Day: January 18, 2022

Mill Creek Through the Decades: 1960s Collection: Genghis Khan (1965)

Henry Levin made the Eurospy films Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die, The Ambushers and Murderers’ Row, as well as Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm and Where the Boys Are. It tells the story of how Temujin (Omar Sharif) — joined by Geen (Michael Hordern) and Sengal (Woody Strode) — goes from […]

Mill Creek Through the Decades: 1960s Collection: Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)

While the first few films on the Mill Creek Through the Decades: 1960s Collection were light comedy, this one made me sit up and pay attention to its rough drama. Based on the 1954 play The Traveling Lady, which was also written by this movie’s director and writer Horton Foote (To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender […]

CURTIS HARRINGTON WEEK: Queen of Blood (1966)

Based on the screenplay for the Russian movie Mechte Navstrechu (A Dream Come True) and using the special effects footage from that film and Nebo Zovyot (Battle Beyond the Sun), this American-International Pictures release, directed by Curtis Harrington, had to have some kind of influence on Alien, right? Harrington agreed, saying that Ridley Scott’s movie was a […]

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