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Alan Ladd came to Britain for a $1 million lowish-budget Camelot caper about modest sword-making blacksmith John, who disguises himself as a knight (The Black Knight) to try to win the hand of Lady Linet […]
The legendary effects wiz Ray Harryhausen provides the endearing old-style stop-motion special effects for director Don Chaffey’s frothy, fun-filled 1963 epic adaptation of the Greek legend, Jason and the Argonauts. It stars muscleman Todd Armstrong […]
‘Beware the stare that will paralyse the will of the world.’ Co-writer/director Wolf Rilla’s 1960 British thriller Village of the Damned is securely based on John Wyndham’s classic sci-fi novel The Midwich Cuckoos about a […]
Director James O’Connolly’s 1969 monster movie The Valley of Gwangi is a big treat for all fans of dinosaur movies. It features a huge T-Rex called Gwangi, so named from a Native American word meaning lizard. […]
Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1958 portrait of the artist offered Kirk Douglas one of his three chances to win an Oscar but in the event he never won and had to be content with an honorary […]
South Pacific and Paint Your Wagon director Joshua Logan turns the pleasantly tuneful and rather splendid Frederick Loewe (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics) musical about life and loves at the court of King Arthur […]
Director Guy Green’s 1960 drama The Angry Silence is a refreshingly bracing, grown-up and engrossing thought piece that finds the 1960 British cinema in a surprisingly serious frame of mind in a story that tackles […]