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Director Robert Wise’s 1957 black and white wartime romantic drama film Until They Sail stars Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Piper Laurie, Sandra Dee and Paul Newman. The loves and misadventures of four foul sisters, Barbara, […]
British actor-producer David Hemmings went Down Under to New Zealand to direct the promising and good-looking but undemanding and partly fumbled 1981 action adventure Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr [Race for the Yankee Zephyr] about […]
Debut director Peter Jackson’s 1987 New Zealand horror movie Bad Taste is junk food for the mind – no substance and too much ketchup, and it is so rare that it is still uncooked and […]
British actor-producer David Hemmings went down under, to New Zealand, that is, to direct the good-looking if undemanding and largely fumbled 1981 action adventure movie Race for the Yankee Zephyr [Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr] […]
Robust action director Raoul Walsh’s rough, tough, overlong rabble-rousing 1955 war movie Battle Cry follows the dramatic World War Two story of US Marines Major Sam Huxley (Van Heflin), Private Andy Hookens (Aldo Ray) and Corporal Danny Forrester (Tab […]
Director Jane Campion’s extravagantly praised 1990 New Zealand film production is based on the autobiography of Janet Frame, in which the awkward, agonised, curly red-headed heroine struggles through mental hospital, school and college to liberation […]
Writer-director Niko Caro’s compelling 2003 New Zealand story of Maori teenage girl Pai (Keisha Castle-Hughes)’s fight for acceptance by her tribal chief grandfather as a suitable future leader of the tribe makes for a gripping […]