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 ...
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Another famous movie with an Irish theme. Set in Africa a TCD graduate heads off alone to find a diamond mine. His daughter gets an explore...