Silent Ozu - Three Crime Dramas (Eclipse #42, DVD) Visual Vengeance Director Roger Corman (The Tomb

Director Roger Corman (The Tomb of Ligeia) and screenwriter Richard Matheson (The Last Man on Earth) deliver a tongue-in-cheek take on Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous poem

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These vintage stag films or smokers as they were then called would be shown to an all-cash paying crowd

Silent Ozu - Three Crime Dramas (Eclipse #42, DVD) Visual Vengeance Director Roger Corman (The TombThe great Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu is best known for the stately, meditative domestic dramas he made after World War II. But during his first decade at Shochiku studios, where he dabbled in many genres, he put out a trio of precisely rendered, magnificently shot and edited silent crime films about the hopes, dreams, and loves of small time crooks. Heavily influenced in narrative and visual style by the American films that Ozu adored, these