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This wet and windy 1979 update on John Ford’s 1937 adventure movie The Hurricane re-tells the story based on the novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall about a typhoon hitting a South Seas […]
A wicked French colony Governor (Raymond Massey) and a typhoon strike the Polynesian Island of Manukura hard, in director John Ford’s rousing 1937 South Seas adventure movie The Hurricane, famed for its climactic special effects […]
The genial Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland are back in the Paramount Pictures studio jungle (after their 1936 hit The Jungle Princess) for this second romantic comedy adventure, directed by George Archainbaud in 1938. It […]
Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson star as Tom Lincoln and Sarah Jordan, who flee from a sinister futuristic underground facility after they find out that they are clones of ailing millionaires who need spare parts to prolong their […]
Writer/ cinematographer/ director Robert J Flaherty’s notable 1934 documentary feature film of life on the Isle of Aran in North Ayrshire features the real fishermen and crofter people, and shows their various struggles to live. (By […]
Hollywood struggles to bring the Alec Waugh bestseller about the troubled lives and inter-racial loves in the exotic Fifties British West Indies to the screen, in the then controversial 1957 drama film Island in the […]
Director William Clemens’s searing, realistic and revelatory 1939 drama stars Boris Karloff who gives a splendidly full-blooded performance as Dr Charles Gaudet, a brain surgeon condemned to the dreaded French Devil’s Island penal colony for […]