The Astonished Heart 1950  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Terence Fisher, Antony Damborough
Cast: Noel Coward, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton, Graham Payn, Joyce Carey, Amy Veness, Ralph Michael, Michael Hordern, Everley Gregg, Pataricia Glyn, Alan Webb, John Salew, Gerald Anderson, John Warren, Jacqueline Byrne
This film adaptation of the Noel Coward play is a story of an extramarital affair between a psychiatrist, Christian Faber (Noel Coward), and his wife Barbara's (Celia Johnson) old school friend Leonora (Margaret Leighton). Barbara and Leonora had lost contact with each other, but they meet again, and Barbara invites Leonora to visit her home. When Barbara leaves to care for her mother, Chris and Leonora begin a relationship that turns into a love affair that appears to be doomed from the start.
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The Black Glove 1954  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Face the Music
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Alex Nicol, Eleanor Summerfield, John Salew, Paul Carpenter, Geoffrey Keen, Ann Hanslip, Fred Johnson, Martin Boddey, Arthur Lane, Gordon Crier, Paula Byrne, Leo Phillips, Frank Birch, Ben Williams, Freddie Tripp
While visiting London, American trumpet player "Brad" Bradley (Alex Nicol) is wrongfully accused of murdering a singer when a black glove is found. Determined to track down the real killer, Brad uses a tape-recorder and some photos to reveal the name of the psychopath murderer.
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Brides of Dracula 1960  N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Yvonne Monlaur, Martita Hunt, Freda Jackson, David Peel, Michael Ripper, Miles Malleson, Henry Oscar, Mona Washbourne, Fred Johnson, Andree Melly, Victor Brooks, Norman Pierce, Vera Cook, Mrie Devereux
Baron Meinster (David Peel) is a vampire set free from his shackles who has plans for schoolteacher Marianne Danielle (Yvonne Monlaur). He sets out to engage in a reign of terror while evading vampire hunter Doctor Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) who is in hot pursuit.
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The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Robert Urquhart, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Valerie Gaunt, Noel Hood, Fred Johnson, Melvyn Hayes, Marjorie Hume, Sally Walsh, Paul Hardtmuth, Henry Caine, Claude Kingston, Alex Gallier, Michael Mulcaster
This is the first in Hammer Film's series of Frankenstein movies–and perhaps the best. Mary Shelley's story about man entering a new realm of science without first considering the consequences is told through Dr. Frankenstein's (Peter Cushing) creation of life from dead bodies that results in a creature (Christopher Lee). But, the creature's brain accidentally gets damaged during the resurrection, and the creature turns into a homicidal monster using townsfolk as its victims. This leads to a dramatic confrontation between the monster and Frankenstein.
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 The Curse of the Werewolf 1961  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain, Catherine Feller, Anthony Dawson, Josephine Llewellyn, Michael Ripper, Peter Sallis, Charles Lamb, John Gabriel
Following her rape in a castle, the woman gives birth to a son who is cursed by possession of the spirit of the werewolf. 2 User Reviews
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| | Margo 06/27/2011 | | Scary, because a child was used as the young werewolf |
| | Mandy M artin | Bradley 11/05/2007 | | She uses chiascuro |
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The Devil Rides Out 1968 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Devil's Bride
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Nike Arrighi, Leon Greene, Patrick Mower, Paul Eddington, Russell Waters, John Bown
The Duc de Richleau (Christopher Lee) battles a Satanist, Mocata (Charles Gray), for the soul of young Simon (Patrick Mower).
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness 1966 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Revenge of Dracula
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir, Francis Matthews, Jack Lambert, Suzan Farmer, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Thorley Walters, Philip Latham, Walter Brown, George Woodbridge, Philip Ray, John Maxim, Joyce Hemson
This sequel to "Horror of Dracula" again features Christopher Lee as Count Dracula. Tourists visit the grounds of Count Dracula's Castle Karlsbad in the Carpathian Mountains, and one of them, Alan Kent (Charles "Bud" Tingwell), is sacrificed in a ritual to bring Count Dracula back to life. Dracula then turns Alan's wife Helen (Barbara Shelley) into a vampire. Meanwhile, the remaining tourists seek refuge, but Dracula and his new vampire are on their trail.
