Friday, April 5, 2024
On this day in movie history - Tampico (1944)
directed Lothar Mendes,
written by Kenneth Gamet and Fred Niblo Jr.,
based on the story by Ladislas Fodor,
was released in the United States on April 5, 1944.
Music by David Raksin.
Born on this day – Gale Storm:
Born on this day – Robert Bloch:
Credits:
Books:
15 Grusel Stories (1964); American Gothic (1974); Atoms and Evil (1962); Black Cat Weekly #13 (2021); Blood Runs Cold (1961); Bogey Men (1963); Chamber of Horrors (1966); Cold Chills (1977); Crimes and Punishments (2000); Dragons and Nightmares (1969); Fear and Trembling (1979); Fear Planet and Other Unusual Destinations (2004); Fear Today, Gone Tomorrow (1971); Fever Dream and Other Fantasies (1970); Final Reckonings (1987); Firebug (1961); Flowers from the Moon (1998); Hell On Earth (2000); Horror-7 (1963); It's All in Your Mind (1971); Lori (1989); Lost in Time and Space with Lefty Feep (1987); Midnight Pleasures (1987); Monsters in Our Midst (1993); More Nightmares (1962); Mysteries of the Worm (1981); Nightmares (1961); Night-World (1972); Out of My Head (1981); Out of the Mouths of Graves (1979); Pleasant Dreams (1960); Pleasant Dreams / Nightmares (1959); Psycho (1959); Psycho House (aka Psycho III) (1990); Psycho II (1982); Psycho-paths (1991); Robert Bloch's Psychos (1997); Sea-Kissed (1945); Skeleton in the Closet (2008); Spiderweb (1954); Strange Eons (1978); Such Stuff as Screams Are Made of (1979); Tales in a Jugular Vein (1965); Terror (1962); Terror in the Night (1958); That Hellbound Train (2011); The Best of Robert Bloch (1977); The Couch (1962); The Crowded Earth (2009); The Cunning (aka There Is a Serpent in Eden) (1979); The Dead Beat (1960); The Devil with You! (1999); The Early Fears (1978); The House of the Hatchet (1960); The Jekyll Legacy (1990); The Kidnapper (1954); The King of Terrors (1977); The Laughter of a Ghoul (1977); The Living Demons (1967); The Night of the Ripper (1984); The Opener of the Way (1945); The Scarf (1947); The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch (1987); The Shooting Star (1958); The Skull of the Marquis de Sade (1965); The Star Stalker (1968); The Todd Dossier (1969); The Will to Kill (1954); This Crowded Earth (1958).
Movies and television:
Alfred
Hitchcock Presents (1960–1986); Asylum (1972); Bates Motel (1987); Bates Motel
(2013–2017); Battle-Axe: The Making of 'Strait-Jacket' (2002); Bus Stop (1962);
Cineficción Radio / Mannikins of Horror / Reaper (2019–2020); Circle of Fear
(1972); Curious Matter Anthology (2019); Darkroom (1981); Dimension X (1950);
Fear in the Dark (1991); Gemini Man (1976); Historias para no dormir (1966);
Hollywood Ghost Stories (1986); How to Plan a Movie Murder (1964); I Spy
(1966); Journey to Midnight (1968); Journey to the Unknown (1968); Lock Up
(1960–1961); Mannikin (1977); Mashup at the Movies (2021); Michaels' Movie
Madness (1988); Monsters (1988–1989); Mother (2020); Night Gallery / Logoda's
Heads (1971); Psycho (1960); Psycho (1988); Psycho (1998); Psycho II (1983);
Psycho III (1986); Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990); Run for Your Life (1966);
Sanfter Schrecken / The Man Who Looked Like Napoleon (1977); Secrets and
Mysteries (1983); Star Trek (1966–1967); Strait-Jacket (1964); Tales from the
Darkside (1984–1987); Tales of the Unexpected (1980); Tambien la muerte puede
morir (1990); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965); The Cabinet of Caligari
(1962); The Cat Creature (1973); The Couch (1962); The Dead Don't Die (1975);
The Deadly Bees (1966); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The Famous Monsters 1993
World Convention Souvenir Video (1993); The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
(1986); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Horror of It All (1983); The House
That Dripped Blood (1971); The Hunger (1998); The Manhunter (1974); The Night
Walker (1964); The Plot Thickens (1963); The Psychopath (1966); The Return of
Captain Nemo / Atlantis Dead Ahead (1978); The Skull / The Skull of the Marquis
de Sade (1965); The Vault of Horror (1992); Three Dangerous Ladies / The
Mannikin (1977); Thriller (1960–1962); Torture Garden (1967); Whispering Smith
(1961); X Minus One (1955).
Born on this day – Bette Davis:
Born on this day – Winchell Smith:
Anne Lamott, on writing and reading:
It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea.
You can't stop the raging storm,
but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.