Director Jim Sharman’s 1981 British spoof comedy musical Shock Treatment is writer Richard O’Brien’s misfire sequel to his cult hit The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with a disappointing Cliff De Young and Jessica Harper as […]
Director Terry Marcel’s 1980 fantasy adventure Hawk the Slayer is a brutish, British entry into the sword and sorcery stakes with John Terry (Hawk) and Jack Palance (Voltan) playing hero and villain siblings battling over a […]
Director Tom Gries’s 1970 adventure film The Hawaiians [Master of the Islands] is the continuing history of James Michener’s huge novel Hawaii, as conjured up by the best minds of Hollywood, with Charlton Heston, as […]
Director George Roy Hill’s 1966 adventure film Hawaii is a mammoth, enjoyable movie of part of James Michener’s huge novel about Hawaii’s development in the early 19th century, as strict, rigid and humourless New England […]
Writer-director James Clavell’s ambitious 1971 adventure movie The Last Valley finds that Michael Caine is somewhat overstretched as The Captain, a ruthless Protestant mercenary leader who brings his band of soldiers to a sleepy 1640s German […]
Co-writer/ producer / director Robert Aldrich turns in another tough war film in his 1970 Too Late the Hero, with rousing action, funny dialogue and an exciting climax. Michael Caine is engaging in one of […]
Director Alexander Hall’s creaky 1933 antique drama Torch Singer [Broadway Singer] stars Claudette Colbert as the torch singer of the title, who pleasantly trills some songs by Ralph Rainger (music) and Leo Robbins (lyrics), among […]
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