tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984067990467963645.post5773836673400671554..comments2024-03-21T22:22:59.425-07:00Comments on Vintage Pop Fictions: Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem dfordoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984067990467963645.post-9913587055735283172018-07-15T08:56:30.117-07:002018-07-15T08:56:30.117-07:00I've heard of these, but not got around to rea...I've heard of these, but not got around to reading them (my reading list is even longer than my tv-to-watch list!)<br /><br />There were movies made of some of the books, or at least of the characters, I think in Italy - one of them turned up on British TV in the 80s sometime, which was an interesting viewing experience! IIRC, the plot was fine, and we're used to being the bad guys, but the British uniforms had clearly been designed by someone who'd been having too many of the local herbs ... <br /><br />We used to get a lot of foreign films, either to fill the afternoon schedules or Saturday/holiday morning kids films, dubbed into English of course - there was a Soviet kids version of Robin Hood that was probably on more often in the 80s than the Errol Flynn versiontom j joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13108887693320361796noreply@blogger.com