Horrors of the Black Museum
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| Horrors of the Black Museum | |
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| Directed by | Arthur Crabtree |
| Produced by | Jack Greenwood |
| Written by | Herman Cohen |
| Starring | Michael Gough June Cunningham Graham Curnow Shirley Anne Field |
| Music by | Gerard Schurmann |
| Cinematography | Desmond Dickinson |
| Editing by | Geoffrey Muller |
| Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated (UK) American International Pictures (US) |
| Release date(s) | 29 April 1959 (US) |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959) is a British horror film starring Michael Gough and directed by Arthur Crabtree.[1]
It was the first film in what film critic David Pirie dubbed Anglo-Amalgamated's "Sadian trilogy" (the other two being Circus of Horrors and Peeping Tom), with an emphasis on sadism, cruelty and violence (with sexual undertones), in contrast to the supernatural horror of the Hammer films of the same era.
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[edit] Plot
Frustrated thriller writer Edmond Bancroft (Michael Gough) owns a private "black museum" of torture instruments. He hypnotizes his assistant Rick (Graham Curnow) to commit increasingly horrific crimes for Bancroft to write about.
[edit] Cast
- Michael Gough as Edmond Bancroft
- June Cunningham as Joan Berkley
- Graham Curnow as Rick
- Shirley Anne Field as Angela Banks
- Geoffrey Keen as Superintendent Graham
- Gerald Anderson as Dr. Ballan
- John Warwick as Inspector Lodge
- Beatrice Varley as Aggie
- Austin Trevor as Commissioner Wayne
- Malou Pantera as Peggy
- Howard Greene as Tom Rivers
- Dorinda Stevens as Gail Dunlap
- Stuart Saunders as Strength-Test Barker
- Hilda Barry as Woman in Hall
- Nora Gordon as Woman in Hall
- Vanda Godsell as Miss Ashton
- Gerald Case as Bookshop Manager
- Geoffrey Denton as Sergeant at Jail
- William Abney as Patrol Constable #1
- Howard Pays as Patrol Constable #2
- Frank Henderson as Medical Examiner
- Garard Green as Fingerprint Expert
- Sydney Bromley as Neighbour
- John Harvey as Man in Bookshop
- Marianne Stone as Neighbour
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