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...tangerine Watching the tired, somber 6 ft. 4 in. Muskie, attired entirely in black from his Russian cap to the circles under his eyes, move into the midst of the Snowshoe groups to shake hands one might properly ask. "Who was the wiseacre film director who spliced Boris Karloff in with the munchkins of the Wizard...

Author: By E.j. Dionne and Susan F. Kinsley, S | Title: Views From New Hampshire Muskie: Exhausted and on the Run | 3/17/1972 | See Source »

...Camping. Unlike its prime competitor, American International Pictures, Hammer refuses to pander to the younger drive-in crowd (the bulk of the horror market in the U.S.) with more fad-conscious pictures like Was a Teenage Werewolf. Out of respect for the Karloff-Chaney-Lugosi classics of the 1930s, Sir James would never permit a Vincent Price to camp up the Gothic genre. While piling up its $100 million-plus grosses over the years, Hammer has been able to attract-if not get the best out of-such expert directors as Joseph Losey, Guy Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rise of the House of Hammer | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

...flick The Wild Angels, rewriting the script, scouting locations, casting ("Peter Fonda was sort of my idea"). Gorman, impressed with both Bogdanovich's energy and his results, agreed to put up the money for his first feature. There were a couple of strings. Bogdanovich had to use Boris Karloff, who owed producer Gorman two days' work on an old contract, and a certain amount of unused footage from an old Gorman opus entitled The Terror. The finished film, Targets, contained a virtuoso Shootout scene at a drive-in theater. Said Director Howard Hawks: "That stuff's good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festival Prize | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

...most popular movie in this category. "Frankenstein," begins to define the nature of America's scientific fantasy by revealing a morbid fear of technology and a fascination with escape from rigid social restraints. The 1932 original movie, starring Colin Clive as the obsessed doctor and Boris Karloff as the monster, rests on a simple plot, but touches deep unconscious forces. As Colin Clive raises Boris Karloff to the ceiling to receive electrical impulses from the thunderstorm raging outside. Clive's fiancee pleads with him to return to her. But he is obsessed by his monster. In fact on a deeper...

Author: By Laurence Bergreen, | Title: Doctor, This is Madness.... You Will Destroy Us All | 8/4/1970 | See Source »

...Juliet out West. Unfortunately, things get sort of confused, as they have a way of doing with Andy, and the result is a series of dreary, druggy improvisational harangues by such luminaries as Tom Hompertz, Joe Dallesandro and Viva!, the superest Warhol superstar of them all. Now that Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi have passed on, Viva! stands unrivaled as the screen's foremost purveyor of horror. By the simple expedient of removing her clothing, she can produce a sense of primordial terror several nightmares removed from any mad doctor's laboratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: On the Old Camp Ground | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

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