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Arabian Adventure
''Arabian Adventure'' is a 1979 British fantasy adventure film directed by Kevin Connor and starring Christopher Lee and Oliver Tobias. Premise An evil caliph offers his daughter's hand in marriage to a prince if he can complete a perilous quest for a magical rose. Helped by a young boy and a magic carpet, Prince Hasan has to overcome genies, fire breathing monsters and treacherous swamps to reach his prize and claim the hand of Princess Zuleira. Cast *Christopher Lee as Caliph Alquazar *Milo O'Shea as Khasim * Oliver Tobias as Prince Hasan * Emma Samms as Princess Zuleira * Puneet Sira as Majeed *Peter Cushing as Wazir Al Wuzara *Capucine as Vahishta *Mickey Rooney as Daad El Shur * John Wyman as Bahloul * John Ratzenberger as Achmed * Shane Rimmer as Abu *Hal Galili as Asaf *Art Malik as Mamhoud *Milton Reid as Jinnee * Elisabeth Welch as Beggarwoman * Suzanne Danielle as Eastern Dancer * Roy Stewart as Nubian Production The film was the last of five fantasy movies Connor a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Connor (director)
Kevin Connor (born 14 July 1937) is an English film and television director based in Hollywood. Biography Connor was born in Kings Cross, London on 14 July 1937. He left school in 1953, first working on documentary films in Soho. Later, he became a sound editor on several British productions, working with directors such as Tony Richardson, Richard Attenborough, Richard Lester, Abraham Polonsky and Michael Cacoyannis. Connor worked as an editor on ''Oh! What a Lovely War'' in 1969, and was eventually given his directing break with ''From Beyond the Grave'' in 1974, thanks to producer Milton Subotsky of Amicus Productions. He is best remembered for directing 1970s fantasy film, fantasy/adventure films such as ''The Land That Time Forgot (1974 film), The Land That Time Forgot'' (1974), ''At the Earth's Core (film), At the Earth's Core'' (1976), ''The People That Time Forgot (film), The People That Time Forgot'' (1977), ''Warlords of Atlantis'' (1979) and ''Arabian Adventure'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney (born Ninnian Joseph Yule Jr.; other pseudonym Mickey Maguire; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor. In a career spanning nearly nine decades, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the silent-film era. He was the top box-office attraction from 1939 to 1941, and one of the best-paid actors of that era. At the height of a career ultimately marked by declines and comebacks, Rooney performed the role of Andy Hardy in a series of 16 films in the 1930s and 1940s that epitomized the mainstream United States self-image. At the peak of his career between ages 15 and 25, he made 43 films, and was one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most consistently successful actors. A versatile performer, he became a celebrated character actor later in his career. Laurence Olivier once said he considered Rooney "the best there has ever been". Clarence Brown, who directed him in two of his earliest dramatic roles in ''National Velvet (fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amicus Productions
Amicus Productions was a Cinema of the United Kingdom, British film production company, based at Shepperton Studios, England, active between 1962 and 1977. It was founded by American producers and screenwriters Milton Subotsky and Max Rosenberg. Films Prior to establishing Amicus, its two producers collaborated on the successful horror film ''The City of the Dead (film), The City of the Dead'' (1960). Amicus's first two films were low-budget musicals for the teenage market, ''It's Trad, Dad!'' (1962) and ''Just for Fun (film), Just for Fun'' (1963). Amicus is best remembered for making a series of Portmanteau film, portmanteau horror films, horror anthologies, inspired by the Ealing Studios film ''Dead of Night'' (1945). They also made some straight thriller films, often based on a gimmick. Amicus's horror and thriller films are sometimes mistaken for the output of the better-known Hammer Film Productions, due to the two companies' similar visual style and use of some of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warlords Of Atlantis
