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List Of Feature Film Series With 11 To 20 Entries
This list is for film series with a number of films between eleven and twenty in the series. 11 A *''The Aldrich Family#Films, The Aldrich Family'' * *#''What a Life (film), What a Life'' (1949) *#''Life with Henry'' (1952) *#''Henry Aldrich for President'' (1952) *#''Henry Aldrich, Editor'' (1952) *#''Henry and Dizzy'' (1952) *#''Henry Aldrich Swings It'' (1953) *#''Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour'' (1953) *#''Henry Aldrich Haunts a House'' (1953) *#''Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout'' (1954) *#''Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid'' (1954) *#''Henry Aldrich's Little Secret'' (1954) C *''Coffin Joe'' *#''At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul'' (1963) *#''This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse'' (1967) *#''The Strange World of Coffin Joe'' (1968) *#''Awakening of the Beast'' (1970) *#''The End of Man'' (1970) *#''The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe'' (1974) *#''The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures'' (1976) *#''Hellish Flesh'' (1977) *#''Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind'' (1978) *#''Perversion (film), Perversi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Series
A film series or movie series (also referred to as a film franchise or movie franchise) is a collection of related films in succession that share the same fictional universe, or are marketed as a series. This article explains what film series are and gives brief examples of movie series. The body shows a list of the most popular film series and franchises in the United States and Canada. Description Sometimes the work is conceived from the beginning as a multiple-film work—for example, the '' Three Colours'' series—but in most cases the success of the original film (or an original series in the case of the ''Skywalker Saga'') inspires further films to be made. Individual sequels are relatively common but are not always successful enough to spawn further installments. As of 2022, the 30 films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe form the highest-grossing film series even when adjusted for inflation, surpassing J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World (11 films), '' Star Wars'' (12 films) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awakening Of The Beast
''Awakening of the Beast'' ( pt, O Despertar da Besta, also released as pt, O Ritual dos Sádicos) is a 1970 Brazilian horror/exploitation film directed by José Mojica Marins. Marins is also known by his alter ego Coffin Joe (Zé do Caixão). Marins appears as himself and as the Coffin Joe character in the fictional film which is in the form of a pseudodocumentary. Plot In the film's first portion, filmed in black and white, Dr. Sergio, a psychiatrist, appears on a television program on a panel with three other contemporary psychiatrists after he claims to have conducted experiments on four volunteer drug addicts with LSD in order to investigate his claim that sexual perversion is caused by use of illegal drugs. As evidence, he presents a series of documented accounts of drug use which led to lewd and bizarre sexual acts. Marins appears (as himself) on the panel with the psychiatrists as some type of expert on the subject of depravity. During the program, Dr. Sergio recounts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Express (film)
''The Last Express'' is a 1938 American mystery film directed by Otis Garrett and written by Edmund Hartmann. It is based on the 1937 novel ''The Last Express'' by Baynard Kendrick. The film stars Kent Taylor, Dorothea Kent, Don Brodie, Paul Hurst, Addison Richards, Greta Granstedt, Robert Emmett Keane and J. Farrell MacDonald. The film was released on October 28, 1938, by Universal Pictures. Plot Cast Production In 1937, Universal Pictures made a deal with the Crime Club, who were publishers of whodunnits. Over the next few years Universal released several mystery films in the series. ''The Last Express'' was one of the entries in the series. Release ''The Last Express'' opened in New York in the week of October 12, 1938. It was released further on October 28, 1938. Reception Archer Winsten of the ''New York Post The ''New York Post'' (''NY Post'') is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. The ''Post'' also operates NYPost.com, the cel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danger On The Air
