Postcards from Shadowland No.11 Beast from 20,000 Fathoms 1953 Bela Lugosi and Irene Ware in Chandu the Magician 1932 Fred Williamson in Black Caesar 1973 Cat People 1942 Alice at the pool Lon Chaney -He Who Gets Slapped 1924 Claudette Colbert and Henry Wilcoxon in Cleopatra 1934 The Sound of Fury aka Try and Get Me 1950 Crime Wave 1954 Dante’s Inferno (1911) Fallen Angel (1945) Dana Andrews, Alice Faye and Linda Darnell Gun Crazy (1950) Peggy Cummins and John Dall In a Lonely Place (1950) Gloria Grahame Ann -Margret in Kitten With a Whip 1964 Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews Laura (1944) The Innocents 1961 with Deborah Kerr Mary Astor The Maltese Falcon (1941) James Garner and Angela Lansbury -Mister Buddwing (1966) Out of the Past (1947) Robert Mitchum and Virginia Huston Plunder Road (1957) Elisha Cook Jr. Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough Seance on a Wet Afternoon 1964 Svengali (1931) John Barrymore and Marian Marsh The Blue Dahlia (1946) Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924)
Postcards From Shadowland’s Big Fat No.10 Alexandra Schmidt in ‘Mother Krause’s Journey to Happiness’ (1929) Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s brilliant satire- All About Eve (1950) starring the inimitable Bette Davis as Margo Channing and Ann Baxter as the cunning Eve Harrington. Director Lewis Milestone’s All’s Quiet on the Western Front-(1930) starring Lew Ayres Otto Preminger’s riveting court room noir Anatomy of a Murder (1959) Battleship Potemkin (1925) Sergei Eisenstein’s masterpiece about the great Russian naval mutiny. Jule’s Dassin’s brutal noir masterpiece Brute Force (1947) Richard Brooks adaptation of Tennessee William’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca 1940 Orson Welles’ film classic Touch of Evil (1958) William Dieterle’s adaptation of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 Henry Hathaway’s disturbing noir classic Kiss of Death 1947 Otto Preminger’s quintessential noir Laura (1944) Blake Edwards Experiment in Terror 1960 Bert I. Gordon’s Earth Vs The Spider 1958 Lambert Hillyer’s understated yet powerfully erotic horror classic Dracula’s Daughter 1936 Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s taut and thought provoking social noir No Way Out 1950 Mervyn LeRoy’s gangster odyssey Little Caesar 1931 Robert Wise’s Science Fiction masterpiece The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Reginald Beck and Anthony Bushell’s suspenseful The Long Dark Hall 1951 Herbert Brenon’s beautiful Laugh, Clown, Laugh 1928 Fritz Lang’s notorious psychological thriller M (1931) Otto Preminger’s noir masterpiece about addiction The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Nathan Juran’s iconic 50s campy sci-fi romp Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) Anthony Mann’s noir classic Raw Deal (1948) Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s surreal and transcendent Mother Joan of the Angels 1961 Mervyn LeRoy’s naughty tale about a child psychopath. The Bad Seed (1956) Samuel Fuller’s irreverent noir gem The Naked Kiss (1964) Carol Reed’s intense noir thriller Odd Man Out (1947) Billy Wilder’s iconic film noir masterwork of grand proportions Sunset Blvd (1950) Jean Cocteau’s stunning Orpheus (1950) Orphée Jacques Tourneur’s hauntingly mesmerizing noir Out of the Past (1947) Joseph E. Lewis Gun Crazy or Deadly is the Female (1950) George Steven’s sadness and joyful Penny Serenade (1941) James Whale’s campy take on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 1931 Edgar G. Ulmer’s sadistic and transgressive journey into horror The Black Cat 1934 Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterful vision of quiet uncanny horror Vampyr (1932) Joseph Losey’s titillating noir The Prowler ((1951) Henri-Georges Clouzot’s brilliantly chilling Les-Diaboliques-1955 Bryan Forbes’ compelling suspense thriller Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) Buster Keaton’s fantastic Seven Chances (1925) Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson’s SCARFACE (1932) William Beaudine’s haunting Sparrows (1926) James Whales even campier and finest work The Bride of Frankenstein 1935 Elia Kazan’s volatile theme of desolation and passion based on Tennessee William’s play A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 some more divine SUNSET BOULEVARD 1950 Samuel Fuller’s edgy Shock Corridor (1963) Jame’s Whale’s The Old Dark House 1932 Nicholas Ray’s incredibly beautiful film noir journey They Live By Night (1948) Robert Wise’s uncompromising ghost story adapted from Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting (1963) Raoul Walsh’s iconic crime thriller White Heat (1949)
Postcards From Shadowland no. 9 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 1933 Fritz Lang Ace in The Hole – Billy Wilder Aroused 1966 Anton Holden Poor White Trash aka Bayou 1957-Harold Daniels Blues in the Night 1941-Anatole Litvak Directed by Mervyn LeRoy-Edward G Robinson is Little-Caesar (1931) with Douglas Fairbanks jr. and Glenda Farrell Experiment in Terror – Blake Edwards directs -Ross Martin as Red Lynch Gene Tierney Tobacco Road 1941 directed by John Ford George Pujouly Brigitte Fossey Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits) 1952 directed by René Clément Granny-The Southerner-Jean Renoir Jeux Interdits Knock On Any Door 1949 Nicholas Ray Lena Horne-Cabin in The Sky 1943- Vincente Minnelli Lon Chaney in He Who Gets Slapped 1924 Victor Sjöström Modern Times Charlie Chaplin 1936 Never Take Sweets From A Stranger 1960 Cyril Frankel Curse of The Demon- 1957 Jacques Tourneur Peter Lorre in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Rashomon 1950 -Akira Kurosawa Roman Polanski’s Repulsion 1965 Catherine Deneuve The Cobweb-1955- Vincente Minnelli The Last Laugh 1924-with emil-jannings directed by F.W Murnau The Sweet Smell of Success 1957-directed by Alexander Mackendrick written by Clifford Odets Viva Zapata 1952 with Marlon-Brando and Jean Peters-Elia Kazan directs
Postcards from Shadowland No. 8 Billy Wilder’s Ace in The Hole (1951) Starring Kirk Douglas and Jan Sterling Jules Dassin’s prison noir masterpiece-Brute Force 1947 starring Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, and Charles Bickford Orson Welles- Citizen Kane (1941) also starring Joseph Cotten William Dieterle’s The Devil and Daniel Webster 1941 Directed by John Brahm-Hangover Square 1945 starring Laird Cregar , Linda Darnell and George Sanders Fritz Lang’s House By The River 1950 starring Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman and Jane Wyatt. I Cover the Waterfront 1933- Claudette Colbert, Ben Lyon and Ernest Torrence Robert Aldrich’s Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte 1964 starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotton, Mary Astor, Agnes Moorehead and Cecil Kellaway John Huston’s Key Largo 1948 Starring Edward G Robinson, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall Stanley Kubrick’s Killers Kiss 1955 Starring Frank Silvera and Irene Kane. Orson Welles penned the screenplay and stars in iconic film noir The Lady from Shanghai 1947 featuring the sensual Rita Hayworth, also starring Everett Sloane Lady in a Cage 1964 directed by Walter Grauman and starring Olivia de Havilland, James Caan, and Jennifer Billingsley. The Long Dark Hall 1951 Starring Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer Fritz Lang’s chilling M (1931) Starring Peter Lorre Mark Robson directs, Val Lewton’s occult shadow piece The Seventh Victim 1943 Starring Kim Hunter, Tim Conway and Jean Brooks Kirk Douglas in Ace In The Hole 1951 written and directed by Billy Wilder Akira Kurosawa’s film noir crime thriller Drunken Angel (1948) starring Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune Elia Kazan’s socio-noir Panic in The Streets 1950 starring Jack Palance, Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes and Zero Mostel Ingmar Bergman’s Persona 1966 starring Liv Ullmann