Recommended reading - Phiction: Tales from the World of Phantasm

Phiction: Tales from the World of Phantasm

by Don Coscarelli.

Illustrated by Aaron Lea.
Foreward by Joe R. Lansdale.
 
Paperback.
Published by Molotov Press.
Published 2024.

ASIN: B0D2QZ3MQK
ISBN-13: 979-8988243038
 
Description:
 
“Electrifyingly tense and gruesome… Horror fans and cult devotees of the classic horror series will find Coscarelli’s ingenuity a rare treat.” - Kirkus Reviews.
 
“It’s magnificent. An impressive collection of remarkable short-story horror fiction that I can proudly display on my bookshelf next to Poe, King, Dahl, Barker, Bradbury, and Lovecraft.” - Nick DiGilio, WGN Chicago.
 

In 1979, filmmaker Don Coscarelli (Bubba Ho-tep, The Beastmaster) wrote and directed what became one of the seminal sci-fi/horror films of that era, Phantasm. The film was a worldwide theatrical success and spawned four acclaimed sequels.

 

For the first time in the history of horror cinema, a celebrated filmmaker of a cult-classic horror film series has continued the adventure by swapping mediums and personally authoring a series of fictional works exploring in detail the characters he originally created. Coscarelli has now returned to the world of Phantasm to tell more tales of these inspiring phantasmic heroes.

 

Phiction comprises six stories set in the expansive Phantasm world that have never been told before:
 

In Life and Death in the 'Nam we explore the origin story of our favorite ice cream vendor/hero Reggie and his first encounter with the supernatural forces of evil in the jungles of the Vietnam war. It's a two-fisted tale of a young man enduring the horrors of war and at the same time facing down the horrors of the unknown.

 

In Behind the Mortuary Door we learn the secrets of the embalming trade from one of the most memorable characters from the original film.
 

In He Was Home Alone we revisit the young boy Tim, prior to the events from Phantasm Ill, and how, using only his wits and guile, he survives against unspeakable horrors.

 

In Tobe we follow the trail of one of Phantasm's forgotten characters as he witnesses the key events of that film from an entirely different perspective.

 

In The Rocky Road we track the events of one of the Phantasm saga's fan-favorite characters, the nunchuck-wielding Rocky as she's mustered out of the armed services and travels the backroads of the rural South in the early 90's. In a desperate search to find her family she encounters love, vengeance and horror, frequently reacting in the only way she knows how, with her fists and her feet.

 

And finally in Escape From New York we join another Phantasm fan-favorite character, the diminutive Chunk from Phantasm Ravager as he attempts to flee his home in the big city from the horror of an oncoming apocalypse. Along the way he bonds with some unexpected allies on a thrilling quest for survival.

 

In association with illustrator Aaron Lea (GHOST, Rob Zombie), Molotov Press now presents Phiction: Tales from the World of Phantasm.
 
Tales from the world of Phantasm.
 

Phiction conjures six stunning new tales from the world of the classic Phantasm film franchise. Acclaimed filmmaker, series creator and Master of Horror, Don Coscarelli, returns the reader to Morningside Mortuary with revelatory origin stories for some of the Phantasm saga’s most compelling characters including ice cream vendor/action hero Reggie, fan-favorite Rocky from Phantasm III and Chunk from Phantasm: Ravager.

 

Six Stories from the master of horror.
 

“You are in for a treat. As with the [Phantasm] films, these stories will give you what people call chicken skin, and others call Goosebumps. What [Phiction] will do above all else, is entertain. Dive in. The dark waters are fines.” – Joe R. Lansdale (best-selling author of Hap & Leonard, Cold in July and Bubba Ho-tep).

Holly Black, on books:

 

It is my belief that books are living things.

- Holly Black.

