All posts tagged "Donald Pleasence"

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  From Beyond the Grave

  Dumped by EC, Amicus buy up the stories of esteemed horror scribe Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, and create their masterpiece.

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  Pied Piper, The

  The Cosmic Wheels really were coming off Donovan's wagon by the early seventies.

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  What A Carve Up!

  Horror paperback editor Kenneth Connor and bookie Sid James are challenged by Donald Pleasence to spend a night in a haunted house...

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  Count of Monte Cristo, The

  Of the twenty-odd versions that have been made of this aristo-revenge chestnut, this is about the sixteenth, courtesy The Lord Thy Grade,...

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  Black Tent, The

  British soldier Anthony Steel falls for the daughter of Bedouin sheikh Andre Morell in this Rank potboiler with Donalds Sinden and Pleasence....

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  Eye of the Devil

  A sort of ’60s proto-Wicker Man set-up, in which Franch grandee David Niven tries to save his failing vineyard with a little...

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  Tales That Witness Madness

  Hammer veteran Freddie Francis oversaw the death throes of the British portmanteau’s glory days with this frightfully silly Asylum-esque effort for World...

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  Sons and Lovers

  No-nonsense miner Trevor ‘Tha’d better stan’ on a bit o’ clunch, then, an’ hold it up wi’ thy ‘ead’ Howard fathers horny...

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  Outback

  By the ’70s, of course, Australia was the number one destination for British ex-pats. saw Brit teacher Donald Pleasence stranded in The...

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  Monster Club, The

  Subotsky wound up Amicus, completing its last unfinished film under the aegis of his newly-formed Sword and Sorcery Productions. Fittingly, it starred...

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  Madwoman of Chaillot, The

  Our regular chance to have a pop at Bryan Forbes always casting Nanette Newman in his films, here as a folk singer...

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  All at Sea

  Various old Ealing themes (Passport to Pimlico, Kind Hearts) are tied up in this late-period offering, with an unseaworthy Alec Guinness turning...

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  Skin Deep

  Semi-comic look by Michael O’Neill and Jeremy Seabrook at the effects of American-style corporate culture on a lower-middle-class provincial family. In the...

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  Foxtrot, The

  Fiftysomething marital dalliances.