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...very mad, very English, and very nearly preposterous. But for viewers eager to empty their minds and concentrate on such creepy business, Writer-Director Bryan Forbes (The L-Shaved Room) works an aura of disaster into every nook and passageway of a turreted old mansion. As the demented psychic, Myra, Kim Stanley manages so many subtle shifts of mood that she seems simultaneously sweet, bitchy, poignant, and a deadly menace. The kidnap scene is a cinematic whirlwind, with the camera cutting and lashing across the landscape to build to a moment of crisis when the victim (Judith Donner) locks herself...
Stomach Crawlers. Astruc came back with fellow members of the Quercy Speleological Club of Cahors. They all crawled headfirst into the hole, soon found themselves in a passageway no more than 20 in. high. Exhaling to squeeze between rocks, rubbing their noses in the wet clay, they inched along. Then one of them saw carvings on the ceiling...
...part, which led to a contract with the J. Arthur Rank Organization. His rising fame did not pass unnoticed by old Van den Bogaerde at the Times. He called his son on the phone one morning and tried a jolly joke. He had been walking through an underground passageway, he said, and had seen the name Bogarde on posters all over the walls. "You've brought the family name as low as you can," quipped father...
...more popular snuggery. Rudolph, who likes to punctuate his interiors with oubliettes and galleries, has provided the Milams with a handy vantage point for supervising activity in the children's living room on the lower level. A little balcony juts out at the end of a short passageway alongside the fireplace, saving steps and making family togetherness a practical matter. Says the architect: "You can go from nest to fishbowl to cave in a few steps. The house has endless variety...
When he approached the Hasty Pudding, a pretxel of a man jumped out from the passageway and began playing a harmonica. But the man shivered so much that Fester could not tell he was playing "Joy to the World"; it sounded like "Home on the Range." Fester pulled his scarf up around his ears...