Robbery Under Arms
Based on the classic adventure novel by Rolf Boldrewood, and set in the nineteenth century outback, this is the story of the biggest cattle-rustling coup in Australian history and the men who planned and executed it.
Based on the classic adventure novel by Rolf Boldrewood, and set in the nineteenth century outback, this is the story of the biggest cattle-rustling coup in Australian history and the men who planned and executed it. Having shared the proceeds, they go their separate ways. Fate, however, has other ideas and they are brought together in a violent climax.
1957 | 101 min | Color | 1.33:1/4×3 | Dolby Digital 2.0 & 5.1 Enhanced | Region 1 | NR
Special Feature:
• Before and After Restoration Sample
Peter Finch, Ronald Lewis, Maureen Swanson, David McCallum, Jill Ireland, Laurence Naismith, Jean Anderson, Ursula Finlay
Directed byJack Lee
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Euro-Trash Double Feature
THE NYLON NOOSE (Die Nylonschlinge) – 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 (Ady Berber of Dark Eyes of London infamy) haunts the dank caves below the house! 1963|71 min.|B&W|1.37:1|NR
ESCAPE FROM SAHARA (Madeleine und der Legionär) – 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. Following a fight and a desert crash-landing, they meet a nurse (Hildegard Neff) who offers help. 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! 1958|B&W|1.37:1|NR
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The Young Land
This “Sincere western…” (according to Leonard Maltin), set in 1848 California, stars Patrick Wayne as a lawman with high morals and co-stars Dennis Hopper as a rebellious gunslinger. Hopper goes on trial for killing a young Mexican, which tests the American system of justice in the newly formed state. Produced by John Ford’s son, who brought together an excellent supporting cast of Hollywood extras. Features a great western score, with composer Dimitri Tiomkin and songwriter Ned Washington garnering a Best Song Nomination at the 1959 Academy Awards.
1959 | 89 min | Color | 1.33:1/4×3 | Dolby Digital | All Region | NR
Special Feature:
• Movie Trailers
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Positively No Refunds Double Feature – Cuban Rebel Girls/Untamed Women
CUBAN REBEL GIRLS: High on “Worst Films” lists but low on the résumé of legendary swashbuckler Errol Flynn, this no-budget semi-documentary provided the actor with his humiliating screen epitaph. Playing himself, he is seen working as a correspondent arriving in Cuba to interview Fidel Castro. Go over-the-mountains with over-the-hill Flynn and see troop skirmishes, a raid and sugar cane field fires–and get an eyeful of his 16-year-old “protégé” Beverly Aadland as the American girlfriend of a Cuban mercenary. I don’t think we’re in Sherwood Forest any more, Toto! 1952|66 mins|B&W|1.33:1|NR
UNTAMED WOMEN: When an Air Force plane goes down in mid-ocean, its captain (Mikel Conrad) and his three-man crew wash ashore on an uncharted island of fur-clad cuties (descended from the Druids) led by high priestess Sandra (Doris Merrick). Cult rites, a hostile tribe of Neanderthal men and (of course) mucho giant-lizard footage from One Million B.C. put this near the top of the list of “island of lost women” disaster pieces. 1952|B&W|1.33:1|NR
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Sabu Double Feature
JUNGLE HELL: Still playing a “Jungle Boy” in his 30s, the inimitable Sabu of Thief of Bagdad fame made an unsuccessful 1950s stab at TV stardom, with the unsold episodes morphing into this feature-length film instead. 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. David Bruce (The Mad Ghoul) and K.T. Stevens (Missile to the Moon) co-star. 1964|78 min|1.33:1|NR
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! 1951|72 min|B&W|NR
SPECIAL FEATURES: Interview with Margia Dean (Savage Drums); Trailers
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