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‘A Startling Drama of Today… and Forever! Timely as Today’s News… Eternal With its Challenging Truths!’ Director Harry Lachman’s 1935 drama Dante’s Inferno is one of Hollywood’s more bizarre efforts, in which Spencer Tracy stars […]
Director James B Clark’s odd, interesting, often quite compelling 1960 revenge Western film One Foot in Hell stars a well-cast Alan Ladd as the bitter Mitch Barrett taking it out on the Arizona small town […]
In the 1967 film Doctor Faustus, Richard Burton records his intense and honourable 1966 stage performance at the Oxford Playhouse with the student actors of the Oxford University Drama Society (OUDS) of Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century […]
Rory Calhoun stars as an extremely creepy old man called Farmer Vincent Smith, who runs the Motel Hello with his sister Ida (Nancy Parsons), and sells meat that originates with the customers – unsuspecting kidnapped […]
Director Peter Jackson’s 1996 supernatural black comedy horror thriller The Frighteners, in the style of Beetlejuice complete with a Danny Elfman score, is poundingly pacey, reasonably scary and original enough, but, when the brilliant special […]
Director Neil Marshall’s 2019 Hellboy is trashy but lusty, with plenty of guts and gore. Caught between supernatural and human worlds, the part-demon Hellboy re-connects with his human dad Professor Broom (and Ian McShane) and […]
The MGM studio assigned musicals specialist Vincente Minnelli to Cabin in the Sky, the 1943 film of the then rare all-black cast musical, retelling the Faust legend, in which God (Kenneth Spencer as The General […]