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‘TERROR ON THE AFRICAN VOODOO COAST.’ ‘In the darkness of an ancient world – on a shore that time has forgotten – there is a twilight zone between life and death. Here dwell those nameless […]
Director Gordon Parry’s 1956 British black and white romantic comedy Sailor Beware! [Panic in the Parlor] is the film that turned the redoubtable Peggy Mount into a popular screen star at 40 as Mrs Emma […]
Director William Beaudine’s 1936 British comedy Windbag the Sailor stars Will Hay in his first teaming with Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. The beloved trio of comics try hard with a moderate script and character […]
Director Raoul Walsh’s 1956 CinemaScope and Deluxe Color drama The Revolt of Mamie Stover is based on the novel by William Bradford Huie and stars Jane Russell as the titular Mamie Stover, a busty young […]
Director James Parrott’s elaborate and inventive 1928 Two Tars is a tip-top Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy 21-minute silent short film of madcap mayhem. Laurel and Hardy play the two tars, sailors on shore leave […]
Director John Farrow’s notable 1946 adventure film drama Two Years Before the Mast stars Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Barry Fitzgerald and Howard Da Silva, and based on Richard Henry Dana Jr’s travel book of the same […]
Sissy Spacek, fresh from her Oscar for Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980), gets her husband Jack Fisk to direct her as Nita Longley, a spunky wartime divorcée, whose two sons are jealous when handsome sailor Eric Roberts arrives […]