Monsters and madmen

The Resource Monsters and madmen
Label
Monsters and madmen
Statement of responsibility
Janus Films ; Gordon Films
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Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • <i>The haunted strangler</i>: Nineteenth-century English author James Rankin believes that the wrong man has hanged twenty years earlier for a series of murders, but his investigations lead him to a horrible and, for him, gruesomely inescapable secret
  • <i>Corridors of blood</i>: In 1840s London, Dr. Thomas Bolton dares to dream the unthinkable: to operate on patients without causing pain. Unfortunately, the road to general anesthesia is blocked by a ruthless killer, as well as Bolton's devastating addiction to his own medicines
  • <i>First man into space</i>: In this interstellar cautionary tale, brash U.S. Navy test pilot Dan Prescott, hungry for fame, rockets himself beyond Earth's atmosphere, only to become encrusted with cosmic dust and return a blood-drinking monster
  • <i>The atomic submarine</i>: When the nuclear-powered submarine the Tiger Shark sets out to investigate a series of naval disasters near the Arctic Circle, its fearless crew finds itself besieged by electrical storms, an unidentified floating saucer, and lots of hairy tentacles
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WIQ
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
  • The haunted strangler: Lighting cameraman, Lionel Banes ; editor, Peter Mayhew ; music composer, Buxton Orr ; conductor, Frederic Lewis ; set designer, John Elphick ; special effects, Les Bowie
  • Corridors of blood: Cinematographer, Geoffrey Faithfull ; art director, Anthony Masters ; editor, Peter Mayhew ; music composer and conductor, Buxton Orr
  • First man into space: Cinematographer, Geoffrey Faithfull ; editor, Peter Mayhew ; music composer and conductor, Buxton Orr
  • The atomic submarine: Cinematographer, Gilbert Warrenton ; art directors, Don Ament, Dan Haller ; editor, William Austin ; music composer and conductor, Alexander Laszlo ; special effects, Irving Block, Louis DeWitt, Jack Rabin
Language note
English dialogue ; English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
PerformerNote
  • The haunted strangler: Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan, Anthony Dawson, Vera Day, Tim Turner, Diane Aubrey, Max Brimmel, Leslie Perrins, Jessica Cairns, Dorothy Gordon, Desmond Roberts, Roy Russell, Derek Birch, Peggy Ann Clifford, John Fabian, Joan Elvin
  • Corridors of blood: Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Finlay Currie, Francis Matthews, Adrienne Corri, Francis De Wolff, Basil Dignam, Frank Pettingell, Carl Bernard, Marian Spencer, Nigel Green, John Gabriel, Howard Lang, Yvonne Warren, Christopher Lee
  • First man into space: Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Robert Ayers, Bill Nagy, Carl Jaffe, Bill Edwards, Roger Delgado, John McLaren
  • The atomic submarine: Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey, Paul Dubov, Bob Steele, Victor Varconi, Joi Lansing, Selmer Jackson, Jack Mulhall, Jean Moorhead, Richard Tyler, Sid Melton, Ken Becker, Frank Watkins, Tom Conway, Pat Michaels, John Hilliard
Runtime
315
Series statement
The Criterion collection
Series volume
364-368
Target audience
general
Technique
live action

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