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Title - Drums in the Deep South
Starring - James Craig, Barbara Payton, Guy Madison
Directed by - William Cameron Menzies
Producer(s) - Maurice King & Frank King
Screenwriter(s) -

Review

This is a really great classic movie that should be on the must see list of anyone who enjoys the old classics. The story starts out with two best friends who are graduating from West Point. The friends, Clay Clayburn (James Craig)and Will Denning (Guy Madison), quickly find themselves embroiled in the Civil War; unfortunately they are fighting on opposite sides. As the movie progresses, they are fighting against one another; however, they have no idea that they are literally fighting against one another just a few hundred yards away from one another.

While this film is a really good war movie, it also depicts a love triangle between the two best friends and Kathy (Barbara Payton), the woman they both love. Although they both love her, she marries the one she favors. When they are both away fighting in the war, Kathy discovers that they are embroiled in a battle being waged near her home when her manor is taken by Union forces. Although she is virtually a prisoner in her own home, she later discovers there is a plot to blow up some explosives near the area. She is reunited with her former lover and knows that she must do something to not only save her lover but also keep the two men from killing one another.

Not only does this movie have a really good story line but if you happen to be a history buff you will really enjoy the fact that some effort was obviously taken in making sure that the details for this time period were taken seriously. The uniforms appear to be quite right and not at all hokey.

Most films about the Civil War in the 1950s have a kind of cardboard ending but that isn’t the case with this movie. There are some twists and turns that you don’t expect and you don’t feel as though you come away knowing what was going to happen the whole time. 

Title - Captain Scarlett
Starring - Richard Green, Leonora Amar, Nedrick Young
Directed by - Thomas H. Carr
Producer(s) - Howard Dimsdale
Screenwriter(s) - Howard Dimsdale

Review

If you are a history buff, you will be sure to love Captain Scarlett. The action takes place in France just after Napoleon has fallen from power. In many ways this film is quite reminiscent of such tales as Zorro and Robin Hood. In the beginning of the movie Captain Scarlett, portrayed by Richard Greene, has just returned to France. Surely he is enjoying the thought of returning home to rest and relax; however his good friend, who just happens to be a friar, desperately informs him that the home he has longed to return to has been seized, along with all of his lands by a rather unscrupulous nobleman, the Duke of Corlaine.

Finding himself in a difficult predicament, Scarlett realizes he has no choice but to attempt to access his own castle by climbing through the window. It is during this scene that he meets the incredibly lovely Princess Maria, portrayed by Leonara Amar, and realizes that his life is about to change. After the princess inquires as to his identity, Scarlett delivers the very romantic and memorable line, "The name is Scarlett, as to what did I want when I climbed in here, or what do I want now that I have seen you?" Unfortunately the moment is interrupted when Scarlett is captured and tossed haplessly into a dungeon. He quickly discovers he is not the only prisoner here and makes friends with a man named Pierre, portrayed by Nedrick Young, who has also found himself in the unfortunate predicament of having his lands taken.

After the two escape from the dungeon, Scarlett relentlessly also frees the princess who is on the verge of being forced into marriage with a count. Now free, the three run away into the woods and then begin to assist their fellow countrymen who have fallen into the clutches of the evil duke. Scarlett finds himself once again needing to come to the rescue of the princess when she is not only captured by a group of soldiers but also sentenced to die. If you’re a classic adventure film fan, this is a film that will be sure to delight and entertain you from beginning to end. Not only is the action great and true to form for classic swashbuckler films, but the plot and characterization are also very well done. 

Run Time - 1:15:04 File Size - 210mb

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Title - Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
Starring - Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney, Faron Young
Directed by - Albert C. Gannoway & Ismael Rodricuez
Producer(s) - Albert C. Gannoway
Screenwriter(s) - Tom Hubbard, Jack Patrick

Review

The story of Daniel Boone is probably one of the best adventure tales of all time and this dramatization of the tale makes good use of that fact. If you’re not familiar with this timeless historical tale, it follows Boone who is a frontiersmen leading a group of pioneers to a new home in the Cumberland Gap. The land here is practically nothing but wilderness and to say that building a fort in the wilderness, which also happens to be situated in the middle of very hostile Shawnee Indian territory, is difficult would be an understatement. Not only do Boone and his group have to fight against the land itself as well as the Shawnee but they also have to contend with a renegade Frenchman, Simon Girty, who is working against them by telling the Indian tribes in the area that the new pioneers have no peaceful intentions and instead intend only to kill the Indians and still their land.

This film features some great action scenes, one of which includes an attack on the pioneer fort by the Shawnee. The two main actors in this film, Bruce Bennett (portraying Daniel Boone) and Lon Chaney (portraying Chief Blackfish) do an excellent job. When the film is over you feel as though you understand a bit more about what the real life pioneers during this time in history must have faced in order to tame the wilderness.

All in all, this film has something for everyone; ranging from plenty of fight and action scenes to some very tender romance scenes as well. Fans of Faron Young will enjoy the country and western number that is woven into the story. Although this was a low-budget film it is still an excellent film. 

Title - Desert Commandos
Starring - Ken Clark, Horst Frank, Jeanne Valerie, Carlo Hinterman, Howard Ross
Directed by - Umberto Lenz
Producer(s) - Alberto Grimaldi
Screenwriter(s) - Umberto Lenz

Review

In comparison to many of the war movies that were made during this time period, this film takes a divergent point of view. That difference is in the form of the heroes portrayed in this movie. While most war movies clearly indicate the German soldiers to be the bad guys, Desert Commandos leads the viewer into sympathizing for the German commandos in this film. These unlikely heroes have a clear mission, to conquer the world, and they attempt to attain their goal by trying to assassinate several world leaders atttending a summit meeting.

Other than the unlikely heroes of this movie, perhaps the most interesting part of Desert Commandoes is the way in which it brings the viewer to an understanding of what it must have been like for German soldiers during the war. There are several moments throughout the film in which you view glimpses of that difficulty, leading you to consider the other side’s perspective, if only for a brief while. The film satisfies in providing several typical war scenes including some narrow escapes, several gun battles, some scenes with tanks and many other exciting heroic moments.

Due to the nature of this film, the viewer is allowed to see what war is really all about, different groups of people all with their own beliefs and agendas who are determined to accomplish them by killing one another. This isn’t a war film that clearly establishes a black and white concrete war perspective. It goes beyond that and this is a truly remarkable thing, especially considering the timeframe in which this film was produced.

This film was considered to be Umberto Lenz's finest WWII movie. Unfortunately, the film is in widescreen format and as a result some of the scenes are negatively affected by being chopped off on the sides. 

Run Time - 1:33:15 File Size - 261mb

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