Lust for a Vampire (1971)

Proving there was more to British vampire films than Christopher Lee in a cloak, the heirs of the Karnstein use the blood of a maiden (of course) to return to life the beautiful and evil Carmilla Karnstein. The locals warn of dark deeds taking place in the Karnstein castle...

However, when novelist Richard Lestrange (Michael Johnson) turns up at the castle he finds a rather strange finishing school run by Giles (Ralph Bates). The latest pupil is the rather gorgeous Mircalla (Yutte Stensgaard), with whom Richard falls in love and he manages to get a job at the school as a teacher...

Then the deaths start to occur, at the school and the village. Could it be Mircalla is actually the evil Carmilla?

An exotic and fun romp of a film though with a rather incoherent plot. You might not be too bothered about that though due to the amount of cleavage on show.

Drugs Are Like That (1969)

A bizarre little film warning children about the dangers of drugs. The film shows children indulging in normal childhood antics like building lego and stealing from the cookie jar and then the narrator Anita Bryant warns the viewer that "drugs are like that!". 

Basically anything you might do also be dangerous, we cut to a child swinging on a rope over water which snaps, and the child ends up drowning. Drugs are like that apparently!

So it is rather strange and rather weird. Whether it would stop anyone trying drugs is doubtful. You might feel you have dropped some acid after watching it.

Ninja Condors (1987)

A remarkably over the top ninja film (even by the standards of the genre!) As a boy Brian (Alexander Lo Rei) witnessed his father torn apart by motorbikes, but was saved by a cop. Now he is a man and part of a brutal ninja crime syndicate led by Lucifer (George Nicholas). However Brian's heart isn't really in all the killings involved and he is kicked out of the gang. Though next Lucifer orders him to be killed (which makes the decision to let him go in the first place a bit strange, but plot coherence isn't the film's strongest point).

Brian meets a guy called Eddie (Eugene Thomas) and they start a strange friendship. They also become targets for Lucifer's gang. Many many fights follow, including involving Lucifer's girlfriend (Mary Johnson). Eddie turns out to be a cop and using Brian to get the low-down on Lucifer's gang...

The action in this film is completely over the top with many ninja wire-fu stunts. The sheer insanity of the action really makes the film. There isn't a great deal of story, but there are quite a few decapitations and lots of throwing stars.

I Cover the Waterfront (1933)

Joe Miller (Ben Lyon) is an investigative reporter and the waterfront is his beat. He is convinced that Eli Kirk (Ernest Torrence) is smuggling in illegal Chinese immigrants (though sometimes they end up drowned!) However, Joe cannot get a lead on Eli and his editor is on his case. Then Joe discovers Eli's lovely daughter Julie (Claudette Colbert) and thinks he can get the information he needs through her. Love gets in the way of his plan...

An enjoyable film, Eli Kirk is a fascinating character who thinks nothing of throwing his human cargo overboard to their deaths if the Coast Guard are approaching. The romance between Joe and Julie flows very naturally, Claudette Colbert really steals the movie though. Any scenes she is in are dominated by her presence. All the mains have some moral ambiguities to some degree which adds some needed layers to what is, on the main, a standard tale of smuggling.

The Trouble with Women (1959)

Brad (Chet Davis) has a problem, and that is women. Pesky women ruining his lovely workplace. Some of them just want to get married damn it! Luckily Brad is given a talk by his friend in Personnel and finds out that (gasp!) women are actually good at their jobs after all! 

A rather dated and unintentionally funny public information film promoting gender equality. We've come a long way, though a long way still to go. Not quite as long a way as Brad needed to go.