Passport to Espionage: Witch Hunt
Different identities are part and parcel of the spy universe. They are also employed by authors...
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Category: Columns
Passport to Espionage: Innocent Bystanders
The 1960s were a golden era for spies on TV and in film. Perhaps viewing imitation as the...
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An Englishman’s Guide to Italian Gothic: An Angel for Satan (1966) and the End of the Golden Age
“Don’t you know? I adore violence.” — Barbara Steele as Harriet / Belinda in An Angel...
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Notorious: Passport to Espionage
The title of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 Notorious refers to the film’s central character Alicia...
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Passport to Espionage: Frost the Fiddler
Imagine a female James Bond, who has a fondness for black leather and rides a motorcycle. Then picture the lovely lady clad in expensive evening gowns, playing her Stradivarius in major concert venues throughout the world.
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Passport to Espionage: Where the Spies Are and The Liquidator
Welcome back to Passport to Espionage. In this installment we time trip to the 1960s, a decade in...
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Passport to Espionage: The Empire of the Night
Espionage has been dubbed “The World’s Second Oldest Profession.” In the world of fiction, the spy...
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Gods and Monsters: Alan Frank and Denis Gifford – Creating a Horror Obsessive
When I was eight, my brother, five years older, received a of copy Alan G Frank’s The Movie...
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Why You Need to Watch… Wer (2014)
As with most horror junkies, I was way too young to have been terrorized by the genre. John...
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Gods and Monsters: Son of Frankenstein (1939): Doing it for the Kids, Karloff’s Last Monster Show
As a writer who’s probably delivered one too many horror film seminars singing the praises of...
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An Englishman’s Guide to Italian Gothic: The Castle of the Living Dead (1964)
“I wish the two of you to play the leading parts in my eternal theatre […] You will be...
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An Englishman’s Guide to Italian Gothic: The Long Hair of Death (1964)
*Contains spoilers* “You went to the extreme of murder, all for the sake of possessing me....
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