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Harrison Ford is especially amusing in director Ivan Reitman’s very acceptable 1998 mix of romance and adventure in the old style, though Six Days Seven Nights is looking to be another African Queen and of […]
‘You ain’t gonna let honesty stand in the way o’ bein’ smart? ‘ – Long John Silver. Director Victor Fleming’s 1934 adventure movie is a splendidly rambunctious, rumbustious retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 classic young […]
Directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg’s riveting real-life sea-faring tale is excitingly told, with a couple of twists at the end, one of them the thrilling big finish. This is the manly story of legendary famous Norwegian […]
Co-writer/co-director Roy Boulting and his producer brother John Boulting turn their attention to sending up the British Foreign Office in 1959 in another one of their series of highly successful satirical comedies of the period. […]
Directors Ernest B Schoedsack and Irving Pichel’s still haunting, potent and chilling 1932 horror thriller stars an inspired Leslie Banks as Count Zaroff, a mad Russian nobleman who arranges for a ship to be wrecked […]
Co-producer/ director Michael Relph’s belated 1958 sequel to the 1949 hit Whisky Galore! is friendly, pleasant and amusing, but not always sparkling and sometimes sluggish. Nice though it is, it doesn’t have quite the same spark […]
Director Hugh Johnson’s 1999 release has its moments but it is a sluggish, formulaic, unbelievable Speed-style chase thriller, with engaging performances from the likeable stars giving it a bit of a lift. Cuba Gooding Jnr […]