Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Sabu"

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White Savage *** (1943, Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, Turhan Bey, Thomas Gomez, Sidney Toler) – Classic Movie Review 3207

The 1943 Technicolor escapist fantasy adventure film White Savage reunites Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Sabu in a campy, colourful exotic tale. It is kind of the Raiders of the Lost Ark of its day. […]

Jan, 01

Cobra Woman **** (1944, Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, Lon Chaney Jnr, Edgar Barrier) – Classic Movie Review 3204

‘TOLLEA! TEMPTRESS OF TERROR’ Director Robert Siodmak’s uber-colourful 1944 South Seas adventure Cobra Woman is revered as a legendary camp classic. Hollywood Babylon book author Kenneth Anger called it his favourite film. Cobra Woman re-teams Maria […]

Dec, 31

Arabian Nights *** (1942, Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Sabu, John Qualen, Leif Erickson, Turhan Bey, Billy Gilbert, Shemp Howard) – Classic Movie Review 3203

Director John Rawlins’s 1942 movie is delightful, expertly crafted, fast-moving escapist adventure hokum designed to cheer up World War Two wartime audiences – and it can still cheer today! A treat in Technicolor, it was nominated […]

Dec, 31

The Drum [Drums] **** (1938, Sabu, Raymond Massey, Roger Livesey, Valerie Hobson, Desmond Tester, David Tree) – Classic Movie Review 3067

Director Zoltan Korda’s 1938 British film stars a 14-year-old Sabu in this thrilling Raj tale based on an original screen story by A E W Mason, author of The Four Feathers, filmed by Korda in […]

Nov, 17

Jungle Book *** (1942, Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Rosemary DeCamp, Patricia O’Rourke) – Classic Movie Review 2406

Directed by Zoltán Korda, producer Alexander Korda’s 1942 version of Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli stories suffers from hesitant handling and is uncertainly pitched between a fantasy adventure and a wildlife showcase. And it’s disappointing that Laurence Stalling’s […]

Apr, 18

Black Narcissus ***** (1947, Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Kathleen Byron, Sabu) – Classic Movie Review 602

Writer-producer-director Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s extraordinary 1947 film Black Narcissus, about five Anglo-Catholic nuns who have set up a school and infirmary in a ramshackle old building on the edge of a cliff in […]

Dec, 31

The Thief of Bagdad ***** (1940, Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, Rex Ingram, John Justin) – Classic Movie Review 39

Remaking Douglas Fairbanks Sr’s 1924 silent movie classic, The Thief of Bagdad, producer Alexander Korda’s brilliantly thrilling and gorgeous 1940 Arabian Nights fantasy gem The Thief of Bagdad overflows with dazzling magic, eye-popping designs and […]

Jul, 10

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