Word: phantoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...away. When he looks down he may see his feet but not the surface that he stands on. And when the winds finally sweep the milky film away, they can drive the granular snow so furiously across the continent's face that static electricity is generated, and phantom flames dance eerily in the blinding drift...
...cousin and illicit lover. Still gunning for the elusive Count Luna, Jessiersky next kills a huntsman poaching near his country shooting box. When the police close in, Jessiersky flees the country for Rome, and under the impression that he must avoid moonlight if he is to outwit his phantom enemy, dies in the labyrinth of the Catacombs with an early cartographer's unreliable map in his hands...
...American Motion Picture industry should take note of the ability of the Japanese to produce visually appealing movies. The Phantom Horse, now playing at the Exeter Theater, is another realistic, sensitive, and artistically-designed film...
...feeling that it was released specifically for the American public--it will appeal to children, and to those who enjoy the sentimental story of a child's love for his horse. American producers have worked this theme over thoroughly in National Velvet and many similar films. Yet The Phantom Horse possesses a fresh charm. It is convincing and restrained, and never becomes maudlin...
...acting is adequate--the best performance being turned in by the horse--but the film's main attraction is still the photography. The Phantom Horse was made by the same people who produced Gate of Hell, and with some of the same success...