Ever since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote of a mysterious plateau – where dinosaurs miraculously still exist – in his 1912 book The Lost World, Hollywood has been more than eager to bring man and prehistoric beast together. Adapting Doyle’s book to the big screen in 1925 was certainly a no brainer, and basing a…
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Hooper (1978) – Review
This movie is about Sonny Hooper “The Greatest Stuntman Alive” and though this character is fictional he is clearly based on events and people from former stuntman, now turned director, Hal Needham’s life. There have been many movies about the world of filmmaking, and even a few about stuntmen, but Hooper is not so much a…
Tarzan’s Three Challenges (1963) – Review
In a direct follow up to 1962’s Tarzan Goes to India we find our jungle hero once again being called to help an old friend from a foreign land.
Tarzan Goes to India (1962)
In Tarzan Goes to India Sy Weintraub decided he wanted to go with a leaner less muscular Tarzan and so cast Jock Mahoney to play the Ape Man this time around and who funnily enough actually played the primary villain in the previous film Tarzan the Magnificent. Also returning is director John Guillermin who helmed Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure…
Tarzan the Magnificent (1960) – Review
In this sequel to Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure, producer Sy Weintraub continues to make gritty character driven stories starring Tarzan, one that really captures much of the tone of the Burroughs books, and though this Tarzan doesn’t run into any lost cities, he is more in keeping with the intelligent and honorable hero from the books, as…