Much like the disbelieving military types that constantly frustrate the volcanic titular scientist, I’ve kinda done the Quatermass movies ass-backwards. You see, Hammer Film’s third
Tag: 1960s
Frankenstein Conquers The World
Japanese Kaiju movies from the 50’s and 60’s tended to come complete with the weirdest plots, but maybe that’s to be expected from a country
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
The Western has always been a genre with one spurred boot firmly embedded in myth. Far too young to have a history littered with knights
For A Few Dollars More
After Clint Eastwood’s Man With No Name sauntered into town at the beginning of Sergio Leone’s A Fistful Of Dollars and super charged the Western
A Fistful Of Dollars
It doesn’t take much to invoke images of Clint Eastwood’s stoic, crafty, cigar gnawing anti-hero, The Man With No Name, but a quick blast of
She
There’s a delightful string of wonky fantasy/adventure movies from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s that still carry buckets of charm even though these days some
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
In a year that saw that release of True Grit and The Wild Bunch, you’d have to be something special to stand out between these
The Wild Bunch
It begins with a spoiler from a scorpion…As William Holden and his men ride into town with a grim task in mind, he passes some
True Grit
John Wayne accumulated as many iconic roles in his legendary career as anyone else I can recall – which is doubly impressive when you consider
The Sons Of Katie Elder
It seems that as long as you put a six shooter in his belt, an unforgettable line of tough guy wisdom in his mouth and
El Dorado
Howard Hawks was a legendary director and producer, but perhaps his most famous works exist in that of the most American of genres – the
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
If I’m being honest, when choosing to settle down with a good old western, I usually choose to pick the more stylised, epic works of
Curse Of The Fly
Compared to it’s infinitely classier predecessor, 1958’s Return Of The Fly was strange, erratic sequel that took the original concept and transformed it into a
The Dirty Dozen
You know what most of those war time movies featuring men on a desperate mission have in common – apart from usually having big Hollywood
Gappa: The Triphibian Monsters
When you get past the recognisable scaley visages of the Kaiju rogues gallery of Toho and Daiei and continue onwards into the realms of the
The Professionals
Not to be confused with the 1980’s British cop show where two guys who obviously fancy themselves thwarted baddies around a grotty looking London, The
The Guns Of Navarone
When you amass the titans of the men on a mission sub-genre of the movies made about the Second World War, more often than not
Where Eagles Dare
The “men on a mission” movie has had some cracking entries over the years with everything from most of Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible movies to
Wrath Of Daimajin
If there was a flaw in the inpenetrable stone armour of the vengeful Golem Kaiju known as Daimajin, it’s that his vastly underrated first two
Return Of Daimajin
Displaying the same kind of confidence reserved usually for James Cameron’s ever expanding plans for his Avatar sequels, Daiei films back in 1966 released a
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