Captain Clegg
Captain Clegg (1962) represents a cross pollination of different genres that Hammer excelled in. It is at once a horror film, an adventure picture and a thriller. In the hands… Read more »
Tag: Oliver Reed
The Three Musketeers
I was just a kid the first time that I saw Richard Lester’s The Three Musketeers (1973). My mother was a really big fan of Lester’s two Musketeers films. She… Read more »
The World Of Hammer
The World Of Hammer (1994) was a thirteen part series of twenty-five minute episodes narrated by Oliver Reed. Each episode in the series looked at a theme in Hammer Films… Read more »
The Hunting Party
The Hunting Party (1971) opens with a scene of a steer being butchered cross-cut with a scene of sex. The hefer’s savage demise is equated with the violent sex that… Read more »
The Pirates Of Blood River
At a remote Huguenot settlement on an island in the Caribbean, Jonathan Standing (Kerwin Mathews) is railroaded and imprisoned for adultery. Standing manages to escape the penal colony only to… Read more »
Venom
Instead of appearing in Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) Klaus Kinski chose to star in Venom (1981) which offered more money and, according to Kinski, a superior script. The… Read more »
