TV. It’s all the same isn’t it? Switch on the gogglebox at any point and you’re basically confronted with the same show in various guises. Singing contests, dancing contests, afternoon quizzes. They’re all the same. It’s like there’s only three original shows out there and everything else that fills up […]
Anthony Quinn
Cinema Eclectica 85 – Time Skips and Road Trips
On this highly mobile episode we take a look at Jacques Tourneur’s “Cat People”, Paul Newman and Orson Welles in “The Long Hot Summer”, Stanley Kramer’s “The Secret of Santa Vittoria” and cult British Horror “Psychomania”. After that we hand over to our past selves for our Feature Presentation – […]
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) A beautifully photographed diamond in the rough (Review)
Two years after he dropped the critically lauded Sidney Poitier picture, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Stanley Kramer flew over to Italy to begin what-would-be his next big feature, an adaptation of Robert Crichton’s first novel, The Secret of Santa Vittoria. Kramer, the acclaimed director behind the courtroom drama, Judgement […]