The War Lord
The War Lord (1965) is a historical epic caught between the romantic pageantry of Cecil B. DeMille when Henry Wilcoxon was a matinee idol and the kinetic brutality of the… Read more »
Tag: 1960s
Alexander The Great
Before William Shatner assumed command of the Enterprise or Adam West donned a cape and cowl, they co-starred in the television pilot episode of a series called Alexander The Great… Read more »
Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel
Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel (1967) is a classic Gothic horror film from The Constantin Film AG of Germany (then West Germany). Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel reunited Constantin stalwarts… Read more »
The Brides Of Dracula
The Brides Of Dracula (1960) is an underrated Terence Fisher contribution to the Hammer Horror canon. Envisioned as a direct sequel to the highly successful Horror Of Dracula (1958), The… Read more »
The Trial
For far too long Orson Welles’ masterpiece The Trial (1962) was only available on home video in the U.S. in shoddy editions. The Trial was in desperate need of a… Read more »
Irezumi
Yasuzō Masumura’s Irezumi (1966) has been called “proto-feminist”, “subversive”, and “ahead of its time” by audiences and critics since the beginning of Masumura’s reappraisal in the 2010s. These descriptors of… Read more »
The Pirates Of Blood River
At a remote Huguenot settlement on an island in the Caribbean, Jonathan Standing (Kerwin Mathews) is railroaded and imprisoned for adultery. Standing manages to escape the penal colony only to… Read more »
Please Don’t Touch Me!
Written and directed by Ron Ormond (though credited to his real name Vittorio Di Naro) and produced by Ormond’s wife June, Please Don’t Touch Me! (1963) is a sensationalist melodrama… Read more »
Bon Voyage!
1962 was the year for family vacation comedies that revolved around fathers with a martyr complex. Fox had Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation that year and Disney had Bon Voyage!…. Read more »
Anna
Serge (Jean-Claude Brialy) and Anna (Anna Karina) work at the same Parisian advertising firm; she as a colorist and he as a photographer. One day a photograph of a woman… Read more »
