Category Archives: Theater Midnight Matinee
Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
Television may have been cinema’s chief competitor, but Hammer Films was never afraid to mine the small screen for inspiration, from its eerie adaptations of Nigel Kneale serials (the Quatermass trilogy, The Abominable Snowman) to the feature-length sitcoms of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, Adventure, Hammer, Oliver Reed, Peter Cushing, Robin Hood, Terence Fisher
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
We typically put Disney movies in a category of their own; we exclude them from the greater world of twentieth century cinema, and discuss them only in the context of the history of the Walt Disney Company. Thus it’s often … Continue reading
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Tagged 50's, Action, Fantasy, giant animals, giant squid, James Mason, Jules Verne, Kirk Douglas, Peter Lorre, Science Fiction, Walt Disney
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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)
Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide gives Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969) two-and-a-half stars and a fragment of a sentence. Until the Warner Archives recently released the film on DVD, I had hardly heard of it before; but upon learning … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, Fantasy, Jules Verne, Killer Shark, Luciana Paluzzi, Submarine, Utopia
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