Biography: William Castle |
New York-born William Castle was known to some as one of the movies' great schlockmeisters, but his films are also among the most beloved "B"-pictures of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and he did produce one unabashed classic, Rosemary's Baby.... more
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Tags: Psychological Sci-Fi Science Fiction Drama Action Spy Film
Length: 97min
Project X boasts better special effects than usual for tight-fisted producer/director William Castle, but it crumbles in the story department. Christopher George is a secret agent living in the year 2118, who through a complex scientific charade is...
Cast: Richard Pryor Anne Baxter
Tags: Farce Crime Comedy Comedy
Length: 102min
A nosey housewife (Marguerite Viby) takes on extra responsibilities when her husband (Buster Larsen) hurts his back while reading the Sunday paper. When she finds a dead body in the upstairs office, she calls the police. The detective (Ole Monty) is...
Length: 93min
Shanks is not so much a movie as an hallucinatory experience. World-renowned mime Marcel Marceau plays a dual role as a mute puppeteer and an eccentric inventor. The inventor dies, passing along his secrets for reviving corpses to the puppeteer. With...
Cast: Nigel Green
Length: 92min
The twelve-year old heir to a fortune decides to fight back after he learns that his avaricious uncle is out to kill him in this thriller. He learns of the plot after his uncle, who is next in line for the fortune, generously invites him to visit him...
Cast: Sid Caesar
Tags: Horror Comedy Comedy Horror
Length: 100min
In this spooky comedy, a couple and their adolescent son move into a quiet New England summer cottage. Soon their arrival, a series of strange and increasingly destructive occurrences begin to happen. Not believing in poltergeists, the puzzled parents...
Cast: Leif Erickson William Castle John Ireland
Tags: Teen Movie Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 82min
With true William Castle-style flamboyance the advertisements for I Saw What You Did intrigued non-etymologically inclined audiences by warning them that this suspenseful thriller was about uxoricide. He then had some of the theaters where the film...
William Castle's The Night Walker (1964)
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck Robert Taylor
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 86min
Irene Trent (Barbara Stanwyck) was married to the inventor Howard (Hayden Roarke) before the blind electronics genius blows himself up following an argument between the couple. Irene leaves after the arguments only to learn of her husband's demise...
Cast: Tab Hunter
Tags: Romantic Comedy Teen Movie Comedy Beach Film
Length: 101min
Fabian, Tab Hunter, and Peter Brown star as three surfers--Jody, Steamer and Chase--who make a pilgrimage from California to the north shore of Oahu for a vacation. Surfers from all over gather here every winter to compete with each other for the...
Cast: Robert Morley Peter Bull Tom Poston Joyce Grenfell
Tags: Horror Comedy Comedy Horror
Length: 86min
Set in the title manse, this chilling comedy chronicles the spooky exploits of a Yankee car salesman working in London who sets out to deliver a car to a remote and very creepy Welsh estate. Unfortunately he discovers the owner dead. While attempting...
Cast: Joan Crawford Rochelle Hudson
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller
Length: 90min
In this chilling blood-tale in "Psycho" style, Robert Bloch modernizes the Lizzy Borden story. A wife (Joan Crawford) literally axes her cheating husband and his lover, witnessed by her three-year-old daughter. Mom is packed off to the insane asylum...
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