cult film freak: hugh beaumont

Written by James M. Tate / 8/27/2022 / No comments / barbara hale , dewey robinson , elizabeth russell , erford gage , film noir or melodrama , forties , gothic , horror , hugh beaumont , jean brooks , kim hunter , lou lubin , mark robson , tom conway , val lewton

KIM HUNTER IN VAL LEWTON'S GOTHIC NOIR 'THE SEVENTH VICTIM'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcmptvil1csm4jJW2AM544M4M_YHy73DfdA_7pO9YKTWmG25oHUN8N_zx1OsfgdFlpm2iFUUNy6Mx_VpIfJFTq8h3cmmtPypYqRKVQo0MF2rnPBLc3RBGXddoaMPYyCzchzdv5qPbwYDXzn41UsfKk6I0vks4sIaEI1ejycNKaLiIOHGC4Wx6rVTXWug/s1470/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="1470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcmptvil1csm4jJW2AM544M4M_YHy73DfdA_7pO9YKTWmG25oHUN8N_zx1OsfgdFlpm2iFUUNy6Mx_VpIfJFTq8h3cmmtPypYqRKVQo0MF2rnPBLc3RBGXddoaMPYyCzchzdv5qPbwYDXzn41UsfKk6I0vks4sIaEI1ejycNKaLiIOHGC4Wx6rVTXWug/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE SEVENTH VICTIM Year: 1943 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Following producer Val Lewton's exploitation horrors CAT PEOPLE, THE LEOPARD MAN and I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE directed by Jacques Tourneur, where the titles alone helped fill theaters, THE SEVENTH VICTIM, by another Lewton stock auteur, Mark Robson, is the most ambiguous and enigmatic yet made very little money...</p><p></p><p>And unlike a straight mystery, what's buried in the investigative plot-line is revealed halfway through after young Kim Hunter trades her safe chilly girl's school teaching job for the big, dark, looming city, searching for her older sister, the highly-regarded owner of a lucrative cosmetics company, who suddenly vanished... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

barbara hale, dewey robinson, elizabeth russell, erford gage, film noir or melodrama, forties, gothic, horror, hugh beaumont, jean brooks, kim hunter, lou lubin, mark robson, tom conway, val lewton

KIM HUNTER IN VAL LEWTON'S GOTHIC NOIR 'THE SEVENTH VICTIM'

Title: THE SEVENTH VICTIM Year: 1943 Rating: **** Following producer Val Lewton's exploitation horrors CAT PEOPLE, THE LEOPARD MAN and I...

Written by James M. Tate / 9/26/2016 / No comments / clint eastwood , creature , fifties , hugh beaumont , jack arnold , john agar , leo g. carroll , mara corday , nestor paiva , science-fiction , spiders , william alland

AGAR & ALLAND DOUBLE FEATURES 'TARANTULA' & 'MOLE PEOPLE'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The man who shoots the TARANTULA is pictured below YEAR: 1955</u></td></tr>
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<u>TARANTULA</u>: The now obsolete special-effects method of superimposing insects or critters to make them seen giant, menacing and formidable only works since they're something we humans can easily otherwise hunt, shoot or step on – and now it's their turn to turn <i>us</i> into roadkill, or dinner...<br>
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But, using the enlarging-of-nature device for a contrived short-cut, producer William Alland's THE LAND UNKNOWN had footage of Gila Monsters to seem like dinosaurs, which didn't work since turning something naturally (relatively) small into what's supposed to be gigantic is just plain cheap – a possible one of several reasons his most capable and talented stock director, Jack Arnold, backed out of the project. But a year earlier, not only did Arnold direct TARANTULA, one of the best 1950's b-movie creature features, it's derived from a story he himself co-created...<br>

clint eastwood, creature, fifties, hugh beaumont, jack arnold, john agar, leo g. carroll, mara corday, nestor paiva, science-fiction, spiders, william alland

AGAR & ALLAND DOUBLE FEATURES 'TARANTULA' & 'MOLE PEOPLE'

The man who shoots the TARANTULA is pictured below YEAR: 1955 TARANTULA : The now obsolete special-effects method of superimposing insec...

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