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Curse of Simba [Curse of the Voodoo] * (1965, Bryant Haliday, Dennis Price, Lisa Daniely) – Classic Movie Review 11,108

Director Lindsay Shonteff’s 1965 British-American black-and-white supernatural horror film Curse of Simba [Curse of the Voodoo] [Voodoo Blood Death] stars Bryant Haliday, Dennis Price, and Lisa Daniely, and is set in Africa but filmed in […]

Apr, 18

The Lion Hunters ** (1951, Johnny Sheffield, Morris Ankrum, Ann E Todd, Douglas Kennedy, Smoki Whitfield) – Classic Movie Review 11,008

Director Ford Beebe’s acceptably standard 1951 black and white Monogram Pictures adventure The Lion Hunters is the fifth Bomba the Jungle Boy series entry, again starring Johnny Sheffield as Bomba. The usual African jungle excitements […]

Mar, 10

White Woman (1933, Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton, Charles Bickford, Kent Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 10,747

Director Stuart Walker’s infamous 1933 American pre-Code black and white Paramount Pictures drama film White Woman stars Charles Laughton, Carole Lombard, Kent Taylor and Charles Bickford. Lombard plays nightclub singer Judith Denning, a young widow […]

Jan, 03

Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend ** (1985, William Katt, Sean Young, Patrick McGoohan, Julian Fellowes) – Classic Movie Review 10,656

‘The greatest adventure ever born!’ Director B W L Norton’s 1985 family sci-fi adventure Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend found Walt Disney studios in trouble with a fumbled Eighties King Kong-style adventure with a […]

Dec, 12

The Heart of the Matter *** (1953, Trevor Howard, Elizabeth Allan, Maria Schell) – Classic Movie Review 10,196

The 1953 British drama The Heart of the Matter is an interesting film of one of Graham Greene’s best novels. Trevor Howard is effective as the unhappily married British security policeman who has a guilty […]

Aug, 19

The Kitchen Toto *** (1987, Bob Peck, Phyllis Logan, Edwin Mahinda) – Classic Movie Review 9971

Writer-director Harry Hook’s 1987 British drama The Kitchen Toto stars Bob Peck, Phyllis Logan and Edwin Mahinda. Mahinda plays a Kenyan boy called Mwangi, who is befriended by a British police chief, John Graham (Peck), […]

Jun, 28

West of Zanzibar ** (1954, Anthony Steel, Sheila Sim, William Simons) – Classic Movie Review 9799

Director Harry Watt’s adequate but surprisingly humble and mundane 1954 Ealing Studios jungle adventure sequel West of Zanzibar is the follow-up to 1951’s more fetching Where No Vultures Fly. This time, Anthony Steel and Sheila […]

May, 21

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