BR: Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
After going solo with their first Sherwood Forest entry, Hammer Films partnered with series originator Columbia for Sword of Sherwood Forest, and build on the success of ITV’s …
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The Hound of the Baskervilles – Hammer Style
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).
BR: Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959)
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…
DVD: Cash On Demand (1961)
During the 1950s and early 1960s, Britain’s Hammer Films produced blazing colour horror movies based on classic Universal monsters – vampires, mummies, werewolves – and chilling occult thrillers, but amid these sexier productions were suspense-dramas grounded in reality…
BR: 1984 / Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Comparative review / essay on the 5 attempts to dramatize George Orwell’s dystopian sci-fi classic 1984: the 1953 radio play, 1953 Studio One teleplay, 1954 BBC teleplay, 1956 film version, and the 1984 film version recently released on Blu by Twilight Time…
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