Is This Trip Necessary? was the 12th episode of the fifth and final season of Get Smart, which originally aired on 12 December 1969. It was written by Dale McRaven Continue Reading
Narrated by Vincent Price (English version) and Stefano Sibaldi (Italian version), this 86-minute travelogue, edited in the same shockumentary style of 1962’s Mondo Cane, was directed by Romolo Marcellini and Continue Reading
Did you know the score to Roger Corman’s 1964 horror classic The Masque of the Red Death by British composer David Lee is available from Quartet Records. Here’s what they Continue Reading
In this striking 1960 elaboration on Edgar Allan Poe’s 1839 short story, Philip Winthrop (Mark Damon) arrives at the crumbling New England mansion of the Usher family to seek out Continue Reading
American International Pictures’ Corman-Poe film cycle remains the finest interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe’s literary heritage on the big screen, and it reached its opus with 1965’s The Tomb of Continue Reading
This period comedy drama starred Elvis Presley (in one of his final acting roles), several catchy songs (Signs of the Zodiac being my favourite) and a great supporting cast (including Continue Reading
‘Another day to live through… Is that all it has been since I inherited the world? Three years? Seems like a hundred million’ Did you know that The Last Man Continue Reading
On 15 March 1960, Vincent Price guest starred on The Red Skelton Show in which Skelton’s alter-ego Freddie the Freeloader found an original DaVinci painting in the city dump. This Continue Reading
The dolls in this 1967 Spain/German AIP exploitation story about modern-day white slavery are a group of lingerie-clad beauties – 12 or so, not 1000 – being held captive in Continue Reading
To celebrate the UK Blu-ray release of the Corman-Price-Shakespeare horror, here’s 20 frightfully fun facts you should know… (1) Roger Corman had already scored much success with four Edgar Continue Reading
