Two on a Guillotine is a 1965 American horror/thriller film produced and directed by William Conrad. The year 1965 in film involved some significant events Events Top grossing films (U The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Horror films are Movies that strive to elicit Fear, Horror and terror responses from viewers The screenplay by John Kneubuhl and Henry Slesar is based on a story by Slesar. See also Pre-production Screenwriting A screenplay or script is a written plan authored by a Screenwriter, for a Film or Television Henry Slesar ( June 12 1927 - April 2 2002) was an American Author, Playwright and Copywriter
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Plot synopsis
A prologue introduces the audience to John Harley Duquesne, a psychotic magician who accidentally beheads his wife Melinda with a guillotine during a performance. Psychosis (from the Greek ψυχή "psyche" for mind or soul and -οσις "-osis" for abnormal condition with adjective psychotic MagiC OS an alternative implementation of the Multitasking TOS / GEM OS for Atari ST line of computers The guillotine ( pronounced /ˈgijətin/ or /ˈgɪlətin/ in English in French was a device used for carrying out executions by Decapitation. Twenty years later he dies, and his will requires his daughter Cassie (the mirror image of her mother) to spend seven nights in his apparently haunted mansion in order to inherit his estate. In Common law, a will or testament is a document by which a person (the Testator) regulates the rights of others over his or her Property A mansion is a large dwelling House. The word itself derives (through Old French) from the Latin word mansus (the perfect passive participle "Heir" and "Heiress" redirect here For the men and women fragrances endorsed by Paris Hilton see Heiress (fragrance. Reporter Val Henderson offers to stay with her when he learns Duquesne promised to return in spirit form during Cassie's week-long vigil. A ghost is said to be the apparition of a Deceased person frequently similar in appearance to that person and usually encountered in places she or he frequented Pettie The Vigiljpg|right|thumb|200px|"A Knight's Vigil" by John Pettie]] A vigil (from the Latin vigilia, meaning wakefulness) is As the days pass, the two encounter a number of spooky happenings, leading to a climax in which the not-really-dead Duquesne attempts a recreation of his guillotine trick, this time with his daughter as an unwilling assistant who hopefully won't lose her head.
Principal cast
- Connie Stevens . Connie Stevens (born August 8 1938) is an American actress and Singer. . . . . Cassie/Melinda Duquesne
- Dean Jones . Dean Carroll Jones (born January 25, 1931) is an American Actor. . . . . Val Henderson
- Cesar Romero . Cesar Julio Romero Jr ( February 15, 1907 &ndash January 1, 1994) was a Cuban American Film and Television . . . . John Harley Duquesne
- Parley Baer . Parley Baer ( 5 August 1914 &ndash 22 November 2002) was an American Actor in Film, Television . . . . Buzzy Sheridan
- Virginia Gregg . Virginia Gregg Burket ( March 6, 1916 &ndash September 15, 1986) was an American Actress. . . . . Dolly Bast
- John Hoyt . John Hoyt ( October 5, 1905 &ndash September 15, 1991) was an American film theatre and television actor . . . . Carl Vickers
Principal production credits
- Original Music . A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film . . . . Max Steiner
- Cinematography . This article is about the film composer For other persons with the same name see Max Steiner. See also Filmmaking Cinematography (from Greek: kinesis κινησις (movement and grapho γραφω (to record is the discipline . . . . Sam Leavitt
- Art Direction . The term art director is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in Advertising, Publishing, film and Television, the Internet . . . . Art Loel
Critical reception
In his review in the New York Times, Howard Thompson called the film "a dull, silly, tedious clinker" and "an old-fashioned, haunted-house spooker. Howard Thompson ( 1919 - March 10, 2002) was an American journalist and Film critic whose career of forty-one " [1]
TV Guide rates it two out of a possible four stars, calling it "a standard haunted house thriller. TV Guide is the name of a North American weekly magazine about television programming " [2]
References
External link
Two on a Guillotine at the Internet Movie Database
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