Camelot (1967)
Mar 27, 2001Arthurian Legends Musical
The Arthurian legends become the basis of this filmed version of a musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. On screen with a name cast, the film is slow and stodgy
David Hemmings
Barbarella (1968)
Mar 26, 2000Softcore Space Opera
Charmingly capricious and silly adaptation of the comic-strip with a wide-eyed Jane Fonda as the spacegoing heroine. Filled with some wonderfully naughty gags and a production and costume design scheme that goes to a gorgeously deranged excess
Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1971)
Nov 3, 2010Boys' Boarding School Psycho-Thriller
David Hemmings stars in a well written thriller about a school teacher whose pupils confess to a murder and engage in a series of psychological games with him
Deep Red (1976)
Apr 8, 2000Giallo Psycho-Thriller
Another of the giallo psycho-thrillers from Dario Argento in his heyday as David Hemmings is witness to a murder and tries to find the killer. As with Argento's films of this period, focused around a series of stylish and sadistic dispatches
Murder By Decree (1979)
Dec 13, 2002Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper
A lavish and ambitious production that has the fictional character of Sherlock Holmes solving the real-life Jack the Ripper murders, even if the eventual resolution opts for one of the more far-fetched theories about The Ripper’s identity
Thirst (1979)
May 10, 2011Medical Vampires
Modest Australian film where Chantal Contouri is introduced to a secret vampire society that keeps human beings as cattle
Harlequin (1980)
May 1, 2000Enigmatic Magician
Fascinating Australian film in which Robert Powell plays an enigmatic stage magician who may or may not have real powers who comes to influence a politician's family
Airwolf (1985)
Jun 1, 1999Hi-Tech Helicopter
The pilot for a tv series that was theatrically released outside of the US. A blatant copy of Blue Thunder, this concerns the hijacking and retrieval of a hi-tech helicopter