Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end of year retrospective continues with this look at March’s best.
SEAN FLYNN: ERROL’S SON IN MOVIES – The son of swashbuckler Errol Flynn and Lili Damita starred in several overlooked films, among them The Son of Captain Blood, The Sign of Zorro, and Temple of the White Elephant (think Indiana Jones adventures).
He was also the star of a few Spaghetti Westerns and a few Swinging 60s spy movies, too. Click HERE.
FAILED PREDICTIONS FROM PSYCHICS AND SCIENTISTS: SUPERCUT – Dozens of wildly inaccurate predictions from psychics and scientists over the decades. Click HERE.
CUBA’S SILENT FILMS FROM 1897 to 1907 – Click HERE.
FORGOTTEN TELEVISION – The Blue Palace (1974-1976): A German sci-fi series that was like a cross between Doomwatch and The X-Files. Click HERE. Beacon Hill (1975): A drama about wealthy Irish Americans and very poor Irish Americans in Boston right after World War One. Click HERE. Amy Prentiss (1974-1975): Long before she was Archer’s mother, Jessica Walter played Chief of Detectives Amy Prentiss in San Francisco. Click HERE.
MARIE WALCAMP: THE DAREDEVIL OF SILENT MOVIES – Forgotten by everybody except us Silent Film geeks, Marie did most of her own stunts and from 1913 to 1920 starred in adventure serials like The Lion’s Claws, Liberty: A Daughter of the USA, and the Fu Manchu-inspired The Dragon’s Net. She also did jungle adventures like The Jungle Queen, A Daughter of the Jungle, and Cast Adrift in the South Seas. Plus westerns like The Red Ace and her 9 flicks as female gunslinger Tempest Cody. Click HERE.
ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION – Omegon (1915), about a high-tech war between America on one side and China, Mexico and Japan on the other. Click HERE. A Prophetic Romance (1896), about a Martian ambassador to Earth of “the future” (1990s). Click HERE. A Trip to the North Pole (1903) – Mormon explorers discover the Lost Tribes of Israel running a futuristic civilization at the North Pole. Dinosaurs and high-tech weaponry are there, too. Click HERE.
I WAS A TEENAGE TIME LORD – Young me and Bad Movies like Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, From Hell It Came, The Creeping Terror, Robot Monster, Teenagers from Outer Space and more HERE.
BLACK RAIN (1977) – A neglected horror/ sci-fi hybrid film starring Richard Chamberlin as a lawyer in Australia who gets caught up in supernatural events leading to the end of the world. Click HERE. Continue reading
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