Tag: Georges Garvarentz

DVD: Triple Cross (1966)

DVD: Triple Cross (1966)

July 21, 2015 | By

The incredible life of former safe cracker-turned WWII British double agent Eddie Chapman provides enough fertile material for a mini-series, and yet when his biography (co-authored with Frank Owen) was adapted for the big screen, it clearly suffered from the influence of the James Bond spy craze, with director Terence Young arguably responsible for the loose handling of factual material…

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Beta: Corrupt Ones, The  / Peking Medallion, The / Die Hölle von Macao (1967)

Beta: Corrupt Ones, The / Peking Medallion, The / Die Hölle von Macao (1967)

August 17, 2014 | By

This crazy cocktail of Asian exotica, sadism, and search for ancient treasure may have been a production targeted at international markets using an international cast of TV and feature film stars, but this German-French-Italian co-production is still a low budget effort trying very hard to transcend the limits of its budget…

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