MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Manxman (1929)
Alfred Hitchcock’s last silent film, The Manxman, is about fisherman Pete Quilliam (Carl Brisson and lawyer Philip Christian (Malcolm Keen), friends from birth, but both after the same woman: Kate (Anny Ondra). Pete asks Phillip to ask her father, Caesar Cregeen (Randle Ayrton), for permission to marry. He says no, as Pete is poor. He goes […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: Juno and the Paycock (1930)
Based on Juno and the Paycock by Sean O’Casey, this movie follows Captain Boyle (Edward Chapman) living in a two-room tenement flat with his wife, Juno (Sara Allgood), and their children, Mary (Kathleen O’Regan) and Johnny (John Laurie). Juno has dubbed her husband The Paycock because he does nothing but drink. Mary has a job, […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Dressed to Kill (1980)
Let’s get this out of the way: Brian De Palma, much like Giallo, was heavily influenced by Hitchcock. In fact, when an interviewer asked Hitchcock if he saw the film as an homage, he replied, “You mean fromage.” That said — Hitchcock died three months before the film was released, so that story could be […]
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