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The Last Adventure [Les Aventuriers] *** (1967, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Joanna Shimkus) – Classic Movie Review 8,254

The 1967 French adventure film The Last Adventure [Les Aventuriers] stars Alain Delon as handsome Manu Borelli and Lino Ventura as craggy Roland Darbant, who search for sunken loot off the coast of Africa with […]

Mar, 17

Guns at Batasi **** (1964, Richard Attenborough, Flora Robson, Jack Hawkins, John Leyton, Cecil Parker, Mia Farrow) – Classic Movie Review 8135

Director John Guillermin’s fascinating 1964 African-set adventure movie Guns at Batasi, with a theme about the passing of British colonialism, is greatly invigorated by stiff-lipped performances by Richard Attenborough, Flora Robson, Jack Hawkins and Cecil […]

Feb, 15

The Nun’s Story **** (1959, Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans) – Classic Movie Review 8127

‘He that shall lose his life for me shall find it.’ Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1959 The Nun’s Story stars the always beautiful Audrey Hepburn, who disguises her usual chic beauty and shines in a strong […]

Feb, 13

Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle ** (1955, Gordon Scott, Vera Miles, Peter van Eyck, Jack Elam, Rex Ingram) – Classic Movie Review 8048

Director Harold D Schuster’s 1955 jungle adventure Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle features a new Ape Man in Gordon Scott, making his film debut and taking over from Lex Barker after his fifth and final appearance as […]

Jan, 22

Tarzan and the She-Devil ** (1953, Lex Barker, Joyce Mackenzie, Raymond Burr, Monique van Vooren, Tom Conway) – Classic Movie Review 8045

Director Kurt Neumann’s 1953 adventure Tarzan and the She-Devil is Lex Barker’s fifth and final appearance as Tarzan. It features the fifth different actress to play Jane opposite Barker – Joyce McKenzie. Lex Barker is […]

Jan, 21

Sands of the Kalahari *** (1965, Stanley Baker, Stuart Whitman, Harry Andrews, Susannah York, Theodore Bikel, Nigel Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 7844

Stanley Baker reunites with his Zulu writer-director Cy Endfield for this enjoyable enough, if samey, 1965 adventure yarn Sands of the Kalahari. It was old fashioned in 1965 when the movie scene had changed so much, […]

Nov, 27

Monster from Green Hell * (1957, Jim Davis, Robert Griffin, Joel Fluellen, Eduardo Ciannelli, Vladimir Sokoloff, Barbara Turner) – Classic Movie Review 7725

‘The mammoth monster that terrified the Earth! Too awesome to describe! Too terrifying to escape! Too powerful to stop!’ Jim Davis, a couple of decades before he played Jock Ewing in Dallas (1978-1981), stars in […]

Oct, 30

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