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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 […]
Director Ken Annakin’s 1967 British action adventure film The Long Duel stars Trevor Howard, Yul Brynner, Harry Andrews, Charlotte Rampling, and Andrew Keir, and tells of a ‘conflict of ideals and arms’ that is ‘fought […]
Director J Lee Thompson’s 1959 British adventure North West Frontier [Flame Over India] stars Kenneth More as dashing, British army hero Captain William Charles Willoughby Scott, who is asked to take away an Indian Hindu […]
Director Roland Joffé’s earnest 1992 drama City of Joy is based on the book by Dominique Lapierre. It stars Patrick Swayze as Max Lowe, an American doctor who comes into Calcutta to solve his mid-life […]
Ismail Merchant, lifelong producer of the Merchant-Ivory films, makes his first movie as director, in his intriguing though elusive 1994 film rendition of Anita Desai’s novel. The performances by an ideal cast led by Shashi Kapoor and […]
The marvellous Merchant-Ivory team established their style and reputation with director James Ivory’s leisurely, gently ironic 1965 film study of a family troupe of English travelling players in India, based on the experiences of the […]
The 1939 romantic adventure film The Rains Came stars Tyrone Power as an Indian nobleman, trained as a doctor in America, who returns to India, where he dallies with English married woman (Myrna Loy). It […]