Brian Donlevy (February 9, 1901 – April 6, 1972)
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The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) - Trade ad
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The Quatermass Xperiment will be released on Blu-ray on December 12 via Kino Lorber. The 1955 British sci-fi horror film includes reversible artwork featuring its alternate US title, The Creeping Unknown.
Val Guest (The Day the Earth Caught Fire) directs from a script he co-wrote with Richard H. Landau (The Black Hole), based on the 1955 BBC serial from Nigel Kneale. Brian Donlevy, Richard Wordsworth, Jack Warner, David King-Wood, Margia Dean, and Maurice Kaufmann star.
Special features - including an interview with master of horror John Carpenter - are listed below.
Special features:
Audio commentary by film historian Gary Gerani (new)
Audio commentary by director Val Guest, moderated by film historian Marcus Hearn
Interview with filmmaker John Carpenter
Interview with director Val Guest
QX: From Reality to Fiction featurette
QX: Comparing the Versions featurette
Trailers From Hell with Ernest Dickerson
Alternate main title
Theatrical trailer
A spacecraft returns to Earth with a frightening surprise on board. Two of the ship's three astronauts have mysteriously vanished, while the third is sick with an unidentifiable illness. While doctors try to help the third man recover, an investigation takes place to figure out just what happened to his comrades. As it turns out, the survivor’s body has been taken over by an alien fungus that needs blood to survive. After the astronaut escapes from the hospital, he transforms into a monster, attacking everyone who gets in its way. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard detective Lomax (Jack Warner) and Professor Bernard Quatermass (Brian Donlevy), a determined scientist, attempt to track down the creature before it finds new victims.
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American poster for "Enemy from Space" AKA "Quatermass II" (1957)
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𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒈 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒃𝒐 (1955):
Brian Donlevy was an actor who could work successfully in any genre. Here, he's a backstabbing hood with a hearing problem.
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Brian Donlevy-Ella Raines "Impacto" (Impact) 1949, de Arthur Lubin.
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From the Golden Age of Television
Series Premiere
Dangerous Assignment - The Alien Smuggler Story - NBC - February 13, 1950
Action / Adventure
Running Time: 30 minutes
Written by Robert Ryf
Produced by Harold E. Knox
Directed by Bill Karn
Stars:
Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell
Herb Butterfield as Commissioner
Jane Adams as Maria Delgada
Paul Marion as Bogota
Ralph Moody as Pimentel
Jan Arvan as Lt. Vierra
Tiny Stowe as Perez
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Quatermass 2 (1957)
aka Enemy From Space
Hammer Film Productions
Dir. Val Guest
Brian Donlevy as Professor Bernard Quatermass
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Arthur Lubin’s IMPACT, starring Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker, and Anna May Wong, hit theaters 75 years ago today.
Arthur Lubin’s IMPACT, starring Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker, and Anna May Wong, hit theaters 75 years ago today.
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Hangmen Also Die
Because we were at war with Germany, Bertolt Brecht was credited with the less Teutonic “Bert” for Fritz Lang’s HANGMEN ALSO DIE (1943, TCM, Hulu, Prime, Tubi, YouTube). He was only credited for co-writing the story with Lang, though later scholars have suggested he had much more influence over the writing than previously thought. Shot when the public had no knowledge of who had killed Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi’s commander in Bohemia and Moravia (now the Czech Republic), the film ascribes the assassination to a Czech doctor (Brian Donlevy) who’s unwittingly helped in his initial escape by the requisite sweet young thing (Anna Lee). When the Nazis fail to find the killer, they take hundreds of Czechs hostage, including Lee’s father (Walter Brennan), and start executing them until the killer comes forth.
There are lengthy discussions of whether Donlevy should sacrifice himself to save the hostages that smack of Brechtian philosophizing, particularly since there’s no right answer. There are also places where the Resistance is shown to be almost as ruthless as their occupiers, particularly a scene in which a crowd tries to stop Lee from going to the Gestapo with what she knows. But there are also a lot of complications involving Lee’s fiancé (Dennis O’Keefe), who thinks she’s having an affair with Donlevy, that reek of Hollywood. Fortunately, whenever the action flags, there’s a Lang touch — a quirk or gesture that gives a minor character more of an identity, rapid cutting to capture the plot’s repercussions on the city, a murder committed in silence and depicted through details— to liven things up.
Lee is lovely, as usual. She’s both natural and committed. Donlevy has good moments but suffers in the debate scenes, where he doesn’t seem to know what to do. The film also has strong support from Brennan along with Nana Bryant as his wife, Margaret Wycherly as his sister, Gene Lockhart as a Nazi informant, Alexander Granach as head of the Gestapo, Jonathan Hale and Byron Foulger as Resistance leaders and Lionel Stander as a Resistance fighter. German actor Hans Heinrich von Twardowski only has a few moments as Heydrich, but his body language as he sadistically dominates his underlings provides everything you need to understand the monster who helped craft the Final Solution. James Wong Howe did the cinematography and captures some wonderfully stark black-and-white images. And Brecht’s frequent collaborator, Hans Eisler did the effective score, including music for a Resistance song that runs through the film’s latter half.
Co-writer John Wexley appealed to the Writer’s Guild for sole credit and won, although at least one member of the jury called him a “credit-stealer” and said he’d only won on a technicality. Years later, HUAC labeled the film Communist propaganda, and its sole credited screenwriter was blacklisted. I think there’s a moral there somewhere.
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the glass key |1942|
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