PHAEDRA

PHAEDRA (director/writer: Jules Dassin; screenwriters: based on Euripedes' Hippolytus/Margarita Liberaki; cinematographer: Jacques Natteau; editor: Roger Dwyre; music: Mikis Theodorakis; cast: Melina Mercouri (Phaedra), Anthony Perkins (Alexis), Raf Vallone (Thanos Kyrilis),…

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BLACK CASTLE, THE

THE BLACK CASTLE (director/writer: Nathan Juran; screenwriter: Jerry Sackheim; cinematographer: Irving Glassberg; editor: Russell Shoengarth; music: ; cast: Boris Karloff (Dr. Meissen), Stephen McNally (Count von Bruno), Richard Greene (Sir…

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PICCADILLY JIM

PICCADILLY JIM (director: Robert Z. Leonard; screenwriter: from the book Piccadilly Jim by P. G. Wodehouse/Charles Brackett; cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg; editor: William S. Gray; music: William Axt; cast: Robert Montgomery…

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BLACK SUNDAY

  BLACK SUNDAY (Maschera del demonio, La) (director/writer: Mario Bava; screenwriters: Ennio De Concini/from the short story The Vij by Nikolai Gogol; cinematographer: Mario Bava/Ubaldo Terzano; editor: Mario Serandrei; music:…

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PIER 5, HAVANA

PIER 5, HAVANA (director: Edward L. Cahn; screenwriters: James B. Gordon/story by Joseph Hoffman; cinematographer: Maury Gertsman; editor: Grant Whytock; music: Paul Sawtell/Bert Shefter; cast: Cameron Mitchell (Steve Daggett), Allison…

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BLING RING, THE

THE BLING RING (director/writer: Sofia Coppola; screenwriter: based on the 2010 Vanity Fair article "The Suspect Wore Louboutins" by Nancy Jo Sales; cinematographers: Harris Savides/Christopher Blauvelt; editor: Sarah Flack; music:…

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