Special effects wizard Joe Johnston’s second directorial effort is probably my favourite, as there is just something about The Rocketeer that I love. The style? Art deco is a fave. The score? James Horner! The cast? Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly (who I have crushed on FOREVER), Timothy Dalton, Alan Arkin, Paul Sorvino. The source material?…
Tag: 1938
The Hardy Boys: Hunting for Hidden Gold (1938/1963) – Franklin W. Dixon
It’s been awhile since I checked out a Hardy Boys tale, so I happily dug back into them this week, moving on to the fifth volume in the long running series, and the further that I got into this one, the more I realized, this one is a western. Frank and Joe hardy fly out…
War of the Worlds (1988) – A Multitude of Idols, and An Eye for an Eye
As I dug into this week’s episode, I suddenly had a flashback to my youth that I had completely forgotten about. I, of course, set the home VCR to record each week’s new episode, and when a tape was full, I’d label it, put the titles on it, and use images from my Starlog to…
Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982) – Honor They Brother & The Lady and The Tiger
Jake is off to high-flying melodrama and adventure in this week’s installment of Tales of the Gold Monkey! The first episode originally aired 24 November 1982 and was written by Danny Lee Cole, Jeff Ray, William Driskill and George Geiger. It starts back in 1937, with Jake (Stephen Collins) still serving in the Flying Tigers,…
Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982) – Pilot
The next Bellisario series that came along after Battlestar Galactica that caught my attention (despite the fact that Magnum, P.I. started first, I came to it a little later) was this 1930s high adventure series starring Stephen Collins as ex-Flying Tiger Jake Cutter in his Grumman Goose, and his one-eyed dog Jack. Bellisario wrote the two-hour pilot…
The Mind Reels 