In The Outfit, John Flynn, 1973. Of all the great performers prominent in American cinema in the 1970s, Karen Black embodied the most pleasing paradox: she had a screen presence…
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Á double tour, Claude Chabrol, 1959 Les bonnes femmes, Chabrol, 1960 Une belle fille comme moi, François Truffaut, 1972
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From Harryhausen's unfinished Evolution of the World, late '30s to 1940. Featured on the indispensible DVD set Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection. I cannot speak for everyone who fell…
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The great Durbin in Robert Siodmak's 1944 masterwork Christmas Holiday, which I wrote about at greater length here. Like Garbo, like Brigitte Helm, not quite like Luise Rainer (who is…
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When I composed this obit to put in the MSN Movies file, I did so hoping it wouldn't have to go up for a good long while. I didn't get…
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Diana Lorys in Gritos en la noche (The Awful Dr. Orloff), 1964. Shirley Eaton in The Girl From Rio, 1969. Janine Reynaud in Succubus, 1969. Dennis Price and Maria Rohm…
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