The cordyceps fungal infection of "The Last of Us" may be the hottest infestation on television, but lest we forget John Wyndham's groundbreaking novel "The Day of the Triffids," which featured a tall, mobile, carnivorous plant species hellbent on eating us all. If the title sounds familiar, it's likely due to the film of the same name by Steve Sekely and Freddie Francis, or it's from singing the line "and I really got hot when I saw Janette Scott fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills," in the song "Science Fiction (Double Feature)" from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
Johan Renck, director of the critically acclaimed HBO limited series, "Chernobyl" has been announced by The Hollywood Reporter as the latest to tackle Wyndham's novel, with a new series adaptation for Prime Video. Amazon Studios snagged the rights to the novel, looking to adapt the story as a collection of miniseries.
Johan Renck, director of the critically acclaimed HBO limited series, "Chernobyl" has been announced by The Hollywood Reporter as the latest to tackle Wyndham's novel, with a new series adaptation for Prime Video. Amazon Studios snagged the rights to the novel, looking to adapt the story as a collection of miniseries.
- 3/1/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
“I drifted into Prc and couldn’t get out.” — Edgar G. Ulmer In the early 1930s, a wave of prominent directors fleeing Germany had found success at the major or second-tier studios; only rarely were they forced to make films at the low-budget studios found on the so-called Poverty Row. The next generation was too late—if Fritz Lang thought Rko was squalid, it was because he had little idea of the depredations suffered by, for instance, an István Székely, a Franz Wysbar, or, briefly, […]...
- 3/27/2019
- by Christopher Small
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
“I drifted into Prc and couldn’t get out.” — Edgar G. Ulmer In the early 1930s, a wave of prominent directors fleeing Germany had found success at the major or second-tier studios; only rarely were they forced to make films at the low-budget studios found on the so-called Poverty Row. The next generation was too late—if Fritz Lang thought Rko was squalid, it was because he had little idea of the depredations suffered by, for instance, an István Székely, a Franz Wysbar, or, briefly, […]...
- 3/27/2019
- by Christopher Small
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Originally released as Hollow Triumph (easily the more poetically layered metaphor of a moniker), Steve Sekely’s 1948 film noir classic The Scar lapsed into public domain and has been floating around in various subpar transfers for several decades.
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- 5/10/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Director Steve Sekely’s hardboiled film noir leans heavily on the talents of star-producer Paul Henreid and camera ace John Alton — the three of them whip up the best gimmick-driven noir thriller of the late ‘forties. Strained coincidences and unlikely events mean nothing when this much talent is concentrated in one movie. It’s also a terrific show for star Joan Bennett, who expresses all the disappointment, despair and angst of a noir femme who knows she’s in for more misery.
The Scar (Hollow Triumph)
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1948 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 83 min. / Street Date April 18, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz, Leslie Brooks, John Qualen, Mabel Paige, Herbert Rudley, George Chandler, Robert Bice, Henry Brandon, Franklyn Farnum, Thomas Browne Henry, Norma Varden, Jack Webb.
Cinematography: John Alton
Film Editor: Fred Allen
Original Music: Sol Kaplan
Written by Daniel Fuchs from a...
The Scar (Hollow Triumph)
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1948 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 83 min. / Street Date April 18, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz, Leslie Brooks, John Qualen, Mabel Paige, Herbert Rudley, George Chandler, Robert Bice, Henry Brandon, Franklyn Farnum, Thomas Browne Henry, Norma Varden, Jack Webb.
Cinematography: John Alton
Film Editor: Fred Allen
Original Music: Sol Kaplan
Written by Daniel Fuchs from a...
- 4/22/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Douglas Sirk's first American movie came out so well that Prc sold it to MGM, earning Sirk a promotion out of the Poverty Row studios. John Carradine is excellent - and underplays! -- as the Hangman of Prague who moonlights as a depraved sex criminal. But the context in this wartime propaganda movie is serious -- it commemorates the Nazi murder of an entire Czech town. Hitler's Madman DVD-r The Warner Archive Collection 1943 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 84 min. / Street Date December 1, 2015 / available through the WBshop / 18.95 Starring Patricia Morrison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Howard Freeman, Ralph Morgan, Ludwig Stössel, Edgar Kennedy, Al Shean, Elizabeth Russell, Jimmy Conlin, Ava Gardner, Natalie Draper, Victor Kilian, Otto Reichow, Peter van Eyck, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Blanch Yurka. Cinematography (Eugen Schüfftan, credited as Technical Advisor), Jack Greenhalgh Film Editor Dan Milner Second unit and uncredited production designer Edgar G. Ulmer Original Music...
