Showing posts with label Trailer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trailer. Show all posts
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Fill her up and drive her in!!!
In 1967, the Drive-In cinema's were still very populair in the USA with often movies specially made for that market like Carnival of Souls! Other movies like the Wicker Man from England and Danger: Diabolik! from Italy had a limited run in general cinema's and ended their career several months later in Drive In's. This clip shows the trailers for the three before mentioned movies together with the Intermission reel luring the audience in buying the snacks like popcorn, cola's, hot dogs at the snack bar of the Drive In.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Trailer From Hell - "Danger: Diabolik!"
"Trailers From Hell" showcases classic-era movie "Previews of Coming Attractions" with particular emphasis on the lurid, the extreme and the outrageous. This one is for the movie "Danger: Diabolik!" by director Mario Bava with John Phillip Law as "Diabolik" and Marisa Mell as "Eva Kant". The reviewer is writer and director Edgar Wright, known for his movie "Shaun of the Dead" in 2004. Notice how he pronounces the word "Diabolik" sounding as "Diabolique". Well, now we have a third way of saying the name of the dark Italian fumetti hero! Does anyone have another pronounciation of it?
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
No chemicals on my hair!
In 1963 Marisa Mell had already 10 roles on her C.V. in Germany and her native Austria. It was now time to start an international carreer. She landed the part of Françoise Fayol in Ken Russel's 1964 movie "French Dressing", a British 
production about a deck-chair attendant at a British fictional resort promoting a film festival featuring a French blond sexpot. Not an important part but it was an international production in the UK. So the German teenage magazine "Bravo" put her on the cover of their August 06, 1963 issue (nr. 32). In a little article in the
back of the magazine Bravo told their readers that Marisa Mell was now shooting a movie in England and was refusing to dye her hair blond as the producers asked. Marisa's argument was that she didn't want to damage her beautiful thick brown hair with chemicals. A blond wig was the only solution. As seen on the cover of the June, 1964 issue of "ABC Film Review" it was a horrible looking thing that ruined her personality as an actress and her credibility as character in the movie. The film was a disaster! Wearing a blond wig during her carreer would not be restricted to French Dres
sing alone. A few years later in 1967 under the direction of Mario Bava, Marisa Mell would replace the real blond French actress Catherine Deneuve as Eva Kant in the movie Danger: Diabolik!. In the Italian fumetti Diabolik, the partner of the master criminal, Lady Eva Kant was a beautiful blond women of aristocracy! So the actress had also to be blond in the movie but again Marisa did not give in to become blond. "No chemi
cals on my hair!" For the second time a wig had to turn a dark haired Marisa into a blond haired Eva Kant. This time the wig was of much better quality and had a much more natural look and feeling. At the end of the shooting Marisa got so fond of the wig that she took it home as a souvenir. Strangely enough it would not be the end of the now famous wig. Two years later the wig appeared again in the 1967 Italian film "Una sull'altra" by director Lucio Fulci. In this giallo Marisa played a double role and her character had to have blond hair to make a distinction for her other character. At the end of the movie, the wig had even a crucial role in the plot with a twist ending.
production about a deck-chair attendant at a British fictional resort promoting a film festival featuring a French blond sexpot. Not an important part but it was an international production in the UK. So the German teenage magazine "Bravo" put her on the cover of their August 06, 1963 issue (nr. 32). In a little article in the
back of the magazine Bravo told their readers that Marisa Mell was now shooting a movie in England and was refusing to dye her hair blond as the producers asked. Marisa's argument was that she didn't want to damage her beautiful thick brown hair with chemicals. A blond wig was the only solution. As seen on the cover of the June, 1964 issue of "ABC Film Review" it was a horrible looking thing that ruined her personality as an actress and her credibility as character in the movie. The film was a disaster! Wearing a blond wig during her carreer would not be restricted to French Dres
sing alone. A few years later in 1967 under the direction of Mario Bava, Marisa Mell would replace the real blond French actress Catherine Deneuve as Eva Kant in the movie Danger: Diabolik!. In the Italian fumetti Diabolik, the partner of the master criminal, Lady Eva Kant was a beautiful blond women of aristocracy! So the actress had also to be blond in the movie but again Marisa did not give in to become blond. "No chemi
cals on my hair!" For the second time a wig had to turn a dark haired Marisa into a blond haired Eva Kant. This time the wig was of much better quality and had a much more natural look and feeling. At the end of the shooting Marisa got so fond of the wig that she took it home as a souvenir. Strangely enough it would not be the end of the now famous wig. Two years later the wig appeared again in the 1967 Italian film "Una sull'altra" by director Lucio Fulci. In this giallo Marisa played a double role and her character had to have blond hair to make a distinction for her other character. At the end of the movie, the wig had even a crucial role in the plot with a twist ending.
Danger: Diabolik - Trailer (Mario BAVA)
Una sull'altra - Marisa Mell Striptease (Lucio FULCI)
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