An Italian science fiction drama directed by Antonio Margheriti, starring Claude Rains.
A wandering planet enters the Earth's solar system. Scientists investigate.
This was pretty boring. There were spaceships, space suits and foreign worlds, but that didn't make it interesting. The quality in general was very low. People wearing space suits and talking about other planets entering our solar system is about as interesting as when they put on togas and talk politics. I rate this bad. Don't watch it.
An Italian science fiction directed by Antonio Margheriti.
A crew of astronauts must stop a runaway spaceship from crashing into the Earth. This ship is emitting an emission which destroys anything that comes close to it.
This is the most boring science fiction film I have viewed to date. It figures that it was made in Italy in the 1960s when and where they were also making such bad sword and sandal flicks. Science fiction should have robots, aliens and foreign worlds. This had none of those. It was just people in space suits talking and some model ships against a black background. BORING! I rate it shit. Please don't watch it!
A French Italian Spanish action adventure sword and sandal film directed by Antonio Margheriti.
An evil man has the sultan assassinated and the prince and princess imprisoned. The princess escapes and is saved by the son of Hercules and his mute sidekick.
This is just like every other sword and sandal film of the '60s. Dirty looking video, horrible audio (this one had a high pitched shrieking sound throughout), light on plot and heavy on cluttered fight scenes. Having nothing good to say about it, I'll just rate it bad and leave it at that.
An Italian crime film directed by Antonio Margheriti, starring Yul Brynner.
A retired hit man and a guy who fixes horse races using a pellet gun team up against high level mafia bosses.
Blah blah blah, car chase, shootout, repeat. If that's what you want, this film is for you. I tend to not go for this type of thing and desire a little more from a film. Granted, I'm writing about public domain films, but there are standards that must be met. The audio was noisy and the video grainy. The few main characters were difficult to lose track of, but everyone else was anonymous. The plot was a total disaster because it was presented so shoddily. The acting was alright on the parts of Yul Brynner, his sidekick and girlfriend. I'm rating this poor because the plot was so difficult to follow.
