*contains spoilers The philosophy of the Allies during World War Two was ‘a good Nazi is a dead Nazi’ but strangely enough amid all the anti-Semitic hate as well as hatred of the Communists by the Nazi Fascists in the years leading up to World War Two, there was an almost sympathetic portrayal of a…
Read more The Cult of ‘a Good Nazi’ in Hitlerjunge Quex (1933)
*contains spoilers “For the most part we were normal kids like anybody else,” said child actor Marty Udvarnoky (1961-) who along with his twin brother Chris (1961-2010 kidney disease) starred in director Robert Mulligan’s (1925-2008 heart disease) take on childhood insanity The Other (1972). The movie was based on a book by actor Tom Tryon…
Read more The Cult of Childhood Insanity in The Other (1972)
*contains spoilers “It is written in your stars you’ll be a queen,” said the actor Sabu (1924-63 heart attack) to the beautiful Maria Montez (1912-51 heart attack and drowning) in the movie Arabian Nights (1942) … In reality, Montez was ambitious and had a sense of destiny. She also was heavily into astrology and Arabian…
Read more The Cult of Actress Maria Montez in Siren of Atlantis (1949)
*contains spoilers Who was Lord Rochester (1647-80 venereal disease, liver disease and kidney failure), the main character of the Restoration set historical movie The Libertine? Played by Johnny Depp (1963-), who is near perfect in the role, his name was John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester… He died prematurely and his works, despite being of…
Read more The Cult of Pornographic Prose in The Libertine (2004)
*contains spoilers The name of Peter Quint strikes fear into some who hear it. The name is that of some kind of monster… Or it is just that of a course and perhaps highly sexualised man of lowly station who is just a corrupter of virtue and innocence… When I hear the name of Peter…
Read more The Spectre of Peter Quint in The Innocents (1961)
*spoiler alert The story of Klaatu, the alien from another world was first told in the original version of The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and was remade with the same title in 2008. The movies are a cautionary tale and the first one in particular is an excellent one and nicely observed from…
Read more The Planet’s Lost Opportunity in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
*contains spoilers Am I a child of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945 suicide)? Or am I born from his DNA harvested back in the early to mid-1930s? Was it harvested by Allies with a future plan or by Nazi scientists themselves? Or am I child of Elvis Presley (1934-77 heart attack) born also from Adolf’s DNA and…
Read more The Strange Case and Delusion of The Boys from Brazil (1978)
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