An American rocket returning from the first manned space flight to Venus crashes into the sea near Sicily. One of the crew members is killed,…
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For its first big-budget live-action movie, Disney turned to a classic: Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The studio also turned to a few major Hollywood…
Taking a leaf out of the cute anarchy of A Hard Day’s Night (1964), directors Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer invest Zappa’s own music (performed by…
Young Melbourne journalist Will Gardiner (Scottish actor Mark McManus, later to find fame as DCI Jim Taggart) has interconnected crises on his hands: a clash…
Although collaborators like writer Arthur C Clarke and effects gurus Wally Veevers and Douglas Trumbull were important to the success of 2001, the film is basically…
Dazzling special effects and fancy space hardware dominate this follow-up to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Yet, there’s no feeling of awe, mystery or imagination…
Made in Germany in 1974, this is the film Kubrick might have made had he been sex-obsessed and talentless. Disguised as the French Olympic ski…
Tarzan star Lex Barker and Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney head a glittering international cast in this crime thriller from British B-movie mogul Harry Alan Towers.…
The 25th Hour relates the misadventures of Johann Moritz (Anthony Quinn), a simple and innocent Romanian peasant, who is literally dragged out of his house…
This quite extraordinary anti-communist tract masquerades as naive science fiction. An alien (Arnold Moss) transports five people from five different countries on Earth to his…
Army buddies Jerry Hotchkiss (Jerry Lewis) and Pete Nelson (Dean Martin) join a circus after they are discharged from their military service. Jerry is so…
Lemuel Gulliver (Kerwin Matthews) is a hardworking but not very wealthy doctor who wants to make a success of himself in order to provide for…
The much-loved Dudley Moore starred as shy nightclub pianist and composer Rupert Street, who is determined to write a hit musical masterpiece and marry the…
The master, Alfred Hitchcock, couldn’t have done better. It’s a low-budget thriller that compels attention from the arresting credits to the alarming fade-out. An unnamed…
After a brief holiday romance in Greece, Ann Stanley (a woman of 40) finds romance with 22-year-old Peter Latham in this comedy-drama. Ann does not…
When Apache chief Cochise (Michael Keep) goes on the warpath, US cavalry Captain Bruce Coburn (Audie Murphy in his last starring role) and his men…
48 Hours is a Clint Eastwood movie without Clint Eastwood in it. Instead, it’s got Nick Nolte, looking puffy and out of shape, as a bedraggled,…
Research scientist Scott Nelson (Robert Lansing) discovers the secret of passing through solid matter when he accidentally opens a fourth dimension thanks to an electric…
Beloved children’s author Dr Seuss (real name Theodore Geisel) made his first and only foray into feature films with The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T, which he conceived,…
Elmore Leonard’s clever screenplay (from his own bestseller) and John Frankenheimer’s staccato direction work effectively to bring about this chilling crime drama with colourful heroes…
