THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) DIRECTED BY: John Frankenheimer. WRITTEN BY: George Axelrod based on the novel by Richard Condon.. STARRING: Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh, Laurence Harvey, Angela La...
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Screenwriter John Michael Hayes was born on May 11, 1919 in Worcester, Massachusetts. Hayes was one of the first screenwriters I noticed. After watching a ton of movies, and realizing that some...
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Dialogues With Death The spider web fills the screen, it's Boris Karloff's THRILLER! SEASON: 2, EPISODE: 11. AIRDATE: December 4, 1961 DIRECTOR: Herschel Daughtery WRITER: Robert Arthu...
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This blog was originally going to be called ALL THE LOSERS IN HOLLYWOOD, but I was afraid that would scare away readers... and sex sells, right? But I have this huge list of stories about people ...
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The plague keeps mutating... LAST MAN ON EARTH (1964) Starring: Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danielli. Written by: Richard Matheson (as Logan Swanson) and William Leicester. Direct...
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I look at TORN CURTAIN in my "Mastering Suspense" book, and consider it a bit of a misfire. Hitch blamed the stars and modern acting (instead of big charismatic stars, these modern actors... act!...
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The Prediction The spider web fills the screen, it's Boris Karloff's THRILLER! SEASON: 1, EPISODE: 10. AIRDATE: 11/22/1960 DIRECTOR: John Brahm WRITER: Donald S. Sanford CAST: Boris Ka...
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TODAY is the Nicholl Fellowship deadline... From way back in August 2010... I am not a doctor and I don’t even play one on TV, but I have seen many movies with serious problems and read ma...
COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT (1970) DIRECTED BY: Joseph Sargent. WRITTEN BY: James Bridges based on the novel by D.F. Jones. STARRING: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schalle...
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THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY, like Hitch's MR. & MRS. SMITH, is an unusual film from the "master of suspense" because it is a comedy rather than a thriller. This was Shirley McLaine's very first film, ...
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THRILLER: Devil’s Ticket The spider web fills the screen, it's Boris Karloff's THRILLER! SEASON: 1, EPISODE: 29. AIRDATE: April 18, 1961 DIRECTOR: Jules Bricken WRITER: Robert Bloch ...
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Another ancient blog entry (from 2007) that I'm reprinting instead of writing anything new, because I'm lazy. A whole bunch of posts and half a year ago, I wrote that my friend Rod and I were ...
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PETULIA (1968) DIRECTED BY: Richard Lester. WRITTEN BY: Lawrence B. Marcus. STARRING: Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain, Joseph Cotten. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Nic Roeg. MUS...
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Trying to keep the blog slightly fresh, I have been scouring YouTube for newly uploaded interviews with Hitch or with people who worked with Hitch, and discovered this Masters Of Cinema interview...
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The Fatal Impulse The spider web fills the screen, it's Boris Karloff's THRILLER! SEASON: 1, EPISODE: 11. AIRDATE: 11/29/1960 DIRECTOR: Gerald Mayer WRITER: Philip MacDonald based on a s...
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Some movies are so bad that they're good... and others are bad and weird and make you wonder about the people who made them. Here are two of the strangest films I have ever seen - both are about ...
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OUTRAGE (1950) (aka NICE GIRL) DIRECTED BY: Ida Lupino. WRITTEN BY: Collier Young, Malvin Wald, Ida Lupino. STARRING: Mala Powers, Tod Andrews, Robert Clarke, Jerry Paris. PRODUCED BY: Collier...
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Scorsese's MEAN STREETS is one of my ten favorite films, and here he is talking about DIAL M FOR MURDER - which was based on a great stage play by Frederick Knott, and is kind of a contained thri...
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Well Of Doom The spider web fills the screen, it's Boris Karloff's THRILLER! SEASON: 1, EPISODE: 23. AIRDATE: February 28, 1961 DIRECTOR: John Braham WRITER: Donald S. Sanford based on ...
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One of my favorite films is John Millius's THE WIND AND THE LION, and here's a great scene with Brian Keith as Teddy Roosevelt on a hunting trip in Yosemite talking about a grizzly bear he's just...
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One of my favorite movies, and probably one you have never heard of... now on BluRay thanks to the wonderful people at Warner Archive. DIRECTED BY: John Millius. WRITTEN BY: John Millius. STARR...
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Since the "birthday" of Hitch's THE BIRDS was last week, how about one of the stars remembering the making if the film? Veronica Cartwight is one of my movie crushes, and I first saw her in this ...
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The Watcher The spider web fills the screen, it's Boris Karloff's THRILLER! SEASON: 1, EPISODE: 8. AIRDATE: 10/25/1960 DIRECTOR: John Braham WRITER: Donald Sanford (MIDWAY) based on a s...
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From 2008.... More Answers to past questions. These three were related, so I'm answering them all in the same entry... QUESTION: Any, er tricks, to build up suspense? Is there a rule of thumb...
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DIRECTOR: Ivan Reitman. WRITER: Gary Ross. STARRING: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Ving Rhames, Kevin Dunn, Ben Kingsley, Laura Linney. PRODUCED BY: Lauren Shuler Donner. CINEMAT...
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