#howard st. john

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god forbid I just go about my business

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STRAIT-JACKET (1964)

Director: William Castle Cinematography: Arthur E. Arling

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One, Two, Three (1961) Billy Wilder

May 13th 2023

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Edward G. Robinson-Jayne Mansfield-Howard St. John "Ilegal" (Illegal) 1955, de Lewis Allen.

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13 marzo … ricordiamo …

13 marzo … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2022: William Hurt, attore statunitense. Sposò l’attrice Mary Beth Hurt divorziando l’anno successivo. Ebbe una relazione con Sandra Jennings, con la quale ebbe un figlio e con l’attrice Marlee Matlin.  Si risposò con Heidi Henderson che gli diede due figli. Ebbe un’altra figlia dall’attrice Sandrine Bonnaire. (n. 1950) 2021: Giovanni Gastel, è stato un fotografo italiano. Lavora per numerose…

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Strait-Jacket

Joan Crawford has two entrances in William Castle’s STRAIT-JACKET (1964, Tubi, YouTube) that suggest two very different movies. In her second, following the titles, she steps off a train after having spent 20 years in an asylum. She’s tentative, vulnerable and very moving. Had Castle drawn on that, he might have had a delicate story of a mental patient adjusting to life on the outside, the senior version of HOME BEFORE DARK (1958). But that wouldn’t be a William Castle film. Her first entrance, in a pre-credits prologue set in the 1940s, is like her entrance in RAIN (1932). You get bits of a garishly dressed woman stepping off a train. Crawford, at 60 trying to play a hot babe in her 20s is high camp, though not of the knowing John Waters variety. There’s something sad about watching her go over-the-top, seemingly without realizing it, as she draws on tricks that sometimes worked back when she had good scripts.

And this is not a good script (that may not be screenwriter Robert Bloch’s fault; the script had to be re-written to make it a Joan Crawford film). In the flashback, Crawford catches her husband cheating and chops him and his mistress up as their little girl watches. Twenty years later, Crawford is out of the asylum to meet her daughter (Diane Baker), who insists she dress as she did when she was younger. At times it’s embarrassing, particularly when Crawford starts trying to act like her younger self and comes on to Baker’s boyfriend (John Anthony Hayes, an actor so wooden, you expect his leading ladies to get splinters). And then the killings start back up. Crawford’s performance, like the writing of her character, is all bits. To make matters worse, they’re often poorly played bits. She only really works playing the character’s vulnerable side. When she loses her temper or gets hysterical or tries to be seductive, it’s laughably bad, though she’s also so magnetic you can’t look away. Until the writing does her in. Baker comes off much better. Once you know the final twist, you can see how skillfully and subtly she works out her character arc. Leif Erickson is jovial and caring as Crawford’s farmer brother. Rochelle Hudson is his wife. Every time she has to deal with Crawford’s problems, she looks as if she were smelling something bad. Also with George Kennedy as a farmhand, Pepsi vice president Mitchell (don’t quit your day job) Cox as Crawford’s psychiatrist, Edith Atwater and Howard St. John as Hayes’ snooty parents, and Lee Majors, making his film debut as Crawford’s husband. To survive this one, he’d need a bionic head

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SKULL-FACE AND OTHERS by Robert E. Howard (Sauk City: Arkham House,1946) Cover by Hannes Bok.

Fantasy/horror collection. Limited to 3004 copies.

Skull-Face is a fantasy novella originally serialized in Weird Tales (October through December, 1929). Clearly influenced by Sax Rohmer's opus Fu Manchu it substitutes a resuscitated Atlantean necromancer for the Asian villain. From the center of a web of crime and deceit he means to end Western world domination in order to re-instate surviving Atlanteans (lying dormant in submerged sarcophagi) as the new ruling elite.

Wolfshead (Weird Tales, April 1926) Cover by F.M. Stevenson • The Fire of Asshurbanipal (Weird Tales, December 1936) Cover by J. Allen St. John • Shadows in Zamboula (Weird Tales, November 1935) Cover by Margaret Brundage.

Contents:

vii · Foreword · August Derleth

ix · Which Will Scarcely Be Understood (Weird Tales, October 1937)

xiii · Robert E. Howard: A Memoriam by H.P. Lovecraft (Fantasy Magazine, September 1936), as “In Memoriam: Robert E. Howard”; revised from “Robert Ervin Howard: 1906-1936” (The Phantagraph, August 1936)

xvii · A Memory of R.E. Howard by E. Hoffmann Price [A slightly different version appeared in The Ghost, May 1945 as “The Book of the Dead, Chapter 2, Robert Ervin Howard”.]

