The Films of Donald Pleasence includes a full biography, tributes from Pleasence's friends and coworkers, reviews of all his films, and a rare photo gallery in the first-ever book devoted to the man who became a genre favorite to countless ...
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Offers a thoughtful critique of a well-remembered (but rarely studied) film and uses its analysis to offer deeper insights into American culture in the 1960s."—Patrick Keating, author of The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical ...
... Donald Pleasence , Nancy Loomis , P. J. Soles , Charles Cyphers First appearance of Michael Myers . And he's scary as Hell ! Halloween II ( 1981 ) by Rick Rosenthal [ v , l , d ] Jamie Lee Curtis , Donald Pleasence , Jeffrey Kramer ...
... Donald Pleasence is rather lifeless in this outing . The name of the priest he plays is not spo- ken during the course of the picture , but according to most cast lists his name is . Loomis , the identical name that Pleasence is called ...
... Donald Pleasence are laid low . " 52 The Los Angeles Times ' Kevin Thomas could not have disagreed more . " As much as by the disquieting imagination of Polanski and Brach , Cul - de - Sac is sustained by the extraordi- nary ...
... (Donald Pleasence)—surely the most extreme instance of Hol- lywood's perversion of psychoanalysis into an instrument of repression. The film proceeds to lay itself wide open to the reading Jonathan Rosenbaum offered in Take One: the ...
... ( Donald Pleasence ) —surely the most extreme instance of Hollywood's perversion of psychoanalysis into an instrument of repression . The film proceeds to lay itself wide open to the reading Jonathan Rosenbaum offered in Take One : the ...
... Donald Pleasence, and Polanski chose Pleasence to play the main male character in the new film project, partly be- cause he admired Pleasence's performance as Davies in The Caretaker (Wine 2001). Tracing this history starts to reveal ...
... Donald Pleasence, in the dual role of Bitos and Robespierre, gave an epic performance. Bitos wasn't tempting to the New York importers of plays. They calculated, correctly, its dubious commercial prospects. Disregarding the obvious, I ...