling
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Spy
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Tom Adams, Dawn Addams, Michael Ripper, Tim Barrett, Joe Don Baker, Sid James
The film begins with a pre-credit sequence in which a group of unnamed terrorists have parked a vehicle containing a guided missile pointed straight at the Palace of Westminster whilst politicians are heard on the film's soundtrack. They are thwarted by a group of older women in a tour group who turn out to be cross-dressing commandos who eliminate the terrorists with sub-machine guns and grenades. They are led by Agent Charles Vine with his second-in-command being Lt. Guy Fawkes who has saved the Parliament of England.
, 1h23Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror, Crime, Western
Themes Films about families, Films about computing, Films based on science fiction novels, Frankenstein films, Jesse James, Cyberpunk films, Gangster films
Actors John Rollin Lupton, Narda Onyx, Estelita Rodríguez, Joe Bob Briggs, Jim Davis, Steven Geray
During the late 1880s, Dr Frankenstein’s evil granddaughter Maria has moved to the American West with her brother Rudolph, in order to use the prairie lightning storms in her experiments on immigrant children snatched from a dying town. Maria is very much in charge, killing the children and replacing their brains with artificial ones, intending to revive them as her slaves. Rudolph however, is reluctant to help his sister, but is too afraid of her to do otherwise. After a number of failures (owing to Rudolph secretly poisoning the victims as soon as his sister revives them), they are finding it increasingly difficult to hide the trail of bodies. Down the road, Mañuel Lopez and his wife Nina decide to leave town with their daughter Juanita because of the frequent disappearances, the latest of which is that of their son.
A Man Called Adam (1966)
, 1h39Directed by Leo Penn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Sammy Davis Jr., Ossie Davis, Cicely Tyson, Peter Lawford, Johnny Brown, Mel Tormé
Adam Johnson is a talented African-American jazz cornetist, plagued by ill health, racism, alcoholism and a short temper, as well as guilt over the deaths years before of his wife and child. The result is a caustic personality that wears even on those who care the most about him, such as his best friend Nelson, and Vincent, a young Caucasian trumpeter whom Adam mentors. Arriving unexpectedly at his New York home drunk after walking out on his jazz quintet, Adam finds prominent Civil Rights worker Claudia Ferguson and her grandfather, Willie, who is himself a well-known jazz trumpeter, in his apartment. The two have been given access to the apartment by Nelson, but despite having authorized this, the drunken Adam is rude to both, that including making a vulgar pass at Claudia.
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about families, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Actors Maximilian Schell, Gregory Peck
, 1h39Directed by André Hunebelle
Origin France
Genres Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Frederick Stafford, Mylène Demongeot, François Maistre, Raymond Pellegrin, Perrette Pradier, Annie Anderson
Secret Agent OSS 117, Colonel Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath (Frederick Stafford) has his Alpine ski holiday interrupted to receive a briefing on a series of suicide attacks performed by trusted assistants of their targets that they blow up with themselves. Using the cover of a journalist named Hubert Delacroix, de La Bath flies to Brazil to meet his contact Thomas Ellis (Claude Carliez) who believes the killers have been drugged and hypnotised to perform their assassinations.
Licensed to Kill (1965)
, 1h36Directed by Lindsay Shonteff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors Tom Adams, Karel Štěpánek, Sammy Davis Jr., Veronica Hurst, Peter C. Bull, John Arnatt
Facing numerous assassination attempts, a Swedish scientist who has invented an anti-gravity device and his daughter seek to provide the invention to the United Kingdom. With James Bond unavailable, H.M. Government provides Agent Charles Vine (Tom Adams), a former mathematician, as a bodyguard and exterminator.
A Pistol for Ringo (1965)
, 1h38Directed by Duccio Tessari
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Christmas films
Actors Giuliano Gemma, Nieves Navarro, Fernando Sancho, José Manuel Martín, Lorella De Luca, Antonio Casas
The film opens as the films protagonist, a gunfighter known as "Angel Face" or Ringo, kills four men in a gunfight. He is then arrested for manslaughter and locked up in the city jail where he awaits trial.
Village of the Giants (1965)
, 1h21Directed by Bert I. Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Films based on science fiction novels, Comedy science fiction films, Films about cats, Musical films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Beau Bridges, Ron Howard, Joy Harmon, Robert Random
Village of the Giants takes place in fictional Hainesville, California. After crashing their car into a roadblock during a rainstorm, a group of partying, big-city teenagers (Fred, Pete, Rick, Harry, and their girlfriends Merrie, Elsa, Georgette and Jean) first indulge in a vigorous, playful mud-wrestling fight, then hike their way into town. Fred remembers meeting a girl from Hainesville named Nancy, and they decide to look her up.
Father Frost (1965)
, 1h24Directed by Alexandre Rou
Origin Russie
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Inna Tchourikova, Eduard Izotov, Pavel Pavlenko, Vera Altayskaya, Tatyana Barysheva, Tatyana Pelttser
The lovely, humble Nastenka is despised by her stepmother who favors her own mean-spirited and ugly daughter, Marfushka, and her meek father is powerless to stop her. After forcing Nastenka to knit socks before the rooster crows (with Nastenka ultimately imploring the sun to go down again so she can have more time), Nastenka's stepmother gives Nastenka the tasks of feeding the chickens, watering the cattle, splitting wood, and sweeping the yard. We are then introduced to Ivan, who, finishing his chores, heads out into the woods after receiving some final words of guidance from his mother, such as not forgetting his mother, not harming the weak, and honoring those who are old. To all these pieces of advice Ivan off-handedly replies "Don't worry" repeatedly.
A House Is Not a Home (1964)
, 1h38Directed by Russell Rouse
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Shelley Winters, Robert Taylor, Cesar Romero, Ralph Taeger, Kaye Ballard, Broderick Crawford
Polly Adler is a poor Polish immigrant who works in a sweatshop. She loses her job after she is sexually assaulted by a coworker, for which her boss blames her.
, 1h21Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Films about music and musicians, Christmas films, Mars in film, Comedy science fiction films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Musical films, Martiens, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Santa Claus in film, Robot films
Actors Bill McCutcheon, Pia Zadora, Vincent Beck, Ned Wertimer
The story involves the people of Mars, including Momar ("Mom Martian") and Kimar ("King Martian"). They're worried that their children Girmar ("Girl Martian") and Bomar ("Boy Martian") are watching too much Earth television, most notably station KID-TV's interview with Santa Claus in his workshop at the North Pole. Consulting the ancient 800-year-old Martian sage Chochem (a Yiddish word meaning "genius"), they are advised that the children of Mars are growing distracted due to the society's overly rigid structure; from infancy, all their education is fed into their brains through machines and they are not allowed individuality or freedom of thought.