*contains spoilers Actor Martin Kosleck (1904-94 after surgery) was a European actor who fled the Nazis in the early 1930s. He made a mark for himself playing evil Nazis during World War Two in the United States and then seemed to be typecast as the villain. He was well known for playing Nazi propaganda leader…
Read more The Cult of Actor Martin Kosleck in The Flesh Eaters (1964)
*contains spoilers It was this era that she made her film appearances including The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) and The Naked Gun 331/3: The Final Insult (1994). The first one is a blink and miss it appearance which played well on her sexy appearance. She used Xanax and cocaine to get through an appearance on the…
Read more The Cult of Performer Anna Nicole Smith in Skyscraper (1996) Part Two
*contains spoilers The tragic life of actress and model Anna Nicole Smith (1967-2007 multiple drug overdose) is probably not meant to be celebrated but this cult personality made one movie which encapsulates herself and Marilyn Monroe on steroids and I mean low budget steroids. That film is the still disappointing Skyscraper (1996). Smith only made…
Read more The Cult of Performer Anna Nicole Smith in Skyscraper (1996) Part One
*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 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)
*contains spoilers Writer Daphne du Maurier (1907-89 heart failure) wrote a kind of loose trilogy of novels set in Cornwall in South West England which were turned into movies and they were Jamaica Inn (1939), Rebecca (1940) and Frenchman’s Creek (1944). Alfred Hitchcock directed two of these titles – Jamaica Inn and Rebecca – while…
Read more Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock’s Cornish Movie Trilogy
