The editing feels like it was done to be watched on 1/2 speed. Makes sense when you find out he was face down in white powder

R C Sheriff's, Journey's End, but set in the air. I hope he was mentioned in the credits for this film, if not he's got a damn good case for a lawsuit.

Good stuff, also liked Racquel in the western Legend of the Walks Far Woman.

Well done Sir 📚☘️🇬🇧👍

I’m going to be honest, when I first watched this I thought it was rubbish, dull slow and nothing to hold my attention…. Admittedly I was 11 years old 😂

Couldn't agree more.

Great to see Paul Barber (Denzil in 'Only Fools'...) in an early role. Barber said in an interview that his part in the film as a police informer was, at the time, just "A day's work"; another bit part acting job his agent got him. He knew nothing of the part beforehand and was instructed to turn up to the set where his agent sat him in a nearby pub until needed and told him to learn his few lines. The filmed scenes we see were the first time Barber had met any of the actors and said that the violence of the scene, and especially Razors, frightened the life out of him.

I like this film mainly for the cast. For those of us born before decimilisation, there's something very heartwarming about seeing Peck, Moore, Niven and Howard leading the way in an adventure story. Not a great film, unfortunately, but a wonderful cast.

An odd film that I hadn't seen in a long time until you reviewed it. In some ways quite typical of those Amicus or Tigon anti-Hammer films of that time, and yet it has the gothic sort of plot, and cast, that looks very Hammer, and yet it looks and feels very different, grittier, more realistic perhaps. But I think I prefer the more colourful theatricality of a Hammer film, and see this one ad a bit of a misfire.

One of the best horror films ever made, a real one-off, almost a horror musical, beautifully well made, and above all else, superbly well written. As you suggest, Howie's unyielding, orthodox religiosity is initially juxtaposed unsympathetically against the happy go lucky frolicking pagans in their bucolic island hideaway, until we realise, all too late for the hapless Howie, that this merely conceals something dark and murderous. A film that entertains, frightens and also makes you think. Can't be bad. As it happens, I have also seen DIgby the Biggest Dog in the World. Not good.

Superb as usual Tony, I haven't seen this one but have seen "And Now the Horror Starts" , for pretty much the same reason you saw it! I even have a "copy" around somewhere.

Love the channel Tony. I have found several movies which have become my favourites and part of ny collection through it. I would like to ask how did you experience the early days of home video and the Video Nasty witchhunt? As someone who was way too young then - and not to mention, from Finland - but is interested in that era/subject I'd love if you'd share your insight, perhaps in a review of a Video Nasty.

This version has been cut. I first saw it at the cinema at Butlin's when I was nine (I believe it had a PG rating at the time) with my dad one rainy afternoon. Then again on TV as an adult. Both times showed Rosa's baby being physically thrown onto the fire- this new cut doesn't. Believe me, it's a scene that stays with you.

Brilliant film in my opinion.

America is honored by this American-made ANTI-war movie that proves to be the greatest war movie since "Bridge on the River Kwai"

I can only repeat what others said of "The Cross Of Iron" being the greatest war movie of them all. However I would like reviewers to look at an underseen and underrated war movie because it's thought of as a mere western : "Fort Massacre"(1958) with Joel McCrea

9:40 hypocrite's opinions

Back when the Left hated the CIA. Now they are the CIA. Amazing what 45 years does... everything has flipped

More good stuff Tony. I know of this film from reading the 1972 section of the superb Aurum Film Encyclopedia of Horror (published in 1985). Nice to have it literally fleshed out here.

Tony, I hope you are not tempted to see 'Alien: Romulus'. Stay strong. Remember that (like me leaving the screening of 'The Force Awakens'), you will just feel depressed if you go to see it. Good opening 30 minutes and then it just throws in all too familiar elements for no good reason (the consensus of the reviews I've watched).

Hi Tony. Having been raised on these types of horror films, I enjoy The Creeping Flesh. I dont care how ridiculous the subject matter, if Lee and Cushing take it seriously I am on board and Cushing in particular is awesome here. I really enjoy your reviews Tony and look forward to the next one.

