Playhouse 90: Forbidden Area (1956)
The live US anthology series, Playhouse 90, premiered on 4 October 1956 with this 90-minute story directed by John Frankenheimer (who helmed 27 episodes), with Rod Serling adapting Pat Frank’s Continue Reading
The live US anthology series, Playhouse 90, premiered on 4 October 1956 with this 90-minute story directed by John Frankenheimer (who helmed 27 episodes), with Rod Serling adapting Pat Frank’s Continue Reading
Climax! was an CBS anthology series that ran from 1954-1959, hosted by William Lundigan. It was broadcast live from the studios at CBS Television in Los Angeles, and featured many Continue Reading
Produced on the back of the expected success of 1953’s House of Wax, The Mad Magician returned Vincent Price to the world of three-dimensional horror for a third time (Dangerous Continue Reading
Following the success of House on Haunted Hill in February 1959, maverick US producer/director William Castle engaged Vincent Price once for a second time in The Tingler. Price plays pathologist/scientist Continue Reading
Crossroads was a series based on the actual experiences of American clergymen, pastors, priests or rabbis, the men who give inspiration and guidance to people at the crossroads of life. Continue Reading
On 20 October 1957, Vincent Price and Alfred Hitchcock paired up for for an episode in Alfred Hitchcock Presents called The Perfect Crime. Besides having the rare distinction of being Continue Reading
HELP ME! PLEASE, HELP ME! After assisting in the suicide of her scientist husband AndrĂ© (David ‘Al’ Hedison), Helene Delambre (Patricia Owens) admits to a police inspector (Herbert Marshall) and Continue Reading
THIS PLACE IS DANGEROUS. THE TIME RIGHT DEADLY. THE DRINKS ARE ON ME! Professional gambler Dan Milner (Robert Mitchum) gets embroiled in an elaborate scheme to get deported gangland boss Continue Reading
1959’s The Bat is a remake of the hugely-successful 1920 haunted house play (which grossed over US$9million during its two-year run) by Mary Roberts Rinehart, drawn from her 1908 book Continue Reading
Angel Street is the US title for Gas Light, the acclaimed 1938 play by the British dramatist Patrick Hamilton. Set in a fog-bound London in 1880, it tells the tale Continue Reading