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In Search of Dracula
Moving easily between history, myth and fiction, IN SEARCH OF DRACULA turns up a trove of vampire lore. We get a taste for Transylvanian folkways, vampire bats, Vlad the Impaler’s bloody exploits, Greek Orthodox rites and, of course, Bram Stoker’s composition of the original...Watch Movie
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The Sin of Nora Moran
A weird and wonderful slab of homegrown surrealism, THE SIN OF NORA MORAN’s surprisingly complex narration and florid montage editing makes it well-deserving of the UCLA Festival of Preservation’s accolades as “haunting, hallucinatory, artistic, exploitative…maybe the best...Watch Movie
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Creature with the Blue Hand
The inimitable Klaus Kinski plays twin brothers (one of whom is found guilty of murder and sent to an insane asylum in the prologue) and he is not even the creepiest part of this colorful murder mystery. Based on a novel by British author Edgar Wallace, this is from the...Watch Movie
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The Iron Crown
A deadly tournament for a princess' hand, a mystic "golden deer," babies switched at birth, a raised-by-lions quasi-Tarzan; everything but the proverbial kitchen sink was thrown into this extravagant fantasy adventure. Loin-clothed foundling Arminio (Massimo Girotti) leaves the jungle he grew up...Watch Movie
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Syndicate Sadists
Umberto Lenzi was a notorious director of some of the most sadistic and brutal horror films to come out of Italy. But like so many of his fellow filmmakers, he was also fluent in the violent Italian cops and mobsters genre known as "poliziotteschi." SYNDICATE SADISTS is one of...Watch Movie
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Terror of Frankenstein
Two years after directing an unusual documentary investigation into the vampire legend, monster maven Calvin Floyd tried his hand at traditional adaptation with the Frankenstein story. While TERROR OF FRANKENSTEIN lacks IN SEARCH OF DRACULA’s secondary interpretations, Floyd's...Watch Movie
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Strange Deception
A top-prize winner at the Cannes and Berlin festivals, this striking drama (originally known as THE FORBIDDEN CHRIST) is largely forgotten today. But it survives, fortunately, as a unique bridge between Italy's postwar neorealist cinema and the more stylized, philosophical and...Watch Movie
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Money Madness
Rolling off the bus into a new town, Steve (Hugh Beaumont) gets work as a cabbie but has bigger things in mind. He meets waitress Julie (Frances Rafferty) and she jumps at his marriage proposal; anything to get away from the insufferable hypochondriac aunt (Cecil Weston) she's living with. Once...Watch Movie
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The Flesh and the Fiends
The notorious Burke and Hare, a lowlife duo convicted of robbing graves and murdering sixteen people in 1828 Edinburgh, has inspired numerous film treatments. They've been portrayed by everyone from Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi (in Robert Wise's THE BODY SNATCHERS released in...Watch Movie
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The Scavengers
Vince Edwards first screen appearance (uncredited) was in Delmer Daves' DARK PASSAGE, a gritty noir adapted from a novel by David Goodis. Edwards is arguably best known as the lead in MURDER BY CONTRACT. THE SCAVENGERS, directed the following year by the underrated John Cromwell, is a solid B...Watch Movie
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Sing, Sinner, Sing
This lively Pre-Code mix of music and melodrama crams a lot, stretching from gambling-ship revelry to Death Row, into its short feature runtime. Lela Larson (Leila Hyams) is the star blonde torch singer on Queen of Joy, "the floating Monte Carlo." When she witnesses a...Watch Movie
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The Raiders of Leyte Gulf
This rugged location-shot war actioner dramatizes events leading up to one of the key Pacific battles between Allied and Japanese forces. U.S. Army intelligence officer Major Wilson (played by Jennings Sturgeon, an expat painter, actor and former U.S. military officer who died...Watch Movie
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Command Performance
A must-see for audiophiles and vinyl hounds, this promotional film brings the viewer inside RCA Victor's teeming record plant. Behind steel doors "guarded day and night," we tour a vast archive of master discs, an orchestra standing ready with the "The Blue Danube" and the...Watch Movie
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Team-Mates
"We're supposed to be going steady, but you're not!" spits heroine Vicki at football captain Brian when she realizes he's been, uh, "playing ball" behind her back with half of womankind. In retaliation (but "only because I want Brian to recognize me as an individual!"), she insists on trying out...Watch Movie
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A Night in a Dormitory
Top-billed Ginger Rogers, three years before her initial career-making teaming with Fred Astaire, was just dipping her tapping toes in the movies when she made this Pathé melody comedy. Having already conquered vaudeville and Broadway, she is introduced here under her own name...Watch Movie
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Tornado
There may be a twister at the beginning and end of this juicy melodrama but, in-between, the disasters are more of an explosive nature (the underground gas and human emotive kinds, both). Chester Morris plays a working-class tough guy who gradually rises from working as a grunt in a small town's...Watch Movie
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Ticket to a Crime
At a prestigious soiree at the swank Lido Country Club, wealthy Mr. Davidson is gunned down in a dispute over a string of valuable pearls. Private investigator Clay Holt and his plucky secretary, Peggy Cummings, enter the case and turn up plenty of suspects. Gumming up the...Watch Movie
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Condemned to Live
In what is here termed "the darkest depths of Africa," an explorer's pregnant widow is killed by a bloodsucking bat (though their unborn child is spared). Forty years later, a European hamlet is terrorized by violent deaths. Is it, as the local peasants fear, a vampire bat...Watch Movie
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The Walls of Hell
This gritty, atmospheric war movie dramatizes a chapter of World War II history in which 10,000 Japanese soldiers, fearing execution if they surrendered, disobeyed their own superiors' orders and barricaded themselves in Manila's Intramuros section along with a thousand or so...Watch Movie
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Congolaise
This fascinating documentary was made in conjunction with a group of French scientists who spent fourteen months traveling along the Ogowe (aka Ogooue) River in central Africa, recording and studying timeless tribal lifestyles en route that were likely to confront modernity all too soon. The U.S....Watch Movie
