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Tower Of Evil
''Tower of Evil'' (also known by the titles ''Horror on Snape Island'' and ''Beyond the Fog'') is a 1972 British horror film directed and written by Jim O'Connolly and starring Bryant Haliday and Jill Haworth. Plot One night, a boat reaches Snape Island. Two seamen go on shore and find a male corpse with a severed hand. They enter a lighthouse to investigate and find a female body with a severed head. They split up and find another murdered person. Then they find a young woman, Penny, hiding in a closet. Traumatized, she fatally stabs the older seaman. The other man—the boat's captain—survives. Penny is later examined by doctors. Shocked, she eventually starts talking and remembering how her friends arrived. The flashbacks make her scream. After hearing about this, scientists decide to visit Snape Island, which is loaded with gold and Phoenician treasures. The team, consisting of five men and two women, sets out on the Sea Ghost, a boat captained by the surviving seaman. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim O'Connolly
James Philip O'Connolly (23 February 1926 – December 1986), known professionally as Jim O'Connolly, was an English film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his work as associate producer of many of the ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'' B movie, B-movies made at Merton Park Studios in the early 1960s, as well directing films such as ''The Hi-Jackers'' (1963), ''Smokescreen (film), Smokescreen'' (1964), ''Berserk!'' (1967), and ''Tower of Evil'' (1972). He also directed several episodes of ITV (TV network), ITV's ''The Saint (TV series), The Saint'' between 1967 and 1969. Credits *''The Astonished Heart (film), The Astonished Heart'' (1950) – 3rd AD *''Trio (1950 film), Trio'' (1950) – assistant director *''The Lavender Hill Mob'' (1951) – 3rd AD *''The Man in the White Suit'' (1951) – 3rd AD *''Secret People (film), Secret People'' (1952) – 3rd AD *''Mandy (1952 film), Mandy'' (1952) – assistant director *''I Believe in You (film), I Believe in You'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candace Glendenning
Candace Glendenning (born 9 August 1953) is a retired English actress, known for her work in the horror film genre in the 1970s as a "scream queen". She also had a career in British television throughout the late 60s to early 80s. Career Glendenning began her career as a child actress in 1968 and made her final feature film appearance in the 1976 independent horror film, '' Satan's Slave''. This turned out to be her biggest starring role, an independent and spirited young woman who, having been orphaned in a car accident, is taken in by necromancer relatives who intend to use her as a human sacrifice. Glendenning's performance was well received by critics, but the film itself garnered mixed reviews and failed to turn a profit. She continued to steadily work in television roles throughout the 1970s. In 1980, she appeared on five episodes of the BBC series ''Flesh and Blood'', in which she played an elegant secretary. She was also reunited with Michael Jayston, who had played her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood From The Mummy's Tomb
''Blood from the Mummy's Tomb'' is a 1971 British horror film starring Andrew Keir, Valerie Leon and James Villiers. It was director Seth Holt's final film, and was loosely adapted by Christopher Wicking from Bram Stoker's 1903 novel ''The Jewel of Seven Stars''.Gary A. Smith, ''The American International Pictures Video Guide'', McFarland 2009 p 28 The film was released as the support feature to '' Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde''. Besides providing a rare leading role for Valerie Leon, the film is notable for its troubled production. It has also been called one of Hammer's best films of the 1970s. Plot An expedition led by Professor Fuchs locates the unmarked tomb of Tera, an evil Egyptian queen. A cabal of priests drugged her into a state of suspended animation and buried all of her relics with her. Fuchs is obsessed with Tera and takes her mummy and sarcophagus back to England, where he secretly recreates her tomb under his house. Four days "before her birthday", his daughter M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Carreras
