All Hallows Eve
I’ll be spending most of the 31st airborne, watching out for broomsticks. Here are some images with a spooky seasonal flavour, except that none of them were intended that way. But that’s OK, they’re culled from Gustav Deutsch’s FILM IST: A GIRL AND A GUN, a movie entirely composed of repurposed footage culled from archives around the world — scientific films, pornography, and drama (including Gustav Machaty’s EROTIKON, the only movie I recognized at once). Can YOU tell the porn stars from the hysterics?
October 31, 2011 at 2:19 pm
I’ll be having a porn-free Halloween (unless you count men in kilts as porn) and will be watching ‘The Ghost Goes West’. I’ve recently started a blog about Robert Donat, if anyone is interested. We’ve already had a lovely email from a member of the Donat family about it, as well as offers of co-operation from the curators of his archive at Manchester Univ. It’s at http://robert-donat.com/.
Thanks so much for all your posts. I don’t often comment but I do read and learn.
October 31, 2011 at 7:12 pm
Two local channels are running Halloween programming. One has a a horror film marathon (I just watched Island of Lost Souls) and the other is running Alfred Hitchcock episodes day. So I know what I’ll be doing until the trick-or-treaters arrirve.
November 1, 2011 at 12:43 pm
Sounds like a good night in!
Was in the air all through Halloween night. Kept my eyes peeled for broomsticks, but not a one. I do think the airline should have attached a prosthetic gremlin to the wing of the plane just for laughs.
November 1, 2011 at 6:38 pm
The Ghost Goes West is not wholly innocent: the lassies sitting with Donat in his first scene enjoy an extremity of decolletage that would surely have been frowned upon across the Atlantic.
November 1, 2011 at 6:46 pm
I was too busy looking at his tartan troos & thigh high boots to notice …! Rumbled …