VINCENT PRICE & JANE ASHER IN 'THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEiluIah5E-5qLAvPRY6zH_6w13Qs-Ehvp-n6qNT_aT07Px609nICXwny2UNkZcZI-KlDRx5s8x1gebWY1WFPZE-s6I2KCiqjdNZcauRv9-Wh0xVmWjb-EnDW7A9GP58pZ7conxwG2keyEJJ4baRd-LcVYZLcnm1z0gYI64Tjp_3MWlo6lUGlMFoA7EUU4UV/s1598/354593695_1748974838865018_7069470018568829689_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="905" data-original-width="1598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiluIah5E-5qLAvPRY6zH_6w13Qs-Ehvp-n6qNT_aT07Px609nICXwny2UNkZcZI-KlDRx5s8x1gebWY1WFPZE-s6I2KCiqjdNZcauRv9-Wh0xVmWjb-EnDW7A9GP58pZ7conxwG2keyEJJ4baRd-LcVYZLcnm1z0gYI64Tjp_3MWlo6lUGlMFoA7EUU4UV/s16000/354593695_1748974838865018_7069470018568829689_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jane Asher guides through THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH Year: 1964 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the Edgar Allen Poe adaptation of THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, low-budget director Roger Corman goes all-out in a gorgeously-shot hybrid of Ingmar Bergman's philosophically death-obsessed SEVENTH SEAL, and especially a Victorian-era Hammer horror film...<br><br>Particularly the striking bright colors of the central castle, run by Vincent Price as menacing sadist Prince Prospero, the luckiest man in 1600's Europe not only for owning a castle in the first place, but remaining safe and healthy while everyone outside's dying from a plague called THE RED DEATH...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

british, cult, disease, edgar allan poe, hazel court, horror, jane asher, mystery, patrick magee, roger corman, sixties, victorian, vincent prince

VINCENT PRICE & JANE ASHER IN 'THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH'

Jane Asher guides through THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH Year: 1964 Rating: ****1/2 In the Edgar Allen Poe adaptation of THE MASQUE OF THE RED ...

HAMMER'S VICTORIAN HORROR 'THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEg9-j7OKftPmdn4CV2OvYtY0iQZZATcHPtP2ZSe-QJRneKHI6HhbA638MSqZtX7LcoYo_lTPCgtOp38HluHTiLaJ_xrmRA0xxnEjAEd2n6jN1qP4z8FLhOHgLzPEhiM3B_6XwHetWDTfSutHToc7iuV3ZHG5uuzEo5ZEbynBdxeHHlDNsgU86tAsZ0x6g/s2250/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1057" data-original-width="2250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9-j7OKftPmdn4CV2OvYtY0iQZZATcHPtP2ZSe-QJRneKHI6HhbA638MSqZtX7LcoYo_lTPCgtOp38HluHTiLaJ_xrmRA0xxnEjAEd2n6jN1qP4z8FLhOHgLzPEhiM3B_6XwHetWDTfSutHToc7iuV3ZHG5uuzEo5ZEbynBdxeHHlDNsgU86tAsZ0x6g/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Oliver Reed in THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF Year: 1961 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A man gets bitten by a wolf and slowly turns into one… Which probably sounds extremely familiar but the British-run Hammer Films will have nothing to do with anything <i>that</i> simple, basic or cliche…</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The setup, before we even meet Oliver Reed’s Leon, is eerie and creative, introducing the story set during the colorfully antique 1800’s where a beggar's thrown out of a tavern, and then ventures naively into the last place he’s wanted: a lush castle where an aged King has married his beautiful young bride (a nefarious, later grotesque Anthony Dawson to insanely gorgeous blonde Josephine Llewellyn)… <br> </p>

anthony dawson, british, hammer films, horror, joy webster, oliver reed, richard wordsworth, terence fisher, victorian, werewolf, yvonne romain

HAMMER'S VICTORIAN HORROR 'THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF'

Oliver Reed in THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF Year: 1961 Rating: **** A man gets bitten by a wolf and slowly turns into one… Which probably sou...

