Carroll Baker — Actor (32)
Harlow (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Harlow
other title: Harlow, A Venus Platinada / Jean Harlow - Glanz und Glorie Hollywoods
Jean Harlow arrives in Los Angeles as a teenager, pushed into showbiz by her mother and stepfather. Kindhearted agent Arthur Landau becomes Jean's mentor, while a devious Howard Hughes-like mogul grows infatuated with the beautiful young actress. Harlow herself falls for producer Paul Bern before tragedy strikes.
Cyclone (1978) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Ciclon
other title: O Ciclone / Tornado
An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive...that is ..until the rescue planes come to pick them up and the man eating sharks decide its time to eat as well.
Judgment Day: The John List Story (1993) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Judgment Day: The John List Story
other title: Das jüngste Gericht - John Lists Story / Deliver Them from Evil: The John List Story
The pious John List regularly goes to church and is respected by his neighbours. But one day the police finds his wife Helen and their three children slayed in their house - obviously by John, who left two letters for the police and his priest and disappeared. Chief Richland is disgusted by the murder and starts an intensive investigation. In flashbacks we learn about the history of the disaster.
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife (1976) [Movie] IMDb Douban
La Moglie di mio padre
director: 安德烈·比安奇 actor: 卡罗尔·贝克 / 阿道弗·切利
other title: La Moglie di mio padre / 继母劳拉
A wealthy man suffers from impotence whenever he tries to make love to his wife. Since Viagara hadn't been invented yet, his swinging liberal doctor instead recommends a strong dose of infidelity. Before long he is rolling in the hay with a young lovely and needless to say his impotence problem is cured (it's amazing that he doesn't have a heart attack though). His wife is a little bitter, however, and decides to embark on her own affair. And if you're wondering with whom, well, just look at the title.
Bad (1977) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Bad
director: Jed Johnson actor: 卡罗尔·贝克 / Perry King
other title: 壞心眼 / Andy Warhol's Bad
Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women the oppurtunity to perform hit jobs. L.T. is a parasite, and contacts Hazel looking for work after he runs out of money. She is reluctant to use him for a hit, since she prefers using women, but decides to try him on a trial basis. Meanwhile, the cop she pays off wants an arrest to make it look like he's doing his job, but Hazel doesn't want to sacrifice any of her "associates". The sleazy side of life is explored in this delightfully dark and deadpan film.
Giant (1956) [Movie] Eggplant.place
Giant
other title: Il gigante / Giganten
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.
Kindergarten Cop (1990) [Movie] Eggplant.place
Kindergarten Cop
other title: Un poliziotto alle elementari / Strømer i Børnehaveklassen
Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord while at the same time protecting the man's young son. Pitted against a class of boisterous moppets whose antics try his patience and test his mettle, Kimble may have met his match … in more ways than one.
So Sweet... So Perverse (1969) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Così dolce... così perversa
director: 翁贝托·伦齐 actor: 卡罗尔·贝克 / 让-路易·特兰蒂尼昂
other title: 毒美人 / Così dolce... così perversa
This movie (not to be confused with another Carroll Baker vehicle "Kiss Me, Kill Me" aka "Baba Yagi--the Witch")is Umberto Lenzi's follow-up to his groundbreaking classic "Paranoia". It came out the same year as Dario Argento's "The Bird with Crystal Plumage" (the film which started the deluge of Italian gialli) and was produced by the Martino brothers, who later made a number of interesting giallo films (usually featuring Eugenio Martino's alluring mistress, Edwige Fenech). It stars Carroll Baker, demonstrating her acting chops here by playing a character that is the exact opposite of the naive victim she played in "Paranoia", and it also features two excellent, native European actors--Jean Loius Trintignant and the gorgeous Erica Blanc. The script is surprisingly well-written and full of suspense and genuine surprises. It is a clever variation on the classic French film "Diabolique" with a decadent, high-society husband (Tritignant), wife (Blanc), and mistress (Baker) all crossing and double-crossing each other. It cleverly plays with the viewers awareness of the earlier film before throwing in an unexpected curve. It also seems to be very well filmed. (It's hard to believe that years later Lenzi would be making nauseating and inept cannibal films like "Cannibal Ferox" or just plain inept American slasher movies like "Hitcher in the Dark"). I say seems, however, because this film is only available on second or third generation copies of Greek videotapes that are not only panned-and-scanned, but are very badly panned-and-scanned so that the characters are often halfway off the screen. Trying to appreciate this movie is like trying to appreciate a beautiful painting that has both sides cropped off and is covered with really murky cellophane (and burnt-in Greek subtitles). If Lenzi's crap movies like "Ferox", "Hitcher", and even, god help us all,"Eaten Alive", can get the star DVD treatment, why can't "Paranoia" or this little gem? Oh, but I almost forgot--despite the title there isn't too much perversity here. Baker has a lot more nude scenes in "Paranoia". There is some Blanc-related nudity (although, in my opinion, you can never have enough of that), but the lesbian relationship between the two of them is unfortunately only hinted at. Of course, it may just have been cropped out. . .
The Carpetbaggers (1964) [Movie] Douban
The Carpetbaggers
director: 爱德华·迪麦特雷克 actor: 乔治·佩帕德 / 艾伦·拉德
other title: 江湖男女 / 江湖豪客
George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes.
While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach his human side, and find that it's an uphill battle.
The film's title is a metaphor for self-promoting tycoons who perform quick financial takeovers, impose dictatorial controls for short-term profits, then move on to greener pastures.
