Night of the Eagle (1961)

Review: Night of the Eagle (1961)

Director: Sidney Hayers

Cast: Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Margaret Johnston, Anthony Nicholls, Colin Gordon,

Peter Wyngarde
Peter Wyngarde
Janet Blair
Janet Blair
Margaret Johnston
Margaret Johnston
Anthony Nicholls
Anthony Nicholls
Colin Gordon
Colin Gordon

Plot: A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices, and stop that foolishness. He isn't put off by her insistence that his professional rivals are working magic against him, and her protections are necessary to his career and life.

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Murder, witchcraft, doppelgangers and stranded astronauts from Imprint

Murder, witchcraft, doppelgangers and stranded astronauts from Imprint

A batch of new releases from Imprint in Australia introduced me to the first feature of Gordon Hessler, a noirish mystery called Catacombs (1965), and provided an opportunity to revisit Sidney Hayers’ excellent supernatural tale Night of […]

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