and Bibi Andersson The Queen of Spades 1949 directed by Thorold Dickinson and starring Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans and Yvonne Mitchell Director Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s beautifully filmed Mother Joan of The Angels 1961 starring Lucyna Winnicka. Josef von Sternberg’s Shanghai Express 1932 Starring Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook and Anna May Wong The Devil and Daniel Webster 1941 Robert Wise’s The Haunting 1963. Screenplay by Nelson Gidding based on the novel by Shirley Jackson. Starring Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, and Russ Tamblyn Michael Curtiz’s The Unsuspected 1947 starring Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield and Audrey Totter Luis Bunuel’s Viridiana 1961 Starring Silvia Pinal, Fernando Rey and Fransisco Rabal Robert Aldrich’s cult grande dame classic starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford-What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? 1962
Postcards From Shadowland No.7 La Belle et la Bete (1946) Caged (1950) Criss Cross (1949) Devil Girl From Mars (1954) Les Diaboliques (1955) Experiment in Terror (1962) Les yeux sans Visage (1960) Les yeux sans visage (1960) Gloria Grahame The Cobweb (1955) I Bury The Living (1958) Island of Lost Souls (1932) Kiss The Blood Off My Hands (1948) Lady in a Cage (1964) Mother Joan of The Angels (1961) Belle et la Bete (1946) Strait-Jacket (1964) Sunrise (1927) The Haunting (1963) The Queen of Spades (1949) Vampyr (1932) The World’s Greatest Sinner (1962)
Postcards From Shadowland No.6 The 49th Parallel (1949) Directed by Michael Powell and starring Leslie Howard and Laurence Olivier La Belle et la Bête 1946 directed by Jean Cocteau starring Jean Marais and Josette Day Beggars of Life 1928 staring Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks and Richard Arlen. Directed by William Wellman Bunny Lake is Missing 1965 Directed by Otto Preminger. Starring Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier, and Keir Dullea La Main du Diable or Carnival of Sinners 1943 Directed by Maurice Tourneur and stars Pierre Fresnay, Josseline Gael and Noel Roquevert The Devil and Daniel Webster 1941 Directed by William Dieterle and stars Walter Houston as Old Scratch, and Edward Arnold, Jane Darwell and Simone Simon. Dracula’s Daughter 1936 directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Gloria Holden, Otto Kruger and Marguerite Churchill Experiment in Terror 1962 directed by Blake Edwards and starring Lee Remick, Glenn Ford, Stephanie Powers and a raspy Ross Martin as ‘Red’ Lynch Fallen Angel 1945 Directed by Otto Preminger and starring Linda Darnell, Dana Andrews and Alice Faye Fedra The Devil’s Daughter 1956 Directed by Manuel Mur Oti and stars Emma Penelia, Enrique Diosdado and Vicente Parra Joan Crawford is Possessed 1947 directed by Curtis Bernhardt, also starring Van Heflin and Raymond Massey Diaboliques 1955 directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot and Paul Meurisse Never Take Sweets From A Stranger 1960 Directed by Cyril Frankel and stars Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen and Felix Aylmer The Night Holds Terror 1955 Directed by Andrew L. Stone starring Jack Kelly, Hildy Parks, Vince Edwards and John Cassavetes Robert Mitchum is Harry Powell, in Night of The Hunter 1955 Directed by Charles Laughton also starring Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish Plunder Road 1957 directed by Hubert Cornfield and stars Gene Raymond, Jeanne Cooper, Wayne Morris and Elisha Cook Jr. Seance On a Wet Afternoon 1964 directed by Bryan Forbes and stars Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough and Margaret Lacey Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers On a Train 1951 starring Farley Granger, Robert Walker and Ruth Roman Gloria Swanson is Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard 1950 Directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden and Erich von Stroheim Val Lewton’s The Seventh Victim 1943 Directed by Mark Robson and stars Kim Hunter, Tom Conway and Jean Brooks Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi star in Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Black Cat 1934 inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s story. The Killer Is Loose 1956 Directed by Budd Boetticher and stars Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming and Wendell Corey The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 Directed by William Wellman and stars Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes and Anthony Quinn The Prowler 1951 Directed by Joseph Losey and stars Evelyn Keyes and Van Heflin The Queen of Spades 1949 Directed by Thorold Dickinson and stars Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans and Yvonne Mitchell Lon Chaney stars in Tod Browning’s The Unknown 1927 also starring Joan Crawford and Norman Kerry. Edward L. Cahn’s 1956 film The Werewolf Jean Epstein’s The Fall of the House of Usher 1928 inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and adapted for the screen by Luis Bunuel Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr (1932) Based on a story by Sheridan Le Fanu. Starring Julian West, Maurice Schutz and Rena Mandel
Postcards From Shadowland No.5 A Cry in The Night (1956) Directed by Frank Tuttle, and starring Natalie Wood, Edmond O’Brien and Brian Donlevy Curse of The Cat People 1944 directed by Robert Wise, produced by Val Lewton, and starring Simone Simon, Kent Smith and Ann Carter The Sea Beast 1926 directed by Millard Webb, written by Herman Melville and starring Dolores Costello and John Barrymore. La Belle et la Bête 1946 directed by Jean Cocteau starring Jean Marais and Josette Day. The Big Heat (1953) directed by Fritz Lang and Starring Gloria Grahame, Glenn Ford and Jocelyn Brando. Body and Soul 1947 directed by Robert Rossen, starring John Garfield, Lilli Palmer and Hazel Brooks Bury Me Dead (1947) directed by Bernard Vorhaus starring Cathy O’Donnell, June Lockart and Hugh Beaumont. Curse of The Cat People 1944 directed by Robert Wise, and produced by Val Lewton. Starring Simone Simon, Kent Smith and Ann Carter. Dead of Night (1945) directed by Alberto Cavalcanti,Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer. With stories by H.G.Wells, E.F.Benson, John Baines and Angus MacPhail. Dracula’s Daughter 1936 directed by Lambert Hillyer, and starring Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill and Edward Van Sloan. The Penalty 1920 directed by Wallace Worsley and starring Lon Chaney as Blizzard. With Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason and Ethel Grey Terry. Eye of The Devil 1966 directed by J.Lee Thompson and starring Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Sharon Tate, Donald Pleasance, Flora Robson and David Hemmings. Each Dawn I Die (1939) directed by William Keighley and starring George Raft and James Cagney. Horror Hotel (1960) aka City of The Dead directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and starring Christopher Lee, Patricia Jessel, Dennis Lotis and Betta St. John The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Ivor Novello as the mysterious Lodger. I Wake Up Screaming (1941) directed by H.Bruce Humberstone and starring Victor Mature, Betty Grable and Carol Landis. Robert Aldrich’s 1955 Film Noir Kiss Me Deadly starring Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer. MAD LOVE (1935) directed by Karl Freund starring Peter Lorre, Frances Drake and Colin Clive. The Man Who Laughs 1928 directed by Paul Leni and starring Conrad Veidt as Gwynplaine, and Mary Philbin as Dea. Fritz Lang’s German Expressionist masterpiece of futuristic entropy blending element of Sci-Fi and hints of Film Noir to come. Metropolis (1927) Starring Brigitte Helm and Alfred Abel. William Castle’s The Night Walker (1964) starring Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Judi Meredith, Lloyd Bochner and Marjorie Bennett.
