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Bela Lugosi is a very scary fellow…
Don’t believe me? Try watching THIS with the lights out — to the END, mind you – From THE INVISIBLE GHOST, a poverty row cheapie directed by Joseph H Lewis, who resourcefully shows the correct way to...
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Made furious by The Furies
Guest Shadowplayer Judy Dean weighs in on a film last heard from in Anthony Mann Week — and she makes points about an aspect of the movie I think completely neglected to mention. Because of the nature...
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The Muse
I promised to write something about Clarence Muse — a heroic figure — for The Chiseler a while ago, and I started it, and I got sidetracked, and then very busy, and Fiona got ill, and somehow it never...
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Oo-oo-oo-dunnit
THE SECRET WITNESS is a 1931 pre-code with Una Merkel as a crime-solving society dame (I know! Una Merkel?), Zasu Pitts as a hapless switchboard operator (I feel your eyebrows, raised to stratospheric...
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A really good double feature — THE MIND READER and THE DARK HORSE. The former has Warren William as mentalist, starting as a failed sideshow hustler and discovering the psychic gag as a way to hustle...
View ArticleThe Sunday Intertitle: The Last Day in the Country
A very dislikable throwaway gesture in Maurice Tourneur’s A GIRL’S FOLLY: movie star Robert Warwick hits his fussing dresser with his hat. The dresser/PA is Black, you see. It reminds me of Warner...
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