Sir James "Jimmy" Enrique Carreras (30 January 1909 – 9 June 1990) was an English film producer and executive who, together with William Hinds, founded the British company Hammer Film Productions. His career spanned nearly 45 years, in multiple facets of the entertainment industry until retiring in 1972. Biography Carreras was born in London in 1909. His father, Enrique Carreras, emigrated to Britain from Spain, opening a theatre in London's Hammersmith district in 1913. The younger Carreras managed the Oxford cinema ''Manchester'' before entering the distribution side of the film industry in 1934, when he joined Exclusive Films, formed by his father Enrique and William Hinds. During World War II, Carreras saw combat and rose to Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1946, he returned as managing director of ''Exclusive Films'', where he co-produced ''Who Killed Van Loon?'' (1947). From 1949 to 1980, he was chairman of Hammer Film Productions. He oversaw the growth of the privately owne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Patterson
Lee Patterson (March 31, 1929 – February 14, 2007) was a Canadian film and television actor. British career He moved to the UK, where he specialised in playing virile American types in British films. He appeared in a number of films during the 1950s and 1960s, including ''The Good Die Young'' (1954), '' Above Us the Waves'' (1955), '' Reach for the Sky'' (1956), '' The Key Man'' (1957), ''Time Lock'' (1957) ''The Golden Disc'' (1958), '' Cat & Mouse'' (1958), ''Jack the Ripper'' (1959) and '' The 3 Worlds of Gulliver'' (1960). He left but returned to the UK to appear as hard-bitten navigation expert Captain Randolph Southard in the play version of '' The Caine Mutiny Court Martial'' at The Queen's Theatre, London, directed by Charlton Heston in 1985. American TV After moving to the USA in the early 1960s, Patterson worked mainly in television. In 1960, he was cast in two episodes of the ABC/Warner Brothers western television series '' The Alaskans'', starring Roger Moor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berserk!
''Berserk!'' is a 1967 British horror-thriller film directed by Jim O'Connolly and starring Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors and Judy Geeson. The screenplay was written by Herman Cohen and Aben Kandel. ''Berserk!'' marked Crawford's penultimate feature-film appearance. Plot Monica and Albert own a travelling circus that tours England. Monica is ringmistress, and Albert is business manager. During one performance, tightrope walker Gaspar the Great dies when his rope breaks. Police believe someone tampered with it, but they cannot say who. Monica predicts Gaspar's death will yield great publicity and bigger audiences. Albert is shocked by her insensitivity. He asks her to buy out his share of the circus, but she is unable. Instead, she replaces Gaspar with daring, handsome tightrope artist Frank Hawkins. He is renowned for performing his act over a carpet of sharp bayonets without a net. Monica is impressed. Shortly afterwards, Albert is found murdered. The troupe, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herman Cohen
Herman Cohen (August 27, 1925 – June 2, 2002) was an American producer of B-movies during the 1950s, and helped to popularize the teen horror movie genre with films like the cult classic '' I Was a Teenage Werewolf''. Career Born in Detroit, Michigan, Cohen began his career in show business as a gofer and later an usher at the Dexter Theater in Detroit, starting he was just 12. By 18, he was managing the Dexter. From there he went on to become assistant manager of the Fox Theatre (also in Detroit) — a theater featuring over 5,000 seats. After a tour of duty with the Marines, Cohen became sales manager for Columbia Pictures in the Detroit Area and moved to Hollywood to work for the publicity department of Columbia in the 1940s. In the 1950s he started producing films, first working as assistant (and later associate) producer for Jack Broder and Realart Pictures on such films as ''Bride of the Gorilla'', ''Battles of Chief Pontiac'' (featuring Lon Chaney Jr.), ''Bela Lugo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Hayers
Sidney Hayers (24 August 1921 – 8 February 2000) was a British film and television director, writer and producer. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Hayers began his career as a film editor. Among the films he directed are '' Circus of Horrors'' (1960), the occult thriller '' Night of the Eagle'' (1962), a musical '' Three Hats for Lisa'' (1965), and the adventure films '' The Southern Star'' (1969) and '' The Trap'' (1966). He made a British kitchen sink drama with ''This is My Street'' but it made little impact. ''Filmink'' magazine argued, "If you don’t think critics make a difference, just ask Sidney Hayers," comparing him with Clive Donner who also made a movie for the same studio, ''Nothing but the Best.''. "Donner is no better director than Hayers, but he got the reviews or ''Nothing But the Best''and was thus whisked off to Hollywood; Hayers toiled in B-land for the rest of his career." In British TV, his credits included ''The Persuaders!'' and '' The New Avengers''; he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Baxt
