During 2016, Hal C. F. Astell remembered important filmmakers by reviewing an interesting film from each of their careers on what would have been (or, in two instances, actually were) their 100th birthdays. He covered films from 1936 to 1988 in a variety of genres, exploring in the process such topics as the birth of 3-D, the Hollywood blacklist, the PATSY awards for animal performers, lavender marriages, the H for Horrific certificate and the work of the American Humane Society, not to mention baby farms, faith healing, ...
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During 2016, Hal C. F. Astell remembered important filmmakers by reviewing an interesting film from each of their careers on what would have been (or, in two instances, actually were) their 100th birthdays. He covered films from 1936 to 1988 in a variety of genres, exploring in the process such topics as the birth of 3-D, the Hollywood blacklist, the PATSY awards for animal performers, lavender marriages, the H for Horrific certificate and the work of the American Humane Society, not to mention baby farms, faith healing, Scotland Yard's Black Museum, Cockney rhyming slang, the postal service police and more! Thrill to sights you thought you'd NEVER see! Jackie Gleason dropping acid in prison! George Hamilton beating up Burt Reynolds! Sterling Hayden bringing a harpoon to a gunfight! Terrorist Gregory Peck slapping a priest! Dorothy McGuire without a mouth! Olivia de Havilland getting stuck in a lift! Clint Walker backhanding Ron Ely! Blind Van Johnson solving a mystery! Vincent Price in dinky gold boots! Peter Finch going walkabout! Oliver Reed turning into a werewolf! Forrest J. Ackerman exploding! Richard Attenborough as a serial killer! Kirk Douglas playing Wile E. Coyote! Betty Grable shooting a judge in the ass! Ralph Bates turning into Martine Beswick! and many more wild and crazy moments! Films reviewed include the following: The Inheritance (1962) for Masako Kobayashi The Brute Man (1946) for Jan Wiley Skidoo (1968) for Jackie Gleason Death Car on the Freeway (1979) for Dinah Shore Bwana Devil (1952) for Sidney W. Pink Dance of the Vampires (1967) for Ferdy Mayne Angel Baby (1961) for Mercedes McCambridge Terror in a Texas Town (1958) for Sterling Hayden Behold a Pale Horse (1964) for Gregory Peck Babies for Sale (1940) for Glenn Ford Postal Inspector (1936) for Patricia Ellis The Ghost Breakers (1940) for Willie Best The Lost World (1960) for Irwin Allen The Spiral Staircase (1945) for Dorothy McGuire Deathtrap (1982) for Irene Worth Lady in a Cage (1964) for Olivia de Havilland The Night of the Grizzly (1966) for Keenan Wynn 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956) for Van Johnson Hellzapoppin' (1941) for Martha Raye The Iroquois Trail (1950) for George Montgomery Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) for James H. Nicholson Doctor Syn (1937) for Margaret Lockwood Psychout for Murder (1969) for Rossano Brazzi The Shiralee (1957) for Peter Finch The Tattered Dress (1957) for Jack Arnold The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) for Anthony Dawson Carry On... Up the Khyber (1968) for Talbot Rothwell The Dark Eyes of London (1940) for Greta Gynt Johnny O'Clock (1947) for Evelyn Keyes Horrors of the Black Museum (1959) for Michael Gough Curse of the Queerwolf (1988) for Forrest J. Ackerman 10 Rillington Place (1971) for Richard Fleischer The Villain (1979) for Kirk Douglas The Beautiful Girl from Bashful Bend (1949) for Betty Grable Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971) for Roy Ward Baker
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