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Entries Tagged as 'American International Pictures'

Count Yorga, Vampire (1970, Bob Kelljan)

May 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Count Yorga, Vampire is a retelling of Dracula, modernizing it to the then-contemporary 1970 and changing the locale to Los Angeles. It’s also incredibly low budget–not so low budget it has bad acting (its acting is actually the strong-point)–but it has blacked out windows on houses and cars (so night scenes can be shot at […]

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Tagged: American International Pictures· Bob Kelljan· Michael Murphy· ★½

The People That Time Forgot (1977, Kevin Connor)

April 28th, 2006 · No Comments

Apparently, all Kevin Connor needs–besides a decently concocted screenplay–is location shooting and a good score.
The People That Time Forgot–around the halfway point–became a movie I found myself enjoying too much. I got self-conscious about it, questioning its quality even more than usual, just because it seemed so good. It’s an adventure film, one told almost entirely […]

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Tagged: American International Pictures· Doug McClure· Edgar Rice Burroughs· Kevin Connor· Patrick Tilley· Patrick Wayne· ★★★

At the Earth’s Core (1976, Kevin Connor)

April 27th, 2006 · No Comments

Pinewood Studios has housed some rather impressive sets and some great films have been shot there. Reading At the Earth’s Core’s end credits and seeing it too was shot at Pinewood… well, my respect for the studio has plummeted.
At the Earth’s Core is the second of four films directed by Kevin Connor, produced by John […]

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Tagged: American International Pictures· Doug McClure· Edgar Rice Burroughs· Kevin Connor· Milton Subotsky· Peter Cushing· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ

The Land That Time Forgot (1975, Kevin Connor)

April 26th, 2006 · No Comments

The Land That Time Forgot never achieved any sort of cult notoriety (though I’m not sure any film with dinosaurs ever has), but as a child, any video box cover promising submarines, aquatic dinosaurs, octopuses, and ape-men was golden. The film does not feature any octopuses. While I did see Land That Time Forgot as […]

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Tagged: American International Pictures· Doug McClure· Edgar Rice Burroughs· James Cawthorn· Kevin Connor· Michael Moorcock· ★★

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