B-movie and action-movie aficionados know that a double feature (The Black Pirates & Tales of Robin Hood) produced by two Robert L. Lippert’s (Sr. and Jr.), and the top of the bill is in color, and features Lon Chaney Jr. as a priest…it’s going to be a double, double-decker of Saturday matinee fun!
Action/Adventure
Based on the story Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne, this epic action adventure follows a courageous courier of Tsar Alexander II as he struggles to deliver vital information to Russian troops fighting a losing battle against invading Tartar hordes in Siberia. It’s a straight ahead action film, adventurous, swiftly paced and blood-thirstily satisfying. This serial-like adventures of Strogoff and his friends battling a Tartar rebellion has captivated Verne fans for decades.
Action/Adventure
An action-packed 1928 Silent 10 Chapter serial remastered in Hi-Definition from the only surviving 35mm tinted print
An inventor adds new innovations to an air company’s planes, prompting the owners of a rival company to set out to steal them. The stakes are sky-high as an airman and an aviatrix find themselves in constant peril, both on earth and above the clouds. Written by famed mystery novelist Arthur B. Reeve.
Action/Adventure
Jungle Patrol: Machine-gun action and suspense are the backdrop of a love story in this tense tale of eight young USAF flyers stationed in World War II New Guinea.
The Silent Raiders: Their assignment amounted to “kill or be killed”: During World War II, just prior to D-Day, a seven-man unit arrives on the French coast with orders to help wipe out a German communications center three miles inland.
Plus Feature-Length Combat Film Compilation
Action/Adventure
Jerry Warren Vol. 3 – Violent and the Damned/No Time to Kill
Jerry Warren not only produced bad movies, he bought them from others. Here are two prime examples, and don’t say we didn’t warn you.
The Violent and The Damned: When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil’s infamous Anchieta prison amidst all the pick-ax carnage.
No Time To Kill: After eight years in prison on a trumped up charge a man plans to kill the elusive man who framed him.
Action/Adventure
Attention NASCAR fans –
A legendary stock car racer is fast on the track and faster with the women in his life, leading to action on and off the speedway. A high-octane drama, shot on location at stock car racing’s cathedral, Darlington, South Carolina, and including historic footage of the actual Labor Day 1959 “Southern 500.”
Action/Adventure
The true-life WWII drama of Lt. Blackburn (Keith Andes) who avoided capture by the Japanese in the Philippines by venturing far into the unforgiving jungle, battling disease, starvation and hostile fire at every turn. He finally amassed a platoon of natives (including headhunters) to his cause, and led successful attacks on the enemy.
On the same program: John Ford’s This Is Korea!, John Huston’s The Battle of San Pietro (1945) and The Stilwell Road (1945) narrated by Ronald Reagan
Action/Adventure
When a smuggler (Rock Hudson) takes to the high seas in the historical era of Napoleon’s threatened invasion of England, he meets a beautiful mystery woman (Yvonne De Carlo) and is induced to sail her to the French coast, unaware that she is actually a spy…but for which side?
Action/Adventure
Jungle Hell: As usual he’s up to his diaper-loincloth in trouble as the jungles of India bristle with danger, from a wicked witch doctor to rogue elephants.
Savage Drums: Startling thrills and primitive passions as Sabu, a boxer training for a light heavyweight championship fight in Los Angeles, is implored to return to his Indo-Chinese island home and help rid the area of Communist sympathizers. As Red Chinese troops prepare to invade the island, Sabu and his fight manager Sid Melton stand up for democracy!
Cuban Rebel Girls: High on “Worst Films” lists but low on the résumé of legendary swashbuckler Errol Flynn, this no-budget semi-documentary.
Untamed Women: Cult rites, a hostile tribe of Neanderthal men and mucho giant-lizard footage from One Million B.C. put this near the top of the list of “island of lost women” disaster pieces.
Action/Adventure
Shipwrecked on an uninhabited South Seas atoll, a Canadian nurse (Linda Darnell) and a young Marine (Tab Hunter) initially clash but, as the weeks turn into months, begin to see each other through different eyes and give in to their natural impulses. But when an RAF flyer (Donald Gray) crashes on the island, the tropical love story is complicated by that familiar bit of romantic geometry, the Eternal Triangle.
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Thunder in the Pines: Action and comedy abound in this buddy movie with George “Superman” Reeves and Ralph “Dick Tracy” Byrd locking horns in a north woods logging camp over the hand of a fickle mail order bride!
Jungle Goddess: A plane carrying the young daughter of a millionaire crashes into an African jungle. The girl survives and the rescuing natives proclaim her their “White Goddess.” Six years later, two flyers locate the girl…and then the trouble begins!
Action/Adventure
THE NYLON NOOSE – Stockbrokers get necks broken in an Edgar Wallace Krimi-style crime thriller complete with old-dark-house setting, fiendish serial killer and intrepid Scotland Yard sleuth. A shadow-strewn mansion is the backdrop for macabre melodrama with blackmail leading to murder, plus a hulking man-monster haunts the dank caves below the house!
ESCAPE FROM SAHARA – It’s a nightmare at 20,000 feet when three French Foreign Legion paratroopers decide to desert, and force their plane’s pilot to take them to Spain. There are run-ins with military patrols, a trip on a merchant ship–and romance–until the deserters find themselves in the country they fear more than any other–France!