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‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]