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In co-writer/director John Gilling’s 1962 high adventure yarn The Pirates of Blood River, pirates attack the French Huguenots for their gold. The movie stars Kerwin Mathews as the dashing Huguenot hero Jonathon Standing battling the […]
Christopher Lee stars in a good role for him as Spanish pirate ship’s captain Robeles, who suffers damage fighting on the side of the Spanish Armada and terrorises the English villagers at a small and […]
Director Vincente Minnelli’s sophisticated and colourful 1948 Technicolor musical is lots of fun and a real charmer. It’s a sparkling showcase for the splendid team of Gene Kelly and Judy Garland, in the second of […]
Gerald Thomas’s eighth 1964 Carry On film comedy Carry On Jack comes from the series’s vintage era but manages to assemble only three of the regular team. Director Gerald Thomas’s eighth 1964 Carry On film […]
Director Stephen Herek’s 1993 Austrian-American action-adventure film The Three Musketeers from Walt Disney Pictures and Caravan Pictures is a proficient but moderate version of the Alexandre Dumas classic, with a brisk but modest screenplay by David Loughery. The […]
Ah, ha, Jim lad! The inimitable, or very imitable, Robert Newton is an absolute knockout in the 1950 adventure film Treasure Island as the best-ever eccentric pirate captain Long John Silver. Shiver Me Timbers! Talk […]
Director Rob Reiner’s 1987 fairy tale movie is a perennial pleasure. The story is narrated by Peter Falk’s kindly grandfather, who reads his sick grandson (Fred Savage) a classic fairy tale, with heroes and villains, a poor stable boy, a […]