Wolfshead (Weird Tales, April 1926) [de Montour]

The Black Stone (Weird Tales, November 1931) [Cthulhu]

“The Horror from the Mound” (Weird Tales, May 1932)

The Cairn on the Headland (Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, January 1933)

Black Canaan (Weird Tales, June 1936)

The Fire of Asshurbanipal (Weird Tales, December 1936) [Cthulhu]

“A Man-Eating Jeopard” (Cowboy Stories, June 1936) [Buckner Grimes]

The Hyborian Age (LANY Cooperative Publications, 1938) [The first half was published in The Phantagraph, (February, August, & October/November 1936)]

Skull-Face (Weird Tales, October 1929) [Kathulos]

Worms of the Earth (Weird Tales, November 1932) [Bran Mak Morn]

The Valley of the Worm (Weird Tales, February 1934) [James Allison]

“Skulls in the Stars” (Weird Tales, January 1929) [Solomon Kane]

“Rattle of Bones” (Weird Tales, June 1929) [Solomon Kane]

The Hills of the Dead (Weird Tales, August 1930) [Solomon Kane]

Wings in the Night (Weird Tales, July 1932) [Solomon Kane]

The Shadow Kingdom (Weird Tales, August 1929) [Kull]

“The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune” (Weird Tales, September 1929) [Kull]

Kings of the Night (Weird Tales, November 1930) [Bran Mak Morn; Kull]

The Phoenix on the Sword (Weird Tales, December 1932) [Conan]

The Scarlet Citadel (Weird Tales, January 1933) [Conan]

The Tower of the Elephant (Weird Tales, March 1933) [Conan]

Rogues in the House (Weird Tales, January 1934) [Conan]

Shadows in Zamboula (Weird Tales, November 1935) [Conan]

Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die (Weird Tales, August 1938)

Famous Fantastic Mysteries (December, 1952) Cover by Lawrence. [reprint magazine]

Skull-Face by Robert E. Howard [Weird Tales, October 1929]

Killdozer! by Theodore Sturgeon [Astounding Science Fiction, November 1944]

“The Homecoming” by Ray Bradbury [Mademoiselle, October 1946]

“The Coat” by A.E.D. Smith [from POWERS OF DARKNESS edited by Philip Allan, 1934]

(London: Panther, 1976) Cover by Chris Achilleos. • (New York: Berkley, 1978) • (Japan)

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E. Howard Hunt (as David St. John) - The Coven - Fawcett - 1973

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Elias: What are the idiots doing?!

Geoffrey: He tried to kill me, Elias! The constant fights against Eggman's forces made him insensitive to violence!

Antoine: Can you believe in this guy?!

Elias: I can't believe you tried to run him over!

Antoine: Oh, please, as if you never thought about doing that!

Antoine: Don't hate me just because I lived the dream!

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ℋ𝑒𝓇𝑒'𝓈 𝓂𝓎 #2 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐇𝐮𝐝𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐃𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝓇𝑜𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒾𝒸/𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒𝒹𝓎 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓉. 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝓉𝓌𝑜 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈, 𝗝𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 (𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐇𝐮𝐝𝐬𝐨𝐧) 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗼𝗻 (𝐃𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐲) 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝓌𝑜 𝓇𝒾𝓋𝒶𝓁 𝒶𝒹𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓉𝒾𝓈𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝒶𝑔𝑒𝓃𝒸𝒾𝑒𝓈. 𝗠𝗿. 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝒶𝑔𝑒𝓃𝒸𝓎 𝒹𝑒𝓈𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝓃𝑒𝑒𝒹𝓈 𝒶 𝓃𝑒𝓌 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝒹𝓊𝒸𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝒶𝒹𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓉𝒾𝓈𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉'𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝗝𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝓊𝓅 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒶 𝒻𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝒹𝓊𝒸𝓉 𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝐕 𝐈 𝐏. 𝒲𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓎 𝒶𝒽𝑒𝒶𝒹 𝑜𝒻 𝗠𝗿. 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗠𝘀. 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝒹𝑒𝒸𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝐕 𝐈 𝐏 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝒹𝓊𝒸𝓉 𝒸𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝑜𝓇/𝒹𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓁𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓇. 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒾𝓁𝓂 𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒶𝓇𝒾𝑜𝓊𝓈 𝓇𝒶𝓂𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒/𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒𝒹𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 ℐ 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓎𝑜𝓊'𝓁𝓁 𝑒𝓃𝒿𝑜𝓎. ℐ 𝓊𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝒶𝓁𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈 𝓉𝓇𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝐕 𝐈 𝐏 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 ℐ 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝒶 𝓀𝒾𝒹 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓉𝓎 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝑜𝓇𝓈, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 ℐ 𝒻𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒾𝓉 𝓉𝓇𝓊𝓁𝓎 𝓌𝒶𝓈, 𝒾𝓉 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒶 𝒽𝑜𝑜𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒷𝑒𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑒. 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒾𝓁𝓂 𝒹𝑒𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒾𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓉.

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Bad movie I have Meet Joe Black 1998 It also has Death Take a Holiday 1934

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Quem estiver à procura do Lord Archibald vai encontra-la aqui : @ghstlygrm

⋅ ⋅ -ˋˏ➸ Welcome to our new arrival! Os jornais estão alvoroçados com a chegada de Lord Archibald Howard St. John, o Conde de Effingham. { @byron-aysun o homem que pretende desvendar suas habilidades está aqui! } { @milles-joseph seu amargo rival está aqui! }

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711 Ocean Drive (1950) Joseph M. Newman

May 23rd 2023

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John St. Polis-Constance Cummings "El código criminal" (The criminal code) 1930, de Howard Hawks.