''Warlords of Atlantis'' (aka ''Warlords of the Deep'', though see below for further variant titles) is a 1978 British adventure science fiction film directed by Kevin Connor and starring Doug McClure, Peter Gilmore, Shane Rimmer, and Lea Brodie. The plot describes a trip to the lost world of Atlantis. The screenplay was by Brian Hayles. It was filmed in colour with monophonic sound and English language dialogue, and runs for 96 minutes. ''Warlords of Atlantis'' received a Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating of PG. It was novelised by Paul Victor. Plot At the beginning of the 20th century, British archaeologist Professor Aitken and his son, Charles, have hired Captain Daniels and his ship, the ''Texas Rose'', to take them to sea. The pair plan to use a diving bell designed by engineer Greg Collinson to search for proof of the lost city of Atlantis. On their first dive, Charles and Greg are attacked by a reptilian sea monster, which comes through the bott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The People That Time Forgot (film)
''The People That Time Forgot'' is a 1977 adventure fantasy film based on the novel '' The People That Time Forgot'' (1963) and '' Out of Time's Abyss'' (1963) by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Filmed in Technicolor, it was produced by Britain's Amicus Productions and directed by Kevin Connor. Like Connor's other two Burroughs-derived films, '' The Land That Time Forgot'' and '' At the Earth's Core'', the film was distributed in the United States by American International Pictures. It is the last film made by Amicus before the production company folded. The film is a direct sequel to '' The Land That Time Forgot'', which initiated the series in 1974. The story follows a rescue expedition, led by Patrick Wayne in search of his friend, played by Doug McClure, who had vanished many years before. The expedition lands on Caprona, the same fantastic prehistoric land where dinosaurs and barbarian tribes of men co-exist. Plot Major Ben McBride ( Patrick Wayne) organises a mission to the Anta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
At The Earth's Core (film)
''At the Earth's Core'' is a 1976 fantasy-science fiction film produced by Britain's Amicus Productions.Gary A. Smith, ''The American International Pictures Video Guide'', McFarland 2009 p 16 A British-American co-production, the film was directed by Kevin Connor and stars Doug McClure, Peter Cushing and Caroline Munro. It was filmed in Technicolor, and is based on the 1914 fantasy novel '' At the Earth's Core'' by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first book of his Pellucidar series, in token of which the film is also known as ''Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core''. Plot Dr. Abner Perry, a British Victorian scientist, and his US financier David Innes make a test run of their ''Iron Mole'' drilling machine in a Welsh mountain. While drilling underground, the extreme heat emanating from the magma around the Mole knocks the duo out and makes them temporarily lose control over where the machine is taking them. After it passes through the magma crust and gets closer to the Eart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Land That Time Forgot (1974 Film)
''The Land That Time Forgot'' is a 1974 adventure fantasy film directed by Kevin Connor and written by Michael Moorcock and James Cawthorn, based upon the 1918 novel '' The Land That Time Forgot'' by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The film, which is a British-American co-production, stars Doug McClure, John McEnery, Keith Barron, Susan Penhaligon, Anthony Ainley and Declan Mulholland. Plot A bottle with a manuscript inside it is thrown into the sea. It floats to the coast of England, where a sailor discovers the bottle and opens it to read the manuscript. Bowen Tyler narrates. During World War I, Bowen Tyler and Lisa Clayton are passengers on the ship torpedoed by Captain von Schoenvorts. Along with a few surviving British officers, Tyler persuades the other men to take over the surfacing submarine, this being their only chance for survival. After they confront the Germans on the deck, a fight ensues, and they seize the German U-boat. Tyler takes command, hoping to sail to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Stewart
Roy Stewart (15 May 1925 – 27 October 2008) was a Jamaican-born British actor. He began his career as a stuntman and went on to work in film and television. In 1954 he founded Roy Stewart's Gym in Powis Square, North Kensington, and ran the Caribbean club and restaurant The Globe, in Talbot Road until his death. Stewart played Quarrel Junior in the James Bond film '' Live and Let Die'' (1973). Other film appearances include '' Carry On Up the Jungle'' (1970), '' Leo the Last'' (1970), '' Games That Lovers Play'' (1971), '' Twins of Evil'' (1971), '' Lady Caroline Lamb'' (1972), ''Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers'' (1977) and ''Arabian Adventure'' (1979). He was also active on television, with credits including: ''Out of the Unknown'', ''Adam Adamant Lives!'', ''Doctor Who'' (in the serials '' The Tomb of the Cybermen'' and '' Terror of the Autons''), '' Doomwatch'', '' Up Pompeii!'', '' The Troubleshooters'', '' Space: 1999'' and '' I, Claudius''. Early life One of seven brothers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Danielle