ORSON WELLES HYPNOTIZES NANCY GUILD WITH 'BLACK MAGIC'

<p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEgcsdU-bowMNuYSBU2-n0QZqIGRFIumd5fv52JBK8fRUEyOz4eNtgeJGPPlx-5UHFa27AurPD2khtjHLhR5rpq3uReMTaTmqf5CyHoJAsTiOvRt3Xj9qOwHlFqM4-BI3_jxR06F0OgBmBff_0MP40dDenLmP2D7AMyL4OS2-YWfEcgUSYHgpF9jV1MOLw/s1022/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="1022" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcsdU-bowMNuYSBU2-n0QZqIGRFIumd5fv52JBK8fRUEyOz4eNtgeJGPPlx-5UHFa27AurPD2khtjHLhR5rpq3uReMTaTmqf5CyHoJAsTiOvRt3Xj9qOwHlFqM4-BI3_jxR06F0OgBmBff_0MP40dDenLmP2D7AMyL4OS2-YWfEcgUSYHgpF9jV1MOLw/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Orson Welles and Nancy Guild starring in BLACK MAGIC Year: 1948 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>As a hired actor instead of director or producer, Orson Welles — while making money for those projects he developed on his own — was used for his deep, godlike voice, but in BLACK MAGIC... released the same year as THE THIRD MAN which epitomized that sublime vocal delivery... it was his sharp, cold, piercing eyes that were the most exploited...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>He's a hypnotist after all: born the son of two 1700's-era gypsies and whose mother could actually foretell the future, he is soon orphaned when they're hanged for wielding so-called demonic powers...  </p><span></span>

adventure, akim tamiroff, berry kroeger, con man, drama, forties, frank latimore, nancy guilt, occult, orson welles, period piece, revenge, reymond burr, victorian

ORSON WELLES HYPNOTIZES NANCY GUILD WITH 'BLACK MAGIC'

Orson Welles and Nancy Guild starring in BLACK MAGIC Year: 1948 Rating: **1/2 As a hired actor instead of director or producer, Orson Welles...

MALCOLM MCDOWELL IN RICHARD LESTER'S 'ROYAL FLASH'

<p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEhyo9G4d8pb3AD7lIhAVBISbfUP_H0B68SSLZ5DUgRl7aGoHgN4dgN7etiNGd3F3Rj0jDLtksuy9YfrERCULExbwYbCxTVR2dcH8MthbJKfrttBvZ-E0QBgxQCkFbMSCeaa40d5Ioj3IZRS3frSCdoRLd2EfpwvWqRXadGiZsZlcD876oa0Kk2amIyMUg/s1192/AVvXsEjXFQ0SxL7sgxD2-qvXGrex3S2DD0dijlQsU01JiIFNOXQ8W1q5RC5XIXFFsjqBNdzSAzwqIMiucEdMWpWT01OX7ZFqttp9vV1_3_uXMOnhK8QsEFQGJO53v-wQWC5WuCG59LOV67aQ6FeSa0nPFjEcob0R22cC4BwUMcuktfVF2gzUy3s-36HRD-uvJA=s16000.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="1192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyo9G4d8pb3AD7lIhAVBISbfUP_H0B68SSLZ5DUgRl7aGoHgN4dgN7etiNGd3F3Rj0jDLtksuy9YfrERCULExbwYbCxTVR2dcH8MthbJKfrttBvZ-E0QBgxQCkFbMSCeaa40d5Ioj3IZRS3frSCdoRLd2EfpwvWqRXadGiZsZlcD876oa0Kk2amIyMUg/s16000/AVvXsEjXFQ0SxL7sgxD2-qvXGrex3S2DD0dijlQsU01JiIFNOXQ8W1q5RC5XIXFFsjqBNdzSAzwqIMiucEdMWpWT01OX7ZFqttp9vV1_3_uXMOnhK8QsEFQGJO53v-wQWC5WuCG59LOV67aQ6FeSa0nPFjEcob0R22cC4BwUMcuktfVF2gzUy3s-36HRD-uvJA=s16000.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Malcolm McDowell as Harry Flashman in ROYAL FLASH Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Malcolm McDowell himself stated via commentary he was perhaps miscast for the role of Captain Harry Flashman based on the popular British novels by George MacDonald Fraser (inspired by Thomas Hughes), and ironically, judging by the covers, Flashman's depiction is almost a dead-ringer to McDowell's ROYAL FLASH co-star Alan Bates...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Who would have then possibly fared better in the outwardly-perfect/inwardly-cowardice title role, giving his own secondary character to underused villain Oliver Reed, formidably scowling as ever and a solid leftover from director Richard Lester's THREE MUSKETEERS and FOUR MUSKETEERS...</p><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/a/AVvXsEglJ6rJ-HWX_PQhNmXZr3vCF2z1n4zFT7e8ELVmK_0B91no-P_cxSsv62bf6YMzMywKp9-HqufgdsMawAhLPPSSK5BOjXQevkJZMOb1PSzUlu1J0jt3X3NV10nNa5cnm6PgOakyzRAS_R9FRY9FF6pzhgNHDm-sJp3_cRUS2TH6LI0g3cYW2mzCLNq_Bg=s1354" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="1354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglJ6rJ-HWX_PQhNmXZr3vCF2z1n4zFT7e8ELVmK_0B91no-P_cxSsv62bf6YMzMywKp9-HqufgdsMawAhLPPSSK5BOjXQevkJZMOb1PSzUlu1J0jt3X3NV10nNa5cnm6PgOakyzRAS_R9FRY9FF6pzhgNHDm-sJp3_cRUS2TH6LI0g3cYW2mzCLNq_Bg=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>ROYAL FLASH co-stars Oliver Reed and Alan Bates</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Successful films that consecutively proceeded this rather forgotten, overlooked anti-epic's epic sharing the same period-genre (herein the crest of the Victorian Era): only this fictional hero's surrounded by actual historic ones...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And IF the <i>Flashy </i>shoe didn't fit McDowell visually, he was, following A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and O LUCKY MAN, the perfect choice for an oblivious pawn thrown from one perilous misadventure into the next, overwhelmed while "riding the whirlwind" yet remaining the same knowingly-crooked scoundrel from beginning to end...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, alan bates, british, florinda bolkan, history, lionel jeffries, malcolm mcdowell, oliver reed, richard lester, seventies, tom bell, victorian

