Postcards From Shadowland: no. 15

Anna Magnani in Tennessee William’s The Rose Tattoo (1955) directed by Daniel Mann

director Jean Cocteau’s The Blood of the Poet (1932) starring Enrique Rivero

Lillian Gish stars in Broken Blossoms in D. W. Griffith’s (1919) visual poetry

Kongo (1932) Lupe Velez torments Virginia Bruce in this remake of West of Zanzibar (1928)

Guiletta Masina is brilliant in Juliet of the Spirits (1965) Fellini’s masterpiece oneric journey

director Kaneto ShindÃ´’s Kuroneko (1968) a beautifully disturbing ghost story

Anita Louise as Titania Queen of the Faeries in A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1935

Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider in The Last Tango in Paris 1972

Arthur Franz, Anthony Quinn and Carol Ohmart in The Wild Party 1956

Death Takes a Holiday (1934) Katherine Alexander as Alda with Fredric March as Prince Sirki/Death

Richard Fleischer directs Tony Curtis in The Boston Strangler 1968

Part of several segments of this classical ghost story, Alberto Cavalcanti directs Michael Redgrave in perhaps one of the most famous frightening tales in “The Ventriloquist’s Dummy” Dead of Night (1945)

Peter Breck is attacked by Nymphomaniacs in Sam Fuller’s Shock Corridor (1963)

Film noir thriller Brighton Rock (1947) starring Richard Attenborough as Pinkie Brown co-stars with Carol Marsh

John Ford’s epic western drama -My Darling Clementine 1946 starring Henry Fonda and Linda Darnell

Charles Busch, left, and Peter Francis James in a 1993 Classic Theater Company production of "The Maids" (1933) in which the sisters were men in drag