George Baxt (June 11, 1923 – June 28, 2003) was an American screenwriter and author of crime fiction, best remembered for creating the gay black detective, Pharaoh Love. Four of his novels were finalists for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery. Life and work George Leonard Baxt was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Russian/Jewish immigrants. After working for several years as an agent he moved to Britain in the late 1950s and began a new career as a writer for television and the cinema. His most notable screenplays include '' The City of the Dead'' (1960) starring Christopher Lee and three collaborations with director Sidney Hayers noted for their taut suspense and black humour: '' Circus of Horrors'' (1960), the thriller ''Payroll'' (1961) from the novel by Derek Bickerton and '' Night of the Eagle'' (1962) which he re-wrote following a draft by Charles Beaumont and Richard Matheson, though his credit was omitted from the US version which was released as ''Burn, Witch, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Stone
Marianne Stone (23 August 1922 – 21 December 2009) was an English character actress. She performed in films from the early 1940s to the late 1980s, typically playing working class parts such as barmaids, secretaries and landladies. Stone appeared in nine of the ''Carry On'' films, and took part in an episode of the '' Carry On Laughing'' television series ("The Case of the Screaming Winkles"). She also had supporting roles with comedian Norman Wisdom. Film work Stone also appeared in '' Brighton Rock'' (1947), '' Seven Days to Noon'' (1950), '' The 39 Steps'' (1959), ''Lolita'' (1962), '' Ladies Who Do'' (1963), ''Oh! What a Lovely War'' (1969) and the first two " Quatermass" films. Her most serious and arguably most dramatic role was as Lena van Broecken in three episodes of the BBC's '' Secret Army'' between 1977 and 1978. Stone, whose nickname was "Mugsie", was credited in her early films under the name "Mary Stone", and also has been credited as "Marion Stone". She was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederic Abbott
Fredric William Abbott (16 October 1928 – 10 July 1996) was an Australian stage, film and television actor. Of Irish descent, Abbott was born a fifth-generation Australian in Newtown, Sydney and was educated at Newtown Boys High School. His career began in the late 1950s at Doris Fitton's Independent Theatre in North Sydney. His TV appearances include ''Z-Cars'' (1962), '' The Avengers'' (1963), '' The Saint'' (1963-8), ''Danger Man'' (1965-6), '' The Baron'' (1966), ''The Prisoner'' (1967) episode ''Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling'', ''Man in a Suitcase'' (1968), '' Department S'' (1969), ''The Champions'' (1969), '' The Troubleshooters'' (1971), ''Special Branch'' (1974), and ''The Flying Doctors'' (1985). His film appearances include '' Fun and Games'' (1971), ''Tower of Evil'' (1972), ''Mistress Pamela'' (1974) and ''Revenge of the Pink Panther ''Revenge of the Pink Panther'' is a 1978 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards. It is the sixth film in ''The Pink Panther'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Askwith
Robin Mark Askwith (born 12 October 1950) is an English actor and singer who has appeared in a number of film, television and stage productions. Making his film debut as Keating in the film '' if....'' (1968), a role he would reprise in '' Britannia Hospital'' (1982), Askwith went on to appear in many films including ''Otley'' (1969), ''Alfred the Great'' (1969), '' Nicholas and Alexandra'' (1971) and ''The Canterbury Tales'' (1972), the horror films '' Tower of Evil'' (1972), '' The Flesh and Blood Show'' (1972) and '' Horror Hospital'' (1973) and the comedy films '' Bless This House'' (1972), ''Carry On Girls'' (1973) and '' No Sex Please, We're British'' (1973). However it was his role as Timothy Lea in the '' Confessions'' film series that would make him a household name. Askwith has appeared on television as Fred Pickering in '' Beryl's Lot'' (1973–1975), Dave Deacon in '' Bottle Boys'' (1984–1985) and Ritchie de Vries in ''Coronation Street'' (2013–2014). In 1975, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