- 12/22/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Lady in the Death House
Written by Harry O. Hoyt
Directed by Steve Sekely
U.S.A., 1944
Surrounded by friends and colleagues and sharing drinks, psychologist and criminologist Charles Finch (Lionel Atwill) shares his thoughts on a recent adventure that involved two lovers, the brilliant Dr. Dwight ‘Brad’ Bradley and state attorney’s secretary, Mary Kirk Logan (Jean Parker). The two met at a party one night but, unbeknownst to most, Mary and her younger sister Suzy (Marcia Mae Jones) owe a gangster a lot of money in a dirty blackmailing scheme. On the night when the thug comes to Mary’s apartment for a large payment, he is somehow murdered by a nasty thump on the head, despite that Mary had locked herself in her room. Now the dishevelled woman is guilty of killing the loan shark and awaiting the electric chair…with Brad being the state executioner! Finch...
Written by Harry O. Hoyt
Directed by Steve Sekely
U.S.A., 1944
Surrounded by friends and colleagues and sharing drinks, psychologist and criminologist Charles Finch (Lionel Atwill) shares his thoughts on a recent adventure that involved two lovers, the brilliant Dr. Dwight ‘Brad’ Bradley and state attorney’s secretary, Mary Kirk Logan (Jean Parker). The two met at a party one night but, unbeknownst to most, Mary and her younger sister Suzy (Marcia Mae Jones) owe a gangster a lot of money in a dirty blackmailing scheme. On the night when the thug comes to Mary’s apartment for a large payment, he is somehow murdered by a nasty thump on the head, despite that Mary had locked herself in her room. Now the dishevelled woman is guilty of killing the loan shark and awaiting the electric chair…with Brad being the state executioner! Finch...
- 11/13/2015
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
DVD Release Date: March 11, 2014
Price: DVD $11.98
Studio: Film Chest
Paul Henreid takes his scar seriously in Hollow Triumph.
The under-appreciated 1948 film noir crime drama Hollow Triumph arrives from Film Chest with a full high-definition restoration taken from the original 35mm film elements.
When med school dropout-turned-master criminal John Muller (Paul Henreid, Casablanca) puts together a major casino heist, not everything goes as planned. The cops don’t know he was behind it, but, unfortunately, Rocky Stansyck (Thomas Browne Henry, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers), a vindictive gangland casino owner, figures it out. In order to “disappear,” Muller assumes the identity of a psychiatrist, Dr. Bartok (Henreid again, in a dual role), requiring him to scar his face to match Bartok’s … resulting in unforeseen consequences.
Also known as The Man Who Murdered Himself and The Scar, the film co-stars Joan Bennett (Secret Beyond the Door) and Eduard Franz and is...
Price: DVD $11.98
Studio: Film Chest
Paul Henreid takes his scar seriously in Hollow Triumph.
The under-appreciated 1948 film noir crime drama Hollow Triumph arrives from Film Chest with a full high-definition restoration taken from the original 35mm film elements.
When med school dropout-turned-master criminal John Muller (Paul Henreid, Casablanca) puts together a major casino heist, not everything goes as planned. The cops don’t know he was behind it, but, unfortunately, Rocky Stansyck (Thomas Browne Henry, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers), a vindictive gangland casino owner, figures it out. In order to “disappear,” Muller assumes the identity of a psychiatrist, Dr. Bartok (Henreid again, in a dual role), requiring him to scar his face to match Bartok’s … resulting in unforeseen consequences.
Also known as The Man Who Murdered Himself and The Scar, the film co-stars Joan Bennett (Secret Beyond the Door) and Eduard Franz and is...
- 2/11/2014
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
The Scar
Written by Daniel Fuchs
Directed by Steve Sekely
USA, 1948
It can be quite strange how an original idea conjured up at the outset of a new project can go awry. A clever concept is one thing, but building a cohesive, interesting story around it is a much taller challenge. A good, imaginative story, when mishandled by creative team members not on the same page, can sour very quickly, the fate nearly suffered by the 1948 noir The Scar, also known as Hollow Triumph in the United Kingdom upon its theatrical release.
John Muller (Paul Henreid), a brilliant man who studied psychology and all ailments afflicting the mind, has been released from prison after serving a term for practicing without a license with a job opportunity at a medical supplies company. From the moment he walks out of the prison’s walls, John concocts a heist that will land himself...
Written by Daniel Fuchs
Directed by Steve Sekely
USA, 1948
It can be quite strange how an original idea conjured up at the outset of a new project can go awry. A clever concept is one thing, but building a cohesive, interesting story around it is a much taller challenge. A good, imaginative story, when mishandled by creative team members not on the same page, can sour very quickly, the fate nearly suffered by the 1948 noir The Scar, also known as Hollow Triumph in the United Kingdom upon its theatrical release.
