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If Two on a Guillotine (1965) seems familiar, like one of William Castle’s early 1960s thrillers, please note it was directed by a different William… William Conrad. Conrad is perhaps best known from over 100 episodes each of Cannon (1971-76) and Jake & the Fatman (1987-1992), but in 1961, he was producing and directing films
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Insurance salesman Albert L. Tuttle (Jack Haley) crashes the reading of a millionaire Cyrus J. Rutherford’s will because he’s had an appointment with him for a month and is not aware that he died. Conniving family members confuse him for the private detective hired to watch the body, and antics ensue. Why do they need
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Curse of the Crimson Altar (or The Crimson Cult in the United States) is not usually recognized as a “good” movie. Watching it, there were times I’d call it, “bad.” However, I read that Christopher Lee, who plays the owner of an old dark house, regarded it as one of the worst films in his
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All good things must come to an end. World of Giants (WOG) wasn’t always a great series, but it was a fun one. Too little, too late, the final episode, ‘Panic in 3-B’ demonstrates just how fun it could be. Producer William Alland is joined by director Jack Arnold to inject some energy that was
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Doomwatch (1972) is not the movie I thought I would be watching. The title has appeared in my research so many times over the years, that I did a blind-buy of the Blu-ray a while back. IMDb describes it as a “Horror, Mystery.” If anything, it’s science-fiction, but it’s barely even that. It’s more like
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The murder in the titular “Unexpected Murder,” episode 12 of World of Giants (WOG) is so unexpected that, unless I blinked and missed it, it didn’t happen at all! Nevertheless, I enjoyed this as the penultimate episode of the series. Mel (Marshall Thompson) is sick, and when Bill (Arthur Franz) goes to the drug store
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There’s a fun bonus feature on the Severin Films Blu-ray of The Beast in the Cellar (1971.) It provides a high level look at the genre output of Tigon Films, the distant third of the trio of British production companies in the 1960s and 1970s, behind Hammer Films and Amicus Productions. However, it spends most
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There’s an amusing sequence in episode 11 (‘Off Beat’) of World of Giants (WOG). Miniature Mel Hunter (Marshall Thompson) climbs inside a piano to look for stolen Egyptian art treasures that might have been placed inside for hiding. Jazz pianist Chick Crescent (Johnny Silver) is nervous about his part in the robbery, so he sits
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Few movies capture a sense of authenticity with their setting as does The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971.) Of course, we don’t know what it was really like living in the 18th century, but after watching this film, I’d swear this was it… a gloomy countryside where the sun never shines, stone buildings that look
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Before becoming a scapegoat for the demise of once-popular television shows (Star Trek, Space: 1999, and The Six Million Dollar Man), Fred Freiberger was a prolific writer of television westerns who had a couple of big-screen genre credits. He co-wrote The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) and Beginning of the End (1957.) He also wrote
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