Tag Archives: lovable animals
The Lost World (1925)
When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published The Lost World in Strand Magazine in 1912, he was allowing his name to be associated not just with his creation Sherlock Holmes, but with the likes of speculative fiction authors H. Rider Haggard … Continue reading
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Tagged 20's, Action, dinosaurs, lovable animals, prehistoric, Silent, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stop Motion, Wallace Beery, Willis O'Brien
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Forbidden Planet (1956)
Forbidden Planet (1956) is still an effectively scary film. I know this because I just started playing excerpts from the film’s all-electronic score through iTunes, and my dogs became alarmed and ran out of the room barking. The “music” – … Continue reading
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Tagged 50's, Anne Francis, Id, Leslie Nielsen, lovable animals, Robby the Robot, Science Fiction, Walter Pidgeon
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The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1967)
Aleksandr Ptushko’s penultimate special effects fantasy (before the sublime Ruslan and Ludmila) was The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1967), based on another of Pushkin’s poems and filled with rhyming dialogue and rich storybook imagery. The film opens with a Pushkin … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, Aleksandr Ptushko, fairy tale, Fantasy, giants, lovable animals, Russian, Surreal
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