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The 1953 Technicolor film Prince of Pirates stars John Derek as Prince Roland, who leads a revolt against his tyrannical brother, in this passable 16th-century European adventure. Naturally, Derek wins the day and fair maiden […]
Director Bob Kellett’s relatively harmless 1977 British comedy Are You Being Served? is the big-screen spinoff from the much-loved long-running BBC TV series as the staff of the London Grace Brothers department store flies off […]
Director George Templeton’s 1951 romantic historical adventure Quebec is silly, unpersuasive costumed tosh located during the 1830s Canadian battle for independence from Britain. The emphasis is on a soapy personal story in which the governor’s […]
Director Piero Costa’s 1964 Revolt of the Mercenaries [La Rivolta dei Mercenari] is a lurid and lusty if somewhat mediocre Italian swashbuckler, set during the Renaissance in Friuli, Venezia, in an Italy that was then […]
Rhonda Fleming stars as ancient Roman patrician’s daughter Fabiola, who falls for a handsome young Christian slave called Vibio (Lang Jeffries). Nevertheless, the fiery Fabiola has Vibio flogged for disobeying an order. Fleming and her […]
Co-writer/director Sergei M Eisenstein’s 1925 Soviet silent movie classic recreates the successful sailors’ revolt against their officers aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin in Odessa harbour in 1905 when faced with eating maggot-ridden food. Eisenstein’s dramatised […]
Errol Flynn stars as Gunnar Brogge, the leader of the Trollness Norwegian underground, in the stirringly done 1943 patriotic wartime film Edge of Darkness. Warner Bros’ World War Two patriotic wartime toast to the brave […]