Suzanne Danielle, Morris (born 14 January 1957) is an English former film and television actress. Early life Danielle was born Suzanne Morris in 1957, before changing her surname. She trained as a dancer at the Bush Davies School of Theatre Arts in her home town of Romford in Essex, and also attended Bedfords Park Community School in Straight Road, Harold Hill. At the age of 16, she appeared in the West End musical ''Billy'' (1974), starring Michael Crawford. As a result of that she was invited to appear as a dancer on a Bruce Forsyth show called ''Bruce and More Girls''. An admirer of Cyd Charisse, after leaving school Danielle joined a dance group called ''The Younger Generation''.Iain F. McAsh, Suzanne is not just a pretty face', interview online at comedykings.co.uk, retrieved 5 November 2010 Screen career Danielle's first screen role as an actress was as "Pretty Girl" in an episode of '' The Professionals'' (" Killer with a Long Arm"), broadcast in January 1978. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Welch
Elisabeth Margaret Welch (February 27, 1904July 15, 2003) was an American singer, actress, and entertainer, whose career spanned seven decades. Her best-known songs were " Stormy Weather", " Love for Sale" and "Far Away in Shanty Town". She was American-born, but was based in Britain for most of her career. Early life According to her birth certificate, Welch was born at 223 West 61st Street in New York City. Her father was chief gardener of an estate in Englewood, New Jersey. Her father was of Indigenous American and African American ancestry; her mother was of Scottish and Irish descent. Welch was brought up in a Baptist-Christian family, and began her singing in a church choir. She first intended to go from high school into social work, but instead chose to become a professional singer. She started her career in New York in 1922, but in 1929 she went on to Europe – first to Paris and then to London. Professional career After her first appearance in America in ''Liza'' in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Reid
Milton Rutherford Reid (29 April 1917 – c. 1987) was a British-Indian actor and professional wrestler. He was born in India, the son of a Scottish-born Customs and Excise inspector and an Indian woman. He wrestled in England under the name of The Mighty Chang. (a name later used on British TV by another wrestler, Brian "Crusher" Mason.) Film career As an actor, Reid was known for playing thugs, henchmen and brutes, typified by his role as Yen in the film '' Ferry to Hong Kong'' (1959) that starred Curd Jürgens and Orson Welles. He played the big pirate in '' Swiss Family Robinson'' (1960) and had a memorable role as the mute Mulatto in the Hammer film '' Captain Clegg'' (1962). Reid appeared in three James Bond films: as Dr. No's Guard in '' Dr. No'' (1962), as a temple guard in '' Casino Royale'' (1967), and as Sandor, Roger Moore's opponent in a rooftop fight in '' The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977). Reid also appeared as a henchman in the 1967 Bulldog Drummond film ''Deadlier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Malik
Athar ul-Haque Malik (; born 13 November 1952), known as Art Malik, is a Pakistani-British actor. He achieved international fame in the 1980s through his starring and supporting roles in assorted British television serials and films. His breakout role was as Hari Kumar in the television serial '' The Jewel in the Crown'' (1984), which earned him a British Academy Television Award nomination for Best Actor. Malik starred as Zubin Khan on the BBC One medical drama ''Holby City'' (2003-2005), Francesc Gacet on ''Borgia'' (2011-14), and Bunny Latif on ''Homeland'' (2014-20). He is also well-known for his roles as Kamran Shah in the James Bond film '' The Living Daylights'' (1987) and the villain Salim Abu Aziz in the action comedy film ''True Lies'' (1994). Early life Malik was born Athar ul-Haque Malik on 13 November 1952 in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, the son of Zaibunisa and Mazhar ul-Haque Malik, a doctor who worked as an ophthalmic surgeon in Britain. When his father got a job ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
