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List Price: $29.98 Our Price: $26.99 You Save: $2.99 Features • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 28 June, 1946 DVD Release : 20 May, 2003 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | "It tells of strange things that some say are better left alone..." |
| I bought this double disc set from Anchor Bay for one very well regarded and respected "anthology" horror flick. And although "Dead of Night" was indeed everything it was cracked up to be, for me it was disappointing in two ways: 1.) The audio was more "horrid" than the tales of "horror" told therein, with every male voice sounding like "Leslie Howard on helium" and every female like "Billy Burke in a bubble"! 2.) The film destroyed all previous ignorant notions I had that Rod Serling and his writing staff on "Twilight Zone" were originator's, (despite the obvious "evil dummy" thing), when in fact they were merely a group of very creative/talented imitator's, (ie: "Room for one more..?") But neither of these little qualms of mine even mattered. It's very good!
However, as many others have previously stated, or like me have just discovered, the second truly remarkable film in this "2-Fer" that turned out to be Anchor Bay's "Ace up the sleeve" was a genuine "lost gem" of a film called "The Queen of Spades"! So, rather than describe the film's plot, (again!), or gush over its quality, (again!), or the extraorinary talent displayed by the film's cast and crew, (again!), I'll continue to quote the rest of the lines from the creepy old bookshop owner which I felt perfectly described what the characters, (and viewers!), were in for from the start: "This is a very rare book! I wouldn't recommend it to everyone... That's a lot, I know. But there are plenty of people who believe in things neither looked for nor heard of. What mean these premonitions, these hauntings, these aparitions, these tales of horror in a far sight in time and space? Believe me, there are things to be seen the eye has not seen and things to be heard the ear has not heard. Who knows what you might learn from it. Why, you might end up by gaining a fortune... Or losing your precious soul!" |
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