Definitely worth a watch.

Next time give a spoiler alert

Very solid cast in a very solid film which oozes Victorian period and I half expected Sherlock Holmes to turn up

I could see a sequel featuring the monster. I wondered if the creature was the biblical Cain. Lee and Crushing were excellent as always. It would be fun to compare their roles together with their film Horror Express where they again played together but more friendly. I would like to see your review of Corridors of Blood. Lee again plays a Villain.

I have not seen this film-at least in its entirety. The ending of the film is ultimately (perhaps directly) lifted from The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919). There are a lot of similarities to Horror Express and Blood Beast Terror too. Thank you, Tony!

Nice one Tony. Cheers. Good to be reminded of this sweet little classic. I can not help but think that this film far outclasses so many of the recent big budget productions. We have; Excellent actors, an original story, an actual plot and a twist to round things off. This film did not cost US£250,000,000, with a marketing budget of US$120,000,000, multiple Press Junkets, Chat Show appearances and. TV Spots all over the shop. (Not forgetting the obligatory reshoots, rewrites, recasts, and whatnot). No, this was a straightforward production that didn't need all of that guff. No wonder we like this sort of thing. Keep up the good work old boy.

Great review Not sure I seen that one to catch up with Great review Tony as usual

thanks for the mention in the description, much appreciated :)

wow what a haunting ending..

I recently watched my second Jean Rollin film The Iron Rose (1973) and you should definitely give it a try T. it's one of the strangest, most surreal and atmospheric films I've ever seen, there's an inescapable sense of tension and forebode that never leaves the film, although I must warn you should you even consider watching this, it's a bit of a polarizing film, some despise it, some call it a masterpiece, whereas I fall somewhere in the middle, giving it a standard 7/10 but watching the film itself feels anything but standard, it's a curious, enigmatic puzzle of a film that I'm still attempting to wrap my head around, I'd love to hear your perspective on it, I could either see you loving or hating it, from my experience with his first two films he seems to blend atmospheric french arthouse cinema with grimy, exploitation films, of course this is just a recommendation, you could tell me to jog on or never watch it at all, I just felt it necessary to at least mention it to you and bring forth the possibility of a review for it since it's so obscure and forgotten.

Rented this movie from my local library a year ago. Really loved it. An epic movie.

I still have all of Sven Hassels books👍

I remember this being Empire magazines pick of direct to video films of that particular month. I watched it and really enjoyed it. Its long due a rewatch. Fantastic review Tony!

I've only watched parts of this movie. Roger Ebert considered it to be a forgotten gem.

Great piece about a great movie, I enjoyed it as an under age viewer and I absolutely love it as a 5Osomting cinema connoisseur 📽🎞🍿 Thank you for doing it creative justice, so yeah, to the damn cross it was nailed to, here's to Peckinpah's classic, Gruß 🍻✨

Really enjoying catching up on your older posts Tony. The gritty content of the crime and western film genres in the 70s is a reminder of when film makers were fearless. Nobody had to pander to the agendas of some North London based media elite or out of touch Hollywood types.

