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Jake Gyllenhaal stars in Joe Johnston’s 1999 biopic October Sky as American boy Homer Hickam, who sees the launch of a Sputnik in 1957 and wants to build his own rocket, but his gloomy coal-mining […]
Director Don Sharp’s amiable enough but dithering 1967 colour British science fiction comedy film Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon stars Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Fröbe, Terry-Thomas, Hermione Gingold, Lionel Jeffries, Dennis Price, and […]
‘The mammoth monster that terrified the Earth! Too awesome to describe! Too terrifying to escape! Too powerful to stop!’ Jim Davis, a couple of decades before he played Jock Ewing in Dallas (1978-1981), stars in […]
Bing Crosby and Bob Hope’s seventh romp is the end of the road for Hope and Crosby’s ‘Road to…’ movies, though unfairly their old co-star Dorothy Lamour (who had semi-retired a decade earlier, aged only […]
The star-studded, slap-up 1965 World War Two wartime adventure movie Operation Crossbow stars Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Richard Johnson, and Tom Courtenay. Director Michael Anderson’s star-studded, slap-up 1965 World War Two […]
‘First motion picture to lift the veil, foresee the future in a spectacular drama of the first man in history to be rocketed into the terrifying unknown of outer space!’ Director Robert Day’s well-liked low-budget […]
Following Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965), the ever enterprising producer Roger Corman squeezed a second sci-fi movie out of cannibalising the 1962 Soviet film Planeta Bur. The 1968 American science fiction film Voyage to […]