Charlie Largent

@charlielargent.bsky.social

Sometime illustrator, sometime writer, full time movie lover. https://charliehill.com/

Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966), UK premiere this day in 1966. Directed by Gordon Flemyng. Starring Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, Ray Brooks, and Andrew Keir. Italian poster, art by Renato Casaro.

aliens in football helmets with antenna assault earth, the face of a frightened woman appears in the sky

Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.

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This is one of the films whose fantasies about zombies convinced Zora Neale Hurston while researching Hoodoo in New Orleans to study Vodoun in Haiti, for which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1937. While in Haiti, she wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God in less than a month.

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White Zombie, released this day in 1932. Directed by Victor Halperin. Starring Bela Lugosi and Madge Bellamy.

hypnotic beams radiate from Bela Lugosi's eyes to levitate a woman

BTD: Peter O'Toole. Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Directed by David Lean and starring O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Quinn, Claude Rains, and Omar Sharif. Italian poster, art by Angelo Cesselon.

Peter O'Toole leads an army across the desert on camels

Pardners, Martin & Lewis’ final film together, released this day in 1956. Directed by Norman Taurog and starring Martin and Lewis, Agnes Moorehead, Lori Nelson, and Lon Chaney Jr. Italian poster, art by Carlantonio Longi.

a bow-legged Jerry Lewis ambles down a dusty old west town