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Old-time radio dramas get their due in 'Out of the Ether' UCLA series at Hammer Museum

Edit The Los Angeles Times 22 Jan 2016
There was a moment, before easy listening, drive time, Top 40 and the blandishments of Pandora, when radio was known for its affinity for the dark end of the street, for its ability to have you in its power and scare you stiff ... As "Out of the Ether ... Classic Hollywood. Entertainment's Golden eraOpen link ... Memorable among the stand-alone dramas is 1945's "Bewitched," written and directed by top radio talent Arch Oboler ... Feb ... ....

DVD Review: 4 Movie Collection - Classic Horror with Christopher Lee, Vincent Price

Edit Celebrity Café 20 Aug 2015
Author Rating. . 2.5 Stars. Mill Creek Entertainment has released a series of movie collections this summer, packed with little-seen Columbia Pictures releases licensed from Sony ... Here’s what you get in the two-disc set.. Five (1951, 91 minutes) - The longest film in the set was written, directed and produced by former radio personality Arch Oboler and is billed as one of the first films to deal with a post-apocalyptic world ... Tweet ... ....

Todd Garbarini Reviews "Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World", A Film By Belinda Sallin

Edit IMDb 14 May 2015
“The dark corners of the human mind are the deepest dark, I believe, of anything in the universe,” once said author, playwright, producer, and director Arch Oboler in describing his ......

‘The Bubble,’ Arch Oboler’s 1966 Sci-Fi Film

Edit New York Times 18 Jan 2015
In “The Bubble,” a 1960s sci-fi film, a couple’s plane makes an emergency landing in a strange town. ....

‘The Bubble,’ a 3-D Thriller, Comes to Blu-ray and MoMA

Edit New York Times 20 Dec 2014
“The Bubble” (a.k.a. “Fantastic Invasion of Planet Earth”), by the 3-D pioneer Arch Oboler, comes to Blu-ray and the Museum of Modern Art. ....

Total Immersion, One More Time

Edit New York Times 19 Dec 2014
“The Bubble” (a.k.a. “Fantastic Invasion of Planet Earth”), by the 3-D pioneer Arch Oboler, comes to Blu-ray and the Museum of Modern Art. ....

Best Actor Buzzzz

Edit Boston Herald 13 Nov 2014
in SELMA have gotten raves after early screenings, the field of five decidedly narrows ... An auter’s dark vision. “Iguana” ... The sequel no one saw ... Writer-director Arch Oboler was a shing star of the Fifties 3-D craze with the 1952 hit BWANA DEVIL -- inspired by the true story of Kenya’s pair of man-eating lions, a story retold in Michael Douglas’s little seen 1996 THE GHOST AND DARKNESS ... Author(s). ... @filmsteve3....

Weekend comics special: Gillian Flynn and Dave Gibbons

Edit The Guardian 25 Apr 2014
What happens when parenting instincts go bad? That's the theme Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn wanted to explore in her story – and Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons was happy to oblige. Dave Gibbons. ‘Gillian’s comic was as sinister as I was hoping it would be.’ Photograph. Harry Borden for the Guardian ... You have to be really economical ... I had grown up particularly liking the Arch Oboler Lights Out stories – radio serials from the 1930s ... ....

Old-time radio, 3 March: Allen's Alley days

Edit The Examiner 04 Mar 2014
Fred Allen has returned to full-time network radio in 1945-46, following a one-year sabbatical under his doctor’s orders; the satirist’s hypertension had hit height enough for alarm during his four-season run under the Texaco Star Theater banner for CBS. That run has provided a series of refinements, not always to Allen’s liking at first, including the paring back to a half-hour show ... ... ... Mrs ... Mrs ... Titus ... Near-classic Arch Oboler writing....

Cliff Carpenter, old-time radio performer blacklisted during McCarthy era, dead at 98

Edit New York Daily News 14 Jan 2014
Cliff Carpenter, an old-time radio performer who was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, blacklisted during the McCarthy era, and resurrected late in life on Jon Stewart's "Daily Show," died Thursday. He was 98 ... RELATED ... He also worked with legendary radio writers Norman Corwin and Arch Oboler, and after the war he performed in Broadway and Off-Broadway shows ... RELATED ... RELATED ... ....
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