Born on this day – Charles Stevenson:

Charles Stevenson

Actor

October 13, 1887 – July 4, 1943

Credits:

A Man About Town (1923); A Pleasant Journey (1923); A Quiet Street (1922); A Regular Pal (1920); A Sailor-Made Man (1921); A Straight Crook (1921); All Aboard (1917); American Masters (1989); An Eastern Westerner (1920); An Ozark Romance (1918); Any Old Port (1920); Are Crooks Dishonest? (1918); Are Parents Pickles? (1925); Ask Father (1919); Bashful (1917); Be My Wife (1919); Bees in His Bonnet (1918); Before the Public (1923); Birds of a Feather (1917); Boys to Board (1923); Bride and Gloom (1918); Bumping Into Broadway (1919); Call a Taxi (1920); Captain Kidd's Kids (1919); Clubs Are Trump (1917); Count the Votes (1919); Dig Up (1923); Do You Love Your Wife? (1919); Dogs of War! (1923); Doing Time (1920); Dr. Jack (1922); Fare, Please (1918); Fire Fighters (1922); Follow the Crowd (1918); From Hand to Mouth (1919); From Laramie to London (1917); Gas and Air (1923); Get Out and Get Under (1920); Girl Shy (1924); Good Morning, Judge (1922); Grandma's Boy (1922); Haunted Spooks (1920); He Leads, Others Follow (1919); Hey There (1918); High and Dizzy (1920); His Busy Day (1918); His Only Father (1919); His Royal Slyness (1920); Hot Water (1924); Hurry West (1921); Isn't Life Terrible? (1925); It's a Wild Life (1918); Join the Circus (1923); June Madness (1920); Just Neighbors (1919); Kicking the Germ Out of Germany (1918); Kill or Cure (1923); Late Hours (1921); Little Miss Jazz (1920); Lodge Night (1923); Lonesome Luke Loses Patients (1917); Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley (1917); Lonesome Luke, Lawyer (1917); Lonesome Luke, Messenger (1917); Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon (1917); Lonesome Luke's Lively Life (1917); Lonesome Luke's Wild Women (1917); Loose Change (1922); Love, Laughs and Lather (1917); Luke and the Bang-Tails (1916); Luke and the Bomb Throwers (1916); Luke and the Mermaids (1916); Luke Does the Midway (1916); Luke Joins the Navy (1916); Luke Laughs Last (1916); Luke Locates the Loot (1916); Luke Pipes the Pippins (1916); Luke Rides Roughshod (1916); Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire (1917); Luke, Crystal Gazer (1916); Luke, Patient Provider (1916); Luke, Rank Impersonator (1916); Luke, the Candy Cut-Up (1916); Luke, the Chauffeur (1916); Luke, the Gladiator (1916); Luke's Double (1916); Luke's Fatal Flivver (1916); Luke's Fireworks Fizzle (1916); Luke's Late Lunchers (1916); Luke's Lost Lamb (1916); Luke's Lost Liberty (1917); Luke's Movie Muddle (1916); Luke's Newsie Knockout (1916); Luke's Preparedness Preparations (1916); Luke's Shattered Sleep (1916); Luke's Society Mixup (1916); Luke's Speedy Club Life (1916); Mischief Makers (1960–1961); Money to Burn (1920); Move On (1917); Never Weaken (1921); No Noise (1923); Now or Never (1921); Number, Please? (1920); On the Jump (1918); One Terrible Day (1922); Pay the Cashier (1926); Pay Your Dues (1919); Pinched (1917); Pinning It On (1921); Ring Up the Curtain (1919); Run 'Em Ragged (1920); Running Wild (1921); Safety Last! (1923); Scorching Sands (1923); Short Orders (1923); Sic 'Em, Towser (1918); Soft Money (1919); Sold at Auction! (1923); Somewhere in Turkey (1918); Spring Fever (1919); Stage Fright (1923); Step Lively (1917); Stop Kidding (1921); Stop! Luke! Listen! (1917); That's Him (1918); The Big Idea (1917); The Champeen (1923); The Chink (1921); The City Slicker (1918); The Dippy Dentist (1920); The Dumb-Bell (1922); The Freshman (1925); The Golf Bug (1922); The Great Water Peril (1918); The Lucky Number (1921); The Non-Stop Kid (1918); The Rajah (1919); The Sandman (1920); The Shriek of Araby (1923); The Sleuth (1922); The Tip (1918); The Whole Truth (1923); Them Was the Happy Days! (1916); Two Scrambled (1918); Two-Gun Gussie (1918); Under Two Jags (1923); Watch Your Wife (1923); We Never Sleep (1917); Whom God Hath Joined (1914); Why Worry? (1923); Young Sherlocks (1922).