The Carpetbaggers is the kind of trashy classic most people were too embarrassed to admit they enjoyed back in the early 60s.
But this Harold Robbins adaptation is so cheerfully vulgar, it's hard not to have a good time - especially given the thinly veiled portrait of Howard Hughes at its center. George Peppard plays the heel-hero, who founds an airline company in the 1920s and buys a movie studio in the 1930s, crushing friends and mistresses along the way.
The high cheese factor is aided by the good-time cast: Carroll Baker as Peppard's hot stepmom, Bob Cummings (quite funny) as a cynical agent, and Elizabeth Ashley, who married Peppard, in her debut -uncharacteristically, as a good girl.
One sad note is Alan Ladd, looking and sounding very end-of-the-line in his final role, as a man's man cowboy star.
Elmer Bernstein's swaggering score helps goose the action along.
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (2008) [Movie] Douban
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
director: Richard Schickel actor: Clint Eastwood / Lauren Bacall
other title: 你一定还记得:华纳电影传奇
《时代》周刊影评人 Richard Schickel 2008年制作的华纳兄弟电影公司历史的纪录片。
Richard Schickel(《时代》周刊影评人)2008年做的纪录片,自然不会有什么爆点,IMDb上的8.8分显然是高估了,但整体来说,这套回顾性纪录片还是值得一看的。后三集(1950-2008)说的那些基本上都是耳熟能详的内容,当然前两集还是有一些有趣的内容,有些引用影片的构图、对白相当令人惊讶其大胆于同时代。
The.Sweet.Body.of.Deborah (1968) [Movie] Douban
Il dolce corpo di Deborah
director: 罗莫洛·圭列里 actor: 卡罗尔·贝克 / 让·索雷尔
other title: 黛博拉的娇躯 / Il dolce corpo di Deborah
新婚夫妇前往日内瓦欢度蜜月但丈夫自杀的前女友似乎阴魂不散地跟着他们...
Station Six-Sahara (1962) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Station Six-Sahara
director: 赛斯·霍尔特 actor: 卡罗尔·贝克 / 伊安·邦纳
other title: 撒哈拉六号基地 / 狂人荡妇
A beautiful blonde joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts the emotions soaring.
Baby Doll (1956) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Baby Doll
director: 伊利亚·卡赞 actor: 卡尔·莫尔登 / 卡罗尔·贝克
other title: 宝贝儿 / 娃娃新娘
Living in Tiger Tail County, Mississippi, middle aged Archie Lee Meighan and nineteen year old "Baby Doll" Meighan née McCargo have been married for close to two years. Their marriage is not based on love, but each getting what they want from the other. Their marriage agreement has them consummating their marriage on her twentieth birthday, which is in three days, the act to which Baby Doll is not really looking forward. But she does taunt him and other men with her overt "baby doll" sexuality, the baby doll aspect which she fosters by sleeping in their house's nursery in a crib. Baby Doll's now deceased father allowed the marriage on the stipulation that Archie Lee provide Baby Doll financial security as displayed by the most resplendent house in the south. They currently live in a dilapidated mansion with her Aunt Rose Comfort, and although Archie Lee is making some renovations on it, he no longer has the financial means to make it what Baby Doll wants as his cotton ginning ... Written by Huggo
Knife of Ice (1972) [Movie] Douban
Il coltello di ghiaccio
director: 翁贝托·伦齐 actor: 卡罗尔·贝克 / 艾伦·斯科特
other title: 冰刀 / Il coltello di ghiaccio
This early 70's giallo by Umberto Lenzi is certainly among the best in his filmography and also in the whole genre. Personally I think Lenzi's best films are the funny cartoon-turned-film Kriminal, the stylish giallo Seven Blood-Stained Orchids, the explosive Napoli violenta and this. In the eighties he did plenty of film trash in form of Eaten Alive, Hitcher in the Dark or Black Demons, all of which are ripping something off and/or very dull and slow moving. Knife of Ice came when the giallo boom was at its hottest and the result is convincing.
Technically the film is superb, containing great cinematography in the beginning when we learn about the main character's trauma towards trains. From this point on, Lenzi shows us his ability to benefit the widescreen and, for example, the bicycle ride near the forest is genuinely beautiful! This scene also shows Lenzi's ability to build suspense, very slowly but meaningfully. After all, there aren't so many murders in the whole film, only the suspense circulating around the murderer's identity.
One suspect is a devil worshipper which brings new aspects to the mystery. Since the final scene takes place in a church, one can wonder if Lenzi wanted to comment on something, maybe the hypocritical morale of church and superstition. The main character (Carrol Baker) is mute which demands a lot from her face and eyes. The actress works very well, giving us a believable performance circulating around the emotions of fear and mental pain. The other actors are good, too. The finally, however, may not give too positive a sight about female sex since they all are expressed rather negatively in the film, one way or another. Still this is easily among the most noteworthy in the genre, not as bloody as the Argento films, for example, but equally suspenseful and visually also interesting.
Death at the Deep End of the Swimming Pool (1971) [Movie] Douban
La última señora Anderson
director: 欧亨尼奥·马丁 actor: 卡罗尔·贝克 / 迈克尔·克雷格
other title: 第四位受害者 / La última señora Anderson
A wealthy Englishman finds his third wife dead. After the police discover that his first two wives had also died suddenly, an investigation is launched. Meanwhile, a new neighbour moves in and she seems to become very interested in Arthur.