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Trailers from Hell: John Landis on Kazan's Public Health Noir 'Panic in the Streets'

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Elia Kazan Week! concludes at Trailers from Hell with director John Landis introducing Kazan's public health noir "Panic in the Streets," noting that "before 'Contagion,' before 'Outbreak,' there was this scaryfying 50s germfest."

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November 9, 2012 1:10 PM
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Trailers from Hell: Dan Ireland on Kazan's 'Splendor in the Grass' with Natalie Wood & Warren Beatty

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Elia Kazan Week! continues at Trailers from Hell, today with director Dan Ireland introducing Kazan's beloved teen romance "Splendor in the Grass," starring Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood as star-crossed lovers in 1920s Kansas.

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November 7, 2012 12:25 PM
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Trailers from Hell: Josh Olson on Kazan's Biting Masterpiece 'A Face in the Crowd'

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Elia Kazan Week! begins at Trailers from Hell with screenwriter Josh Olson introducing Elia Kazan's brilliant and bitter showbiz sendup "A Face in the Crowd," starring a never-better Andy Griffith as charismatic, monstrous media sensation Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes.

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November 5, 2012 12:25 PM
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Trailers from Hell: Joe Dante on Obscure Christopher Lee Chiller 'Nothing But the Night'

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Christopher Lee Halloween! week concludes at Trailer from Hell with director and TFH creator Joe Dante introducing "Nothing But the Night," one of the least-seen Lee-Cushing vehicles.

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November 2, 2012 11:40 AM
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Trailers from Hell: Joe Dante on Lee & Cushing Team-Up 'Horror Express'

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Christopher Lee Halloween! week continues at Trailers from Hell with director and TFH creator Joe Dante introducing "Horror Express," calling the film "one of the most satisfying screen pairings of longtime friends Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing."

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October 31, 2012 12:40 PM
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Trailers from Hell: Joe Dante on Christopher Lee Bloodsucker 'Taste the Blood of Dracula'

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Christopher Lee Halloween! week begins at Trailers from Hell with director and TFH creator Joe Dante introducing the R-rated "Taste the Blood of Dracula"...

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October 29, 2012 12:06 PM
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Trailers from Hell: Adam Rifkin on One of Kubrick's Best, 'The Shining'

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Pre-Halloween Horrors! week concludes at Trailers from Hell with writer-director Adam Rifkin introducing Stanley Kubrick's tour-de-force in domestic horror, "The Shining."

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October 26, 2012 12:53 PM
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Trailers from Hell: Joe Dante on 1958's Low-Budget Chiller 'I Bury the Living'

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Pre-Halloween Horrors! week continues at Trailers from Hell, today with director and TFH creator Joe Dante introducing famed B-director Albert Band's bare-bones chiller "I Bury the Living," starring TV star Richard Boone and Theodore Bikel ("My Fair Lady").

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October 24, 2012 12:19 PM
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Trailers from Hell: John Landis on UK-Banned, 1930s Horror Classic 'Island of Lost Souls'

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Pre-Halloween Horrors! week begins at Trailers from Hell with director John Landis introducing 1932's "Island of Lost Souls," starring Charles Laughton as the gleefully maniacal Dr. Moreau overseeing his House of Pain, and Bela Lugosi as "part man... part beast!"

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October 22, 2012 4:42 PM
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Trailers from Hell: 'The Prize' with Paul Newman

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Joe Dante leads us through Cold War melodrama "The Prize" (1963), starring Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson and Elke Sommer. Adapted by Ernest Lehman from the Irving Wallace potboiler set during the Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm, Lehman borrows liberally from his own Hitchcock classic "North by Northwest," which also stars Leo G. Carroll.