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The Water Babies **½ (1978, James Mason, Bernard Cribbins, Billie Whitelaw, Joan Greenwood, David Tomlinson, Tommy Pendler, Samantha Gates) – Classic Movie Review 10,370

The Charles Kingsley classic novel about the underwater adventures of a Victorian chimney-sweep 12-year-old boy called Tom (Tommy Pender) is filmed by the actor Lionel Jeffries as part live action, part animation. The young sweep […]

Sep, 30

Up Periscope *** (1959, James Garner, Edmond O’Brien, Andra Martin) – Classic Movie Review 8325

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1959 Warner Bros drama Up Periscope is a tale of wartime underwater high-jinks, graced with James Garner as an underwater demolitions expert, US Navy Lieutenant Ken Braden, and Edmond O’Brien as an […]

Apr, 02

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! ** (1978, David Miller, George Wilson, Sharon Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 3948

Co-writer/ director John De Bello’s cheap (budget of $90,000) and trashy 1978 horror movie is an energetically silly spoof of sci-fi cult films. It stars David Miller, George Wilson and Sharon Taylor. They advertised it […]

Jan, 04

The City Under the Sea [War Gods of the Deep] *** (1965, Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, David Tomlinson, Susan Hart) – Classic Movie Review 4290

Vincent Price is highly effective as the ruler of an ancient underwater kingdom in director Jacques Tourneur’s innocuously entertaining 1965 fantasy adventure inspired by an Edgar Allan Poe poem. In a familiar Poe theme, Price’s […]

Sep, 03

The Amazing Captain Nemo ** (1978, José Ferrer, Horst Buchholz, Mel Ferrer, Burgess Meredith, Lynda Day George) – Classic Movie Review 3727

Director Alex March’s 1978 movie finds that it is up to José Ferrer to take over as Jules Verne’s character Captain Nemo from James Mason in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) and Robert Ryan in Captain Nemo […]

May, 20

Head above Water *** (1996, Harvey Keitel, Cameron Diaz, Billy Zane, Craig Sheffer) – Classic Movie Review 2886

Based on Nils Gaup‘s 1993 Norwegian black comedy thriller, Hodet over Vannet, Head above Water (1996) is the story of supreme court judge George, his very young wife Nathalie, her ex-lover Kent, the boy next […]

Sep, 07

Revenge of the Creature *** (1955, John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva) – Classic Movie Review 1932

‘Weird Monster Escapes! Terror Seizes City!’ The 1955 monster movie Revenge of the Creature brings scientists back to the Amazon’s Black Lagoon, where the Gill Man (Ricou Browning/ Tom Hennesy) is captured and then transported […]

Dec, 07

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