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The Misadventures of Merlin Jones *** (1964, Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Leon Ames) – Classic Movie Review 11,785

Director Robert Stevenson’s 1964 hit American science-fiction comedy film The Misadventures of Merlin Jones is Walt Disney Productions’ better prequel to The Monkey’s Uncle (made the following year). Tommy Kirk is pleasing as the Midvale […]

Dec, 12

Black Magic ** (1949, Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff, Valentina Cortese) – Classic Movie Review 9441

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 […]

Feb, 28

Nadja **** (1994, Elina Löwensohn, Peter Fonda, Nic Ratner, Karl Geary, Jack Lotz) – Classic Movie Review 5572

Writer-director Michael Almereyda’s 1994 thriller is a rather splendid, low-budget modern-day vampire movie, filmed by Jim Denault in glowing black and white, with the statuesque Elina Löwensohn as the lovely Nadja, Dracula’s daughter, who steals […]

Jun, 10

The Brides of Fu Manchu *** (1966, Christopher Lee, Douglas Wilmer, Howard Marion-Crawford, Marie Versini, Heinz Drache, Tsai Chin, Joseph Furst, Carole Gray, Rupert Davies) – Classic Movie Review 2943

Director Don Sharp’s capable 1966 horror movie is an acceptable sequel to 1965’s The Face of Fu Manchu, with Christopher Lee back as Sax Rohmer’s Chinese devil, the Master of Evil. It’s the second of […]

Oct, 02

Rasputin: The Mad Monk *** (1966, Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco, Francis Matthews, Renée Asherson, Dinsdale Landen, Suzan Farmer, Joss Ackland) – Classic Movie Review 2889

Director Don Sharp’s colourful and entertaining 1966 Hammer Films studios horror movie Rasputin: The Mad Monk finds Christopher Lee going bananas as the sinister mad monk Grigori Rasputin, who uses his hypnotic powers and sexuality […]

Sep, 07

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