#victor maddern

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Blood of the Vampire (1958)

poster art by Joseph Smith

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I'm All Right Jack (1959) John Boulting

December 5th 2024

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Shadows of Fear: The Death Watcher (1.4, Thames, 1971)

"I should like to have danced with you first, you know. It may sound frivolous, but I mean it. There's a certain communication involved there. Have you noticed how some couples have a much more highly developed intuition? They dance as one. There is instinctive anticipation. I used to be very good at ballroom dancing. These are my trophies. Once, I reached the county finals with a girl. Her name was Beryl Harcourt. We were completely in sympathy, you see. That's why I made her the subject of my first experiment. After she'd... gone, I used to play the gramophone in my bedroom for hours on end. We used to do a speciality tango. There's a lot of jealousy and backbiting in those competitions, you know."

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Victor Maddern

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Now watching:

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I'm watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang right now and I have to say that the Scrungly entrants in this tournament are just a selection of prime candidates in a movie where, I put it to you, almost Every SINGLE CHARACTER is scrungly.

The whole Potts family is Scrungly

Mister Coggins (Desmond Llewellyn)? Scrungly

The nasty junkman (Victor Maddern)? Scrungly

The Baronness (INCOMPARABLE Scrungless Anna Quayle)? Scrungly

Even Lord Scrumptious (James Robertson Justice) AND his clerk, Phillips (Richard Wattis)

as a chitty chitty bang bang slut I agree

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Victor Maddern- BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE (1958)

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Victor Maddern- BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE (1958)

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THE LOST CONTINENT (1968) – Episode 180 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era

“Silence! Am I not El Supremo, the direct descendant of Jose Quintero? And was not Jose Quintero the Almighty’s right hand when Cortez carried his word to the Mexican heathens? In interrupting me, you are interrupting God!” You never know when you or someone you’re with might want to signal someone by lighting a match. Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Chad Hunt, Doc Rotten, and Jeff Mohr with guests Richard Klemensen (Little Shoppe of Horrors Magazine) and Bill Mulligan – as they take a leaky boat on a perilous, Hammer-sponsored trip to The Lost Continent (1968)!

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 180 – The Lost Continent (1968)

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ANNOUNCEMENT Decades of Horror The Classic Era is partnering with THE CLASSIC SCI-FI MOVIE CHANNEL, THE CLASSIC HORROR MOVIE CHANNEL, and WICKED HORROR TV CHANNEL Which all now include video episodes of The Classic Era! Available on Roku, AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, AndroidTV, Online Website. Across All OTT platforms, as well as mobile, tablet, and desktop. https://classicscifichannel.com/; https://classichorrorchannel.com/; https://wickedhorrortv.com/

The captain, crew, and passengers of an old freighter – all with dark secrets to keep – find themselves adrift in a mysterious land full of monsters, conquistadors, and killer seaweed.

  Directed by: Michael Carreras; Leslie Norman (uncredited)

Writing Credits: Michael Carreras (screenplay) (as Michael Nash); Dennis Wheatley (novel, Uncharted Seas, 1938)

Produced by: Michael Carreras (producer); Anthony Hinds (executive producer) (uncredited); Peter Manley (associate producer)

Music by: Gerard Schurmann (as Gerard Schürmann); Carlo Martelli (uncredited)

Cinematography by: Paul Beeson (director of photography)

Editing by: Chris Barnes

Special Effects by: Robert A. Mattey

Selected Cast:

Eric Porter as Capt. Lansen

Hildegard Knef as Eva Peters

Suzanna Leigh as Unity Webster

Tony Beckley as Harry Tyler

Nigel Stock as Dr. Webster

Neil McCallum as First Officer Hemmings

Ben Carruthers as Ricaldi (as Benito Carruthers)

Jimmy Hanley as Patrick, the Bartender

James Cossins as Nick, Chief Engineer

Dana Gillespie as Sarah

Victor Maddern as Mate

Reg Lye as Helmsman

Norman Eshley as Jonathan, the Prisoner

Michael Ripper as Sea Lawyer

Donald Sumpter as Sparks, the Radioman

Alf Joint as Jason, a Crewman

Charles Houston as Braemer, a Crewman

Shivendra Sinha as Hurri Curri

Darryl Read as El Diablo

Eddie Powell as The Inquisitor

Frank Hayden as Sergeant

Mark Heath as Customs Man

Horace James as Customs Man

Maxwell Craig as Crewman (uncredited)

Sylvana Henriques as Traveller on Boat (uncredited)

Cynthia Myers as Native Girl (uncredited)

A bit of a Hammer oddity, The Lost Continent (1968), directed by Michael Carreras, is a blast! Richard Klemensen, publisher/editor of Little Shoppe of Horrors: The Journal of Classic British Horror Films, and the voice you hear in the commentary track of the Scream Factory Blu-ray of this film, joins the Classic Era Grue Crew for this one. Bill Mulligan, co-host of DoH 70s and DoH 80s will also make the cross-DoH jump. Now we’re talking fun! The composite crew covers everything from seaweed to monsters to El Supremo to balloons, including Dana Gillespie. 

Please excuse the technical issues we struggled with, but after rescheduling twice, we decided to forge ahead, We hope you have as much fun viewing/listening as we had recording!

At the time of this writing, The Lost Continent is available on physical media as a standard Blu-ray format disc from Scream Factory.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule, as chosen by Daphne, is I Vampiri (1957, Lust of the Vampire), directed by Riccardo Freda and Mario Bava. Bill Mulligan from Decades of Horror 1970s and 1980s will join us because, well… Bava!

Please let them know how they’re doing! They want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: leave them a message or leave a comment on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel, the site, or email the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com

To each of you from each of them, “Thank you so much for watching and listening!” 

Check out this episode!

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Hammer Films' writer Jimmy Sangster offers a side hustle to non-Hammer producers with BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE (1958) directed by Henry Cass! But is the film as bloody as it desires? Listen to find out!

The cast features Donald Wolfit, Vincent Ball and Barbara Shelley.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 11:59; Discussion 25:30; Ranking 45:37

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Barbara Shelley and Victor Maddern in Blood of the Vampire (1958)

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Carry On Spying (1964) Gerald Thomas

January 17th 2022

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The Saint: The Fast Women (5.16, ITC, 1967)

"I cannot even take you seriously. I am not the type to murder! I am too... feminine."

"So was Lucrezia Borgia."

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I Know It Was In The Blood

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I’m All Right Jack | John Boulting | 1959

Victor Maddern, Winston Churchill