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British Empire Films / Australian Film Development Corporation / Royce Smeal Film Productions / Salt Pan Films: Peter Weir (director/screenplay); John Meillon, Terry Camilleri, Chris Haywood, Bruce Spence, Max Gillies, Edward Howell, Max Phipps, Melissa Jaffer, Kevin Miles, Rick Scully, Peter Armstrong, Joe Burrow, Deryck Barnes, Jack Ellerton 11
Indeed, this American International release is a well-calculated, competently made exploitation picture that offers lots of fun." [9] Tom Shales of The Washington Post wrote that it "isn't terrible" but, "As the title implies, The Thing with Two Heads can't make up its mind. It's a horror movie. It's a comedy movie.
Peter Hall's film Akenfield made use of a scene depicted in Thomas Bewick's 1797 A History of British Birds: a reaper finds he has just killed a partridge sitting on her nest. Akenfield is a film made by Peter Hall in 1974, based loosely upon the book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe (1969). The production company ...
February 7 – Blazing Saddles is released in the United States. May 28 - Joseph E. Levine, the founder of Embassy Pictures, resigns as president. June 20 – Chinatown, directed by Roman Polanski and featured Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston, is released to worldwide critical acclaim.
Chico the Rainmaker (also known as The Boy with Two Heads) is a 1974 British seven-part serial film directed by Jonathan Ingrams starring Spencer Plumridge, Leslie Ash and Hilda Fenemore. [1] It was made by Eyeline Films for the Children's Film Foundation. Two children discover a South American shrunken head with magical powers.
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Deathdream holds an approval rating of 83%, based on 12 reviews, and an average rating of 6.72/10. [7]In a contemporary review, Chuck Middlestat of the Albuquerque Journal deemed the film a "light-weight spooker that starts off pretty slowly but builds into a good nail-biter in the last half-hour," but noted the dialogue as weak, adding that "the actors ...
The TMNT already had a popular animated series, but a 1990 live-action film was such a smash, it made related merchandise a must-have that year—and for much of the '90s. BUY NOW Getty Images
1893 – Blacksmiths, the first film shown publicly on the Kinetoscope, a system given to Edison; Thomas Edison created "America's First Film Studio", Black Maria. 1894 – Carmencita was made. According to film historian Charles Musser the first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera was in the film. She may have been the ...