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The Night Walker (1964)
"Have you ever dreamed that you were flying, flying into strange places, far beyond the worlds we know? Yes, that's it: fly. Fly! Maybe you can get away after all... fly! Fly! No. There's no escape. Now you're falling, falling... and they say if you ever complete that fall in a dream, you'll be dead. Yes, there's death in your dreams, too. Death and blood and the realm beyond death - the realm of eternity."
#the night walker#1964#american cinema#william castle#horror film#robert bloch#barbara stanwyck#robert taylor#judi meredith#hayden rorke#lloyd bochner#jess barker#rochelle hudson#marjorie bennett#tetsu komai#paul frees#paulle clark#vic mizzy#enjoyable Castle hijinks‚ notable for teaming up Stanwyck with ex husband Taylor and for a wonderfully effective score of#jangly‚ discordant strings by Addams Family composer Mizzy. Castle eschewed his usual stunts and theatre gimmicks in favour of the high#profile Stanwyck Taylor casting‚ and there's no onscreen intro by him either (but the opening narration we do get by Frees overlays some of#the most impressive imagery in the whole film‚ visual interpretations of dreams and nightmares that stand alongside some of the best trippy#visuals of this era). the plot is so much hokum but i must admit it kept me guessing to some degree; Stanwyck is very fine playing against#type‚ and Bochner makes for a suitably otherworldly dream figure. the final black and white feature from Universal studios‚ the lukewarm#reception of this film marked the beginning of the end of Castle's reign as a horror king of US cinema. he'd wanted Joan Crawford for the#lead and that's a film I'd have been very interested to see but props to Babs on a strong performance#outside of the dream stuff this owes a fair debt to Hitchcock's Psycho (which had been Bloch's own stepping stone into the film biz)
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Tetsu Komai-Bramwell Fletcher-Anna May Wong "La hija del dragón" (Daughter od the dragon) 1931, de Lloyd Corrigan.
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Charles Laughton and Tetsu Komai- ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932)
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Bette Davis in The Letter (William Wyler, 1940)
Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, Gale Sondergaard, Bruce Lester, Elizabeth Inglis, Cecil Kellaway, Victor Sen Yung, Doris Lloyd, Willie Fung, Tetsu Komai. Screenplay: Howard Koch, based on a play by W. Somerset Maugham. Cinematography: Tony Gaudio. Art direction: Carl Jules Weyl. Film editing: George Amy, Warren Low. Music: Max Steiner.
As Tony Gaudio's camera travels across the Malayan rubber plantation we hear shots being fired, and as we track closer we see Leslie Crosbie (Bette Davis), coming down her front steps with a grimly determined look on her face, firing the remaining bullets from her revolver into a man on the ground. And we sit back and relax and think, "Oh, yeah, Bette's here. This is gonna be good." Davis is one of the few stars who can almost always make us feel this way -- maybe Cary Grant or Barbara Stanwyck for me -- who else for you? And it is good, perhaps the best of the three films Davis made with William Wyler. For me, Jezebel (1938) is too steeped in the Hollywood Old South myth, and The Little Foxes (1941) too hamstrung by Lillian Hellman's dramaturgy. This one has a very fine screenplay by Howard Koch that deftly steps on and around the restrictions placed on it by the Production Code. For one thing, Leslie has to be punished for her crime, which involves not only murder but also, with the help of her lawyer, Howard Joyce (James Stephenson), suborning justice. (Joyce somehow gets off scot-free, though with an embittered conscience.) Wyler got a bad rap from the auteur critics like Andrew Sarris, who found his technical skills insufficiently personal. But we see something of Wyler's daring early in the film as Leslie is recounting her version of why she shot Geoffrey Hammond to her lawyer, her husband (Herbert Marshall), and a government official (Bruce Lester) who has been called to the scene. Wyler chooses to shoot a long segment of Leslie's story with the backs of Leslie and the three men to the camera: We don't see their faces, but only the room where the initial shooting took place. The effect, relying heavily on Davis's voice acting and Koch's script, is to place Leslie's narrative -- which as others comment rarely varies by a word -- in our minds instead of the truth. It is, for Davis, a splendidly icy and controlled performance. The major fault in the film today is in the condescension toward Asian characters typical of Hollywood in the era, though it's not as bad perhaps in 1940 as it would be after Pearl Harbor a year later. We learn that Hammond had a Eurasian wife (the Code-enforced substitute for the Chinese mistress of W. Somerset Maugham's 1927 play), and in 1940s Hollywood "Eurasian" invariable meant "sinister," especially when she's played by Gale Sondergaard. The other Asians in the film are treated as subordinates, including Joyce's Chinese law clerk, Ong Chi Seng (Victor Sen Yung), who is all smiles and passive aggressiveness. That we are expected to share in this colonialist order of things is especially apparent when Leslie is forced to deliver the payment for the incriminating letter to Mrs. Hammond, who lords it over Leslie, making her remove her shawl to bare her head and to place the money in her hands; then Mrs. Hammond drops the letter on the floor, making Leslie pick it up. If today we cheer at Mrs. Hammond's abasement of Leslie, who after all killed her husband, you can bet that 1940s audiences, or at least the white ones, didn't.
