| Uniform Title |
Mr. Sardonicus (Motion picture : 1961) |
| Title |
Mr. Sardonicus. |
| Published |
Australia : Distributed by Shock Entertainment, ©2022. |
| ©1961 |
| Description |
1 DVD-video (89 minutes) : sound, black and white; 12 cm. |
| Notes |
Catalogued from container. |
| Shock Entertainment : KAL5784. |
| Originally released as a motion picture in 1961. |
| Special features: Theatrical trailer. |
| Based on the novella Sardonicus and Other Stories (1961) by Ray Russell. |
| Credits |
Directed and produced by William Castle ; written by Ray Russell. |
| Performers |
Oskar Homolka, Ronald Lewis, Audrey Dalton, Guy Rolfe, Vladimir Sokoloff, Erika Peters, Lorna Hanson. |
| Summary |
Desperate to retrieve a winning lottery ticket, a greedy baron unearths his father's corpse. An enormous jackpot is his reward, but not without a price: his face is frozen permanently into a hideous grin. He enlists his fiendish one-eyed servant to help him lift this horrible curse, but their schemes fail. Finally, he turns to a noted neuro-surgeon - and his wife's former lover - to cure him. This creepy horror classic is based on a novella by screenwriter Ray Russell, and is brought to life by William Castle, master of terror!. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification : PG. |
| System details |
DVD video ; Dolby Digital 2.0 ; NTSC ; Region 4 ; 1.85:1. |
| Language note |
English. |
| Subjects |
Russell, Ray -- Film adaptations |
| Greed -- Drama |
| Rich people -- Drama |
| Blessing and cursing -- Drama |
| Feature films -- United States |
| Motion pictures, American |
| Genre |
Horror films |
| Film adaptations |
| Feature films |
| Fiction films |
| Other Names |
Castle, William director, producer. |
| Russell, Ray screenwriter. |
| Homolka, Oscar, 1898-1978 actor. |
| Lewis, Ronald, 1928-1982 actor. |
| Dalton, Audrey actor. |
| Russell, Ray. Sardonicus : and other stories Motion picture adaptation of (work): |
| Series |
Cinema cult |
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