Tarzan Finds a Son (1939)
Jun 6, 2009Jungle Hero
Fourth of the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films, the point where John Sheffield's Boy enters the series because the Hays Code required that Jane could not get pregnant
Ian Hunter
Strange Cargo (1940)
Jan 3, 2001Jesus Christ Aids Devil's Island Escapees
One of the strangest films of the 1940s, featuring Clark Gable, Joan Crawford and others as a group of Devil's Island escapees who realise during the course of their journey that one of the company is Jesus Christ
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1941)
May 9, 2001Evil Personality Within Unleashed
Version of the Jekyll/Hyde story starring Spencer Tracy and with Ingrid Bergman as the dancehall girl he liaises with. This has been made in the vogue for Freudian psychology so the transformation is tricked out with dubious symbolism
The Order of the Black Eagle (1987)
Jan 15, 2025Spy/Action Film
A low-budget spy/action film with entertainingly bizarre elements including a cryogenically frozen Hitler and the hero going into action accompanied by a baboon