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Director John Brahm’s 1953 The Diamond Queen is a daft but colourful and jolly romantic adventure movie, set in Paris and India in 1659. It is the final film credited as being shot in SuperCinecolor. […]
Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1949 black and white adventure movie Black Magic stars the old magician Orson Welles, who hams it up in an absurd swashbuckler as Cagliostro the magician-hypnotist-adventurer, who learns his skills from hypnotism […]
MGM’s 1938 emotional celebration of America and family life Of Human Hearts is set in an Ohio town during the American Civil War, and stars James Stewart as Jason Wilkins, the wayward son of poor […]
‘Twenty lashes don’t do any good. Give him [Pietro] thirty.’ – Haroun (Leonard Penn). Director William Castle’s 1954 romantic adventure The Saracen Blade is based on Frank Yerby’s novel and stars Ricardo Montalban as Pietro […]
Co-writer/ director Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia’s fluffy, flashy, good-looking, nicely done Italian 1954 international spectacle The Queen of Babylon [La Cortigiana di Babilonia] is made in glorious colour (Ferraniacolor), which has the benefit of doing full […]
Director Piero Costa’s 1964 Revolt of the Mercenaries [La Rivolta dei Mercenari] is a lurid and lusty if somewhat mediocre Italian swashbuckler, set during the Renaissance in Friuli, Venezia, in an Italy that was then […]
In 1983, director Michael Winner remakes the old 1945 Gainsborough Studios bodice-ripper The Wicked Lady, with all the excesses he was famed for. It is an old-fashioned costume romp spiced up with sex and nudity. […]