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  1. Mix of genres. -- Vampire and Wiseguy. A newly-recruited vampire, seemingly just a sick man, is hospitalized. The nurse who checks on him in the morning speaks cheerfully, but she's concentrating on her work, rather than on him. The patient (well-known performer) approaches her just as she opens the window blinds. Strong morning sunlight hits suddenly. He is blown into hundreds of bloody pieces.

     

    Film?

  2. The sergeant's courtship of a comely local landowner includes a display of swordsmanship. She stands still while he whirls his saber around very close to her. Afterward she finds a lock of her hair laying on the ground. He had slashed that close to her.

  3. Nearing 320 Views, skipper. I used some misdirection of my own, when I mentioned the nearby "college", rather than "university." The general impression, I think, is that Oxford in a one-industry town.

     

    It's a matter of taste, I guess, but I do like the Agatha Christe - type of tale with the misdirection, etc. I saw it on one of the Premium Channels, and Amazon is slowly shipping me my own copy now. I hope you do enjoy it on a second viewing.

     

    mudskipper's thread.

  4. "I'm going back."

     

    "But the job is done"

     

    "Your job is done."

     

    "You think you can stay alive if you go back there?"

     

    "I'm pretty hard to kill."

     

    ...Anthony Quinn and Gregory Peck in *The Guns of Navarone*

  5. In fact, the "B.B. Theory" gang might enjoy this movie, considering their own taste in entertainment.

    One of the leads of this film, in another context, actually came under the spell of "the one Ring that rules them all", but then the ring-bearing finger was bitten off, and he was spared that fate. Another of the leads -- well, a newborn alien ate its way out of his belly through his ribcage, looked around and growled at everybody, and then skit-skittered across the table and made its escape.

     

    Edited by: flashback42 on May 29, 2012 2:11 PM

  6. Retiring the question.

     

    1973's *The Hireling*. The one-sided cross-class-lines relationship of Sarah Miles (Lady Franklin) and Robert Shaw (the former Sgt Ledbetter), who worked for her. The closing scene shows him, drunk, driving around in her courtyard, crashing his fine, expensive car into anything in his way. A downer story, and probably did not gather much of an audience.

     

    Open thread.

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