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The 1952 Western film Hellgate stars Sterling Hayden as a war veteran wrongly sentenced as a Civil War spy and sent to New Mexico’s hellish Hellgate jail. Writer/director Charles Marquis Warren’s 1952 black and white […]
Writer/ producer/ director Martin Rosen’s 1982 British-American animated adventure feature The Plague Dogs is a committed, pro-animal rights adult cartoon version of Richard Adams’s 1977 novel about a couple of canines named Rowf (Christopher Benjamin) […]
Director Robert Mulligan’s 1962 ambitious and well-intentioned failure The Spiral Road is based on Jan de Hartog’s novel and stars Rock Hudson as a mid-1930s stop-at-nothing doctor in trouble, bent on using Dr Brits Jansen […]
The controversial 1985 Flesh+Blood [Flesh and Blood] is a gruesomely realistic sword and sorcery adventure movie, handsomely well made by director Paul Verhoeven, and starring Rutger Hauer as the medieval mercenary outlaw band leader Martin, […]
Writer-director Val Guest’s realist 1963 British drama is based on Trevor Dudley Smith [Elleston Trevor]’s novel The Pillars of Midnight and tells an intriguing story set in Bath, Somerset, England, at the time of a smallpox […]
Jean-Claude Van Damme gives an impressive, entertaining display of martial arts prowess, killing off bad guys with his bare hands, in writer-director Albert Pyun’s tacky, low-budget 1989 American futuristic fantasy martial-arts cyberpunk film Cyborg. The young […]
Esteemed French film director Jacques Demy came to Germany and Britain to make this undervalued 1972 film version of the tale of the 14th-century strolling minstrel who leads a plague of rats out of Hamelin, […]