(Download pdf) The Very Witching Time of Night: Dark Alleys of Classic Horror Cinema
• Gregory William Mank •
| #1706714 in Books | 2014-06-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.75 x6.75 x1.00l,.0 | File Name: 0786449551 | 444 pages
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Classic Hollywood History|By Brad Baker|Gregory Mank's "The Very Witching Time of Night" is not a film history, but a series of well-written essays on personalities and events from the early American, sound horror-movie cycle. It's good. Very good. The first chapter is a biography of 1931 "Dracula"s Helen Chandler, a delicate, disturbed actress who abused alcohol, married thre||"Mank yokes a fan boy's obsessive enthusiasm with meticulous research. And after 35 years of research and ten books, he has navigated many quirky side streets off the horror film main drag...beautiful black-and-white production stills throughout, Mank and McF
The book covers unusual and often surprising areas of horror film history: (1) The harrowingly tragic life of Dracula's leading lady, Helen Chandler, as intimately remembered by her sister-in-law. (2) John Barrymore's 1931 horror vehicles Svengali and The Mad Genius, and their rejection by the public. (3) The disastrous shooting of 1933's Murders in the Zoo, perhaps the most racy of all Pre-Code horror films. (4) A candid interview with the son of legendary horror star ...
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