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weirdlookindog · 10 months

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Tower of Evil (1972)

#tower of evil #horror of snape island #bryant haliday #jill haworth #mark edwards #jack watson #1972 #1970s movies #jim o'connolly #horror #mystery

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mariocki · 8 months

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The Saint: Vendetta for the Saint - Part 1 (6.15, ITC, 1969)

"Want some advice? Go easy."

"And mine to you is pull out - before I start breaking his world up."

"What?"

"You heard."

"Dear man, have you any idea what you're taking on?"

"No, but I'll pick it up as I go along."

"You won't get six feet. Well, maybe: laid out in your best suit."

#the saint #vendetta for the saint #itc #1969 #leslie charteris #jim o'connolly #john kruse #harry w. junkin #roger moore #ian hendry #rosemary dexter #aimi macdonald #george pastell #marie burke #fulton mackay #peter kristof #peter madden #guy deghy #charles houston #edward evans #malya nappi #eileen way #ooh we're really in the final stretch now. 1969! the show started in 1962‚ it had occupied most of the 60s by this point (a tumultuous and #culturally unique decade). here we hit the second two parter‚ coming quick after the first‚ but a very different fish: where the fiction #makers chose to go bigger‚ zanier‚ weirder (all laser beams and cartoonish villains‚ eccentric side characters and many #explosions) this second movie length outing instead takes a very standard Saint formula (he is sort of witness to a murder and so decides #to bring down the killer and mafia too) and just does it.. more thoroughly‚ i guess? takes advantage of the longer running time and what #was presumably a higher budget to simply add more spectacle to a solid Saint adventure. it works! this is pretty good! fancy location work #(at an actual location! the team shot extensively in Malta for this 2 parter)‚ a helicopter‚ car chases and gun battles. it's the series #finally realising what it's always wanted to be thanks to a last minute splurge of the coffers. pretty good stuff

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guillotineman · 1 year

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Movie References

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schlock-luster-video · 11 months

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On May 19, 1972, Tower of Evil debuted in New York City.

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almeriamovies · 2 years

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James Franciscus and Gila Golan in “The Valley of Gwangi” by Jim O'Connolly (1969) #Almeria Stopmotion animation

#James Franciscus #gila golan #the valley of gwangi #jim o'connolly #cinema #Almeria #stop motion #western #scifi

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lask13crime · 2 years

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Jim O'Connolly 1969

#la vallée de gwangi #the valley of gwangi #movie #film #screen title #cinema #title screen #O connolly

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journeypool · 2 years

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Let explore the Horror world...

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Science fiction horror films, often associated with catastrophe or apocalyptic films or alien films, came into vogue in the 50's and (apart from the Universal Pictures films already seen, directed by Jack Arnold) was one of their main characters Roger Corman, director of the B series (low-budget films), specializing in the free and colorful adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe stories: The Fall of the House of Usher (1960), Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Obsession (1962), Tales of Terror (1962), The Raven (1963), The Masque of the Red Death (1964) and The Tomb of Ligeia (1964); and an adaptation of a short story by H.P. Lovecraft, The Palace of the Spirits and some B-movies usually related to science fiction like It Conquered the World (1956), Emissary from another world (1957), Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957), Wasp Woman (1959), The Enchanted Sea Monster (1961) and The Man with X-Ray Eyes (1963)

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Boris Karloff in Frankenstein's Bride.

Special effects technician Ray Harryhausen was an indispensable figure when it came to disaster and giant monster cinema. Influenced by King Kong, he made a number of notable films: The Great Gorilla (1949) by Ernest B. Schoedsack, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) by Eugène Lourié, It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) by Robert Gordon, Earth vs .the Flying Saucers (1956) by Fred F. Sears, The Beast from Another Planet (1957) by Nathan Juran and the dinosaur film The Valley of Gwangi (1969) by Jim O'Connolly.

Other notable films from this period include: Robert Wise's The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Byron Haskins The War of the Worlds (1953) (based on the novel of the same name by H.G. Wells), Them! (1954) by Gordon Douglas and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) by Don Siegel. The mix of horror and science fiction that H. P. Lovecraft translated into literature resurfaces in the late '70s with Philip Kaufman's version of the last-mentioned volume Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and the excellent Alien: The Eighth Passenger (1979 ) again on ) by Ridley Scott, which chronicles the terrifying battle against an indestructible alien monster aboard a space freighter. The film spawned several sequels and crossovers. From the 1980s, The Thing (1982) by horror film master John Carpenter stood out among many others; the Canadian Cube (1997) by Vincenzo Natali and Señales (2002) by Indian-American M. Night Shyamalan.

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tvln · 4 years

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