John Abbott

Movies5 years ago
Abroad with Two Yanks (UA 1944, William Bendix, Dennis O’Keefe)
Two WWII Marine buddies (William Bendix and Dennis O’Keefe) are devoted to each other through thick and thin in the heat of battle. On furlough, however,...
TV5 years ago
Epic That Never Was, The (BBC-2 1967, Dirk Bogarde, Merle Oberon)
Documentary The Epic That Never Was told the ill fated story behind the shooting of uncompleted 1937 Alexanda Korda film I Claudius. Narrated by Dirk Bogarde...
Movies5 years ago
Who’s Minding the Store? (Paramount 1963, Jerry Lewis, Jill St John)
In Who’s Minding the Store?, a department store provides the location for Jerry Lewis’s buffoonery, in this case working as a handyman hired away from his...
Movies5 years ago
Thousand And One Nights, A (1945, Cornel Wilde, Evelyn Keyes)
Spectacular Technicolor fantasy A Thousand And One Nights puts a fun spin on that favourite old yarn, Aladdin and the Lamp. In ancient Tigris, urchin Aladdin...
Movies5 years ago
Bandit of Sherwood Forest, The (Columbia 1946, Cornel Wilde, Anita Louise)
Cornel Wilde dons a pair of tights and cries ‘History be damned!’ in terrific Hollywood romp The Bandit of Sherwood Forest. He plays Robert, the dashing...