The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
Following the revival of Universal Studios’ Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy and the Wolfman, Hammer Studios, turned to Gaston Leroux’s Phantom Of the Opera, originally published in serial form between 1909 […]
Cabo Blanco (1980)
I like to refer to this movie as “the lost Charles Bronson film.” The first reason I can come up with is that wayyyy back when I was a kid […]
Olivia de Havilland in the 1940’s
Alongside Maureen O’Hara, Olivia de Havilland may very well be my first screen crush. And why not? Her Maid Marion in The Adventures of Robin Hood has to be one […]
Rope of Sand (1949) Burt Lancaster in the Forties
As the 1940’s drew to a close, Burt Lancaster finished up the decade in a film that sought to re-team the cast of Casablanca. Producer Hal Wallis who had done […]
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Movie Challenge…. Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Joining me once again in our monthly challenge is Kristina of Speakeasy. It’s when we assign each other a film that the other has yet to see. Click here for […]
Cauldron of Blood (1967) aka Blind Man’s Bluff
Supposedly subbing in for the recently deceased Claude Rains, Boris Karloff finds himself in this Spanish production with little to do other than sit in his wheel chair and allow […]
Jack Pierce : Make Up Master
This article (before edits or grammar corrections) appeared in the year end issue of The Dark Pages 2013 which featured the film The Killers as it’s centerpiece. In the […]
River of Death (1989)
While this is along way from screen adaptations of Alistair MacLean’s Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare it does have that straight to VHS guilty pleasure quality with a […]
Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
With the success of The House of Wax in 1953 it seems more than obvious when viewing this 3-D effort that the Warner Brothers studio was hoping to duplicate the […]
The Invisible Agent (1942)
If I were to be called upon to serve my country as a spy during a world war, I can’t think of a better cover than to be invisible. Sans […]
