Tag Archives: Oliver Reed
The Scarlet Blade (1963)
The film is called The Scarlet Blade (aka The Crimson Blade, 1963), but don’t be fooled. The hero doesn’t wear red, and he doesn’t show up in a mask slicing his insignia on the faces of his enemies. This mid-60’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, Adventure, Hammer, Oliver Reed
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Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
Television may have been cinema’s chief competitor, but Hammer Films was never afraid to mine the small screen for inspiration, from its eerie adaptations of Nigel Kneale serials (the Quatermass trilogy, The Abominable Snowman) to the feature-length sitcoms of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, Adventure, Hammer, Oliver Reed, Peter Cushing, Robin Hood, Terence Fisher
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The Devils (1971)
By far Ken Russell’s most controversial work, The Devils (1971) is not merely content to be sacrilegious and shocking; it seeks a state of hysteria that cinema rarely achieves. Though the film is now four decades old, it hasn’t lost … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Drama, horror, Ken Russell, Oliver Reed, witches
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