Our Saturday night pizza and bad movie offering was an adaptation of a Jules Verne novel with stop-motion special effects of Ray Harryhausen. It brought me back to many Saturday afternoon movies back in the day. Plot: The opening scenes depict a storm at sea, but a scene title tells us the action takes placeContinue reading “Review of “Mysterious Island” (1961)”
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Review of “Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe
Plot: The story has been told, retold, satirized, whitewashed, Disneyfied, and adapted for films and plays for about three hundred years. Author Daniel Defoe even wrote sequels. Phrases like “man Friday” have entered everyday language. Long ago and far away, I read a kiddie version, along with books that were inspired by it—The Swiss FamilyContinue reading “Review of “Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe”
Reviews of Old and New Stories. Mostly Old 