John Muller (Paul Henreid), a brilliant man who studied psychology and all ailments afflicting the mind, has been released from prison after serving a term for practicing without a license with a job opportunity at a medical supplies company. From the moment he walks out of the prison’s walls, John concocts a heist that will land himself...
- 10/4/2013
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
Paul Henreid: Hollow Triumph aka The Scar tonight Turner Classic Movies’ Paul Henreid film series continues this Tuesday evening, July 16, 2013. Of tonight’s movies, the most interesting offering is Hollow Triumph / The Scar, a 1948 B thriller adapted by Daniel Fuchs (Panic in the Streets, Love Me or Leave Me) from Murray Forbes’ novel, and in which the gentlemanly Henreid was cast against type: a crook who, in an attempt to escape from other (and more dangerous) crooks, impersonates a psychiatrist with a scar on his chin. Joan Bennett, mostly wasted in a non-role, is Henreid’s leading lady. (See also: “One Paul Henreid, Two Cigarettes, Four Bette Davis-es.”) The thriller’s director is Hungarian import Steve Sekely, whose Hollywood career consisted chiefly of minor B fare. In fact, though hardly a great effort, Hollow Triumph was probably the apex of Sekely’s cinematic output in terms of prestige...
- 7/17/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert's Ghost House Pictures seems to have a bit of a gap in it's upcoming slate but it appears that the previously talked about 2012 release of 'Dibbuk Box' has officially got itself a new director in the form of Danish writer/helmer Ole Bornedal ('Vikaren' Aka 'The Substitute'). The 'based on 'apparent' true events' tale of a haunted wine cabinet was picked up by Ghost House about 6 years ago now so it's nice to see some progress at last. Juliet Snowden and Stiles White penned the script which was acquired in March. The new project is based on an article from the Los Angeles Times by Leslie Gornstein called 'Jinx in a Box,' about an antique wooden box sold on eBay (in February 2004) that contained an evil spirit and was brought to America by a Holocaust survivor after WWII.
- 10/22/2010
- Horror Asylum
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
It was just another day until spectacularly bright meteorites tore through the sky, blinding the vast majority of Earth's population and releasing evil asparagus-like creatures bent on world domination -- it was 'The Day of the Triffids!' Originally a novel by John Wyndham and then later a 1962 Steve Sekely film, 'The Day of the Triffids' was a gem of Cold War sci-fi cinema, as British as crumpets and as frightening as... crumpets. But little Sam Raimi fell in love with it as a child, and now Deadline is reporting that the 'Drag Me to Hell' filmmaker has -- in conjunction with Mandate Pictures -- won a seven-figure bidding war for the rights to re-imagine the property. The film will be produced under the Ghost House aegis, and Raimi is supposedly intent on directing it himself.
Raimi, of course, has...
It was just another day until spectacularly bright meteorites tore through the sky, blinding the vast majority of Earth's population and releasing evil asparagus-like creatures bent on world domination -- it was 'The Day of the Triffids!' Originally a novel by John Wyndham and then later a 1962 Steve Sekely film, 'The Day of the Triffids' was a gem of Cold War sci-fi cinema, as British as crumpets and as frightening as... crumpets. But little Sam Raimi fell in love with it as a child, and now Deadline is reporting that the 'Drag Me to Hell' filmmaker has -- in conjunction with Mandate Pictures -- won a seven-figure bidding war for the rights to re-imagine the property. The film will be produced under the Ghost House aegis, and Raimi is supposedly intent on directing it himself.
Raimi, of course, has...
- 10/21/2010
- by David Ehrlich
- Moviefone
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
It was just another day until spectacularly bright meteorites tore through the sky, blinding the vast majority of Earth's population and releasing evil asparagus-like creatures bent on world domination -- it was 'The Day of the Triffids!' Originally a novel by John Wyndham and then later a 1962 Steve Sekely film, 'The Day of the Triffids' was a gem of Cold War sci-fi cinema, as British as crumpets and as frightening as... crumpets. But little Sam Raimi fell in love with it as a child, and now Deadline is reporting that the 'Drag Me to Hell' filmmaker has -- in conjunction with Mandate Pictures -- won a seven-figure bidding war for the rights to re-imagine the property. The film will be produced under the Ghost House aegis, and Raimi is supposedly intent on directing it himself.
Raimi, of course, has...
It was just another day until spectacularly bright meteorites tore through the sky, blinding the vast majority of Earth's population and releasing evil asparagus-like creatures bent on world domination -- it was 'The Day of the Triffids!' Originally a novel by John Wyndham and then later a 1962 Steve Sekely film, 'The Day of the Triffids' was a gem of Cold War sci-fi cinema, as British as crumpets and as frightening as... crumpets. But little Sam Raimi fell in love with it as a child, and now Deadline is reporting that the 'Drag Me to Hell' filmmaker has -- in conjunction with Mandate Pictures -- won a seven-figure bidding war for the rights to re-imagine the property. The film will be produced under the Ghost House aegis, and Raimi is supposedly intent on directing it himself.
