The 3 Worlds of Gulliver 1960  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Jack Sher
Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Jo Morrow, June Thorburn, Lee Patterson, Gregoire Aslan, Basil Sydney, Charles Lloyd Pack, Martin Benson, Mary Ellis, Peter Bull
This version of the Jonathan Swift classic tale is entertaining, as the shipwrecked Gulliver (Kerwin Mathews) ends up in the small, small world of the Lilliputians followed by visiting the land of Brobdignag, home of the giants. Most of Swift's biting satire is missing, though some is retained. The young ones should like it.
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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad 1958  G, 92 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Action / Fantasy
Director: Nathan Juran
Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, Torin Thatcher, Alec Mango, Danny Green, Harold Kasket, Alfred Brown, Nana DeHerrera, Nino Falanga, Luis Guedes, Virgilio Teixeira
Special effects innovator Ray Harryhausen adds stop-motion to his bag of tricks, resulting in a near-classic. The evil magician Sokurah (Torin Thatcher) has put a spell on Sinbad's (Kerwin Mathews) beloved princess (Kathryn Grant), making her just a few inches tall. The spell can be broken by getting an eggshell from the giant, ferocious, two-headed bird Roc, who is on the island of Colossa. Sinbad must fight all sorts of creatures to reach his goal.
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The Devil at 4 O'clock 1961   N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Frank Sinatra, Kerwin Mathews, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Alexander Scourby, Barbara Luna, Gregoire Aslan, Cathy Lewis, Bernie Hamilton, Marcel Dalio
Father Matthew Doonan (Spencer Tracy) is a priest in charge of a South Pacific orphanage. When the island is threatened by volcanic activity, Father Doonan calls on Harry (Frank Sinatra) to lead a group of convicts in removing the children from their dangerous home. 1 User Review
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| | blakjack 43 06/20/2009 | | pretty good dialogue likable characters. |
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Garment Jungle 1957
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincent Sherman, Robert Aldrich
Cast: Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Mathews, Gia Scala, Richard Boone, Valerie French, Robert Loggia, Joseph Wiseman, Harold J. Stone, Adam Williams, Wesley Addy, Willis Bouchey, Robert Ellenstein, Celia Lovsky, Sid Melton, Jud Taylor
Alan Mitchell (Kerwin Mathews) returns home from the Korean War and joins his father Walter's (Lee J. Cobb) clothing firm only to discover that Walter is involved in a union-busting syndicate. Alan tries unsuccessfully to talk Walter into changing his mind about unions, and then talks to union leader Tulio Renata (Robert Loggia). Alan's visit results in a series of murder victims–including Walter and Renata. Finally, Alan uses his father's accounting books to give the police evidence of the extortion that led to the murders.
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 Jack the Giant Killer 1962 G, 94 min.
Genre: Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Nathan Juran
Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Judi Meredith, Torin Thatcher, Walter Burke, Roger Mobley, Don Beddoe, Barry Kelley, Dayton Lummis, Anna Lee, Robert Gist, Tudor Owen, Ken Mayer
Jack (Kerwin Mathews) slays the giant sent by evil wizard Pendragon (Torin Thatcher) in an attempt to kidnap Princess Elaine (Judi Meredith). Now, Jack is assigned the task of protecting Elaine from future spells cast by Pendragon.
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Man on a String 1959 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Andre De Toth
Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Kerwin Mathews, Colleen Dewhurst, Alexander Scourby, Glenn Corbett, Vladimir Sokoloff, Ed Prentiss, Carl Jaffe, Friedrich Joloff, Richard Kendrick
Boris Mitrov (Ernest Borgnine) is a double agent in Moscow who tries to break up two underworld groups by pitting them against each other.
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Nightmare in Blood 1978  R, 9j0 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Stanley
Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Jerry Walter, Dan Caldwell, Barrie Youngfellow, John Cochran, Ray K. Goman, Hy Pyke, Mark Anger, Drew Eshelman, Morgan Upton, Justin Bishop, Stan Ritchie
Attendees at a Horror-Film convention in San Francisco are pleased when the guest-of-honor is a popular actor, Malakai (Jerry Walter), who plays a vampire in his films. But when it becomes clear that he is REALLY a vampire, steps must be taken by some of the vampire "experts" at the convention. A somewhat fun spoof of the genre.
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Pirates of Blood River 1962 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
Director: John Gilling
Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Christopher Lee, Glenn Corbett, Marla Landi, Oliver Reed, Andrew Keir, Peter Arne, Michael Ripper, Jack Stewart, David Lodge, Marie Devereux, Diane Aubrey, Dennis Waterman, Desmond Llewelyn
Hammer Films presents this high-seas adventure about young Jonathan Standing (Kerwin Mathews) who is exiled by his father (Andrew Keir) to a penal colony. The penal colony is invaded by pirates led by Captain LaRoche (Christopher Lee), and Jonathan leads LaRoche and his pirate ship to his Caribbean home where LaRoche believes a treasure is buried. LaRoche takes control of the town while searching for the treasure, and many are killed in the process. Finally, LaRoache finds the treasure–a gold statue of Jonathan's grandfather–and attempts to haul it away. But, Jonathan and his cohorts attack the raft, the statue falls overboard and sinks to the bottom of the sea, La Roche is killed, and the survivors return home.
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| 1. The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
2. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
3. The Devil at 4 O'clock (1961)
4. Garment Jungle (1957)
5. Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
6. Man on a String (1959)
7. Nightmare in Blood (1978)
8. Pirates of Blood River (1962)
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