''Danger on the Air'' is a 1938 American mystery film directed by Otis Garrett. The film was based on the novel ''Death Catches Up with Mr. Kluck'' by author Xanthippe. Plot summary Nan Grey, as Christina "Steenie" MacCorkle, a radio advertising executive, is suspected of murdering her client as Caesar Kluck, a soda magnate. Loathed by all who met him, or forced to work, with his underhanded business machinations, the victims, and suspects, start piling up. Including thug, Joe Downing, as Gangster Joe Carney; Lee J. Cobb as Tony Lisotti, trying to protect his daughter, Louise Stanley, as Maria Lisotti, from being another notch on Kluck's belt; and, Peter Lind Hayes, as Harry Lake, who is desperate to get on the air, seemingly at any cost. Cast Production ''Danger on the Air'' was based on The Crime Club novel '' Death Catches Up with Mr. Kluck'' by Xantippe. Production on the film began in mid May 1938. Release ''Danger on the Air'' was released on July 1, 1938 by Universa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady In The Morgue (film)
''The Lady in the Morgue'' is a 1938 American mystery film directed by Otis Garrett and written by Eric Taylor and Robertson White. It is based on the 1936 novel ''The Lady in the Morgue'' by Jonathan Latimer. The film stars Preston Foster, Patricia Ellis, Frank Jenks, Thomas E. Jackson, Wild Bill Elliott, Roland Drew and Barbara Pepper. The film was released on April 22, 1938, by Universal Pictures. Plot Detective Bill Crane investigates the murder of the morgue keeper and the disappearance of a blond's dead body. Cast Production In 1937, Universal Pictures made a deal with the Crime Club, who were published of whodunnits A ''whodunit'' or ''whodunnit'' (a colloquial elision of "Who asdone it?") is a complex plot-driven variety of detective fiction in which the puzzle regarding who committed the crime is the main focus. The reader or viewer is provided with the .... Over the next few years Universal released several mystery films in the series. The film was the third in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Doll
''The Black Doll'' is a 1938 American mystery film directed by Otis Garrett and starring Donald Woods and Edgar Kennedy. The film was the second in Universal's Crime Club series following ''The Westland Case''. Production In 1937, Universal Pictures made a deal with Crime Club, who were publishers of whodunnits. Over the next few years Universal released several mystery films in the series. The film was the second in Universal's Crime Club series following ''The Westland Case''. ''The Black Doll'' was based on the novel ''The Black Doll'' by William Edward Hayes. Release ''The Black Doll'' was distributed by Universal Pictures on January 30, 1938. The film was followed with eight more films in the Crime Club series in the next two years. Reception From contemporary reviews, Wanda Hale of '' The New York Daily News'' described the film as "an absorbing mystery story" that will "stir your admiration, wrack your nerves, tickle your funny bone and, if you don't watch out, defl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Westland Case
''The Westland Case'' is a 1937 American mystery film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Preston Foster, Frank Jenks, and Carol Hughes. Cast * Preston Foster as Bill Crane * Frank Jenks as Doc Williams * Carol Hughes as Emily Lou Martin * Barbara Pepper as Agatha Hogan * Astrid Allwyn as Bentine * Clarence Wilson as Charlie Frazee * Theodore Von Eltz as Robert Westland * George Meeker as Richard Bolston * Russell Hicks as Woodbury * Selmer Jackson as Warden Production In 1937, Universal Pictures made a deal with the Crime Club who published whodunnit novels. Universal were granted the right to select four of their yearly published novels to adapt into films. The unit responsible for these films was producer Irving Starr. Eleven films were made in the series between 1937 and 1939. ''The Westland Case'' was the first in the series and was based on the Jonathan Latimer novel '' Headed for a Hearse''. The first films in the series featured Preston Foster as Bill Crane a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crime Club
''The Crime Club'' was an imprint of the Doubleday publishing company, which later spawned a 1946-47 anthology radio series, and a 1937-1939 film series. Literature Many classic and popular works of detective and mystery fiction had their first U.S. editions published via the Crime Club, including all 50 books of The Saint by Leslie Charteris (1928-1983). The imprint also published first editions in Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu series. The Crime Club began life in 1928 with the publication of ''The Desert Moon Mystery'' by Kay Cleaver Strahan, and ceased publication in 1991. In the intervening 63 years, The Crime Club published 2,492 titles. Radio Stories from this imprint were first dramatized on ''The Eno Crime Club'', a detective series broadcast on CBS from February 9, 1931 to December 21, 1932, sponsored by Eno Effervescent Salts. The Crime Club novels were not adapted for the later ''Eno Crime Clues'', heard on the Blue Network from January 3, 1933 to June 30. 1936. ''The Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embodiment Of Evil
