Tag: Christopher Lee

The Hound of the Baskervilles – Hammer Style

The Hound of the Baskervilles – Hammer Style

August 19, 2016 | By

Tied to Twilight Time’s fine Blu-ray edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) are three related Hammer Films reviews – the bank heist Cash On Demand (1961), The Pirates of Blood River (1962), and The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964).

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BR: Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959)

BR: Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959)

August 19, 2016 | By

As noted by film historians David Del Valle and Steven Peros in the first of two commentary tracks that adorn this near-perfect Twilight Time Blu-ray release, Hammer Films’ evolution to a horror icon was gradual, shifting into full gear during the sixties and seventies, but during the 1950s and early 1960s the British studio was still putting out suspense films, crime dramas, and in the case of The Hound of the Baskervilles, the first of a franchise that never materialized…

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DVD: Devil-Ship Pirates, The (1964)

DVD: Devil-Ship Pirates, The (1964)

August 19, 2016 | By

Never one to allowing a genre to go unsaturated, Hammer Films wrangled producer-writer Jimmy Sangster to concoct a pirate tale for star Christopher Lee, with the end results feeling an awful lot like a variation on the writer’s prior swashbuckling credit…

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DVD: Pirates of Blood River, The (1962)

DVD: Pirates of Blood River, The (1962)

August 19, 2016 | By

Although best known as the prime purveyors of Britain’s gothic and classic monster films, Hammer Film also indulged in a few unrelated genres – crime, suspense, and pirate (!)…

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A Christopher Lee Quartet: Scream and Scream Again, Count Dracula, Cuadecuc vampir, and Umbracle

A Christopher Lee Quartet: Scream and Scream Again, Count Dracula, Cuadecuc vampir, and Umbracle

March 25, 2016 | By

Here’s a quartet of films starring Christopher Lee: Gordon Hessler’s Scream and Scream Again (Twilight Time), Jess Franco’s Count Dracula (Severin), and two rare experimental films by Pere Portabello – Cuadecucu, vampir (1971) + Umbracle (1970).

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