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Posts Tagged "Hammer Films"

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The Lady Craved Excitement ** (1950, Hy Hazell, Michael Medwin, Sidney James, Thelma Grigg, Andrew Keir, Danny Green) – Classic Movie Review 11,036

Director Francis Searle’s 1950 British low-budget black and white Hammer Films production The Lady Craved Excitement is a fairly ordinary, though not too dull Fifties British B-movie comedy mystery thriller, in which the irrepressibly bubbly, […]

Mar, 22

Black Widow *** (1951, Christine Norden, Robert Ayres, Jennifer Jayne) – Classic Movie Review 9,585

Hammer Films’ 1951 British thriller film Black Widow is a version of a BBC radio serial of the day, Lester Powell’s Return from Darkness, and stars Christine Norden, Robert Ayres and Jennifer Jayne. The 1951 […]

Apr, 01

The Adventures of PC 49 *** (1949, Hugh Latimer, John Penrose, Annette D Simmonds) – Classic Movie Review 5080

Director Godfrey Grayson’s 1949 British second feature thriller is a fun Hammer Films studio adaptation of the popular BBC radio serial of the late Forties and early Fifties. Hugh Latimer plays the famous British radio […]

Feb, 28

The Mummy’s Tomb **½ (1942, Lon Chaney Jr, Turhan Bey, George Zucco, Dick Foran, Wallace Ford, John Hubbard) – Classic Movie Review 3299

Lon Chaney Jnr takes over from Tom Tyler as Kharis the Mummy in director Harold Young’s slightly less good 1942 sequel to The Mummy’s Hand (1940). This time the living Mummy is sent to America […]

Jan, 29

The Mummy’s Shroud *** (1967, André Morell, John Phillips, David Buck) – Classic Movie Review 3272

Eddie Powell plays the mummy of an Egyptian slave who is brought back to life in the England of 1920 in director John Gilling’s atmospheric 1967 Hammer horror – the third part of the series following […]

Jan, 29

The Devil-Ship Pirates *** (1964, Christopher Lee, John Cairney, Barry Warren, Ernest Clark, Andrew Keir, Michael Ripper, Duncan Lamont, Suzan Farmer, Natasha Pyne) – Classic Movie Review 3278

Christopher Lee stars in a good role for him as Spanish pirate ship’s captain Robeles, who suffers damage fighting on the side of the Spanish Armada and terrorises the English villagers at a small and […]

Jan, 18

X the Unknown ***½ (1956, Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern, Anthony Newley, William Lucas) – Classic Movie Review 3161

‘It rises from 2000 miles below the earth to melt everything in its path!’ That fine American star character actor Dean Jagger comes to the UK in 1956 to star as canny old Doctor Adam […]

Dec, 17

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