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Tarzan and the Great River ** (1967, Mike Henry, Jan Murray, Manuel Padilla Jr) – Classic Movie Review 8076

Tarzan and the Great River (1967) is directed briskly and very competently by Robert Day. It is the penultimate of the five Tarzan movies he made in the Sixties. The great river is the Amazon […]

Jan, 30

Bomba, the Jungle Boy ** (1949, Johnny Sheffield, Peggy Ann Garner, Onslow Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 8058

The poverty row Monogram Pictures studio finds a good use for Johnny Sheffield, Tarzan’s original Boy, as Bomba, a sort of teeny Tarzan, based on a series of American boy’s adventure books produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under […]

Jan, 25

Tarzan Triumphs *** (1943, Johnny Weissmuller, Frances Gifford, Johnny Sheffield) – Classic Movie Review 8057

Director William [Wilhelm] Thiele’s pleasant and popular 1943 jungle adventure Tarzan Triumphs finds Johnny Weissmuller leaving the jungles of MGM Studios after six movies for those of RKO and swinging back into action, routing the […]

Jan, 24

Killer Ape ** (1953, Johnny Weissmuller, Carol Thurston, Max Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 7701

Spencer Gordon Bennet’s 1953 Killer Ape is the twelfth Jungle Jim film released by Columbia Pictures, with Johnny Weissmuller back for the twelfth time as adventurer Jungle Jim. It also stars Paul Marion as Mahura, leader of the tribal Wazuli clan, Carol […]

Oct, 25

Eve ** (1968, Robert Walker Jr, Fred Clark, Herbert Lom, Christopher Lee, Celeste Yarnall) – Classic Movie Review 7656

Director Jeremy Summers’s campy 1968 adventure thriller Eve stars the 24-year-old Celeste Yarnall as the central character Eve, along with Robert Walker Jr, Fred Clark, Herbert Lom, and Christopher Lee. Eve is advertised as ‘The Original Flower Child’, which is how Celeste Yarnall (1944 […]

Oct, 10

Rambo: First Blood Part II ** (1985, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier) – Classic Movie Review 7645

Titanic and Avatar director James Cameron helped Sylvester Stallone to write the screenplay for director George Pan Cosmatos’s 1985 Rambo: First Blood Part II, the first sequel to Rambo: First Blood, in which John Rambo […]

Oct, 08

Sheena * (1984, Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Donovan Scott) – Classic Movie Review 7628

Director John Guillermin’s 1984 lady in a loincloth comic book adventure Sheena suffers from an achingly poor screenplay by David Newman and Lorenzo Semple Jr, and it is deadly dull because no one seems to […]

Oct, 01

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