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In issue 259 of Detective Comics, Batman and Robin face a criminal magician called The Maharajah. Here he is explaining how he solved the mysterious clue left by the villain.

When a report reached the maharajah of Bakore telling of a man-eating leopard, who plagued the people of the jungle village of Dongu, he sent Gunga and Rama to hunt the killer.

A Buster Brown (yes, the shoe company) comic book from the late 1940s featuring two white-skinned turbaned guys kicking some leopard ass and keeping the jungle safe for the village folk. (download)

At a run-time of just over 1 hour and 45 minutes, significant portions of this film have been edited out (this is also obvious as you watch). It may have once been a good story, but the missing scenes rendered it a bit choppy (not as bad as Jaal, but not good either). It also [...]

A Passion Play scene from the 1961 Malayalam film Jnaana Sundari.

First, let me give you a brief history of the Memsaab’s relationship with this movie: “Ooh! Piece of candy! Ooh! Piece of candy! Ooh! Piece of candy!” I own about five copies of it—it has always struck me as a movie I really HAVE to see, but somehow I always manage to forget that I [...]

I think this film was subtitled by someone with narcolepsy who kept suddenly falling asleep and upon awakening would simply continue working without going back to see what he had missed. Only about a third to half of the dialogue is subtitled, so I am not sure if my finding the plot difficult to follow [...]

I have covered her contemporaries (and frequent colleagues) Helen and Laxmi Chhaya; now it is beautiful Bela’s turn! Many of my favorite Bela musical moments are not part of an actual film song. CID 909, a film that makes Excellent Use of Bela, has a perfect example of that in a scene where she is [...]

There is a lot to appreciate in this Bimal Roy production (Moni Bhattacharjee directs), but for me anyway not a lot to LOVE. It is meticulously crafted; I enjoyed the settings and portrayal of life in small-town India, but everything is so picture-postcard perfect that it began to get on my nerves (I like a [...]

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