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The Earth Dies Screaming 1964  N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Horror / Sci-Fi
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price, Vanda Godsell, Thorley Walters, David Spenser, Anna Palk
When American test pilot Jeff Nolan (Willard Parker) lands in England, he finds it destroyed by alien robots and the victims turned into zombies. But, there are a few survivors, and they work with Nolan to destroy the aliens' transmission station and fend off the invading robots.
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Four-Sided Triangle 1953 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Romance
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: James Hayter, Stephen Murray, Barbara Payton, John Van Eyssen, Percy Marmont, John Stuart, Kynaston Reeves, Sean Barrett, Jennifer Dearman, Glyn Dearman, Edith Saville
After losing his girlfriend Lena (Barbara Payton), who then marries Robin (John Van Eyssen), scientist Bill (Stephen Murray) uses a duplicating machine in which he clones his lost love. But, Bill finds more of the same old problems in the new woman, Helen's (also played by Payton) personality when she also loves Robin. 1 User Review
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| | Greatly overlooked and underrated | Bobo 11/20/2007 | | Given the campy 1950 sci-fi genre, this movie has reasonably decent production values. I found it to be a fairly engaging attempt to resolve a love triangle by cloning of the woman of interest in a somewhat Frankenstein-ian laboratory setting. IMHO, worth far more than the modest 1-star rating posted above. |
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell 1974 TV, 93 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith, David Prowse, Patrick Troughton, Bernard Lee, John Stratton, Michael Ward, Elsie Wagstaff, Norman Mitchell, Clifford Mollison, Philip Voss, Charles Lloyd Pack, Lucy Griffiths, Christopher Cunningham
Dr. Frankenstein is presumed dead, but he is using the assumed name of Dr. Victor (Peter Cushing) and is in charge of an insane asylum. With help from his crazed assistant, Dr. Simon Helder (Shane Briant), he creates a new "monster" (Dave Prowse) from body parts of the asylum's criminal patients–and the gore continues. This film is Terence Fisher's final entry in his series of Frankenstein stories.
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Frankenstein Created Woman 1967 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Robert Morris, Barry Warren, Thorley Walters, Duncan Lamont, Peter Blythe, Derek Fowlds, Alan MacNaughtan, Peter Madden, Philip Ray, Ivan Beavis, Colin Jeavons, Alec Mango, Bartlett Mullins
Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) brings Christina (Susan Denberg), back to life after she commits suicide. But, he slips the soul of her lover, who has been executed, into her body. When Christina regains consciousness, she sets out to seek revenge against those responsible for the execution.
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed 1970 PG, 101 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Simon Ward, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones, Thorley Walters, Maxine Audley, George Pravda, Geoffrey Bayldon, Harold Goodwin, Peter Copley, Colette O'Neil, Frank Middlemass, Jim Collier, Frank Middlemass, Norman Shelley
Dr. Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) visits his colleague Dr. Brandt (George Pravda) who has been committed to an insane asylum. While there, Frankenstein blackmails a doctor, Karl (Simon Ward), and his lover Anna (Veronica Carlson) into helping him free Brandt. After escaping from the asylum, Frankenstein accidentally kills Brandt and then transplants Pravda's brain into asylum employee Professor Richter (Freddie Jones)–an act that will lead to death and destruction.
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 Horror of Dracula 1958  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, John Van Eyssen, Miles Malleson, Charles Lloyd Pack, Valerie Gaunt, George Merritt, Olga Dickie, Janina Faye, Barbara Archer, George Woodbridge, George Benson
This is Christopher Lee's first performance as Count Dracula in what would lead to a series of Dracula films. In this rendition of Bram Stoker's tale, Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Cushing)–the nemesis of Count Dracula–is determined to uncover the truth.
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 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1959 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Andre Morell, Marla Landi, Miles Malleson, Francis De Wolff, Ewen Solon, John Le Mesurier, Sam Kydd, David Oxley, Helen Goss, Michael Hawkins, David Birks, Judi Moyens, Michael Mulcaster
Peter Cushing delivers an excellent performance as Sherlock Holmes coming to the aid of Sir Henry Baskerville (Christopher Lee) who is under the spell of an evil curse. His father has been killed under mysterious circumstances, and Sir Henry asks Holmes to investigate. Holmes sends his assistant, Dr. Watson (Andre Morell) to the Baskerville estate on the Devonshire moors to look for clues. Meanwhile, Holmes hides in the moors gathering information, and, almost too late, Watson and Holmes save Sir Henry from the fate that his father suffered.
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Kill Me Tomorrow 1957 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Terence Fisher, Francis Searle
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Lois Maxwell, George Coulouris, Robert Brown, Tommy Steele, Ronald Adam, Richard Pasco, Wensley Pithey, Freddie Mills, April Olrich, Peter Swanwick, Al Mulock, Vic Wise, Claude Kingston, Larry Taylor
During tough times, Bart Crosbie (Pat O'Brien) investigates the murder of his former boss. He is approached by the murderer, Heinz Webber (George Coulouris), who is also a diamond smuggler, and offers him money to take the blame for the murder. Bart needs money to pay for his son Jimmy's (Claude Kingston) eye surgery, so he accepts the offer. When he confesses to Scotland Yard, they do not believe Bart. Heinz thinks that Bart has not kept his word and seeks revenge. Now, Bart's former boss' niece, Jill Brook (Lois Maxwell), steps in and puts an end to Heinz's criminal activities.
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The Last Man to Hang 1956 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Tom Conway, Elizabeth Sellars, Eunice Gayson, Freda Jackson, Anthony Newley, Raymond Huntley, Thomas Heathcote, Ronald Simpson, Victor Maddern, Margaretta Scott
Following a fatal overdose by his "wife," Roderick (Tom Conway) is tried for her murder and acquitted, but then his wife, Daphne (Elizabeth Sellars), turns up alive in the hospital registered under an alias.
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The Last Page 1952 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Man Bait
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: George Brent, Marguerite Chapman, Raymond Huntley, Peter Reynolds, Diana Dors, Eleanor Summerfield, Meredith Edwards, Isabel Dean, Harry Fowler, Conrad Phillips
Harman (George Brent) is a London bookstore manager who is being blackmailed, but his secretary, Stella (Marguerite Chapman), comes to his rescue.
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The Man Who Could Cheat Death 1959 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Arnold Marle, Delphi Lawrence, Francis De Wolff, Michael Ripper, Ronald Adam, Gerda Larsen, Middleton Woods, Denis Shaw, Ian Hewitson, Frederick Rawlings, Charles Lloyd Pack, Marie Burke
In this remake of "The Man in Half Moon Street" (1944), Dr. Georges Bonnet (Anton Diffring) uses transplant surgeries involving the removal of a gland from living victims who die during the surgery. The surgeries have stopped Georges' aging, and, although he is 104-years old, he appears to others as a 35-year-old man. Now, his obsession with Janine (Hazel Court) who has fallen for his aide Dr. Pierre Gerrard (Christopher Lee) will lead to Georges' ultimate undoing.
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 The Mummy 1959 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne, Felix Aylmer, Raymond Huntley, Michael Ripper, George Pastell, John Stuart, Harold Goodwin, George Woodbridge, Denis Shaw, Gerald Lawson, Willoughby Gray, David Browning
This is a good remake of the 1932 original Boris Karloff film. The story is about an archaeological dig during which British archaeologist John Banning (Peter Cushing) desecrates the tomb of Princess Ananka (Yvonne Furneaux) and awakens Ananka's lover Kharis (Christopher Lee) who was buried with her. Kharis, the Mummy, returns to life and follows Banning back to England to seek revenge. Dire consequences ensue when Kharis finds that Banning's wife (also played by Furneaux) very closely resembles Ananka.
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 The Phantom of the Opera 1962 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Musical / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Michael Gough, Edward DeSouza, Thorley Walters, Miles Malleson, Harold Goodwin, Martin Miller, Marne Maitland, Sonya Cordeau, Liane Aukin, Sonya Cordeau, Patrick Troughton, Miriam Karlin, Renee Houston
In this version of "The Phantom of the Opera," the story takes place at the Royal Opera House in London instead of the Paris Opera House. Years ago, music professor Petrie (Herbert Lom) was hideously burned in a fire but has returned to London where, as the masked Phantom, he terrorizes the opera house that is preparing to perform an opera that had been stolen from him. He lives in the sewer beneath the opera house and kidnaps opera star Christine (Heather Sears), who he loves, so that he can train her to perform his opera. Now, Christine's fiance Harry Hunter (Edward DeSouza) searches for Christine, and, when he finds her, it is Harry who unmasks the Phantom.
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A Race for Life 1954  N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
aka: Mask of Dust
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Richard Conte, Mari Aldon, George Coulouris, Peter Illing, Alec Mango, Meredith Edwards, James Copeland, Jeremy Hawk, Richard Marner, Edwin Richfield, Tim Turner, Stirling Moss
Once a world-class car racer, Peter Wells (Richard Conte) heads for Europe to make a comeback despite the fact that his wife Pat (Mari Aldon) objects to his plan and leaves him. But, when Peter enters the Grand Prix, Pat comes to the pits in support of Peter who ends up winning the race and then making a decision to give up car racing.
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Revenge of Frankenstein 1958 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, Michael Gwynn, John Welsh, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Lloyd Pack, Michael Ripper, John Stuart, Arnold Diamond, Oscar Quitak, Richard Wordsworth, Marjorie Gresley, Anna Walmsley, George Woodbridge
Dr. Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) takes on the new identity of "Dr. Victor Stein" and is up to his old tricks of transplanting body parts into a monster. This is a sequel to "The Curse of Frankenstein" and is followed by "The Evil of Frankenstein."
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Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace 1962 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Valley of Fear
Director: Terence Fisher, Frank Winterstein
Cast: Christopher Lee, Senta Berger, Hans Sohnker, Hans Nielsen, Ivan Desny, Leon Askin, Thorley Walters, Wolfgang Lukschy, Edith Schultze-Westrum, Bernard La Jarrige, Bruno W. Pantel, Heinrich Gies, Linda Sini, Roland Armontel, Danielle Argence
In one of the more unusual depictions of the storied sleuth, this German-made film shows the villainous Moriarty (Hans Sohnker) as respected in both the community and by Scotland Yard. But when a necklace is stolen from Cleopatra's tomb, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (Christopher Lee and Thorley Walters) are hot on Moriarty's trail.
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So Long at the Fair 1950 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Romance
Director: Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher
Cast: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson, Marcel Poncin, Cathleen Nesbitt, Honor Blackman, Betty Warren, Zena Marshall, Felix Aylmer, Eugene Deckers, Andre Morell, Austin Trevor, Natasha Sokolova, Nelly Arno, Michael Ward
Vicky (Jean Simmons) and Johnny (David Tomlinson) Barton arrive in Paris for the 1889 Exhibition, but Johnny suddenly disappears. Frantic, Vicky has trouble getting anyone to help–until she meets George Hathaway (Dirk Bogarde) who comes to the rescue and solves the mystery.
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Spaceways 1953 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Howard Duff, Eva Bartok, Alan Wheatley, Philip Leaver, Andrew Osborn, Michael Medwin, Anthony Ireland, David Horne, Marianne Stone, Cecile Chevreau, Hugh Moxey, Leo Phillips, Jean Webster-Brough
Espionage confronts an American wife, Vanessa Mitchell (Cecile Chevreau) whose extramarital affair hinges on her delivery of U.S. government secrets. Her rocket scientist husband Dr. Stephen Mitchell (Howard Duff) is helping the British with their first satellite. When his wife and her lover, Russian spy Dr. Philip Crenshaw (Andrew Osborn), disappear, it is assumed that Mitchell killed them and sent them into space. How will he prove himself innocent?
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A Stolen Face 1952 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Paul Henreid, Lizabeth Scott, Andre Morell, Mary Mackenzie, John Wood, Susan Stephen, Arnold Ridley, Everley Gregg, Cyril Smith, Grace Gavin, Diana Beaumont, Terence O'Regan, John Bull, Janet Burnell, Alexis France
Doctor Philip Ritter (Paul Henreid) performs plastic surgery on the face of a convict to make her look like the woman he loves. After the surgery, they have a fling, but problems ensue when the "other woman" returns.
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A Stranger Came Home 1954 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: The Unholy Four
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Paulette Goddard, William Sylvester, Patrick Holt, Paul Carpenter, Jeremy Hawk, Russell Napier, Alvys Mahen, Kay Callard, Kim Mills, David King-Wood, Patricia Owens, Jack Taylor, Owen Evns, Philip Lennard
During a fishing trip with his three friends, Philip Vickers (William Sylvester) is hit on the head and left for dead. Three years later, Philip comes home–an amnesiac. On the night of his return, one of the friends is murdered, and circumstantial evidence points to Philip.
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The Stranglers of Bombay 1960 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Adventure / Horror / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Andrew Cruickshank, Marne Maitland, Guy Rolfe, Paul Stassino, Jan Holden, Tutte Lemkow, Allan Cuthbertson, George Pastell, David Spenser, Ewen Solon, Michael Nightingale, John Harvey, Margaret Gordon, Jack McNaughton
People traveling to a British trading post in India are disappearing, and cargo is stolen. The company hires a stranger to solve the problem, which leads Captain Harry Lewis (Guy Rolfe), who is familiar with the company, to work independently to solve the mystery. Lewis finds that a religious cult, the Stranglers, that performs crazed rituals, is responsible for capturing travelers and stealing their money as the cult wreaks havoc on the area around Bombay.
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Sword of Sherwood Forest 1960 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, Niall MacGinnis, Richard Pasco, Nigel Green, Sarah Branch, Jack Gwillim, Desmond Llewelyn, Oliver Reed, Vanda Godsell, Edwin Richfield, Patrick Crean, Dennis Lotis, Darren Nesbitt, James Neylin
This sequel to the Robin Hood stories features Richard Greene as Robin Hood who works undercover to investigate the plot of the Sheriff of Nottingham (Peter Cushing) to kill the Archbishop of Canterbury (Jack Gwillim) who has spoken out against the Sheriff. Robin and his "merry men" then rescue the Archbishop–despite problems when fair maid Marian (Sarah Branch) mistakes Robin for a murderer and leads him into a trap. Robin and his "merry men" also save Marian from the clutches of the evil Earl of Newark (Richard Pasco).
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The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll 1960 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: House of Fright
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee, David Kossoff, Francis De Wolff, Norma Marla, Magda Miller, Oliver Reed, William Kendall, Helen Goss
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story is altered to give an up-dated motive for the change of Dr. Jekyll into the sinister Mr. Hyde.
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| 1. The Astonished Heart (1950)
2. The Black Glove (1954)
aka: Face the Music
3. Brides of Dracula (1960)
4. The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
5. The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
6. The Devil Rides Out (1968)
aka: The Devil's Bride
7. Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
aka: Revenge of Dracula
8. The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)
9. Four-Sided Triangle (1953)
10. Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
11. Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
12. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1970)
13. The Gorgon (1964)
14. Horror of Dracula (1958)
15. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
16. Island of Terror (1966)
17. Kill Me Tomorrow (1957)
18. The Last Man to Hang (1956)
19. The Last Page (1952)
aka: Man Bait
20. The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
21. The Mummy (1959)
22. The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
23. A Race for Life (1954)
aka: Mask of Dust
24. Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
25. Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962)
aka: Valley of Fear
26. So Long at the Fair (1950)
27. Spaceways (1953)
28. A Stolen Face (1952)
29. A Stranger Came Home (1954)
aka: The Unholy Four
30. The Stranglers of Bombay (1960)
31. Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
32. The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
aka: House of Fright
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