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Island of Lost Souls
“Do you know what it means to feel like God?” Charles Laughton asks in Erle C. Kenton’s ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932, Criterion), anticipating a key critique of colonialism. This adaptation of H.G. Wells’ novel, in which Laughton’s Dr. Moreau has populated a desert island with beast men created by surgically advancing the evolution of various animals, may be the ultimate depiction of otherizing. Moreau the colonist doesn’t just treat the native population as bestial others;, he knows they’re just one step from being animals, because he put them there. His feelings of superiority to the creatures he has tortured into existence in his House of Pain are the height of hypocrisy, and you spend most of the film eagerly anticipating their turning on him. At the time of its release and even in some contemporary critiques, Laughton’s performance was viewed as the whole show. With his little goatee and his rapid swings from anger to glee to calculated underplaying, it’s eye-catching work. But that shouldn’t obscure the contributions of Kenton and cinematographer Karl Struss, who do a great job of turning the island into a hell on Earth. Richard Arlen is a serviceable leading man, though he doesn’t stand a chance against Laughton. Leila Hyams, as his fiancée, is lovely, and her pristine blonde beauty adds to the film’s thematic richness. Her obverse is dark, exotic Kathleen Burke as Lota, the Panther Woman. She looks great, but she’s not much of an actress. Bela Lugosi got a lot of notice for his small role as the head of the beast men, but the most interesting performance in that area is by little-known Japanese actor Tetsu Komai as M’Ling, the “Dog Man.” His physical work in embodying canine characteristics is on a par with Laughton’s performance, but his race kept him from moving into leading roles. He also spent World War II in a relocation camp, a real-life example of colonialism and othering at their worst.
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Charles Laughton and Tetsu Komai- ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932)
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The Princess Comes Across (1936) William K. Howard
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#the princess comes across#1936#william k. howard#carole lombard#fred macmurray#alison skipworth#william frawley#george barbier#douglass dumbrille#sig ruman#porter hall#lumsden hare#bradley page#mischa auer#tetsu komai#concertina
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Bad movie I have Island of Lost Souls 1932
#Island of Lost Souls#Paramount Pictures#Charles Laughton#Richard Arlen#Leila Hyams#Bela Lugosi#Kathleen Burke#Arthur Hohl#Stanley Fields#Paul Hurst#Hans Steinke#Tetsu Komai#George Irving#Jack Bardette#Evangelus Berbas#Joe Bonomo#Buster Brodie#Jacob Dance#James Dime#Harry Ekezian#Charles Gemora#John George#Rosemary Grimes#Robert P. Kerr#Bob Kortman#Alan Ladd#Robert Milasch#Constantine Romanoff#Schlitze#Jack Walters
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Mary Boland and Tetsu Komai in Four Frightened People (1934). Mary was born in Philadelphia and had 59 acting credits, from 1915 to a 1955 tv episode. Her other notable credits include Ruggles of Red Gap, The Big Broadcast of 1936, The Women, and Pride and Prejudice.
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Island of Lost Souls (1932) – Episode 98 – Decades of Horror: The Classic Era
"Are we not men?" Well, not all of us, but you get the idea. Join this episode’s Grue-Crew - Whitney Collazo, Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Joseph Perry, and Jeff Mohr - as they trek through the jungle on H.G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) as depicted in the pre-code classic Island of Lost Souls (1932).
Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 98 – Island of Lost Souls (1932)
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A mad doctor conducts ghastly experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
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Director: Erle C. Kenton
Writers: Waldemar Young, Philip Wylie; H.G. Wells (novel)
Cinematography by: Karl Struss
Makeup artists: Wally Westmore, Charles Gemora
Cast
Charles Laughton as Dr. Moreau
Richard Arlen as Edward Parker
Leila Hyams as Ruth Thomas
Bela Lugosi as Sayer of the Law
Kathleen Burke as Lota, the Panther Woman
Arthur Hohl as Mr. Montgomery
Stanley Fields as Captain Davies
Paul Hurst as Captain Donahue
Hans Steinke as Ouran
Tetsu Komai as M'ling, Moreau's loyal house servant
George Irving as The Consul
Harry Ekezian as Gola (uncredited)
The first time he saw Island of Lost Souls, Chad was blown away and remembers thinking, “How did they get away with this?” He ranks Charles Laughton’s portrayal of Dr. Moreau right there amongst his favorite horror film villains. Daphne is impressed with the cinematography and the pacing and agrees with Chad that Island of Lost Souls is right up there near the top of her list. For her, it’s also an important film in its treatment of colonialism, science, human cruelty, and passion. Whitney is on board with Daphne’s assessment of Island of Lost Souls as an important film, including the film’s portrayal of a scientist with a god complex tampering with life. She also digs the wild makeup effects. According to Joseph, the film has retained a lot of its shock value, even though it holds back on some of the onscreen violence. He adds that Charles Laughton’s portrayal of Moreau’s madness and perversity alone makes Island of Lost Souls worth the watch. Jeff loves the film’s bizarreness and is captivated by the performances of Laughton, Kathleen Burke, and Bela Lugosi.
The Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Grue-Crew gives Island of Lost Souls the highest recommendation! Unfortunately, at this writing, it is difficult to find a streaming source. The Criterion Blu-ray, however, is still available.
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For just $3.99 Released on December 24, 1935: U.S. Customs undercover agents battle a gun runner in the inscrutable and mysterious Macao and Hong Kong. Genre: Action Duration: 59min Director: E. Mason Hopper Actors: Tom Keene (Tom Keene), Wera Engels (Trina Vidor), Warren Hymer (Wally), Tetsu Komai (Wong), Cornelius Keefe (Gil Burris), Tom London (Blake), Freeman Lang (Captain Evans), Allan Cavan (Mr. Caulder). *** This item will be supplied on a quality disc and will be sent in a sleeve that is designed for posting CD's DVDs *** This item will be sent by 1st class post for quick delivery. Should you not receive your item within 12 working days of making payment, please contact me so we can solve this or any other questions. Note: All my products are either my own work, licensed to me directly or supplied to me under a GPL/GNU License. No Trademarks, copyrights or rules have been violated by this item. This product complies with rules on compilations, international media, and downloadable media. All items are supplied on CD or DVD.
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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 7 / 10
Título Original: Island of Lost Souls
Año: 1932
Duración: 70 min
País: Estados Unidos
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Guion: Waldemar Young, Philip Wyle (Novela: H.G. Wells)
Música: Arthur Johnston, Sigmund Krumgold
Fotografía: Karl Struss (B&W)
Reparto: Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Kathleen Burke, Stanley Fields, Arthur Hohl, Paul Hurst, George Irving, Tetsu Komai, Hans Steinke
Productora: Paramount Pictures
Género: Horror, Sci-Fi |
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024188/
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6wWPwz4BAM
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Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)
Tom Tyler as Captain Marvel Frank Coghlan, Jr. as Billy Batson William Benedict as Whitey Murphy Louise Currie as Betty Wallace Robert Strange as John Malcolm Harry Worth as Prof Luther Bentley Bryant Washburn as Harry Carlyle John Davidson as Tal Chotali George Pembroke as Dr. Stephen Lang Peter George Lynn as Prof Dwight Fisher Reed Hadley as Rahman Bar Jack Mulhall as Howell Kenneth Duncan as Barnett Nigel De Brulier as Shazam Tetsu Komai as Chan Lai Stanley Price as Owens Gerald Mohr as the voice of The Scorpion (uncredited) Ken Terrell as Bentley's Butler (uncredited)
On a scientific expedition to Siam young Billy Batson is given the ability to change himself into the super-powered Captain Marvel by the wizard Shazam, who tells him his powers will last only as long as the Golden Scorpion idol is threatened. Finding the idol, the scientists realize it could be the most powerful weapon in the world and remove the lenses that energize it, distributing them among themselves so that no one would be able to use the idol by himself. Back in the US, Billy Batson, as Captain Marvel, wages a battle against an evil, hooded figure, the Scorpion, who hopes to accumulate all five lenses, thereby gaining control of the super-powerful weapon.
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Western Trails Stars of the Silver Screen. (Haz Clic para ver las demás imágenes).
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