Tam Lin (1970)

Review: Tam Lin (1970)

Director: Roddy McDowall

Cast: Ava Gardner, Ian McShane, Richard Wattis, Cyril Cusack, Stephanie Beacham,

Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner
Ian McShane
Ian McShane
Richard Wattis
Richard Wattis
Cyril Cusack
Cyril Cusack
Stephanie Beacham
Stephanie Beacham

Plot: Based upon the Celtic legend Tam Lin, a young man is bewitched by a beautiful, heartless, aging sorceress to become her lover. When his attention wanders to a lovely girl, he is doomed to ritual sacrifice by the sorceress.

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Recent releases from the BFI, part two

Recent releases from the BFI, part two

A wildly varied selection of recent releases from the BFI, with Pat Jackson’s Western Approaches (1944) transforming propaganda into art via Jack Cardiff’s Technicolor photography; Roddy McDowall’s The Ballad of Tam Lin (1970) […]

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My genre viewing on disk over the past couple of months ranges from classics to crap, and I have to admit that I’ve enjoyed it all. The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) From England, I’ve obtained impressive Blu-rays of three key movies from […]

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