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Dark Intruder
''Dark Intruder'' is a 1965 horror film made for TV that was released theatrically, and starring Leslie Nielsen, Mark Richman and Judi Meredith. The film is set in San Francisco in 1890 concerning playboy sleuth and occult expert Brett Kingsford (Nielsen). This atmospheric black-and-white film is only 59 minutes long, was directed by Harvey Hart, and was the pilot for a failed television series called ''The Black Cloak'' and was written by Barré Lyndon. ''The Black Cloak'' was to be produced by Alfred Hitchcock's television company, Shamley Productions, which also produced '' Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', '' The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'' and ''Suspicion'', as well as the film '' Psycho''. When the pilot was deemed too scary and violent for mid-sixties television, NBC sold it to Universal Pictures, where Hitchcock was under contract. Universal re-edited the pilot into a feature film and distributed it to drive-in theaters as the second feature to a double bill that also included ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Hart
Harvey Hart (August 30, 1928 – November 21, 1989) was a Canadian television and film director and a television producer. Hart studied at the University of Toronto before being hired by the CBC in 1952.Rist, Peter Harry (2001). "Harvey Hart", in Guide to the Cinema(s) of Canada'. Edited by Rist. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. . pp. 91-92. For them he created over 30 television productions, among them several episodes of an anthology series, ''Festival'', like ''Home of the Brave'' (1961) and ''The Luck of Ginger Coffey'' (1961), adaptations of a 1946 play and 1960 novel. In 1963 he left the CBC and moved to the United States, where, in the following years, he directed episodes for TV series such as '' The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'' and ''Star Trek'', as well as theatrical features, including ''Bus Riley's Back in Town'' (1965) and '' The Sweet Ride'' (1968). He moved back to Toronto in 1970 where he directed several feature films, including '' Fortune and Men's Eyes'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psycho (1960 Film)
''Psycho'' is a 1960 American psychological horror thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam. The plot centers on an encounter between on-the-run embezzler Marion Crane (Leigh) and shy motel proprietor Norman Bates (Perkins) and its aftermath, in which a private investigator (Balsam), Marion's lover Sam Loomis (Gavin), and her sister Lila (Miles) investigate her disappearance. ''Psycho'' was seen as a departure from Hitchcock's previous film '' North by Northwest'', as it was filmed on a lower budget in black-and-white by the crew of his television series ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents''. The film was initially considered controversial and received mixed reviews, but audience interest and outstanding box-office returns prompted a major critical re-evaluation. ''Psycho' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1965 Horror Films
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American Horror Television Films
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1965 Television Films
Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson, sworn in for a full term as President of the United States. ** Indonesian President Sukarno announces the withdrawal of the Indonesian government from the United Nations. * January 30 – The Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill, state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place in London with the largest assembly of dignitaries in the world until the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II. * February 4 – Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoism, Lysenkoist theories are now treated as pseudoscience. * February 12 ** The African and Malagasy Republic, Malagasy Common Organization ('; OCA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Guide
TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news. The company sold its print magazine division, TV Guide Magazine LLC, in 2008. Corporate history Prototype The prototype of what would become '' TV Guide Magazine'' was developed by Lee Wagner (1910–1993), who was the circulation director of MacFadden Publications in New York City in the 1930s – and later, by the time of the predecessor publication's creation, for Cowles Media Company – distributing magazines focusing on movie celebrities. In 1948, Wagner printed New York City area listings magazine ''The TeleVision Guide'', which was first released on local newsstands on June 14 of that year. Silent film star Gloria Swanson, who then starred of the short-lived variety series ''The Gloria Swanson Hour'', appeared on the cover of the first issue. Wagner later began publishing regional editions of ''The TeleVision ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Maltin
Leonard Michael Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is an American film critic and film historian, as well as an author of several mainstream books on cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives. He is perhaps best known for his book of film capsule reviews, '' Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide'', published annually from 1969 to 2014. Early life Maltin was born in New York City, the son of singer Jacqueline ( née Gould; 1923–2012) and Aaron Isaac Maltin (1915–2002), a lawyer and immigration judge. Maltin was raised in a Jewish family in Teaneck, New Jersey. He graduated from Teaneck High School in 1968. Career Maltin began his writing career at age 15, writing for '' Classic Images'' and editing and publishing his own fanzine, ''Film Fan Monthly'', dedicated to films from the golden age of Hollywood. After earning a journalism degree at New York University, Maltin went on to publish articles in a variety of film journals, newspapers, and magazines, including '' Variet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Quinn