Born on this day – Irene Rich:

Irene Rich

Actress

October 13, 1891 – April 22, 1988

Credits:

The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1949); Joan of Arc (1948); Fort Apache (1948); New Orleans (1947); Angel and the Badman (1947); Calendar Girl (1947); This Time for Keeps (1942); Three Sons o' Guns (1941); Keeping Company (1940); Queen of the Yukon (1940); The Lady in Question (1940); The Mortal Storm (1940); Everybody's Hobby (1939); The Right Way (1939); That Certain Age (1938); Hollywood Handicap (1938); Spitfire (1934); Manhattan Tower (1932); Her Mad Night (1932); Down to Earth (1932); The Champ (1931); Wicked (1931); The Mad Parade (1931); Five and Ten (1931); Strangers May Kiss (1931); Father's Son (1931); Beau Ideal (1931); Double Check (1930); On Your Back (1930); So This Is London (1930); Shanghai Rose (1929); They Had to See Paris (1929); The Exalted Flapper (1929); Daughters of Desire (1929); Ned McCobb's Daughter (1928); Women They Talk About (1928); The Perfect Crime (1928); Craig's Wife (1928); Powder My Back (1928); Beware of Married Men (1927); The Silver Slave (1927); The Desired Woman (1927); Dearie (1927); The Climbers (1927); Don't Tell the Wife (1927); My Official Wife (1926); The Honeymoon Express (1926); Silken Shackles (1926); Lady Windermere's Fan (1925); The Pleasure Buyers (1925); Compromise (1925); The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted (1925); Eve's Lover (1925); The Man Without a Conscience (1925); My Wife and I (1925); A Lost Lady (1924); What the Butler Saw (1924); This Woman (1924); Behold This Woman (1924); A Woman Who Sinned (1924); Captain January (1924); Being Respectable (1924); Cytherea (1924); Beau Brummel (1924); Pal o' Mine (1924); Boy of Mine (1923); Lucretia Lombard (1923); Defying Destiny (1923); Rosita (1923); Yesterday's Wife (1923); Dangerous Trails (1923); Michael O'Halloran (1923); Snowdrift (1923); Brass (1923); Fruits of Faith (1922); The Marriage Chance (1922); While Justice Waits (1922); Brawn of the North (1922); The Ropin' Fool (1922); The Yosemite Trail (1922); A Fool There Was (1922); One Clear Call (1922); The Trap (1922); Strength of the Pines (1922); The Call of Home (1922); The Poverty of Riches (1921); The Invisible Power (1921); Desperate Trails (1921); A Voice in the Dark (1921); A Tale of Two Worlds (1921); Boys Will Be Boys (1921); One Man in a Million (1921); Sunset Jones (1921); Godless Men (1920); Just Out of College (1920); Stop Thief (1920); Jes' Call Me Jim (1920); The Strange Boarder (1920); The Street Called Straight (1920); Water, Water, Everywhere (1920); The Spite Bride (1919); Her Purchase Price (1919); Wolves of the Night (1919); The Blue Bonnet (1919); The Sneak (1919); The Lone Star Ranger (1919); Castles in the Air (1919); The Silver Girl (1919); Diane of the Green Van (1919); A Man in the Open (1919); Todd of the Times (1919); A Law Unto Herself (1918); The Girl in His House (1918); A Desert Wooing (1918).

Born on this day – Georgia Backus:

Georgia Backus

Actress

October 13, 1900 – September 7, 1983

Credits:

Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Mark of the Renegade (1951); Apache Drums (1951); Cause for Alarm! (1951); Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950); No Man of Her Own (1950); Copper Canyon (1950); Song of Surrender (1949); Too Late for Tears (1949); Force of Evil (1948); Dream Girl (1948); Suddenly It's Spring (1947); Lady in the Dark (1944); Standing Room Only (1944); The Moon Is Down (1943); Lucky Jordan (1942); My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942); I Married a Witch (1942); The Talk of the Town (1942); Blondie for Victory (1942); The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); Not a Ladies' Man (1942); Take a Letter, Darling (1942); Shut My Big Mouth (1942); The Lady Is Willing (1942); Bedtime Story (1941); Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case (1941); You Belong to Me (1941); Blondie in Society (1941); They Dare Not Love (1941); Citizen Kane (1941); Repent at Leisure (1941); Footlight Fever (1941); So Ends Our Night (1941); Nobody's Children (1940).

Born on this day – Yves Allégret:

Yves Allégret

Director

Writer

October 13, 1905 – January 31, 1987

Credits:

A Day in the Country (1946); Au cinéma ce soir (1971–1974); Autour du film Une si jolie petite plage (1973); Aventure à Paris (1936); Box of Dreams (1945); Chien de pique (1960); Ciboulette (1933); Cinépanorama (1958); Confessions of a Newlywed (1937); Dedee (1948); Don't Bite, We Love You (1976); Fanny (1932); Fantômas (1932); Forfaiture (1937); Germinal (1963); Graine d'ortie (1973); Happy Days (1935); Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (1975); Jeunes filles de France (1939); Johnny Banco (1967); Konga Yo (1962); La meilleure part (1955); Ladies Lake (1934); Le collier (1931); Le dompteur (1938); Le gagnant (1937); L'émigrante (1940); Les amours de minuit (1931); Les démons de l'aube (1946); Les deux timides (1943); Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (1979–1981); Les miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois (1951); L'invasion (1970); L'invité de FR3 (1981); Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931); Max le débonnaire (1967); Miss Nitouche (1954); Nez de cuir (1952); Oasis (1955); Orzowei, il figlio della savana (1976–1977); Port of Desire (1958); Prix et profits, la pomme de terre (1932); Quand la femme s'en mêle (1957); Revenge at Daybreak (1952); Simone Signoret, figure libre (2020); Such a Pretty Little Beach (1949); Ténérife (1932); The Bitch (1931); The cheat (1949); The Proud and the Beautiful (1953); The Restless and the Damned (1959); The Seven Deadly Sins (1952); Tobie est un ange (1940); Under Western Eyes (1936); Young Girls Beware (1957).

Born on this day – Cornel Wilde:

Cornel Wilde

Actor

Director

October 13, 1912 – October 16, 1989

Born on this day – Jack MacGowran:

Jack MacGowran

Actor

October 13, 1918 – January 30, 1973

Born on this day – Laraine Day:

Laraine Day

Actress

October 13, 1920 – November 10, 2007

Credits:

A Yank on the Burma Road (1942); Airwolf (1985); American Masters (2004); And One Was Beautiful (1940); Arizona Legion (1939); Border G-Man (1938); Bride by Mistake (1944); Burke's Law (1963); Calling Dr. Kildare (1939); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); Checkmate (1961); Climax! (1957); Daydreaming with Laraine (1951); Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940); Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940); Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940); Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941); Fantasy Island (1978); Fingers at the Window (1942); Follow the Sun (1962); Foreign Correspondent (1940); General Electric Theater (1953); Hollywood Summer Theatre (1956); Hotel (1985); I Take This Woman (1940); Journey for Margaret (1942); Kathleen (1941); Keep Your Powder Dry (1945); Lou Grant (1979); Lux Video Theatre (1951); Medical Center (1973); Mister Gardenia Jones (1942); Moment of Fear (1960); Mr. Lucky (1943); Murder on Flight 502 (1975); Murder, She Wrote (1986); My Dear Secretary (1948); My Son, My Son! (1940); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); Painted Desert (1938); Personal History: Foreign Hitchcock (2004); Playhouse 90 (1956); Pursuit (1958); Rendezvous (1958); Scandal Street (1938); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Screen Directors Playhouse (1955); Sergeant Madden (1939); Stella Dallas (1937); Strange Stories (1960); Swiss Family Robinson (1958); Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939); The 3rd Voice (1960); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The Bad Man (1941); The F.B.I. (1969); The Ford Television Theatre (1952); The High and the Mighty (1954); The Locket (1946); The Loretta Young Show (1955); The Love Boat (1978); The Name of the Game (1968); The New Breed (1962); The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941); The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939); The Sixth Sense (1972); The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944); The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1957); The Toy Tiger (1956); The Trial of Mary Dugan (1941); The Woman on Pier 13 (1949); The World: Color It Happy (1967); Think First (1939); Those Endearing Young Charms (1945); Three for Jamie Dawn (1956); Tycoon (1947); Unholy Partners (1941); Wagon Train (1963); Will Banner (1965); Willys Theatre Presenting Ben Hecht's Tales of the City (1953); Without Honor (1949).

