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A satisfyingly old-fashioned outdoor drama
11 years, 2 months ago at Feb 4 14:26
Campbell's Kingdom is the kind of healthily budgeted outdoor drama that the Rank Organisation increasingly turned to in the 50s to compete with the Hollywood studios. Dirk Bogarde is the now unfortunately named Bruce Campbell, a terminally ill Englishman with six months to live and some land in Canada he's just inherited from his disgraced grandfather, who the locals blame for ruining the town whe... read more
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6 years ago at Apr 1 15:30
Modern british western. Bogarde is ok as hero marked to die, but the happy end betrays him. Baker is always a good heavy.
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British-made action film set in Canada and starring Dirk Bogarde as a young Englishman who has been given six months to live and who travels to the Canadian Rockies to take over an inheritance of land from his grandfather. The old man had been alone in his conviction that there was oil in his "Kingdom", and Bruce determines to devote his last remaining months to proving his grandfather right. He meets with determined and unscrupulous opposition from almost everyone in the area, and the leader of a construction gang, Owen Morgan, is prepared to attempt anything to stop the oil-drilling venture… including murder. A pow
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Hit Or Miss? Good Or Bad? 2019 Movies Watched (461 movies items)"Having been diagnosed with a terminal disease, Bruce Campbell returns to a town in the Canadian Rockies to prove his grandfather's theory that there is oil in the hills. However, no one believes him and, to make things worse, the dastardly Owen Morgan plans to build a dam and flood the land where the oil lies. Based on a Hammond Innes novel, this movie is beautifully shot (with the Italian Dolomites substituting for Alberta, Canada) and mostly ably acted by a good cast led by Dirk Bogarde. The "
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