Monthly Archives: August 2011

Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Posted on August 8, 2011 at 6:39 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Conan and I go way back.  My first impression of the character was when I went to Universal Studios in California in 1983, just a wee tyke, taking notice of the brochure’s advertisement for the Conan the Barbarian stunt show … Continue reading →

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Early Hitchcock-Related Silent Discovered

Posted on August 5, 2011 at 6:40 am by Jeff Kuykendall

The National Film Preservation Foundation and the New Zealand Film Archive this week announced that they have uncovered the first thirty minutes of The White Shadow, a 1924 silent film for which a young Alfred Hitchcock served as writer, assistant … Continue reading →

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Night Tide (1961)

Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:36 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Curtis Harrington’s Night Tide (1961) suggests what might have happened had Jean Cocteau been hired to direct an episode of The Twilight Zone. Perhaps it lacks Cocteau’s style of experimentation, but there is a romantic and eerie quality to this … Continue reading →

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