Postcards From Shadowland No.4 BAD BLONDE (1953) directed by Reginald Le Borg starring Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk and John Slater. Directed by Julien Duviveir – FLESH AND FANTASY(1943) starring Betty Field, Edward G.Robinson, Barbara Stanwyck, Charles Boyer, Robert Cummings, Anna Lee, Dame May Whitty and C.Aubrey Smith Cast A Dark Shadow (1955) directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood and Kay Walsh The Hitch-Hiker (1953) Directed by Ida Lupino and starring Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy and William Talman Night of The Eagle aka Burn Witch Burn (1962) directed by Sidney Hayers, written for the screen by Charles Beaumont, and starring Peter Wyngarde , Janet Blair and Margaret Johnston. Panic In The Streets (1950) directed by Elia Kazan and starring Jack Palance, Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas and Barbara Bel Geddes M (1931) Directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre The Queen of Spades (1949) Directed by Thorold Dickinson and starring starring Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans and Yvonne Mitchell ROPE OF SAND (1949) Directed by William Dieterle and starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Henried, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre and Corinne Calvet. Edge of Doom (1950) directed Mark Robson and starring Farley Granger, Dana Andrews and Joan Evans. Joe Sarno’s Sin In The Suburbs (1964) Stranger on The 3rd Floor (1940) Directed by Boris Ingster and starring Peter Lorre, John McGuire and Margaret Tallichet. Strangers on a Train (1951) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Farley Granger, Robert Walker and Ruth Roman. The 39 Steps (1935) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim and Peggy Ashcroft. The Dark Corner (1946) directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Lucille Ball, Mark Stevens, Clifton Webb and William Bendix. Director Robert Siodmak’s masterpiece of film noir adapted from Ernest Hemingway, 1946 The Killers. Starring Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien and Albert Dekker. Director Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Starring Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer. Featuring a young Cloris Leachman… A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Director Elia Kazan’s exploration into Tennessee Williams’ iconic characters. Starring Vivien Leigh as Blanche Duboise, Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski, Kim Hunter as Stella…and Karl Malden as Mitch. The World, The Flesh and The Devil (1959) Directed by Ranald MacDougall, starring Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens and Mel Ferrer.
Postcards From Shadowland No.3 A Cry in The Night 1956 directed by Frank Tuttle, starring Edmund O’Brien, Brian Donlevy and Natalie Wood. Among The Living (1941) directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward and Frances Farmer BRUTE FORCE (1947) directed by Jules Dassin and starring Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn and Charles Bickford Roman Polanski’s CHINATOWN (1974) starring Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson and John Huston. COMPULSION (1959) directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman and Orson Welles. He Walked By Night (1948) starring Richard Basehart, Scott Brady and Roy Roberts. I Bury The Living (1958) directed by Albert Band and Starring Richard Boone and Theodore Bikel IN COLD BLOOD (1967) directed by Richard Brooks and starring Robert Blake, Scott Wilson and John Forsythe. NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947) Directed by Edmund Goulding, starring Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray and Helen Walker. Director Joseph Sarno’s exploitation film from (1964) Sin In The Suburbs stars Judy Young, W.B.Parker and Audrey Campbell The Prowler (1951) directed by Joseph Losey and Starring Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes and John Maxwell. THE KILLERS (1946) directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner and Edmund O’Brien The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) directed by Peter Godfrey and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Humphrey Bogart and Alexis Smith The Uninvited (1944) directed by Lewis Allen starring Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey and Gail Russell The Unsuspected (1947) directed by Michael Curtiz and Starring Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield and Audrey Totter. Once again Claude Rains in the suspenseful The Unsuspected (1947) Nicholas Ray’s They Live By Night (1949)starring Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell and Howard Da Silva Charles Laughton’s masterpiece Night of The Hunter (1955) Starring Robert Mitchum, Lillian Gish and Shelley Winters.
Postcards From Shadowland No.2 BORN TO KILL (1947) Directed by Robert Wise starring Claire Trevor and Lawrence Tierney CAGED (1950) Starring Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead and Ellen Corby The Cape Canaveral Monsters 1960 The Spiral Staircase 1945 directed by Robert Siodmak, Starring Dorothy McGuire, George Brent and Ethel Barrymore Phantom Lady 1944 Directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Ella Raines, Franchot Tone and Elisha Cook Jr. I Walked With A Zombie 1943 Produced by Val Lewton, directed by Jacques Tourneur, edited by Mark Robson, written for the screen by Curt Siodmak and starring Frances Dee, James Ellison and Tom Conway. MAN HUNT 1941 directed by Fritz Lang, starring Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett and George Sanders QUICKSAND 1950 The Naked Kiss 1964 PUSHOVER 1954 directed by Richard Quine, starring Kim Novak and Fred MacMurray The Seventh Victim 1943 Produced by Val Lewton and directed by Mark Robson, starring Kim Hunter, Tom Conway and Jean Brooks. THE BURGLAR 1957 Directed by Paul Wendkos and starring Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield and Martha Vickers Sunset Blvd. 1950 directed by Billy Wilder, starring Gloria Swanson and William Holden.