Raimi, of course, has...
- 10/21/2010
- by David Ehrlich
- Cinematical
Mandate Pictures have won the movie rights package to Day of the Triffids in an auction that ended at seven figures. They'll be working in tandem with Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert's Ghost House Pictures, with the word on the street being that Raimi wants to direct the Triffids himself.As previously reported, the deal was being shopped around by producers Michael Preger and Don Murphy. Preger has acquired the rights to John Wyndham's novel over a period of years, and was also behind John Carpenter's 1995 Village of the Damned (based on the 1960 film, which is based on Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos).Also present at the auction were Warner Bros, who wanted to set up a Triffids project with Harry Potter director David Yates. Mandate won out though, paying the most they've ever laid out for a "project package". The "original film", directed in the UK in...
- 10/21/2010
- EmpireOnline
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (top); Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire in Mark Sandrich’s Top Hat (upper middle); Steve Sekely’s Day of the Triffids (lower middle); Jack La Rue (right) in No Orchids for Miss Blandish (bottom) Screened last night at the TCM Classic Film Festival, currently taking place at Mann’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, was a new restoration of the George Cukor-directed, Judy Garland-James Mason version of A Star Is Born (1954), among other features. Present at the A Star Is Born screening was Lorna Luft, Garland’s daughter with Sid Luft. Among the other film personalities attending the various screenings were Betty Garrett, one of the stars of the Gene Kelly-Stanley Donen musical On the [...]...
- 4/24/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
It’s an especially exciting weekend to be living in Los Angeles, as Turner Classic Movies comes to Hollywood for its first ever Classic Film Festival, a four day celebration of classic film, with 35mm screenings of some of the best films ever made, including the premieres of several notable restorations.
The screenings will take place across the Grauman’s Chinese, Mann’s Chinese and the neighboring Egyptian theatres. As part of the festival, the Roosevelt Hotel will play host to several panel discussions and celebrations, including a welcome party this evening at 4:30 pm.
Taking a glance at the schedule, fans of Famous Monsters have plenty to scream about — here’s an overview of the genre offerings that the festival will host:
Friday, April 23rd
2001: A Space Odyssey — Egyptian Theatre at 9:00 am.
Stanely Kubrick’s groundbreaking science fiction achievement, presented in full 70mm. With a screenplay co-written...
The screenings will take place across the Grauman’s Chinese, Mann’s Chinese and the neighboring Egyptian theatres. As part of the festival, the Roosevelt Hotel will play host to several panel discussions and celebrations, including a welcome party this evening at 4:30 pm.
Taking a glance at the schedule, fans of Famous Monsters have plenty to scream about — here’s an overview of the genre offerings that the festival will host:
Friday, April 23rd
2001: A Space Odyssey — Egyptian Theatre at 9:00 am.
Stanely Kubrick’s groundbreaking science fiction achievement, presented in full 70mm. With a screenplay co-written...
- 4/22/2010
- by Jesse
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
A remake of Day of the Triffids is being prepped for production in the UK, and this morning Variety reports that a huge slew of stars have signed on for the project including Brian Cox, Eddie Izzard, Jason Priestly, Dougray Scott and Vanessa Redgrave.
Based on the best-selling 1951 novel by John Wyndham, Day of the Triffids takes place in the near future, where scientists have developed a new kind of fuel supply, oil-producing plants called Triffids, which backfires on humanity in a big way. After a comet renders most of the planet's population blind, the plants break free of their prison and start feeding on people. The most well known adaptation of the book was the 1962 Steve Sekely film.
Scott will play hero Bill Masen in the new Triffids, which was penned by “ER”/”Law & Order” scribe Patrick Harbinson. Most significant to UK viewers is that the new mini-series, which wraps filming in April,...
Based on the best-selling 1951 novel by John Wyndham, Day of the Triffids takes place in the near future, where scientists have developed a new kind of fuel supply, oil-producing plants called Triffids, which backfires on humanity in a big way. After a comet renders most of the planet's population blind, the plants break free of their prison and start feeding on people. The most well known adaptation of the book was the 1962 Steve Sekely film.
Scott will play hero Bill Masen in the new Triffids, which was penned by “ER”/”Law & Order” scribe Patrick Harbinson. Most significant to UK viewers is that the new mini-series, which wraps filming in April,...
- 2/12/2009
- by Johnny Butane
- DreadCentral.com
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