MALCOLM MCDOWELL IN RICHARD LESTER'S 'ROYAL FLASH'

Malcolm McDowell as Harry Flashman in ROYAL FLASH Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2 Malcolm McDowell himself stated via commentary he was perhaps mi...

ROD TAYLOR AND YVETTE MIMIEUX IN 'THE TIME MACHINE'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSWboB8CqcfT-tMVaLEymh2E4JeSZeiFeOkoGdjzkMna8tL5HMdpX98gg-3gZtiwZp-F3cqjqh_Ntd3GsZS7n8Ouy4pxF5FjZ_Rs6yEMmRed-25F8EjbYbFcwvGthch0PXXdB5ZJqoAS4/s1600/1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSWboB8CqcfT-tMVaLEymh2E4JeSZeiFeOkoGdjzkMna8tL5HMdpX98gg-3gZtiwZp-F3cqjqh_Ntd3GsZS7n8Ouy4pxF5FjZ_Rs6yEMmRed-25F8EjbYbFcwvGthch0PXXdB5ZJqoAS4/s16000/1.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yvette Mimieux & Rod Taylor in George Pal's 1960 classic science-fiction cult phenom THE TIME MACHINE</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> It's too bad so much of the energy is built on obscuring the twist ending, and the middle-ground to the classic George Pal version of the H.G. Wells novel is a dated, tacked-on anti-nukes message, because the sophisticated first thirty minutes, setting up our story with a turn-of-the-century British inventor H. George Wells (given the same name as the author, making his story seem true), returning from an unknown future and late for dinner with his stuffy contemporaries, is where Rod Taylor, an unknown actor cast because of an anemic budget, really shines, portraying the right touch of neurosis and intensity of a man who could, would, and does create an actual time machine...<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4yB7eDIW2vxF2MEdG9IqKcgKAqR2hJ05qXJjKIfBH7sRJw7CVaIlOSBKZu6Ezi-8fk0QiWVJ4rOzAI_oaTDT6H8evLsWVXtjq75ywqL8BYFM_ED4PU0sZJsX9JzqD3trfl1emvOvGPbo/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-02-23+at+7.40.17+AM.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4yB7eDIW2vxF2MEdG9IqKcgKAqR2hJ05qXJjKIfBH7sRJw7CVaIlOSBKZu6Ezi-8fk0QiWVJ4rOzAI_oaTDT6H8evLsWVXtjq75ywqL8BYFM_ED4PU0sZJsX9JzqD3trfl1emvOvGPbo/s400/Screen+Shot+2016-02-23+at+7.40.17+AM.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Part of the post of THE TIME MACHINE</td></tr> </tbody></table> A vessel that, throughout audible dinner table narration, travels past World War II, into the throes of a post nuclear 1966, and then winds up where most of the picture takes place: a seemingly perfect green Eden paradise where beautiful humans, known as Eloi, including the extremely gorgeous Yvette Mimieux as Weena, exist and... it turns out, they are ruled by voracious creatures called Morlocks, and aren't just slaves while the best, most re-watchable scenes involve Wells' first discovering the wonder of time travel, using a store shop window mannequin as his fashion guide throughout the years. A career-making role for the late Rod Taylor, who would follow-up with Alfred Hitchcock's THE BIRDS, this science-fiction classic has creative relation to THE TWILIGHT ZONE, later on STAR TREK and a blockbuster that Taylor was originally considered to star for, THE PLANET OF THE APES, which would lack the "damn dirty" classic performance but might have been pretty swell.

adventure, horror, rod taylor, science fiction, sixties, time travel, victorian, yvette mimieux

ROD TAYLOR AND YVETTE MIMIEUX IN 'THE TIME MACHINE'

Yvette Mimieux & Rod Taylor in George Pal's 1960 classic science-fiction cult phenom THE TIME MACHINE It's too bad so much o...