''Embodiment of Evil'' ( pt, Encarnação do Demônio) is a 2008 Brazilian horror film directed by and starring José Mojica Marins. It is the third installment in his ''Coffin Joe'' trilogy, featuring Marins reprising his role as Zé do Caixão (in English, Coffin Joe). The film is preceded by '' At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul'' (1964) and ''This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse'' (1967). A flashback scene in the film reveals that the young Coffin Joe (portrayed in the scene by Raymond Castile) survived after submerging in a swamp at the end of the previous film. After serving 40 years in a prison mental ward, Coffin Joe (José Mojica Marins) is released to the streets of modern-day São Paulo. Immediately after his release, Coffin Joe renews his lifelong obsession to sire a male child with a woman whom he perceives to be of exceptional qualities capable of continuing his bloodline, which he feels to be "superior" above all others. Plot After being released from the prison men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perversion (film)
''Perversion'' (also released as ''Perversão'' and ''Estupro!'') is a 1979 Brazilian exploitation film directed by José Mojica Marins. Marins is also known by his alter ego Zé do Caixão (in English, Coffin Joe). Plot Vitório Palestrina is a playboy millionaire who passes his days sleeping with, domestic violence, abusing, and discarding women in a small village. After seducing a young woman named Silvia, he brutally rapes her, biting off one of her nipples in the process. He keeps the nipple in a glass case as a trophy. When his actions become public knowledge, he is actually admired for what he has done, while his victim is ostracized and tormented by the townspeople. Palestrina is acquittal, acquitted of rape on the grounds of insufficient evidence and laughs at the victim when the judge gives the verdict. He commemorates his triumph with a party at which he proudly displays the severed nipple to his guests. Palestrina continues to seduce other young women until he develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hallucinations Of A Deranged Mind
''Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind '' ( pt, Delírios de um Anormal) is a 1978 Brazilian horror film directed by José Mojica Marins. Marins is also known by his alter ego Zé do Caixão (in English, Coffin Joe). The film features Coffin Joe as the central character, although it is not part of the "Coffin Joe trilogy". Plot The story is built around a montage of scenes that were omitted or censored from four of Marins' earlier films: '' Awakening of the Beast'', ''This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse'', '' The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe'' and ''The Strange World of Coffin Joe''. Marins filmed approximately 35 minutes of new scenes, also adding the characters to the plot. Marins portrays himself as well as the character of Coffin Joe in the film. The story is built around Dr. Hamílton, a psychiatrist who is terrorized by nightmares in which Coffin Joe tries to steal his wife. His colleagues decide to seek medical help with the assistance of filmmaker Jose Mojica Marins (appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellish Flesh
''Hellish Flesh'' ( pt, Inferno Carnal) is a 1977 Brazilian horror film directed by José Mojica Marins. Marins is also known by his alter ego Zé do Caixão Zé do Caixão , known in English-speaking countries as Coffin Joe, is a character created and nominally played by Brazilian writer, director, and actor José Mojica Marins. An amoral undertaker with Nietzschian beliefs, he is driven by his des ... (in English, Coffin Joe). Plot Dr. George Medeiros is a brilliant scientist who does not find time for beautiful wife Rachel. She falls in love with Oliver, the best friend of her husband, and soon after the two plan to kill George and inherit his fortune. Benefiting from the distraction of her husband in the laboratory, Raquel throws acid on George's face, disfiguring it. As he recovers in the hospital, Raquel and Oliver spend all his money. After months in the hospital, Dr. George comes home with a plan for revenge in mind. Cast * Cristina Andréia * Lirio Bertelli * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |