list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Lady Scarface on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Lady_Scarface/19503/default.aspx Title: Lady Scarface
Year: 1941
Director: Frank Woodruff
Plot: A partial remake of 1936's Wanted: Jane Turner, Lady Scarface is a seedy but entertaining tour de force for the great Judith Anderson. Embittered over the ugly facial scar which covers the left side of her face, a woman named Slade becomes a criminal mastermind. The cops have no idea that the elusive Slade is female, which enables her to move about freely without attracting attention. After a robbery-murder, Slade has her share of the loot mailed to her at a post-office box registered under the phony name of Mary Powell. When the real Mary Powell (Mildred Coles) receives the stolen loot in the mail, the fur-and the bullets-really begin to fly. Judith Anderson once explained that she accepted the starring role in Lady Scarface in hopes that the film would do for her what Little Caesar did for Edward G. Robinson. It didn't. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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]]>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:02:13 GMTLady Scarface1941Frank WoodruffA partial remake of 1936's Wanted: Jane Turner, Lady Scarface is a seedy but entertaining <I>tour de force</I> for the great <a href="/players/P_____1508/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Judith Anderson</a>. Embittered over the ugly facial scar which covers the left side of her face, a woman named Slade becomes a criminal mastermind. The cops have no idea that the elusive Slade is female, which enables her to move about freely without attracting attention. After a robbery-murder, Slade has her share of the loot mailed to her at a post-office box registered under the phony name of Mary Powell. When the <I>real</I> Mary Powell (<a href="/players/P____14122/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Mildred Coles</a>) receives the stolen loot in the mail, the fur-and the bullets-really begin to fly. <a href="/players/P_____1508/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Judith Anderson</a> once explained that she accepted the starring role in Lady Scarface in hopes that the film would do for her what <a href=/films/20492/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Little Caesar</a> did for Edward G. Robinson. It didn't. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide22http://www.spout.com/images/no_image.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Lady_Scarface/19503/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/2/1/24611.aspxPost By: Karina
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Post Date: 2/1/2008 12:02:13 PM
Body: RKO has announced that they’re setting up a production company to remake eight classic, Val Lewton-produced thriller/horror films over the course of the next two years. The movies to be remade include I Walked With a Zombie (a mystical-racist spin on Jane Eyre, one of Lewton’s many collaborations with director Jacques Tourneur), While the City Sleeps (star-studded late Fritz Lang), Lady Scarface (the one starring Judith Anderson and Eric Blore, not the porno of the same title), The Body Snatcher (most notable for a single scene showdown between Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff), Bedlam, The Leopard Man, The Monkey’s Paw, and The Seventh Victim. I’m a huge fan of the Lewton films, but they’re not the kind of thing you can really be precious about??????remaking Lewton’s library isn’t exactly like remaking Citizen Kane (which RKO coincidentally also holds the remake rights for). For the most part, Lewton was tasked with making micro-budget schlock that could be cranked out quickly and turn an even quicker profit, and it’s almost an accident that the films hold up as well as they do today. But it is a bit troubling that Twisted Pictures??????the people who brought us the Saw franchise??????are co-financing four of the remakes, including I Walked With a Zombie. Even leaving aside the fact that Zombie is the one Lewton film I’ve seen that could never be made in its original form today??????check out the “weird Black magic” double entendre in the original trailer above??????the thing that makes the Lewton films great is that most of the scares are psychological, rooted in the implication of things that we can’t actually know and don’t actually see. Can you a imagine a more unnatural bedfellow than the see-everything style of Saw? No one’s expecting a batch of B-horror to be reformulated into grade-A masterpieces, but I don’t want to see RKO bastardize these titles as mere cover for the churning of more generic torture porn, either. [Via Bloody-Disgusting] Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » karina
]]>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:02:13 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog2/1/2008 12:02:13 PM RKO has announced that they’re setting up a production company to remake eight classic, Val Lewton-produced thriller/horror films over the course of the next two years. The movies to be remade include I Walked With a Zombie (a mystical-racist spin on Jane Eyre, one of Lewton’s many collaborations with director Jacques Tourneur), While the City Sleeps (star-studded late Fritz Lang), Lady Scarface (the one starring Judith Anderson and Eric Blore, not the porno of the same title), The Body Snatcher (most notable for a single scene showdown between Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff), Bedlam, The Leopard Man, The Monkey’s Paw, and The Seventh Victim. I’m a huge fan of the Lewton films, but they’re not the kind of thing you can really