Showing posts with label Peplums-1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peplums-1. Show all posts
Sunday, 16 April 2017

The Viking Queen, 1967

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Here's a doozy from that groovy year 1967 - a Hammer Film with an imported American star - just like their 1966 THE WITCHES with Jo...
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Monday, 20 February 2017

12 Spectacular films

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I had this large format spiral bound book " SPECTACULAR! The Story of Epic Film s" by John Cary and John Kobal, in 1974, but so...
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Tuesday, 22 November 2016

The Colossus of Rhodes

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Back in the heyday of new dvds, a fun collection were the ' Cult Camp Classics ': Vol 4 was Historical Epics and featured those ...
Sunday, 20 November 2016

Belinda

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One more fabulous lady before we move on to other things ...... we like Belinda Lee a lot, I first saw her as a kid in the 1957 DANGEROU...
Sunday, 21 August 2016

Summer re-vews: favourite Spartacus moments

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Though I have the dvd and have seen it several times, it was on television again (with no commercials) so it seemed a good idea to record i...
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Saturday, 13 August 2016

Summer re-reads: Pompeii by Robert Harris

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An unputownable re-read is this 2005 novel by Robert Harris. I liked it even more this time around, apart from one strand of the narrativ...
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Wednesday, 13 July 2016

Cleopatra out-takes ...

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Elizabeth Taylor and veteran actor Finlay Currie on the set of CLEOPATRA . But Finlay wasn't in CLEOPATRA you say - quite right, his...
Sunday, 1 May 2016

Jupiter's Darling, 1955

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"Esther Williams stars as the beautiful woman whose love saves Rome in this whimsical musical delight. The year is 216 BC and almos...
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Sunday, 3 April 2016

Peplum veterans

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Let's praise some of our peplum/epic favourite actors, great dependables who always 'add value' and make their scenes come aliv...
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Monday, 7 March 2016

Cleo & Alex revisited

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I always enjoy settling down to watch CLEOPATRA again - particularly if recording it from widescreen HD television, so one can zip past an...
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Monday, 15 February 2016

Mitchell Leisen, Hollywood Director

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" Mitchell Leisen, Hollywood Director " first published in 1973 and reprinted in 1995, by David Chierichetti, is a fascinating ...
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