Cisco Kid Movie Collection: South of the Rio Grande (1945)
There were three Cisco Kid movies made in 1945. That’s how popular the character was. This one, directed by Lambert Hillyer (who made so many movies, including Dracula’s Daughter) and written by Victor Hammond and Ralph Bettinson, is unlike many of the other movies in the series as its a musical. It starts with Cisco […]
Spagvemberfest 2023: Those Dirty Dogs (1973)
Those Dirty Dogs is also known as Campa carogna… la taglia cresce, Los cuatro de Fort Apache and Charge! It’s late in the Italian Western genre, so it has the slapstick ingredients of other latter cowboy films. It also has a song, “The Wind in My Face,” that was written by star Stephen Boyd and composer Nico […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Hercules the Invincible (1964)
Ercole l’invincibile came to American audiences as Son of Hercules in the Land of Darkness. Of these thirteen movies in the Embassy Pictures package offered to TV channels, two had Hercules, none had his children Alexiares, Anicetus, Telephus, Hyllus and Tlepolemus, and four were Maciste movies. Ercole, or Hercules, is played by Dan Vadis, a former […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Hercules and the Captive Women (1961)
Known elsewhere as Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis, this is the film debut of Reg Park as Hercules, or Ercole as he’s referred to in the Italian title (Ercole alla Conquista di Atlantide). Directed by Vittorio Cottafavi, this had a complete retitle, re-edit and rescore* — as well as a title design by Filmation — […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964)
I love when a film series sticks around long enough to battle aliens. Hercules is no different, as now he must battle the evil Queen Samara (Jany Clair, Planets Against Us) and her army of Moon Men, who demand that children be sacrificed to bring back their dead leader. Hercules is played by Sergio Ciani, who […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Giants of Rome (1964)
A handpicked group of soldiers — by Julius Caesar, no less! — must break into the druid stronghold to locate and destroy the secret weapon that could help them win the Battle of Alesia. They are centurion Claudius Marcellus (Richard Harrison, not yet in the world of Godfrey Ho), Germanicus (Ralph Hudson, who was only […]
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