"This 1989 Howling entry gives horror and mystery clichés a stimulating twist. A mysterious Hungarian count invites nine celebrities and celebrities-in-training to attend the reopening of a Budapest castle after 500 years. What the group does not know is that the castle was sealed after a clan of werewolves committed suicide to prevent their familial evil from infecting the world. However, a baby survived, and the implication is that s ..."
"This 1989 Howling entry gives horror and mystery clichés a stimulating twist. A mysterious Hungarian count invites nine celebrities and celebrities-in-training to attend the reopening of a Budapest castle after 500 years. What the group does not know is that the castle was sealed after a clan of werewolves committed suicide to prevent their familial evil from infecting the world. However, a baby survived, and the implication is that s ..."
"An uneasy cross between a movie and a theater production, this version of Gilbert and Sullivan's masterpiece The Mikado is on the clumsy side. Obviously taped on a stage (there are just two settings, a town square and a landscape) but without an audience, it lacks the spark of live performance and the versatility of film. The action is weighed down by jejune attempts at comedy. When Nanki-Poo (disguised as a musician) receives the devas ..."
"In the Japanese town of Titipu, a wandering minstrel, Nanki-Poo, is searching for Yum-Yum, one of the "Three little maids from school" with whom he has fallen in love. But Yum-Yum is betrothed to Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner. Ko-Ko is under pressure from the absent Mikado to perform an execution and persuades the suicidal Nanki-Poo to be his victim. The fact that Nanki-Poo is in fact the heir to the throne of Japan creates an awkwar ..."
"A collection of the greatest hits of composer Arthur Sullivan and librettist W.S. Gilbert, whose comic operas have been delighting audiences around the world for more than a century. From the popular BBC series featuring music by the London Symphonic Orchestra and a host of international stars. Includes THE MIKADO, H.M.S. PINAFORE, THE GONDOLIERS, PATIENCE, and THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE."
"This video is one of the Opera World series of 12 Gilbert and Sullivan operettas produced for television in 1982. Aiming for a broad public, the series' producers assembled crossover casts of Savoyards, comedians, song-and-dance types, and Americans affecting British accents. The results are erratic, and H.M.S. Pinafore is as mixed as they come. Musically, it is of generally high quality (the opera singer Della Jones as Buttercup, for i ..."
"The Pirates of Penzance would seem to be one of the most indestructible of theatrical works, with its seamless parody and melodic brilliance. No material is surefire, however. In this lackluster version, the pleasures are sporadic at best. The production, originally shown on the BBC, is a nondaring affair that avoids any modern sensibility or satiric edge. Mabel's song "Poor Wand'ring One," a swipe at the trilling idiocies of opera, her ..."
"Ten of the most beloved and masterful light operas of our time come to life through remarkable performances by Keith Mitchell, Joel Grey, Vincent Price and many more. Includes H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, The Gondoliers, Patience, Iolanthe, Princess Ida, The Sorcerer, Ruddigore and The Yeoman of the Guard . 10 DVDs. 1982/color/19 hrs/NR/fullscreen."
"Tuneful and atmospheric, The Gondoliers comes closer to conventional operetta than most Gilbert and Sullivan works. Two young men learn that one of them is heir to a throne. But no one knows which is the prince and which is the gondolier, so they travel to the fictitious kingdom of Barataria to rule jointly. Sullivan's Italianate score--his most radiant--sets the tone, though there's a fair helping of Gilbert's trademark wit. The result ..."
"The Pirates of Penzance would seem to be one of the most indestructible of theatrical works, with its seamless parody and melodic brilliance. No material is surefire, however. In this lackluster version, the pleasures are sporadic at best. The production, originally shown on the BBC, is a nondaring affair that avoids any modern sensibility or satiric edge. Mabel's song "Poor Wand'ring One," a swipe at the trilling idiocies of opera ..."
"Tuneful and atmospheric, The Gondoliers comes closer to conventional operetta than most Gilbert & Sullivan works. Two young men learn that one of them is heir to a throne. But no one knows which is the prince and which is the gondolier, so they travel to the fictitious kingdom of Barataria to rule jointly. Sullivan's Italianate score--his most radiant--sets the tone, though there's a fair helping of Gilbert's trademark wit. The re ..."
"Tuneful and atmospheric, The Gondoliers comes closer to conventional operetta than most Gilbert & Sullivan works. Two young men learn that one of them is heir to a throne. But no one knows which is the prince and which is the gondolier, so they travel to the fictitious kingdom of Barataria to rule jointly. Sullivan's Italianate score--his most radiant--sets the tone, though there's a fair helping of Gilbert's trademark wit. The re ..."
Trail's End von EdwardSimons Paperback, 219 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2001 von Infinity Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-7414-0637-8, ISBN: 0-7414-0637-3
""Standing in the doorway with one leg of his trousers pulled up, was a gray-haired man. Judging from his appearance, he had to be in his mid-fifties. Blood was running down his leg from a wound, just below his knee. "I've been bit by a Red Fox, and it was frothing at the mouth." Al was intensely alert, "Where and when?" He asked quickly, looking at the wound on the stranger's leg. It was deep, the bleeding had stopped, but it was undoub ..."
The Saginaw Trails von EdwardSimons Paperback, 212 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2000 von Infinity Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-7414-0394-0, ISBN: 0-7414-0394-3
"Al and Sarah Swanson lived with Al's father along the shores of Lake Ontario. They'd been married less than a year, when the United States government opened Michigan Territory for homesteading. It was an opportunity for them to get into the wild, uncharted forests and build a home of their own. Their wildest dreams unfolded before them as they braved the hard, tough life in the wilderness. Al joined a logging crew and endured the bit ..."
"Anthony Perkins gets a thorough workout in Edge of Sanity, and it looks as if the actor decided to have fun with his wild role. Good decision, because this movie crosses the edge of sanity right away and sails off the cliff. The concept has possibilities: what if Robert Louis Stevenson's fictional Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were implicated in the crimes of Jack the Ripper? Perkins, of course, plays Jekyll as well as the demented "Jack" Hyd ..."
"Was author Whitley Strieber telling the truth about extraterrestrial visitations in his bestselling book, Communion? Perhaps no one can really prove or disprove it, making the enigma of Strieber himself more interesting than his allegations. That's precisely the angle taken by this film adaptation, in which Christopher Walken's richly eccentric performance becomes a fascinating portrait of something more important than rumors of ..."
"The Pirates of Penzance would seem to be one of the most indestructible of theatrical works, with its seamless parody and melodic brilliance. No material is surefire, however. In this lackluster version, the pleasures are sporadic at best. The production, originally shown on the BBC, is a nondaring affair that avoids any modern sensibility or satiric edge. Mabel's song "Poor Wand'ring One," a swipe at the trilling idiocies of opera ..."