Denise Bryer Movies
George Lucas produced and Jim Henson directed this gothic fantasy which pits living and breathing actors Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie (who, along with Trevor Jones, provides the film's music) against a motley collection of Muppet monsters. The film centers upon teenage Sarah (Connelly), who lives in a fantasy world of myth and magic, evil spells, and wondrous enchantment. She is baby-sitting her little brother when she cavalierly wishes that goblins would take him away. She gets her wish, and a coterie of goblins abduct him. She then encounters Jareth (David Bowie), the ruler of a mystical world one step removed from reality. He tells Sarah that the only way to get her brother back is to find her way through a M.C. Escher-like labyrinth and find the castle at the center. As she makes her way through the maze, she faces a number of horrific challenges (like the Bog of Eternal Stench) before she finds her way to the gravity-defying castle, where her brother is being held by the evil goblins. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Starring:
- David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, (more)
This '80s follow-up to The Wizard of Oz is based upon two of L. Frank Baum's later Oz books. In Return to Oz (a version that may be a bit too scary for young children), Auntie Em sends Dorothy to a sanitarium where hopefully she will clear her head from all of the "Oz nonsense." This doesn't work, for soon Dorothy manages to return to Oz, but things have definitely changed. She finds her old friends turned to stone and discovers that the awful Nome King has taken over Oz. ~ Rovi
- Starring:
- Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, (more)
- 1977
- G
Jonathan Swift's satire about a sailor's strange voyage is the source of this, one of many filmed adaptations of the tale. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi
- Starring:
- Richard Harris, Catherine Schell, (more)
- 1960
The third TV project of producer-puppeteer Gerry Anderson, the British series Four Feather Falls was also the first to employ Anderson's patented "Supermarionation" technique, which would reach full maturity in such later endeavors as Supercar, Fireball XL-5, and Thunderbirds. Set in the Kansas town of Four Feather Falls, this series was a Western with marionettes, centering around the adventures of Sheriff Tex Tucker. Having saved the life of Indian chief Kalamokooya, Tex was rewarded with four magic feathers, which among other things gave the power of speech to the Sheriff's trusty dog Dusty and horse Rocky. Other characters included general store owner Ma Jones, banker Marvin Jackson, telegrapher Don Morse, bartender Slim Jim, Dog Haggerty, grizzly Grandpa Twink, and pint-sized Little Jake, and a formidable array of villains, among them Mexican banditos Fernando and Pedro, outlaw Big Bad Ben, and renegade Indian Red Scalp. The 39 15-minute episodes of Four Feather Falls were aired by Granada Television in 1960; curiously, the series was never syndicated in the United States, despite the built-in audience appeal of its "Western" ambience. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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