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The Dragon Murder Case *** (1934, Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot) – Classic Movie Review 11,312
‘PHILO VANCE TACKLES A MONSTER! ‘ Warren William takes over effectively from William Powell as private detective Philo Vance in director H Bruce Humberstone’s efficient 1934 mystery thriller The Dragon Murder Case, shot at Warner […]
Dragonslayer **** (1981, Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, Ralph Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 8746
It’s the powers of good, represented by sorcerer’s apprentice Galen (Peter MacNicol), against one of the screen’s most impressive dragons, Vermithrax Pejorative, in the dark ages of the sixth-century kingdom of Urland. Director Matthew Robbins’s […]
Die Nibelungen **** (1924, Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph, Theodor Loos, Gertrud Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 8703
Director Fritz Lang’s 1924 German silent classic The Nibelungen [Die Nibelungen] stars Paul Richter as Siegfried, who marries the princess of Burgundy, Kriemhild (Margarete Schön) but Queen Brunhilde (Hanna Ralph) plans his murder. Lang’s beautifully […]
The NeverEnding Story [Die Unendliche Geschichte] **** (1984, Barret Oliver, Gerald McRaney, Moses Gunn, Patricia Hayes, Noah Hathaway, Sydney Bromley, Tami Stronach) – Classic Movie Review 7164
Co-writer/ director Wolfgang Petersen’s well-crafted 1984 West German Eighties children’s classic, based on the novel by Michael Ende, stars Barret Oliver as Bastian, a bullied young lad who gets a magical book and is whisked […]
Dungeons and Dragons ** (2000, Jeremy Irons, Thora Birch, Marlon Wayans, Bruce Payne, Justin Whalin) – Classic Movie Review 5694
Jeremy Irons overacts embarrassingly in producer-director Courtney Solomon’s only very moderate 2000 sword-and-sorcery fantasy action adventure, further held back with disappointing cheap-looking effects. Irons plays the tyrannical magician Profion, who plots to overthrow Empress Savina […]
Pete’s Dragon ***½ (2016, Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Oakes Fegley, Wes Bentley, Karl Urban, Oona Laurence) – Movie Review
Disney’s ecologically minded and morally minded remake of its 1977 classic Pete’s Dragon is an odd little film but it is sweet and I liked it. Though warm, friendly, down-home and old fashioned Americana, it is quite […]
Pete’s Dragon *** (1977, Sean Marshall, Mickey Rooney, Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters, Jim Backus, Jeff Conaway) – Classic Movie Review 3712
Don Chaffey directs Walt Disney’s modest 1977 musical mix of animation and live action, in which big green-and-purple, dopey magical cartoon dragon Elliott (created by animator Don Bluth, voiced by Charlie Callas) saves the nine-year-old sweet orphan […]