Anna Magnani in Tennessee William’s The Rose Tattoo (1955) directed by Daniel Manndirector Jean Cocteau’s The Blood of the Poet (1932) starring Enrique RiveroLillian Gish stars in Broken Blossoms in D. W. Griffith’s (1919) visual poetryKongo (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 journeydirector Kaneto Shindô’s Kuroneko (1968) a beautifully disturbing ghost storyAnita Louise as Titania Queen of the Faeries in A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1935Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider in The Last Tango in Paris 1972Arthur Franz, Anthony Quinn and Carol Ohmart in The Wild Party 1956Death Takes a Holiday (1934) Katherine Alexander as Alda with Fredric March as Prince Sirki/DeathRichard Fleischer directs Tony Curtis in The Boston Strangler 1968Part 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 MarshJohn Ford’s epic western drama -My Darling Clementine 1946 starring Henry Fonda and Linda DarnellCharles Busch, left, and Peter Francis James in a 1993 Classic Theater Company production of “The Maids” (1933) in which the sisters were men in dragThe Living Dead Man 1926-Michel Simon as Jérôme Pomino François Truffaut’s tribute to Alfred Hitchcock with The Bride Wore Black (1968) starring the incomparable Jeanne MoreauThe Sea Hawk (1924) directed by Harold Lloyd starring silent film idol Milton SillsHarriet Andersson in Through A Glass Darkly (1961) director Ingmar BergmanThe notorious Last Supper sequence in Luis Buñuel’s VIRIDIANA Janus Films.
Baby Doll (1956) Elia Kazan directs Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach, Karl Malden and Mildred Dunnock as Aunt Rose ComfortRobert Cummings and Priscilla Lane in Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur (1942)Richard Attenborough in director John Boulting’s British Noir Brighton Rock (1947)David Wayne in Jospeh Losey’s version of M (1951)F.W. Murnau’s Faust (1926)George Franju Judex (1963)Gloria Grahame in Fritz Lang’s noir classic The Big Heat (1953)Hedy Lamarr in “Lady of the Tropics” 1939Ida Lupino in Nicholas Ray’s On Dangerous Ground (1952)George Franju’s Judex (1963) with Channing PollockJoseph Losey’s remake of the classic M (1951) starring David Wayne and a creepy clown balloon.James Mason and Arlene Dahl in Jules Verne’s Journey To the Center of The Earth 1959 Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) Brigitte HelmOdds Against Tomorrow (1959) Directed by Robert Wise staring Robert Ryan, Harry Belafonte, Gloria Grahame and Shelley Winters. Cinematography by Joseph C. BrunOn Dangerous Ground (1952) Directed by Nicholas Ray & an uncredited Ida Lupino-Starring Ida Lupino and Robert RyanOdds Against Tomorrow (1959) Robert Ryan as racist ex-con Earle Slater and Mel Stewart (Henry Jefferson) as Hotel Juno’s Elevator Operator.Douglas Sirk’s Sleep My Love (1948) Starring lovely Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings & Don AmecheArchie Mayo’s Svengali (1931) starring Lionel Barrymore & Marian MarshCarole Lombard stars in Vigil in the Night (1940) directed by George StevensLew Landers’ The Mask of Diijon (1949) starring Erich von Stroheim and Jeanne Bates Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Fernando Méndez’s The Vampire’s Coffin (1958) starring Abel Salazar and Ariadna WelterLewis Seiler’s Women’s Prison 1955 starring Ida Lupino, Cleo Moore,Jan Sterling, Audrey Totter, and pictured here Phyllis Thaxter