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The Doug McClure Fantasy Adventure Triple Pack | 
 enlarge | Actor: Doug Mcclure
Studio: Cinema Club
Category: DVD
List Price: £29.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Format: Box Set, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 3
Running Time: 265 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 2
EAN: 5014138301552
ASIN: B0007Q6RGS
Release Date: March 21, 2005
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Before Luke Skywalker, there was Doug McClure... May 27, 2006
Trevor Willsmer (London, England)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Before Luke Skywalker, there was Doug McClure... His John Dark-Kevin Connor fantasy adventures were a mainstay of Summer holiday movies in the days before Star Wars: they weren't masterpieces, they didn't boast state-of-the-art special effects, but they were exactly what an audience of kids wanted from a film back in the mid 70s.
The poster for The Land That Time Forgot made it look like this was going to be the greatest film ever made when I was a kid - dinosaurs, U-boats, cavemen, erupting volcanoes and Doug McClure: how could it NOT be great? Well, this being the mid-70s, the crummy special effects in the form of Roger Dickens' prehistoric puppets that don't exactly give Jurassic Park a run for its money. But still, this low-budget adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' terrific adventure novel does have some good ideas in its script as well as dinosaurs, U-boats, cavemen, erupting volcanoes and Doug McClure, so it's not a total wash, and compared to the incredibly poor sequel, The People That Time Forgot, which threw away all that was best about the premise, it's still fun, if somewhat muted. And it has a really great poster.
At the Earth's Core didn't have nearly as good a poster, but it's much more enjoyable, catching just the right tone for the appropriately named Burroughs' pulp adventure about Victorian inventor Peter Cushing and the inevitable Doug McClure ending up in the underground world of Pelucidar and battling its evil telepathic fighting dinosaurs. This time the puppets are gone in favor of men in monster suits, which is a lot more fun if you're willing to suspend your disbelief, and if you're not there's always Caroline Munro's cleavage to look at. Aside from what may well be Peter Cushing's worst performance, an irritating but dottier rehash of his movie Dr Who ("You can't mesmerize me, I'm British!"), it's easily the best of the John Dark-Kevin Connor-Doug McClure fantasy adventures, surprisingly well directed and boasting an atmospheric use of color. Never especially good at exterior scenes, Alan Hume's photography gains immensely from the control a studio set gives him (the film was shot entirely on soundstages) to paint a luridly vivid world worthy of a pulp novel cover. Not high art but definitely great Saturday matinee fun.
Warlords of Atlantis is pretty formulaic stuff: explorers spend first half hour looking for Atlantis, second half hour finding out they don't like it and the last half hour escaping from it. Throw in a giant octopus, a dinosaur, assorted monsters and aliens with outrageous wigs guiding man's destiny from the bottom of the sea, the captain of the Marie Celeste, a bit of H.G. Wells' First Men in the Moon, add Doug McClure and leave to simmer for 90 minutes before wondering why this isn't as much fun as it should be or why Mike Vickers' score bears so many similarities to a slow-tempo version of Barry Gray and Malcolm Lockyer's score for Dr Who and The Daleks.
All three boast decent but not outstanding prints with UK theatrical trailers and stills galleries, while The Land That Time Forgot also has an original featurette on the making of the film from its first release.
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