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Powerful women flex muscles, use cunning in Hammer quartet: `Meet Joe Black,' `A Night at Roxbury' debut from `A' list.(Washington Weekend)(Phantom Of The Movies)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19990415
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The tireless archivists at Anchor Bay Entertainment keep busy on the vintage Hammer Films front, debuting a quartet of femme-slanted 1960s adventures. It's a . . .

HAMMER GLAMORAMA

The four include the 1966 cave-babe campfest Prehistoric Women, with Great White Hunter Michael Latimer stumbling upon a cat-fight paradise. A mean but sultry Martine Beswick stars as an evil vixen queen. Then Olinka Berova takes the title role in The Vengeance of She, Cliff Owen's fun 1967 update of the venerable H. Rider Haggard classic "She." The mono-monikered Carita rules over a ...

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