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Mysterious Island *** (1961, Michael Craig, Herbert Lom, Joan Greenwood, Gary Merrill, Michael Callan, Percy Herbert, Beth Rogan) – Classic Movie Review 3722

Director Cy Endfield’s 1961 British adventure movie is produced by Charles H Schneer. Michael Craig and Michael Callan star as embattled American Civil War soldiers, officers Captain Cyrus Harding (Craig) and Herbert Brown (Callan), who […]

May, 19

The 3 Worlds of Gulliver *** (1960, Kerwin Mathews, Jo Morrow, June Thorburn) – Classic Movie Review 3721

Kerwin Mathews makes a dashing, handsome but rather bland hero as Lemuel Gulliver in co-writer/director Jack Sher’s swift 1960 run-through of Jonathan Swift’s 1726 satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels, with the emphasis on the familiar Brobdingnagian […]

May, 19

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad **** (1958, Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Torin Thatcher, Richard Eyer) – Classic Movie Review 3719

Director Nathan Juran’s 1958 Arabian Nights fantasy adventure stars Kerwin Mathews as Sinbad, who, in the story by Ray Harryhausen, is searching for the cure that will return his love Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant) back […]

May, 19

Sinbad the Sailor *** (1947, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr, Walter Slezak, Maureen O’Hara, Anthony Quinn, George Tobias, Jane Greer) – Classic Movie Review 3718

Douglas Fairbanks Jnr’s magically acrobatic performance as Sinbad in the kind of role his father Douglas Fairbanks Snr pioneered in silent movies is the chief delight of director Richard Wallace’s lavish Technicolorful 1947 RKO swashbuckling adventure […]

May, 19

Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger ** (1977, Patrick Wayne, Jane Seymour, Taryn Power) – Classic Movie Review 3717

Patrick Wayne is dull as Sinbad in director Sam Wanamaker’s less exciting 1977 sequel to The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958, played by Kerwin Mathews) and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973, played by John Phillip Law). […]

May, 19

Lord of the Flies *** (1990, Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh, Danuel Pipoly) – Classic Movie Review 3597

Director Harry Hook delivers a surprise 1990 remake in widescreen and colour of Peter Brook’s 1963 film based on William Golding’s classic novel about a group of British schoolboys stranded on a desert island who […]

Apr, 21

Lord of the Flies **** (1963, James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin, Tom Gaman) – Classic Movie Review 3596

Director Peter Brook’s imaginative, distinguished and original 1963 black and white film version of the William Golding classic novel Lord of the Flies is a chilling essential art house movie. The famous story is about […]

Apr, 21

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