MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Shadow of Silk Lennox (1935)
Adapted from Norman Springer’s book Riot Squad, this is an early Lon Chaney Jr. role. Directed by Ray Kirkwood and Jack Nelson, this stars Chaney as John Arthur “Silk” Lennox, a nightclub owner who plays both sides as he’s very sure of himself. But he didn’t count on Jimmy Lambert (Dean Benton) and Nola Travers (Marie […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Cheney Vase (1955)
Season 1, Episode 13 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, “The Cheney Vase,” stars Darren McGavin as Lyle Endicott, who is hired to be the personal assistant of Martha Cheney (Patricia Collinge). What he really wants is the money he’ll get when he takes a family heirloom, the Cheney Vase. He’s already found a buyer in Herbert Koether […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: Number Seventeen (1932)
Based on the stage play by Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, this begins with Detective Barton (John Stuart) encountering an unhoused man, Ben (Leon M. Lion), as well as a dead body. As people continue to arrive at the house — one falls from the ceiling — the dead body disappears. In fact, it may still be […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1961)
“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” is a seventh-season episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and was scheduled to be episode 39 of season 7. However, the network was worried about it. Robert Bloch, who wrote the screenplay and the short story that it was based on — it was in the January 1949 issue of Weird Tales — […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: East of Shanghai (1931)
This is what Hitchcock’s Rich and Strange was released as in the U.S. His title is better, because it comes from The Tempest: “Full fathom five thy father lies, / Of his bones are coral made, / Those are pearls that were his eyes: / Nothing of him that doth fade, / But doth suffer a sea-change […]
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, […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Skin Game (1931)
Based on the play by John Galsworthy, this early Hitchcock film explores themes of social class conflict and industrialization, focusing on the feud between the Hillcrist (C.V. France and Helen Haye play the elder Mr. and Mrs. Hillcrist, and Jill Esmond appears as their daughter, Jill) and the Hornblower (Edmund Gwenn, John Longden, and Frank Lawton) families. […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: It’s Never Too Late to Mend (1937)
Based on the novel It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade, this was produced at Shepperton Studios as a “quota quickie” for MGM, but it was popular enough to be rereleased in 1942. Directed by David MacDonald (Devil Girl from Mars) and written by H. F. Maltby, this stars Tod Slaughter as […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: A Scream In the Night (1935)
Jack Wilson (Lon Chaney Jr.) is a cop looking for a stolen ruby who decides to go undercover as Butch Curtain, a drunken bar owner. This marks the first time that Lon Chaney Jr. used his new stage name, reflecting a key moment in his career development. Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and written by […]
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