Friday, 25 June 2010

Viva Maria!

Here's one for fans of A Fistful of Dynamite. Set at the turn of the 20th century in Central America a young Irish female bomber works as a stripper before fighting in the revolution. It's fast paced, dated, badly made, and contains cartoonish violence. One great scene has a dove carrying a grenade(!) flying through a window then flying out of another window (without the grenade) and then the building blows up! Starts off in Ireland before moving abroad, it's notable for an anti-British theme.

Master of the world

Dated movie from the 1960s with Vincent Price trying to stop wars around the world. He uses an airship to attack from the sky. A group of ...