be precious about??????remaking Lewton’s library isn’t exactly like remaking Citizen Kane (which RKO coincidentally also holds the remake rights for). For the most part, Lewton was tasked with making micro-budget schlock that could be cranked out quickly and turn an even quicker profit, and it’s almost an accident that the films hold up as well as they do today. But it is a bit troubling that Twisted Pictures??????the people who brought us the Saw franchise??????are co-financing four of the remakes, including I Walked With a Zombie. Even leaving aside the fact that Zombie is the one Lewton film I’ve seen that could never be made in its original form today??????check out the “weird Black magic” double entendre in the original trailer above??????the thing that makes the Lewton films great is that most of the scares are psychological, rooted in the implication of things that we can’t actually know and don’t actually see. Can you a imagine a more unnatural bedfellow than the see-everything style of Saw? No one’s expecting a batch of B-horror to be reformulated into grade-A masterpieces, but I don’t want to see RKO bastardize these titles as mere cover for the churning of more generic torture porn, either. [Via Bloody-Disgusting] Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » karina http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/2/1/24610.aspxPost By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 2/1/2008 12:00:50 PM
Body: RKO has announced that they’re setting up a production company to remake eight classic, Val Lewton-produced thriller/horror films over the course of the next two years. The movies to be remade include I Walked With a Zombie (a mystical-racist spin on Jane Eyre, one of Lewton’s many collaborations with director Jacques Tourneur), While the City Sleeps (star-studded late Fritz Lang), Lady Scarface (the one starring Judith Anderson and Eric Blore, not the porno of the same title), The Body Snatcher (most notable for a single scene showdown between Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff), Bedlam, The Leopard Man, The Monkey’s Paw, and The Seventh Victim. I’m a huge fan of the Lewton films, but they’re not the kind of thing you can really be precious about??????remaking Lewton’s library isn’t exactly like remaking Citizen Kane (which RKO coincidentally also holds the remake rights for). For the most part, Lewton was tasked with making micro-budget schlock that could be cranked out quickly and turn an even quicker profit, and it’s almost an accident that the films hold up as well as they do today. But it is a bit troubling that Twisted Pictures??????the people who brought us the Saw franchise??????are co-financing four of the remakes, including I Walked With a Zombie. Even leaving aside the fact that Zombie is the one Lewton film I’ve seen that could never be made in its original form today??????check out the “weird Black magic” double entendre in the original trailer above??????the thing that makes the Lewton films great is that most of the scares are psychological, rooted in the implication of things that we can’t actually know and don’t actually see. Can you a imagine a more unnatural bedfellow than the see-everything style of Saw? No one’s expecting a batch of B-horror to be reformulated into grade-A masterpieces, but I don’t want to see RKO bastardize these titles as mere cover for the churning of more generic torture porn, either. [Via Bloody-Disgusting] Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:00:50 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com2/1/2008 12:00:50 PM RKO has announced that they’re setting up a production company to remake eight classic, Val Lewton-produced thriller/horror films over the course of the next two years. The movies to be remade include I Walked With a Zombie (a mystical-racist spin on Jane Eyre, one of Lewton’s many collaborations with director Jacques Tourneur), While the City Sleeps (star-studded late Fritz Lang), Lady Scarface (the one starring Judith Anderson and Eric Blore, not the porno of the same title), The Body Snatcher (most notable for a single scene showdown between Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff), Bedlam, The Leopard Man, The Monkey’s Paw, and The Seventh Victim. I’m a huge fan of the Lewton films, but they’re not the kind of thing you can really be precious about??????remaking Lewton’s library isn’t exactly like remaking Citizen Kane (which RKO coincidentally also holds the remake rights for). For the most part, Lewton was tasked with making micro-budget schlock that could be cranked out quickly and turn an even quicker profit, and it’s almost an accident that the films hold up as well as they do today. But it is a bit troubling that Twisted Pictures??????the people who brought us the Saw franchise??????are co-financing four of the remakes, including I Walked With a Zombie. Even leaving aside the fact that Zombie is the one Lewton film I’ve seen that could never be made in its original form today??????check out the “weird Black magic” double entendre in the original trailer above??????the thing that makes the Lewton films great is that most of the scares are psychological, rooted in the implication of things that we can’t actually know and don’t actually see. Can you a imagine a more unnatural bedfellow than the see-everything style of Saw? No one’s expecting a batch of B-horror to be reformulated into grade-A masterpieces, but I don’t want to see RKO bastardize these titles as mere cover for the churning of more generic torture porn, either. [Via Bloody-Disgusting] Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/murder/MemberTagFilms.aspxmurder
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