David Birney stars with Charlotte Rampling and Michael Lonsdale in the 1974 British-French action film Caravan to Vaccarès, based on the novel by Alistair MacLean. ‘The Guns of Navarone – Where Eagles Dare – When […]
Director James Fargo’s 1978 Iran/ US co-production action adventure movie Caravans is set in 1948 in a fictional country called Zakharstan and stars Michael Sarrazin as a young American Embassy employee Mark Miller (Michael Sarazyn) tasked […]
‘I lost my job, my house, my Rolls Royce, my family left me… what else can possibly go wrong?’ ‘Hi, Dad!’ Director Michael Schultz’s 1981 comedy drama Carbon Copy stars George Segal as straight-laced, rich, […]
Peter Ustinov’s engagingly vigorous portrayal as Captain Blackbeard is the main attraction of Walt Disney’s otherwise uninspired comedy fantasy, director Robert Stevenson’s 1968 Blackbeard’s Ghost. Ben Stahl’s story about the bumbling ghost of Blackbeard the […]
Director Raoul Walsh’s ripsnorting 1952 Technicolor RKO Radio Pictures buccaneer movie Blackbeard, the Pirate was first conceived as a Boris Karloff vehicle, and then for Charles Laughton, but Robert Newton finally took command, staggering hugely entertainingly […]
Director Muriel Box’s 1954 British Technicolor drama The Beachcomber stars a well-cast Robert Newton, who catches the eye and ear as ‘Honorable Ted’ Wilson, an East Indies island drunk (Newton was himself a famous alcoholic), […]
Producer-director Cornel Wilde’s 1967 war movie Beach Red stars Cornel Wilde as Captain MacDonald, the film’s narrator, and Rip Torn as the none too well named Sergeant Honeywell (‘That’s what we’re here for. To kill. […]
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