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The sequel to Daphne DuMaurier's "Rebecca" is the worst thing I've ever read--I've blocked the author--but thanks for the warning.

Hint #4--Title sounds like a Continental Officer.

This actor and actress played a couple in one of the best noirs of the 1950's. Twenty two years later, they played a couple in an excellent adaptation of a horror author's book. Please name the actor and actress, the 1950's film noir, the later adaptation where they played a couple, and the horror author.

The Glass Menagerie (1950)?

NEW MOON

Hint #3--Actress' last name is the same as a character in Shakespeare's "The Tempest".

DJBeacon--Correct! Your Thread.

starlit--I apologize for my misspelling--I thought there was another s on the end of Marseille. You're Correct.

Correct, shutoo. Your Thread.

NipkowDisc--On YouTube, search "Christopher Lee reads..."; He reads "Dracula", Poe's "The Raven", and other works.

DJBeacon--Correct about the actress, but not the film. Now name the other two stars and the film.

Giddyap Eventide

Actress appeared in a 60's vampire spoof and a Susann adaptation.

"The Brides of Dracula" (1960)--Starring Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, and Yvonne Moniaur, directed by Terence Fisher. Enjoyable Hammer entry in the Dracula series. Marianne (Moniaur) is a young woman in turn of the century Europe. She is traveling by coach to a girls school, where she will teach French. After her coachman stops at an inn, and receives a handful of silver coins from a stranger, he flees with the coach and her luggage. Soon afterwards, the Baroness Meinster (Hunt) strides into the inn, and insists Marianne join her at her castle for the night. Film goes from there. Cushing is excellent as Van Helsing. Hunt is an very effective Baroness, suggesting past depravities and current remorse. Moniaur is pretty and rather Dim, as the script demands. Film has all the Hammer trademarks; bright colors, blood that resembles paint/nail polish, a dramatic score, ladies that are overdressed (they're still human) or underdressed (the fewer the clothes, the greater the need for crosses to be within easy reach), etc. Script is paint-by-numbers vampire lore, with a few twists added to the myth. A fun watch. 2.8/4 I saw the film on archive.org--film is listed as "The Bride of Dracula".

DJBeacon--These were the three; "A*P*E*" (1976)--Starring Alex Nichol and Joanna Deverona (Kerns) "King Kong" (1976)--Starring Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges. "King Kong" (1933)--Starring Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong. Lawrence's Thread.

Dancing Sweeties Next--GSEAPSA OT SRIALSMEAL

This film starred an Oscar winner, a multiple Oscar nominee, and an actress who had her career ended too soon. Please name the film, and the three stars.

Hint--Son had the same first name as one of Shelley's husbands.

"The Terror of Tiny Town"?

DJBeacon--Not the three I was thinking of, but you're Correct! Your Thread, DJ.

Tuesday, Oct. 4th/5th--All times E.S.T. 7:30 a.m. "The Cameraman" (1928)--Buster Keaton silent. 1:15 a.m. "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (1967)--Elmer Bernstein's Oscar winning Original Score carries the movie, which is a spoof of silent movie "Types". Julie Andrews, Beatrice Lillie, and Carol Channing all are good. James Fox and John Gavin are ok, and Mary Tyler Moore is perilously close to being too cute. Still, Bernstein's score and Andrews' singing carry the movie. Worth the watch.

There are two copies of the 1982 "She" on YouTube.

"She" (1982)--Starring Sandahl Bergman. Low budget, incoherent, Absolutely batshit Crazy remake of the H. Rider Haggard story. Film is set after a nuclear apocalypse that is referred to as "The Cancellation". There is no plot to speak of, no performances, and no direction except to see how many movie references can be put in the movie and restaged as faithfully as possible. In no particular order, a few of the films referred to are: "Heaven's Gate (1980), "Cinderella" (1950), "Zardoz" (1974), "Frankenstein" (1931), "West Side Story" (1961), and "Gone With the Wind" (1939). Movie had me laughing so hard I cried. Look for the mythology that is mangled by the film. The main baddie has a startling resemblance to Donald Trump, including his orange hair. I loved it. On a "So Bad It's Good"scale--3/4--Movie does have dull spots.

Isherwood, Christopher - screenwriter - (Diane (1956).

TomJH--I don't have to fight off sleep during the Lee Dracula films. Lugosi is a fine Dracula also, but I am always fighting sleep after they get out of the Carpathians--it's like two people directed the film. The Browning who directed the first half hour is very good; the Browning who directed the rest--what Happened? NipkowDisc--Lugosi is very good as Igor in "Son of Frankenstein" (1939); he and Karloff make a memorable pairing.