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The 3 Worlds of Gulliver *** (1960, Kerwin Mathews, Jo Morrow, June Thorburn) – Classic Movie Review 3721

Kerwin Mathews makes a dashing, handsome but rather bland hero as Lemuel Gulliver in co-writer/director Jack Sher’s swift 1960 run-through of Jonathan Swift’s 1726 satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels, with the emphasis on the familiar Brobdingnagian […]

May, 19

Jason and the Argonauts **** (1963, Todd Armstrong, Honor Blackman, Niall MacGinnis, Andrew Faulds, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond, Laurence Naismith, Douglas Wilmer, John Cairney) – Classic Movie Review 3,519

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 […]

Apr, 03

It Came from Beneath the Sea *** (1955, Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 2442

Director Robert Gordon’s 1955 horror monster movie features an enormous octopus, or more properly actually a ‘sexopus’, whose job description is to cause havoc, chaos and destruction. It rises from out of the primordial Mindanao Deep […]

May, 01

One Million Years BC **** (1966, Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert, Robert Brown, Martine Beswick) – Classic Movie Review 2436

Director Don Chaffey’s ambitious and spectacular 1966 prehistoric fantasy adventure One Million Years BC stars the remarkable Raquel Welch, famously looking sexy in perhaps the most iconic fur bikini of all time as Loana the […]

Apr, 29

The Valley of Gwangi **** (1969, James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, Laurence Naismith) – Classic Movie Review 2434

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. […]

Apr, 28

Clash of the Titans **** (1981, Harry Hamlin, Judi Bowker, Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Maggie Smith) – Classic Movie Review 1,858

The 1981 epic fantasy adventure film Clash of the Titans is based on the Greek myth of Perseus, stars Harry Hamlin, Judi Bowker, Burgess Meredith, Maggie Smith and Laurence Olivier, and features Ray Harryhausen’s delightful stop-motion visual effects. Director Desmond Davis’s 1981 classical mythology caper film […]

Nov, 19

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms *** (1953, Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Woods, Steve Brodie, Ross Elliott, Jack Pennick) – Classic Movie Review 795

A fictional frozen hibernating prehistoric rhedosaurus – a 200-foot carnivorous dinosaur with four legs – is thawed out in the Arctic Circle by an atomic bomb test and is spotted by physicist Professor Tom Nesbitt, […]

Feb, 02

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