William Tyrell Quinn (1912 – April 29, 1994) was an American film actor. Quinn was born in 1912 in New York. He performed with his older brothers in a children's act in vaudeville. Quinn began working on radio around 1934. He starred as a detective on ''Little Herman'' on ABC in the late 1940s. Other radio programs on which he appeared included '' Counterspy'', '' The FBI in Peace and War'', '' Gangbusters'', and ''Mr. District Attorney''. Quinn appeared in more than 150 acting roles over seven decades, starting in the 1920s in silent films and ending in 1989 in '' Star Trek V: The Final Frontier''. He was a regular on ''Archie Bunker's Place''. His other television roles include '' The Odd Couple'', in which he played the recurring role of the roommates' physician, Dr. Melnitz; ''The Rifleman'' as Sweeney, the bartender; ''McHale's Navy''; and Mary's father in ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show''. In 1971, he was featured in the Universal Pictures movie '' How to Frame a Figg'' sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Brocco
Carl Peter Brocco (January 16, 1903 – December 20, 1992) was an American screen and stage actor. He appeared in over 300 credits, notably ''Spartacus'' (1960) and '' One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' (1975), during his career spanning over 60 years. Early years Brocco was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Brocco. Career Brocco acted on stage with the Walter Hampton Players. He debuted on Broadway in ''Centuries'' (1927); he also performed in ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' (1938). Brocco appeared as a criminal type in several episodes of '' Adventures of Superman''. He holds the distinction of having been killed off in two of them, a relative rarity for villains in the series. In the first, ''The Secret of Superman'', he deduces that Kent is Superman, but is killed in a police shootout soon after. In ''The Clown Who Cried'', he falls off a building and Superman is unable to save him. He also appeared as "The Spectre" in ''The Phantom Ring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaughn Taylor (actor)
Vaughn Everett Taylor (February 22, 1910 – April 26, 1983) was an American actor. He became known for his roles in many anthology series, including ''Kraft Television Theatre'' (1947–1957) and '' Robert Montgomery Presents'' (1950–1954). He also appeared in films such as ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' (1958) and '' Psycho'' (1960). Early years Taylor was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a graduate of Northeastern University and the Leland Powers School of Elocution, Boston. Instead of pursuing a career in accounting, he tried summer stock theatre in Maine. After army service in World War II, he broke into TV. His wife Ruth Moss was a radio personality and Broadway actress. Military service After joining the Army as a private, Taylor became an officer via officer candidate school. Later he joined military intelligence and produced instructional plays about aspects of military intelligence to educate students from the Army. Stage After his experience in summer st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Klemperer
Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) was an American actor. He was known for playing Colonel Wilhelm Klink on the CBS television sitcom ''Hogan's Heroes'', for which he twice won the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards in 1968 and 1969. After serving in the United States Army during World War II, he began performing on the Broadway stage in 1947. Klemperer then appeared in several films during his early acting career such as ''The Wrong Man'' (1956), ''Judgment at Nuremberg'' (1961), and ''Houseboat'' (1958), and numerous roles on television shows such as ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' (1956), ''Perry Mason'' (1957), ''Maverick'' (1957), ''Gunsmoke'' (1958), ''The Untouchables'' (1960), and '' Have Gun Will Travel'' (1961), prior to his ''Hogan's Heroes'' role. Early life Klemperer was born in Cologne, Germany, to a musical family but he said that he had little musical aptitude. His father was renowned conduct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack The Ripper
Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in the autumn of 1888. In both criminal case files and the contemporaneous journalistic accounts, the killer was called the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron. Attacks ascribed to Jack the Ripper typically involved female prostitutes who lived and worked in the slums of the East End of London. Their throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations. The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to speculation that their killer had some anatomical or surgical knowledge. Rumours that the murders were connected intensified in September and October 1888, and numerous letters were received by media outlets and Scotland Yard from individuals purporting to be the murderer. The name "Jack the Ripper" originated in the "Dear Boss letter" written by an individual claiming to be the murderer, which was disseminated in the press. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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