Archive for True Crime
I’ll Take Totally Busted for $500, Alex :: October, 1960
Posted in 1960-1969, Vintage News Photos with tags Charles Van Doren, Eltrida Van Nardoff, Hank Bloomgarden, Quiz Shows, Scandals, True Crime, TV on July 1, 2018 by WB KelsoTold in Blood! Cosa Nostra Story in 2 Shocking Motion Pictures! (November, 1963)
Posted in 1960-1969, Movie Ads with tags Al Capone, Alan Austin, Allied Artists, Bio-Pic, Crime, Double Feature, Ernest Borgnine, Fay Spain, Gimmicks and Promotions, James Gregory, John H. Burrows, John Marley, Leonard Ackerman, Martin Balsam, Melodrama, Nehemiah Persoff, No Place Like Homicide, Pay or Die!, Richard Wilson, Rod Steiger, The Sky Above The Mud Below, True Crime, Vito Scotti, Zohra Lampert on April 14, 2016 by WB Kelso
Al Capone (1959) Allied Artists Pictures / P: Leonard Ackerman, John H. Burrows / D: Richard Wilson / W: Malvin Wald, Henry F. Greenberg / C: Lucien Ballard / E: Walter Hannemann / M: David Raksin / S: Rod Steiger, Martin Balsam, Fay Spain, James Gregory, Nehemiah Persoff
Pay or Die! (1960) Allied Artists / P: Richard Wilson / D: Richard Wilson / W: Richard Collins, Bertram Millhauser / C: Lucien Ballard / E: Walter Hannemann / M: David Raksin / S: Ernest Borgnine, Zohra Lampert, Alan Austin, Vito Scotti, John Marley
True Crime :: Death on a Doorstep (September, 1954)
Posted in 1950-1959, Vintage News Photos with tags Hostage Situation, True Crime on July 12, 2015 by WB KelsoTrue Crime :: Texas “Bluebeard” Fed Victims to Alligators.
Posted in 1930-1939, Vintage News Photos with tags Hazel Brown, Joe Ball, Murder, True Crime on July 2, 2014 by WB Kelso
And here, I believe, we have the inspiration for Tobe Hooper’s Eaten Alive.
Stalk ānā SlashCinema :: Proto-Slashers :: … And He Still Lurks the Streets of Texarkana Today! (February, 1977)
Posted in 1970-1979, Movie Ads with tags American International, Charles B. Pierce, Charles B. Pierce Film Productions, Docudrama, Mystery, Psychos / Slashers, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Stalk 'n' SlashCinema, Suspense, The Town that Dreaded Sundown, True Crime on October 5, 2013 by WB Kelso
The Town that Dreaded Sundown was Texarkana mini-movie mogul Charles B. Pierce’s follow up to his wildly successful crypto-zoological expose, The Legend of Boggy Creek. And cashing in on his own pseudo-documentary template, here, Pierce tells the tale of the Phantom Killer, who murdered five people in the late 1940’s and was never caught. And thanks to some savvy TV-spots and some striking promotional art, the image of the masked killer left a lasting impression on many children of the 1970’s, even though Pierce basically chucked out the facts and fabricated most of the story, including the most unique kill in screen history, helping to usher in the era of found-object killers, when our Phantom takes out a victim with a trombone.
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) Charles B. Pierce Film Productions :: American International Pictures / EP: Samuel Z. Arkoff / P: Charles B. Pierce / D: Charles B. Pierce / W: Earl E. Smith / C: Jim Roberson / E: Tom Boutross / M: Jaime Mendoza-Nava / S: Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, Dawn Wells, Jimmy Clem, Charles B. Pierce
For the Love of Film Noir :: As It Happened in Real Life! (August, 1947)
Posted in 1940-1949, Movie Ads with tags 20th Century Fox, Arthur Kennedy, Boomerang, Cara Williams, Crime, Dana Andrews, Ed Begley, Elia Kazan, Film Noir, For the Love of Film Noir, Jane Wyatt, Jewels of Brandenburg, Lee J. Cobb, Louis De Rochemont, Meldrama, Micheline Cheirel, Richard Travis, Sam Levene, Thriller, True Crime on March 31, 2013 by WB Kelso
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, weāll also be scattering around a lot of new stuff as well. Also of note, weāll be posting them in chronological order to show how the genre evolved and progressed from the 1940ā²s through the late ā50s. And as an added bonus, Iāll be posting some vintage adverts to stuff Iāve always associated with the genre ā cigarettes, booze and fashionable ladies.
Boomerang (1947) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation / EP: Darryl F. Zanuck / P: Louis De Rochemont / D: Elia Kazan / W: Richard Murphy, Fulton Oursler / C: Norbert Brodine / E: Harmon Jones / M: David Buttolph / S: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Cara Williams, Arthur Kennedy, Sam Levene, Ed Begley
Random Drive-In Mash-Up :: For the Sake of Your Sanity, Pray It Isn’t True! (July, 1973)
Posted in 1970-1979, Movie Ads with tags Clive Revill, Gayle Hunnicutt, George Kennedy, Henry Fonda, Horror, James H. Nicholson, John Hough, Mystery, Pamela Franklin, Richard Fleischer, Richard Matheson, Roddy McDowall, Supernatural / Ghosts, The Boston Strangler, The Legend of Hell House, Tony Curtis, True Crime on June 5, 2012 by WB Kelso
Other Points of Interest:
Full film review of The Legend of Hell House at 3B Theater.
Poster campaign for The Legend of Hell House at the Archive.
The Legend of Hell House (1973) Academy Pictures Corporation :: 20th Century Fox / EP: James H. Nicholson / P: Albert Fennell, Norman T. Herman / D: John Hough / S: Richard Matheson / C: Alan Hume / E: Geoffrey Foot / M: Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson / S: Roddy McDowall, Gayle Hunnicutt, Pamela Franklin, Clive Revill, Roland Culver, Michael Gough
The Boston Strangler (1968) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation / P: Robert Fryer / AP: James Cresson / D: Richard Fleischer / W: Edward Anhalt, Gerold Frank (novel) / C: Richard H. Kline / E: Marion Rothman / M: Lionel Newman / S: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, Mike Kellin, Murray Hamilton, William Marshall, Sally Kellerman
A Hoodlum Paradise of Sin and Crime! (January, 1956)
Posted in 1950-1959, Movie Ads with tags Allied Artists, Crime, David Diamond, Film Noir, John McIntire, Kathryn Grant, Phil Karlson, Richard Kiley, Samuel Bischoff, Social Commentary, The Phenix City Story, True Crime, Walter Mirisch on March 27, 2016 by WB KelsoThe Phenix City Story (1955) Allied Artists Pictures / EP: Walter Mirisch / P: Samuel Bischoff, David Diamond / D: Phil Karlson / W: Crane Wilbur, Daniel Mainwaring / C: Harry Neumann / E: George White / M: Harry Sukman / S: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant, Edward Andrews, Lenka Peterson, Biff McGuire
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