Ulysses (1954)
Mar 14, 2023Greek Myth Adventure
Lavishly made Greek myth adventure, an adaptation of The Odyssey with Kirk Douglas as Ulysses/Odysseus
Kirk Douglas
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Mar 18, 2003Victorian Submarine Inventor/Jules Verne Adaptation
Disney's adaptation of Jules Verne's novel is a lavishly produced period adventure. This became the definitive version of the book and inspired a string of other period-set Verne adaptations over the next decade
Seven Days in May (1964)
Feb 14, 2001Political Thriller/Presidential Overthrow Plot
Stark black-and-white thriller from John Frankenheimer about a military coup in the US. Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling delivers a superb script
Holocaust 2000 (1977)
Apr 8, 2002The Anti-Christ
An Italian exploitation copy of The Omen industrialist Kirk Douglas fighting the coming of the Anti-Christ. Here bizarrely enough The Beast manifests as a nuclear power plant
The Fury (1978)
Jun 10, 2002Psychic Powers
Brian De Palma returns to psychic powers themes in this successor to Carrie, but this is a much more sprawling and often incoherent narrative with only occasional moments of De Palma’s directorial flourish
The Final Countdown (1980)
Jul 29, 2002Aircraft Carrier Time-Travels Back to Pearl Harbor
A big-budget film that has one of the great SF premises - what if a modern aircraft carrier were transported back in time to the eve of Pearl Harbor - only to end up blowing it.
Saturn 3 (1980)
Jun 9, 2003Robot Amok
Ambitious if not entirely successful film with Harvey Keitel building a robot that proceeds to go amok on a moonbase inhabited by Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett