Category Archives: Theater Leone
Lone Wolf and Cub Double Feature: Sword of Vengeance/Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
Very late in the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, in the middle of a desolate desert, one of the deadliest hired assassins in the world has his throat cut by the former Shogunate Executioner, Itto Ogami (Tomisaburo … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Action, Japan, Kazuo Koike, Kenji Misumi, Lone Wolf and Cub, manga, Ninja, Samurai, Tomisaburo Wakayama
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Double Feature: The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)/The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
Cowboys vs. dinosaurs! The idea was kicking around in stop-motion animator Willis O’Brien’s head for a while in the years following his seminal work on The Lost World (1925) and King Kong (1933). It was an appealing and original notion to … Continue reading
Posted in Double Feature, Theater Fantastique, Theater Leone
Tagged cowboys, dinosaurs, Fantasy, Guy Madison, James Franciscus, prehistoric, Ray Harryhausen, Stop Motion, Western, Willis O'Brien
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Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1966)
The title is irresistible. If Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1966) is ultimately a let-down, well, perhaps it’s because of the finale, in which Billy quick-draws on Dracula, and the bullets pass right through. Of course they do. And while … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, Dracula, horror, John Carradine, Vampire, Western
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