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Here’s how old school I am. The Questor Tapes (1974) is a Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek) production and the titular character, played by Robert Foxworth, is an android that repeatedly uses the word “logic.” That reminded me an awful lot of Spock, so I thought the character was based on him. Duh! Research has shown…
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Welcome back to another month of “April Fools!” After unintentionally launching a month-long theme last year at this time, I’ve located four more horror spoofs that came in the wake of the Slasher phenomenon of the 1980s. Student Bodies (1981) set the high bar, but we’ll see if any of the films this month come…
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If you’re going to be trapped on an elevator, this would be a good one. Just look at your co-passengers: Craig Stevens (The Deadly Mantis), Teresa Wright (Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt), Myrna Loy (The Thin Man), and Jean Allison (Devil’s Partner.) And that’s just the old Hollywood royalty. There’s also Roddy McDowell and Carol…
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Jeff and Richard belatedly celebrate the birthday of Ol’ Blood and Thunder, or Mr. Murder, Tod Slaughter. Slaughter has been called a British Boris Karloff. Indeed he made a series of films in the 1930s as similar to each other as Karloff’s mad scientist movies were in the United States. However, with his roots in…
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If I were to wake up from a cryogenic deep sleep after 34 years, I can’t imagine that I’d be bored and lie around the house all day. Instead, I’d be out and about experiencing all the marvels of a new world. Then again, I wouldn’t have a psychopathic daughter like Caroline Carmichael (Donna Mills)…
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If you’re keeping track at home, you might expect today’s review to be The Ticket of Leave Man (1937.) I’m sorry to disappoint, but it’s virtually the same film as It’s Never Too Late to Mend (1937), and while I could barely stand watching the two so closely together, I certainly can’t fathom thinking of…
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In Hitchhike! (1974), Cloris Leachman, who’s been so good in several TV movies we’ve discussed in this series, plays Claire Stevens, a woman on the run from someone or something, who picks up Keith Miles (Michael Brandon) beside the road on a rainy drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Made in the 1970s, you…
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A title card before It’s Never Too Late to Mend (1937) reads, “Controlled and Presented by The Rev. Brian Hession, M.A., copyright Dawn Trust.” My puzzlement was reinforced when I learned that Hession, who was at the time a vicar, had created Dawn Trust Films to bring religious themes to mainstream cinema. So this was…
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Mousey (1974) doesn’t feel like a made-for-television movie. In fact, it was released theatrically in the UK, Australia, Italy, and Denmark, where it was known as Cat & Mouse. I couldn’t find much about its origins, but there’s got to be a story to explain the melting pot of production contributors. It’s a joint US/UK…
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The fact that key roles in both movies are played by Tod Slaughter, Eric Portman, and D.J. Williams caused me to automatically compare The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936) with the trio’s earlier film, Maria Marten, or the Murder in the Red Barn (1935.) That further caused me to compare Slaughter’s two performances. My conclusions…
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