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Director Andrew Marton’s 1965 children’s and family comedy adventure movie Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion is the pilot for the 89 episode Sixties TV show Daktari (1966–1969), which was given a cinema release. Marshall Thompson stars […]
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 […]
Take almost the entire MGM comedy team (Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, and The Three Stooges), throw them into an all-star film in which virtually every comedy director on the lot […]
‘Murderous Mau-Mau! Maddened Beasts! Mighty Jungle Love!’ There are no surprises here in director Terence Young’s fumbling 1956 British adventure film Safari, which has little going for it except the reasonably enjoyable cast. Hired by […]
‘Stripped, weaponless, alone and only ten desperate seconds ahead of the killers!’ Producer-director Cornel Wilde’s 1966 movie The Naked Prey is a tough, demanding and excellent 19th-century jungle adventure thriller starring himself as the safari guide The […]
Director H Bruce Humberstone’s strongly cast 1938 B-movie thriller finds that it is up to Sidney Toler to take over as Charlie Chan from series star Warner Oland, who died in 1937. Toler proves an […]
In 1941 Warner Bros recycle yet another of their old scripts – this time Kid Galahad (1937) stripped of its boxing theme – as a vehicle for their tough-guy star Humphrey Bogart, who is hardly […]