Thank you for taking this on and even trying to make a little bit of a case for it. THIS IS THE ONE MOVIE I EVER WALKED OUT ON, and almost immediately. I'd heard of people doing that and always wondered "But why? You've already committed your ticket and your time -- why would you do that?" Oh, but did I ever find out. It's true that it is one stacked cast -- more's the pity. Let me piece my memory back together of my brief viewing experience. First, the opening sequence did nothing for me, everything was feeling dreary from frame one. I instantly resented the corny little stings of music as the one character kept checking Mitchum out. Next, Camila Sternwood appeared. The Howard Hawks original had a huge cast which we may not remember so well, but at least they made wonderful impressions under masterful direction. But Candy Clark as Camila was painful -- and I hate to say that, because I otherwise love Candy Clark, especially as the conveniently crazy-driving semi-estranged wife of Roy Scheider in Blue Thunder. I could just eat Candy up. (Hey, it's a figure of speech.) But here, my ears nearly bled at her screeching -- and I can't imagine how the rest of it would have felt, with Clark actually having to spell out and make good on the whole murderously jealous nymphomaniac angle. (I would even dare to suggest that not everything in Chandler's book necessarily worked, requiring some adjustment to make any decent movie out of it. More on this theme of book adaptation later.) Then the line that Bogart smoothly almost sneaks past us in the Hawks movie -- "Someone should wean her, she's old enough" -- gets delivered by a Bob Mitchum as stiff as a cigar store Indian with all the unsubtlety of a sulfurous fart inside a bathyscape. He might as well be belting out "Beef -- it's what's for dinner!" from that old ad campaign. (And, no, while Farewell, My Lovely IS good, and Mitchum's good in it, I don't relax with him so easily as a hero, not after his Max Cady in the original Cape Fear, let alone his Harry Powell in Night of the Hunter. For me he has to earn it a little.) Then we meet Jimmy Stewart as General Sternwood, and at that point I winced so hard that I nearly squeezed my eyes shut. I admit it, I had to look up the name Charles Waldron just now, but at least Waldron's General Sternwood in the Hawks original WORKED, it was a fun, lively, engaging performance. Stewart was no fun; worse, I sensed that Stewart himself was having no fun. I sensed that this was a project in which actors figured "Hey, it's a remake of a great classic -- if we can at least say the lines, that will do all the magic for us." I think Stewart was when I bolted, figuring that if he was getting paid for this but not even having any fun, then I too was doomed. It' sounds like I made the right call, too. A Big Sleep without Dorothy Malone as the smartly coquettish bookstore owner -- no, no, forget that. I'm sad that the movie does indeed make sense, because for that I might have struggled through it. This whole business reminds me, oddly enough, of the respective movies 2001 and 2010. (Hey, I did mention Roy Scheider earlier.) 2001 infuriates many people, with its mythic pretensions and its refusal to answer any questions, while 2010 is (a bit unfairly) the lesser movie, even as it does everything in its power to answer everything, even providing a redemption arc for the HAL 9000. Maybe sometimes a story is better off being impenetrably murky, just so long as you can at least take it for a great ride. (Although even that is a bit unfair, because I happen to have mad respect for 2010.) In fact, I pose to you another challenge (unless you did this already, but I missed it). There was once a TV adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's The Dain Curse starring James Coburn. I dig it, but I couldn't piece the plot back together for you under pain of death. However, I have to wonder -- could it be done, a good version that spells everything out? I'd be interested in your opinion. Thanks, Tony.

That sword fight is probably the best ever. Rathbone was a great villain and yet a superb Sherlock Holmes. The whole cast was great. They certainty don't make em like Errol anymore.

this can be a good "remake " idea, some dark R rate movie

I was born in 1974 and love 70s movies. This is one of my favourites and i love its gritty nyc atmosphere, excellent performances and David Shires fantastic score. Your channel is the best thing on KZbin. Thank you for highlighting these incredible films!

An excellent horror film and yes, The Haunting is truly scary. They certainly got the house feel right.

I remember watching this when it first came out and still like it now. The issues didn't bother me then because it was of its time. Next time it's on tv I'll be there. I think it was Barry Foster, not Barry Newman, he was in Vanishing Point and was Petrocelli. Fond memories

I find this as disturbing as The Witch Finder General. I've always liked Diane Cilento , a true natural. Check out The Persuaders episode A Death In The Family, and she was also married to Sean Connery in the 60s

I thought this movie was pretty good

Albert Popwell appeared in all the Dirty Harry films and Tell Savalas had a deformed little finger. Its still worth watching anytime.

I never thought this would be reviewed. I saw this a couple of years ago and Whitman is a good actor but this is very forgettable. Most enjoyable though.

Watched this again yesterday. The last location is set on the Taman Pen. which is now the eastern end of Putin's Kerch Bridge connecting to Crimea. 1977 before videos i had to get my parents to take me to see this, on occasion dad had his hand over mum's eyes...

Ebert’s take was moronic! Great review as always.

John Wayne was very charming in his scenes with Geeson...