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Tag: Based on Short Story

The Adjustment Bureau (2011) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

What if Fate was a literal army of humourless bureaucrats shoving people in whatever chosen direction they’re supposed to...

The Haunted Palace (1963) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

After five proper Poe adaptations and one semi-improvised riff (The Terror, 1963), Roger Corman’s epochal series of colour...

Sherlock Holmes (2009) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Director Guy Ritchie and his five (!) credited screenwriters threatened to put a lot of noses out of joint...

Reap the Wild Wind (1942) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Moral and emotional nuance. Intricate characterisation. An ambiguous ideal of masculinity and a revolutionary woman’s place in a man’s...

The Most Dangerous Game (1932) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Ernest Schoedsack and Merian Cooper’s companion piece to their epochal King Kong, shot on many of the same sets...

Terrore nello Spazio (Planet of the Vampires, 1965) Movie Review & Filmsummary, Cast

An everlasting icon for the creative genius of Mario Bava, Terrore nello Spazio is an object lesson in making...

Character (Karakter, 1997) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

A Dickensian social drama with Horror film flourishes, Character won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1997, and...

The House That Dripped Blood (1971) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

The other British studio to specialise in Horror in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Amicus, could never quite...

Premature Burial (1961) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Long dismissed as the problem child of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, chiefly because it lacked Vincent Price,...

The Letter (1940) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

. .Amidst the notable run of films that starred Bette Davis in the late ‘30s and early ‘40s -...

It Came From Outer Space (1953) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

I had seen this splendid sci-fi/noir film only once in my youth, but certain scenes had burnt themselves into...

Screencaps for Red River (1948) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

The complete series of screencaps I took to illustrate the article on Ferdy On Films (http://ferdyonfilms.com/2008/08/famous-firsts-red-river-1948.php):