Once in 50 Years Suspense Like This! (May, 1958)

 

 

 

 

 
Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Edward Small Productions :: United Artists / EP: Edward Small / P: Arthur Hornblow Jr. / D: Billy Wilder / W: Lawrence B. Marcus, Billy Wilder, Harry Kurnitz, Agatha Christie (novel) / C: Russell Harlan / E: Daniel Mandell / M: Matty Malneck / S: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Una O’Connor

Valerie (1957) Hal R. Makelim Productions :: United Artists / P: Hal R. Makelim / D: Gerd Oswald / W: Laurence Heath, Emmett Murphy / C: Ernest Laszlo / E: David Bretherton / M: Albert Glasser / S: Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel, Peter Walker, John Wengraf

1001 Screams! It’ll Scare You Stiff! (October, 1951)

 

 

 

 

 

Apologies to one and all for the near extinction-level-lack of content at The Morgue lately. But between the annual September Sabbatical and the massive Hubrisween Review Marathon at the Brewery there just wasn’t time. Hopefully, that’ll change now that we’re moving on to November. Regardless, have a Happy Hallowe’en, Boils and Ghouls and as my treat to you, a wonderful set of ads that I’ve been sitting on for almost two whole years!

The Strange Door (1951) Universal International Pictures / P: Ted Richmond / D: Joseph Pevney / W: Jerry Sackheim, Robert Louis Stevenson (novel) / C: Irving Glassberg / E: Edward Curtiss / M: Joseph Gershenson / S: Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest, Richard Wyler, Alan Napier, Michael Pate

In Memoriam :: Rod Taylor :: You Will See the Future BEFORE it Happens! (October, 1960)

 

 

 

 

 

Stud.
Rod Taylor
(1930-2014)

Other Points of Interest:

More Rod Taylor ads at the Morgue.

The Time Machine (1960) George Pal Productions :: Galaxy Films Inc. :: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / P: George Pal / D: George Pal / W: David Duncan, H.G. Wells (novel) / C: Paul Vogel / E: George Tomasini / M: Russell Garcia / S: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot, Whit Bissell

Second Run Showcase :: Supreme Suspense with Every Ticking Second! (May, 1949)

 

 

 
The Big Clock (1948) Paramount Pictures / P: Richard Maibaum / D: John Farrow / W: Jonathan Latimer / C: John F. Seitz / E: LeRoy Stone / M: Victor Young / S: Ray Milland, Maureen O’Sullivan, Elsa Lanchester, Charles Laughton, Henry Morgan

The Kansan (1943) Harry Sherman Productions :: United Artists / P: Harry Sherman / AP: Lewis J. Rachmil / D: George Archainbaud / W: Harold Shumate, Frank Gruber (novel) / C: Russell Harlan / E: Carroll Lewis, Sherman A. Rose / M: Gerard Carbonara / S: Richard Dix, Jane Wyatt, Albert Dekker, Victor Jory, Robert Armstrong

For the Love of Film Noir :: A Kiss that Closed Her Eyes to Murder! A Love that Kept Him Chained in Dread! (February, 1945)

 

 

 

 

 

This post is part of my rehash and continuation of the For the Love of Film Noir Blogathon originally held back in February of 2011. Thus and so, we will be heading down the rain-soaked streets and neon-drenched back alleys of Noirville again for the entire month of March. And along with all the old material migrating over from the old site, we’ll also be scattering around a lot of new stuff as well. Also of note, we’ll be posting them in chronological order to show how the genre evolved and progressed from the 1940′s through the late ’50s. And as an added bonus, I’ll be posting some vintage adverts to stuff I’ve always associated with the genre — cigarettes, booze and fashionable ladies.

The Suspect (1944) Universal Pictures / EP: Howard Benedict / P: Islin Auster / D: Robert Siodmak / W: Bertram Millhauser, Arthur T. Horman, James Ronald (novel) / C: Paul Ivano / E: Arthur Hilton / S: Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Dean Harens, Stanley Ridges, Rosalind Ivan, Henry Daniell, Molly Lamont Molly Lamont

A Surging Rhapsody of Terror! (April, 1933)

 

 

 

 
Island of Lost Souls (1932) Paramount Pictures / D: Erle C. Kenton / W: Waldemar Young, Philip Wylie, H.G. Wells (novel) / C: Karl Struss / M: Arthur Johnston, Sigmund Krumgold / S: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Kathleen Burke, Leila Hyams, Arthur Hohl, Stanley Fields, Bela Lugosi