brill old movie, on telly, Melbin, this weekend!
Melbourne people! (also, it belatedly occurs to me, as this will be on the ABC, mayhap other states will have it, too - check yer guides!) Late this Sunday night - or very early this Monday morning, if you prefer - Channel 2 is repeating a wonderful, wonderful movie from 1933 called The Ghoul.
This movie was thought to be completely lost for decades and decades and oh how happy it makes me to say that we can still see it in all its glory!
The imdb.com page for The Ghoul has a very excellent review and tells a bit more about its loss and re-discovery. Well worth a read.
The Ghoul stars Boris Karlof and a fantastic support cast including Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Sir Ralph Richardson. And it's funny. I don't mean the type of funny that old horror movies can so often be, where you're laughing because it's all so hokey and cringeful and all that. I mean this script is sophisticated and genuinely amusing and the actors all pick it up and run with it. :)
One of the writers who worked on the adaptation of the screenplay was Roland Pertwee. Yes - PERTWEE. Father of Jon and Michael, uncle of Bill, grandfather of Sean. Talented bloody family, those Pertwees.
So, yeah - if you're up late on Sunday night, or you've got a spare video to chuck in the VCR before you toddle off to bed, catch up with The Ghoul. A wonderful Thirties movie.
This movie was thought to be completely lost for decades and decades and oh how happy it makes me to say that we can still see it in all its glory!
The imdb.com page for The Ghoul has a very excellent review and tells a bit more about its loss and re-discovery. Well worth a read.
The Ghoul stars Boris Karlof and a fantastic support cast including Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Sir Ralph Richardson. And it's funny. I don't mean the type of funny that old horror movies can so often be, where you're laughing because it's all so hokey and cringeful and all that. I mean this script is sophisticated and genuinely amusing and the actors all pick it up and run with it. :)
One of the writers who worked on the adaptation of the screenplay was Roland Pertwee. Yes - PERTWEE. Father of Jon and Michael, uncle of Bill, grandfather of Sean. Talented bloody family, those Pertwees.
So, yeah - if you're up late on Sunday night, or you've got a spare video to chuck in the VCR before you toddle off to bed, catch up with The Ghoul. A wonderful Thirties movie.