Tag: Lanchester Else
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‘Hell’s Half Acre,’ directed by John H Auer
Movie, 1954 A quirky, low-budget suspense film, whose setting, themes and a few plot points seem to reference Casablanca, but do so with, at best, very limited success. While the action feels stretched out, and many production values lacking, here and there, some of the shooting shows some craft and imagination, while the music and…
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“Murder by Death”, directed by Robert Moore
Movie, 1976 All star cast playing thinly disguised versions of fictional sleuths, pulled together, each with a partner, to a spooky, jokey haunted house, presided over by an erratic owner, a blind butler and a mute housemaid. If the premise is hackneyed, then so is the rest of the film. Amusing, occasionally, and a great…
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