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Anne Shirley is back as the imaginative orphan lass Anne Shirley in Jack Hively’s 1940 Anne of Windy Poplars, a second attractive but not quite so appealing RKO adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery children’s classic, […]
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 […]
Directors Ron Clements and John Musker’s prestigious and classy 1997 animated musical fantasy comedy Hercules is the 35th Disney animated feature film, loosely based on the legendary hero Hercules, the son of Zeus, in Greek […]
George Hamilton tries to repeat the success of his 1979 Love at First Bite Dracula spoof to less avail in director Peter Medak’s silly send-up of The Mark of Zorro. Hamilton is pretty amusing in […]
‘Who was that masked man?’ ‘I don’t know, he was wearing a mask!’ With a half-hearted hearty heigh-ho Silver, Klinton Spilsbury dons Clayton Moore’s old mask as the Lone Ranger in director William A Fraker’s […]
Director Edward Dmytryk’s intelligent, thought-provoking 1958 war movie brings to the screen Irwin Shaw’s popular novel about the World War Two fates of two American soldiers – playboy entertainer Michael Whiteacre (Dean Martin), Jewish-American Noah Ackerman […]
Director Roy Ward Baker’s exciting 1957 British wartime adventure film The One That Got Away stars Berlin-born Hardy Kruger, who came to Britain to play Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the real-life German wartime pilot shot […]