Archive for Vera Miles
Random Drive-In Mash-Up :: An Evening With the Duke (October, 1960)
Posted in 1960-1969, Movie Ads with tags Abbott and Costello, At War With the Army, Comedy, Dean Martin, Drive In, Geraldine Page, Hicksploitation, High Octane, Hondo, Jack and the Beanstalk, Jeffrey Hunter, Jerry Lewis, John Ford, John Wayne, Laurel & Hardy, Martin & Lewis, Road Racers, Robert Mitchum, The Golden Age of Comedy, The Searchers, Thunder Road, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Westerns on January 9, 2015 by WB KelsoStalk ‘n’ SlashCinema :: 22 Years Later, Norman Bates is Coming Home. (May, 1983)
Posted in 1980-1989, Movie Ads with tags Anthony Perkins, Dennis Franz, Madman, Meg Tilly, Melodrama, Multiplex, Psycho Franchise, Psycho II, Psychos / Slashers, Richard Franklin, Robert Loggia, Spacehunter Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Stalk 'n' SlashCinema, The Outsiders, Thriller, Universal Pictures, Vera Miles on October 26, 2013 by WB Kelso
If you believe the rumors, Robert Bloch, unhappy with the state of formulaic horror films, penned a novel, Psycho II (1982), which showed Norman Bates escaping from an asylum so he can head to Hollywood and knock off those filming a bio-pic based on his homicidal exploits because it wasn’t hewing close enough to what really happened (– but not before he makes a pitstop to take out Lila and Sam Loomis, who married after the grisly events of Psycho, which, you may recall, Bloch wrote the screenplay for.) This, in turn, in a true testament to the box-office results of the Stalk ‘n’ Slash boom that Bloch was aping, found Universal resurrecting the Psycho franchise to cash in on both. And to their credit, not only did they get the rights from Paramount, they also managed to talk Tony Perkins into reprising the role of Norman Bates, and the movie turned out much better than Bloch’s novel, which I found to be pretty freakin’ terrible.
Psycho II (1983) Oak :: Universal Pictures / EP: Bernard Schwartz / P: Hilton A. Green / D: Richard Franklin / W: Tom Holland / C: Dean Cundey / E: Andrew London / M: Jerry Goldsmith / S: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Dennis Franz
Now Showing :: August, 1965
Posted in 1960-1969, Movie Ads, Now Showing with tags Brian Keith, Cheryl Miller, In Harm's Way, Jill Hayworth, Kirk Douglas, Otto Preminger, The Monkey's Uncle, Those Calloways, Vera Miles, Walt Disney on February 8, 2013 by WB KelsoFor the Love of Hitchcock :: A New and Altogether Different Screen Excitement! (July, 1960)
Posted in 1960-1969, Movie Ads with tags Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Perkins, For the Love of Hitchcock, Gimmicks and Promotions, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam, Psycho, Psychos / Slashers, Thriller, Vera Miles on May 17, 2012 by WB Kelso
“It’s not like my mother is a maniac or a raving thing.”
“She just goes a little mad sometimes.”
“We all go a little mad sometimes.”
“Haven’t you?”
Other Points of Interest:
Full film review of Psycho at the Brewery.
This post is part of the For the Love of Film Blogathon, a new age telethon to raise funds for The National Film Preservation Foundation to help bring The White Shadow (a/k/a White Shadows), an early silent film that a certain master of suspense did just about everything for except direct — assistant director, screenwriter, film editor, production designer, art director, and set decorator, to the streaming masses and help defray the costs of adding a new musical soundtrack.
There’s no donation too small, folks. So please, click on the link above, wherever you see it this week and give what you can. Thanks. For more information, check out the group’s Facebook page. Big thanks, as always, to Ferdy on Film, The Self-Styled Siren and This Island Rod for throwing such a wide net for contributors. Until tomorrow, then, I bid you all a good ev-ah-ning.
I’m participating. Are you?
Psycho (1960) Shamley Productions :: Paramount Pictures / P: Alfred Hitchcock / D: Alfred Hitchcock / W: Joseph Stefano, Robert Bloch (novel) / C: John L. Russell / E: George Tomasini / M: Bernard Hermann / S: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam
For the Love of Hitchcock :: All the More Exciting Because All its Shadowed Twists and Turns are True! (February, 1957)
Posted in 1950-1959, Movie Ads with tags Alfred Hitchcock, For the Love of Hitchcock, Gimmicks and Promotions, Henry Fonda, Suspense, The Wrong Man, True Crime, Vera Miles on May 16, 2012 by WB Kelso
“An innocent man has nothing to fear — remember that.”
This post is part of the For the Love of Film Blogathon, a new age telethon to raise funds for The National Film Preservation Foundation to help bring The White Shadow (a/k/a White Shadows), an early silent film that a certain master of suspense did just about everything for except direct — assistant director, screenwriter, film editor, production designer, art director, and set decorator, to the streaming masses and help defray the costs of adding a new musical soundtrack.
There’s no donation too small, folks. So please, click on the link above, wherever you see it this week and give what you can. Thanks. For more information, check out the group’s Facebook page. Big thanks, as always, to Ferdy on Film, The Self-Styled Siren and This Island Rod for throwing such a wide net for contributors. Until tomorrow, then, I bid you all a good ev-ah-ning.
I’m participating. Are you?
The Wrong Man (1956) Warner Bros. / P: Alfred Hitchcock / AP: Herbert Coleman / D: Alfred Hitchcock / W: Maxwell Anderson, Angus MacPhail / C: Robert Burks / E: George Tomasini / M: Bernard Herrmann / S: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone, Charles Cooper
The William Castle Blogathon :: Treachery Sends Apache Hordes on Vengeance Warpath! (February, 1954)
Posted in 1950-1959, Movie Ads with tags Columbia Pictures, Edward Nassour, For Men Only, Kathleen Hughes, Lippert Pictures, Margaret Field, Melodrama, Paul Henreid, Robert Sherman, Russell Johnson, Sam Katzman, Social Commentary, The Conquest of Cochise, The Tall Lie, The William Castle Blogathon, Thriller, Vera Miles, Westerns, William Castle on July 30, 2013 by WB KelsoBack out west we go for some more over-saturated Technicolor misadventures in Castle’s The Conquest of Cochise. 3D was already out and Cinemascope was in. (See it in all its Vast Vision Glory!) However, from the reviews I’ve read about this tale of land swindles and broken treaties the only thing that stuck was the torture scenes in the last reel, meaning Castle was already well on his way toward the next phase of his cinematic career.
This post is part of Goregirl’s Dungeon and The Last Drive-In’s The William Castle Blogathan, a week long tribute to the King of Schlock. Follow the linkage, Boils & Ghouls. It’s gonna be a great week. And stick around, as we’ll be showcasing Castle’s film career from its fairly normal beginnings through it psychotronic glory days. Stay tuned!
The Conquest of Cochise (1953) Columbia Pictures / P: Sam Katzman / AP: Herbert B. Leonard / D: William Castle / W: Arthur Lewis, DeVallon Scott / C: Henry Freulich / E: Al Clark / M: Mischa Bakaleinikoff / S: John Hodiak, Robert Stack, Joy Page, Rico Alaniz, Edward Colmans
The Tall Lie a/k/a For Men Only (1953) H-N Productions :: Lippert Pictures / P: Paul Henreid, Edward Nassour / D: Paul Henreid / W: Herbert H. Margolis, Lou Morheim / C: Paul Ivano / E: Sherman A. Rose / M: Hoyt Curtin / S: Paul Henreid, Kathleen Hughes, Vera Miles, Margaret Field, Robert Sherman, Russell Johnson
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