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Taste of Fear (1961)

Posted on February 24, 2020 at 10:49 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Sometime in the early to mid-2000’s I was introduced to Scream of Fear – or, as it was titled in its native U.K., Taste of Fear (1961) – in a big-screen double feature with another Hammer chiller, The Revenge of … Continue reading →

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Secrets of the French Police (1932)

Posted on June 10, 2017 at 8:23 am by Jeff Kuykendall

RKO’s Pre-Code Secrets of the French Police (1932) proves that sensationalist, exploitative pulp was passing itself off as authentic crime procedural decades before the modern TV incarnations. The film, produced by David O. Selznick and directed by A. Edward Sutherland … Continue reading →

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10 Rillington Place (1971)

Posted on September 24, 2016 at 10:42 am by Jeff Kuykendall

What a fascinating career director Richard Fleischer had. From the nail-biting noir The Narrow Margin (1952) to such varied projects as The Vikings (1958), Doctor Doolittle (1967), Soylent Green (1973), Mandingo (1975), and even Conan the Destroyer (1984), the director was a … Continue reading →

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