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The, er, fairly entertaining 1956 World War Two Pacific Island romantic drama film The Proud and Profane gets a lift from stars William Holden, Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter. Director George Seaton’s 1956 World War […]
Director Kon Ichikawa’s 1963 Japanese adventure classic Alone on the Pacific [Taiheiyô Hitoribotchi] [My Enemy the Sea] stars Yûjirô Ishihara as Kenichi Horie, a young man who defies his parents, the authorities and the sea […]
Although director Jack Conway’s 1947 MGM adventure is based on the story by the Mutiny on the Bounty authors Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, it is a drab desert island fantasy. Van Johnson stars […]
Director Stuart Heisler’s gritty, extremely decent little 1954 wartime action thriller unusually has a speaking cast of only seven, with just one woman – Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy, Eduard Franz, Skip Homeier, John […]
Director Phillip Noyce’s brilliant 1989 Australian horror thriller Dead Calm stars Sam Neill and Nicole Kidman as a married couple called John and Rae Ingram, who are trying to recover from the tragic death of their son […]
Directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg’s riveting real-life sea-faring tale is excitingly told, with a couple of twists at the end, one of them the thrilling big finish. This is the manly story of legendary famous Norwegian […]
Burt Lancaster stars in 1977 as mad scientist Dr Paul Moreau who creates human-animal hybrids in a gripping, atmospheric and lavish remake of the 1933 film The Island of Lost Souls with Charles Laughton, from the […]
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