Showing posts with label Regal Films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Regal Films. Show all posts

28.1.12

kronos (1957)


aka Kronos, Destroyer of the Universe. Kronos, Ravager of Planets.
"I can't get over this horrible feeling that this is the calm, and a storm is about to break out any minute."
An alien machine is sent to syphon off the earth's energy. Scientist Les Gaskell (Jeff Morrow), turns up to investigate, believing it to be an asteroid and walks into mayhem.
Your standard alien creature feature, but one done with a little style and effort, making it an interesting cold war paranoia flick.

5.8.10

live now, pay later (1962)


aka Flight from Treason.
"Get the goods in the house, that's all you've got to do."
Albert (Ian Hendry) is an irrepressible charmer, and door-to-door salesman. His philosophy extolls the virtues of living life to the full on 'tick'. But his happy go lucky life starts to come unraveled when confronted by firstly a pregnant girlfriend, and then a customer who is in over her head.
A proto-Alfie who always bounces back, never mind what you throw at him. Impressive, if often forgotten film, with a wonderful supporting cast.

6.9.09

dr. who and the daleks (1965)

Eccentric scientist Dr. Who (Peter Cushing) invents the TARDIS, a time machine, bizarrely disguised as a police telephone box for some reason! The Dr shows off his invention to his two grand-daughters, Susan and Barbara, (Roberta Tovey and Jennie Linden), and Ian (Roy Castle). Ian (Roy Castle) accidentally sets it off, sending them through time and space to the planet Skaro. There they find a race war underway. The peaceful Thals are being attacked by the mutated and vicious Daleks, who are determined to take over not only Skaro, but also the universe. Can the Dr help the Thals defeat the Daleks and get himself and family back to earth?
Based on the long running BBC series Doctor Who, this is a slight deviation from the series plot lines, with the Dr being an Eccentric English scientist, rather than a time lord. This was so that there need be no exposition about where the Dr was from for world-wide audiences who had never seen the TV series. That said Cushing gives a good account of himself and the film fairly romps along, in a more light-hearted and comic manner than the TV series. The story itself is an adaption from a TV script broadcast the previous year. Good old fashioned family entertainment.

30.7.09

the hellfire club (1961)

Jason (Keith Michell), returns to his ancestral home to reclaim his birthright, years after being taken away by his mother. But he finds his cousin Thomas (Peter Arne), has taken Jason's lands in his absence, and he isn't going to give up the title without a fight. A sideline that Thomas is the Hellfire Club and he calls on it's members to help prevent Jason taking what is rightfully his.
A run of the mill swashbuckling action adventure is enlivened by a wonderful cameo by Peter Cushing as a lawyer working Jason's case and plenty of sword fights and ladies throwing themselves at Jason gagging for some romance.