Posts Tagged ‘hypnotism’

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)

Friday, November 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bud Abbott | Lou Costello | Boris Karloff | Lénore Aubert | Gar Moore | Donna Martell | Alan Mowbray | James Flavin | Roland Winters | Nicholas Joy | Mikel Conrad | Morgan Farley | Victoria Horne | Percy Helton | Claire Du Brey
Directors: Charles Barton
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Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn’t the Swami).

The Razor’s Edge (1946)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Tyrone Power | Gene Tierney | John Payne | Anne Baxter | Clifton Webb | Herbert Marshall | Lucile Watson | Frank Latimore | Elsa Lanchester | Fritz Kortner | John Wengraf | Cecil Humphreys | Harry Pilcer | Cobina Wright Sr. | George Adrian
Directors: Edmund Goulding
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Well-to-do Chicagoan, Larry Darrell, breaks off his engagement to Isabel and travels the world seeking enlightenment, eventually finding his guru India. Isabel marries Gray, and following the crash of 1929, is invited to live in Paris with her rich, social climbing, Uncle Elliot. During a sojurn there, Larry, having attained his goal, is reunited with Isabel. While slumming one night Larry, Isabel and company are shocked to discover Sophie, a friend from Chicago. Having lost her husband and child in a tragic accident, Sophie is living the low-life with the help of drugs an abusive brute. Larry tries to rehabilitate her, but his efforts are sabotaged by Isabel who has tried in vain to reignite Larry’s interest in her.

The Woman in Green (1945)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Basil Rathbone | Nigel Bruce | Hillary Brooke | Henry Daniell | Paul Cavanagh | Matthew Boulton | Eve Amber | Frederick Worlock | Tom Bryson | Sally Shepherd | Mary Gordon | John Burton | Harold De Becker | Leslie Denison | Tony Ellis
Directors: Roy William Neill
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Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect. The trail leads to a society of hypnotists and a mysterious, glamoruos woman. The fiendish Dr Moriarty, though reported hanged in Montevideo, is belived to be involved.

Thumbsucker (2005)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Lou Taylor Pucci | Tilda Swinton | Vincent D'Onofrio | Keanu Reeves | Benjamin Bratt | Kelli Garner | Vince Vaughn | Chase Offerle | Dakota Goldhor | Walter Kirn | Kit Koenig | Sarah Lucht | Arvin V. Entena | Eric Normington | Allen Go
Directors: Mike Mills
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Justin (Lou Taylor Pucci) is a teenager boy, who has an oral obsession with his thumb. His mother (Tilda Swinton) seems to be a normal housekeeper, but she has her own obsessions as well, like a crush on a TV-star (Benjamin Bratt). The only person who’s aware of Justin’s problem is his father (Vincent D’Onofrio), manager in a store, but none of his advices seem to be working for Justin. The kid is signed up in a debate workshop, but the thing isn’t going well, because he has his mind in a pretty classmate and, of course, in his thumb, affecting all the rest of his classes. So, Justin is a loner kid in the school, who prefers to lock himself in the bathroom and suck his thumb. Justin’s dentist (Keanu Reeves), a mystical-hippie person, will try to help to overcome his thumb problem, through the hypnosis. But the school’s psychologist will diagnose Justin with the Attention Deficit Disorder, and will prescribe him some drugs. Suddenly, Justin’s problem with his thumb will disappear, becoming an hyperactive genius, winning several debate contests and the admiration from his teacher (Vince Vaughn). Nevertheless, more serious problems will come for Justin with his mother, his father and with a drug addiction.

007 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: George Lazenby | Diana Rigg | Telly Savalas | Gabriele Ferzetti | Ilse Steppat | Lois Maxwell | George Baker | Bernard Lee | Bernard Horsfall | Desmond Llewelyn | Yuri Borionko | Virginia North | Geoffrey Cheshire | Irvin Allen | Terence Mountain
Directors: Peter R. Hunt
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Whilst on leave, British agent James Bond prevents a young woman, Tracy Draco, from committing suicide. Her father is the head of a powerful crime syndicate who is impressed by Bond and wants him to protect his daughter by marrying her. In exchange he offers Bond information which will lead 007 to his arch enemy Ernst Blofeld. At first Bond agrees to the deal purely to fulfil his objective to kill Blofeld but later he grows to love Tracy but when the British learn that Blofeld plans to destroy mankind with a deadly virus, 007 is torn between his loyalty to his county and his intent to marry Tracy.

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: John Tormey | John Schuck | Woody Allen | Elizabeth Berkley | Kaili Vernoff | Brian Markinson | Maurice Sonnenberg | John Doumanian | Peter Gerety | Helen Hunt | Kevin Cahoon | Philip Levy | Wallace Shawn | Dan Aykroyd | Vince Giordano
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CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don’t like each other - or at least that’s what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them, in order to use them for his dirty schemes. The next evening already, Briggs makes his first robbery, and when he wakes up in the morning he has no memory of it. Things get really complicated when he starts investigating the case. Will he be able to uncover… himself?