A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Read More »
Monthly Archives: April 2020
Nabonga (1944) Sam Newfield, Buster Crabbe, Fifi D’Orsay, Barton MacLane
In an effort to clear the name of his deceased father, young Ray Gorman travels to darkest Africa Read More »
Calling Philo Vance (1940) William Clemens, James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O’Neill
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. Read More »
Kaleidoscope (1966) Jack Smight, Warren Beatty, Susannah York, Clive Revill
Romantic comedy which has Barney Lincoln and Angel McGinnis as a pair of amorous adventurers Read More »
White Wilderness (1958) James Algar, Winston Hibler, Volmer Sørensen
The wildlife of the arctic is explored in this true-life adventure. Read More »
Don’t Touch the White Woman! AKA Touche pas à la femme blanche (1974) Marco Ferreri, Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli
Director Mario Fererri reenacts the events leading up to the Battle of the Little Big Horn in this wild Read More »
The Kingdom and the Beauty AKA Jiang shan mei ren (1959) Han Hsiang Li, Dai Lin, Lei Zhao, King Hu
This is a musical about a young emperor who is lured via stories told to a place called Kiang-Nan by his royal tutor. Read More »
Surf, Sand and Sex (1994) Anthony Giovanni, Kim Sill, Gwen Somers, Sean Abbananto
The story is held together by a beach party attended by six relatively young women. Read More »
Black Peter AKA Cerný Petr (1964) Milos Forman, Ladislav Jakim, Pavla Martinkova, Jan Vostrcil
Petr is 17 years old and starts work. Incredibly (for Czechoslovakia in 1963) this is as a security worker against shoplifting in a busy self-service shop. Read More »
The Mutineers AKA Pirate Ship (1949) Jean Yarbrough, Jon Hall, Adele Jergens, George Reeves
Ship captain Duncan is found murdered, his pockets stuffed with counterfeit money. Read More »
Vision – Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen (2009) Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung
The life story of the multi-talented German nun Hildegard von Bingen. Read More »
People That Are Not Me AKA Anashim Shehem Lo Ani (2016) Hadas Ben Aroya, Yonatan Bar-Or, Netser Charitt
Joy is a young woman living in Tel Aviv. She has a love-hate relationship with its casual sex scene. Read More »
Fort Algiers (1953) Lesley Selander, Yvonne De Carlo, Carlos Thompson, Raymond Burr
In northwest Africa, a tribal leader tries to stir up a rebellion against the ruling powers. Read More »
Laws of Gravity (1992) Nick Gomez, Peter Greene, Adam Trese, Edie Falco
Jimmy and Jon are a couple of Brooklyn guys who somehow never found their way into workaday society Read More »
The African AKA L’Africain (1983) Philippe de Broca, Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret, Jean-François Balmer
A travel agent travels to Africa intending to start a resort hotel only to encounter her crusty ex-husband and ivory smugglers. Read More »