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Roll up, roll up for smashing performances from effervescent Doris Day (as travelling circus aerialist and trick rider Kitty Wonder), Jimmy Durante (as the circus’s gambling owner and clown Pop Wonder) and Martha Raye (as […]
‘Joe Moses is his name… stealing Africa is his game!’ Director Ronald Neame’s badly dated 1965 adventure film Mister Moses is feeble if well-meaning Boys Own adventure stuff, with a quasi-Bible theme, reworking the story […]
Director John Huston’s 1958 adventure drama The Roots of Heaven is a bumpy ride, in which the intelligent dialogue and messages (based on Romain Gary’s novel) take second place to mediocre adventure. It stars the […]
What a dull and uninspired film director Tim Burton’s part-live-action, part-CGI remake of the magical 1941 Disney cartoon Dumbo is! The rusty gears crank up, but it never takes flight. To be fair, Burton was […]
Director Hal Sutherland’s 1972 full-length musical cartoon adventure Journey Back to Oz is exactly what the title says, with Liza Minnelli voicing her mother Judy Garland’s best-known role as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, […]
Director Andrew Marton’s 1965 children’s and family comedy adventure movie Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion is the pilot for the 89 episode Sixties TV show Daktari (1966–1969), which was given a cinema release. Marshall Thompson stars […]
Producer Sy Weintraub took over the Tarzan franchise from Sol Lesser with Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure in 1959 and Tarzan the Magnificent (1960), and gave it a bright new look in colour, reviving the series, and now gives it […]