The Reluctant Astronaut (1967)
Jan 2, 2000Bumbling Idiot Goes into Space
Most of the comics of the 1960s made a film dealing with the Space Race and here it is the turn of Don Knotts. Lots of bumbling slapstick ensues in this hardly inspiring entry
Jeanette Nolan
The Manitou (1978)
Feb 17, 2003Reincarnated Indian Medicine Man
The one moment of triumph from director William Girdler who takes a work that sits just on the threshold of schlock and transforms into something incredibly eerie with an injection of H.P. Lovecraft and American Indian mysticism
The Fox and the Hound (1981)
Oct 31, 2005Disney Animation/Talking Animals
Disney animated film from the fallow period of the 1970s/early 80s. This concerns the friendship between a talking fox and a hound tempered by the knowledge they will grow into enemies. An okay effort if not up the heights of the studio's classics
Cloak and Dagger (1984)
Apr 17, 2001Children's Spy Caper/Invisible Companion
Henry Thomas, then riding on the success of E.T., is cast as a kid with a love of spy games who, accompanied by his imaginary companion, is plunged into the midst of a real spy caper.