Lon Chaney | Lon Chaney
Jun.04.2013
After four months of fundraising through Indiegogo, we’ve begun principal production of our Forgotten Hollywood Documentary, with Lionel Barrymore as our primary subject. Nervousa Films was on hand to capture first person interviews of Academy Award winning actress Margaret O’Brien; and Scott...
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May.08.2013
One of these days I will have to sit down and figure out how many books I have chosen to read because of movies I've seen, and how many authors I have finally understood and enjoyed because I saw a movie made from the book first. Conjure Wife is one of the former since I didn't know that there was...
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Mar.24.2013
Boy, they used to set the bar for screenplays low. Take “The Unholy Three” (1925), a Tod Browning-directed silent film. The premise – three ex-circus performers form a jewel-robbery ring – is fine. The cast is solid. Victor McLaglen, who will...
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Jun.24.2012
The day was colder than the last couple. In the apartment, at least.
Son Jason got us stirring with a visit in the early afternoon. He wanted to watch the SF Giants play the Oakland A's. He gave me an alternative, to watch BORN YESTERDAY on TCM. We watched a little of...
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Jun.06.2012
The greatest scribe of 20th Century science fiction is dead. Ray Douglas Bradbury was the most prolific author of the genre since Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. However, his influence into the field of speculative fiction was actually Edgar Allan Poe and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Much of...
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Nov.03.2011
What is it about Bach and organ music that makes it seems like Halloween? Or is it the tonal shadings and the image of Lon Chaney as The Phantom of the Opera? I don't know, but I bought an album with over 50 Halloween sounding classical pieces, and most of them are written for the organ.
When I...
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