Day: March 23, 2022

While not the first one made, Rumpelstiltskin was the first of the Cannon Films’ Movie Tales series to make it to the U.S. It’s notable because it’s the only movie in which Billy Barty had the lead. It also has Amy Irving as the miller’s daughter, with her brother David directing and writing the movie and […]

I’ve seen all of the Cannon Movie Tales and let me tell you, when I was young and they thought I had promise, well, they were wrong. Directed by Eugene Marner, who also made Cannon’s Puss In Boots, this was written by his wife Carole Lucia Satrina, who also wrote that film, Cannon’s Red Riding Hood and […]

Hỏa Lò Prison started its use as a political prison used by French colonists in French Indochina before the North Vietnamese used it for jailing U.S. P.O.W.s during the Vietnam War. So while Cannon may have made at least five Vietnam P.O.W. movies that I can name off the top of my head, this is […]

This movie was a long-time passion project for star Christopher Reeve, but he couldn’t get it financed. When Cannon acquired the rights to Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Reeve agreed to do that movie if Cannon paid for this one. The story came from David Freeman, who wrote the last draft for Alfred Hitchcock’s […]