When Your Husband Drives You Crazy: the two versions of GASLIGHT

Posted on July 29th, 2012 by Adam-Troy Castro

  First Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro Gaslight aka Angel Street, The Murder in Thorton Street,  A Strange Case Of Murder  (1940). Directed by Thorold Dickinson. Screenplay by A.R. Rawlinson and Bridget Boland, from the play by Patrick Hamilton. Starring Anton Walbrook and Diana Wyngard.  84 minutes. ** 1/2 Gaslight (1944). Directed by George Cukor. Screenplay […]

Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Angela Lansbury, Anton Walbrook, Charles Boyer, Diana Wyngard, Elijah Wood, Gaslight, George Cukor, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, McCauley Culkin, The Good Son, The Maltese Falcon, The Poseidon Adventure, The Third Man, The Three Musketeers, Thriller, Tony Curtis

Twenty-Two Musketeers [Part Two]: Wherefore art Thou, ‘Definitive’?

Posted on November 8th, 2011 by Adam-Troy Castro

All for one and one for all. First Commentary (continued) by Adam-Troy Castro The Three Musketeers (1935). Directed by Rowland V. Lee. Written by Rowland V. Lee and Dudley Nichols, from the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Starring Walter Abel, Ian Keith, others. 97 minutes ** The Three Musketeers aka The Singing Musketeer (1939). Directed by […]

Tags: Angela Lansbury, Back to the Future, Buster Keaton, Charlie Sheen, Charlton Heston, Christopher Lee, Don Ameche, Faye Dunaway, Gene Kelly, Ian Keiith, Jackie Chan, John Wayne, June Allyson, Lana Turner, Lord Of the Rings, Michael York, Milla Jovovich, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Rebecca DeMornay, Star Wars, The Adventures Of Don Juan, The Adventures of Marco Polo, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Beatles, The Marx Brothers, The Matrix, The Ritz Brothers, The Three Musketeers, The Three Stooges, Tim Curry, Van Heflin, Vincent price, Walter Abel

Twenty-Two MUSKETEERs (Part One): or, The Ritzes Putting On You

Posted on October 30th, 2011 by Adam-Troy Castro

All for one, and one for all.   First Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro The Three Musketeers (1935). Directed by Rowland V. Lee. Written by Rowland V. Lee and Dudley Nichols, from the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Starring Walter Abel, Ian Keith, others. 97 minutes ** The Three Musketeers aka The Singing Musketeer (1939). Directed by Allan […]

Tags: Angela Lansbury, Buster Keaton, Charlie Sheen, Charlton Heston, Christopher Lee, Don Ameche, Faye Dunaway, Gene Kelly, Ian Keiith, Jackie Chan, John Wayne, June Allyson, Lana Turner, Michael York, Milla Jovovich, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Rebecca DeMornay, The Beatles, The Marx Brothers, The Ritz Brothers, The Three Musketeers, The Three Stooges, Tim Curry, Van Heflin, Vincent price, Walter Abel