Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carter Wilson has a gory short tale, in the John Collier tradition, which is delicate (yes, gory and delicate, read it) and funny. It is called "Emergency Use Only", and a discerning editor placed it in the back to climax the first issue. The piece is easily the best in the magazine, showing the same mature style which characterized the author's "Love Children" in last spring's Advocate. The latter was a serious effort; Wilson's apparent versatility is encouraging...
...humor of this waggish tale depends principally on one fact: the slight but definite resemblance between Ustinov and his canine counterpart, portrayed by a swaybacked, dewlapidated Italian stage dog called Caligola. The spectator is continually reminded that inside the dog there is the villain, and the recurrent after-image of Ustinov doing all those doggy things is unfailingly good for an arf. Actor Ustinov, held in leash by Director Ladislao (Marcelino) Vajda, does pretty well for a mere human being, but of course he is not nearly so funny as Caligola. The dog wags Vajda's Tail...
Blood and Roses. Filmed at the Emperor Hadrian's villa outside Rome under the direction of Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman), this eerie tale of a lady vampire is the most subtle, careful and beautiful of the current crop of chillers...
Much of the story's impact comes from its style. It is a skaz (a tale), a form particularly associated with Leskov, in which the events are told by a fictional narrator in his own idiom and manner. The method gives those events-especially when they are grim-an ingenuous drama, as if a child were holding out a severed head and saying innocently, "Look what I found...
Blood and Roses. Filmed at the Emperor Hadrian's villa outside Rome under the direction of Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman), this eerie tale of a lady vampire is the most subtle, careful and beautiful of the current crop of chillers. With Mel Ferrer...