Born on this day – Yves Montand:

Yves Montand

Actor

Singer

October 13, 1921 – November 9, 1991

Born on this day – Paquita Rico:

Paquita Rico

Actress

Singer

October 13, 1929 – July 9, 2017

Credits:

50 años de (2010); Ay Lola, Lolita, Lola (1995); Bla, bla, bla (1981); Brindis a Manolete (1948); Canciones de nuestra vida (1975); Cantares (1978); Cine de barrio (1995); Corazón de... (2006); Curra Veleta (1956); Dónde vas, Alfonso XII (1959); Dos novias para un torero (1956); El balcón de la Luna (1962); El Cid cabreador (1983); El duende de Jerez (1954); El taxi de los conflictos (1969); España insólita (1965); Especial Nochevieja 1978 (1978); Esta noche con... (1969); Esta noche... fiesta (1976); Esto es espectáculo (1995); Estudio 1 (1968); Estudio abierto (1983); Evocación (1983); Fiestas de San Cayateno de Madrid en 1998 (1998); Flash 02 (1967); Gala Corazones de Oro (2001); Gran homenaje a la canción Española (1996); Gran Parada (1964); Historia de una noche (1962); Hormigas blancas (2020); Hostal Royal Manzanares (1997); I premios Goya (1987); II Premios Goya (1988); III Premios Goya (1989); IV premios Goya (1990); La alegre caravana (1953); La clave (1984); La moza de cántaro (1954); La noche del cine español (1985); La tierra de las 1000 músicas (2005); La tirana (1958); La virgen gitana (1951); La viudita naviera (1962); Le tardone (1964); Les lavandières du Portugal (1957); Lo scapolo (1955); Los espectáculos (1978); Los mitos (1979); Love in Jamaica (1957); Luna de sangre (1952); Malvaloca (1954); Manos a la obra (1998); María Morena (1952); Memorias del cine español (1978); Noche de fiesta (1999); Noche del sábado (1967); Noches de gala (1994); Olé torero (1949); Plácido y la copla (2008); Prisionera del pasado (1954); Querida Concha (1993); Querida Lola (2005); Queridos cómicos (1992); Rumbo (1950); S.O.S., abuelita (1959); Sábado 64 (1965); Señoras y señores (1974); Suspiros de Triana (1955); Tal cual (1988); Telemaratón 1998 (1998); Tertulia con... (1981); The Savage Guns (1961); Tiempo al tiempo (2001); Un dia és un dia (1990); Una historia real (2004); Ventolera (1962); Viva / muera Don Juan Tenorio (1977); Viva lo imposible (1958); XV premios Goya (2001); Y, sin embargo, te quiero (1983).

Born on this day – Judi Meredith:

Judi Meredith

Actress

October 13, 1936 – April 30, 2014

Credits:

87th Precinct (1961); A Letter to Nancy (1965); American in Paris (1964); Ben Casey (1966); Blondie (1957); Bonanza (1962); Cimarron City (1959); Code 3 (1957); Conflict (1957); Dark Intruder (1965); Death Valley Days (1967); Dracula in the Movies (1992); Emergency! (1973); General Electric Theater (1959); Gunsmoke (1962); Have Gun - Will Travel (1961); Hawaii Five-O (1971); Here's Hollywood (1960); Hotel de Paree (1959); Ironside (1969); Jack the Giant Killer (1962); Laramie (1960); M Squad (1958); Mannix (1967); Money, Women and Guns (1958); Panic! (1957); Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1966); Queen of Blood (1966); Rawhide (1965); Riverboat (1960); Sam Benedict (1962); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958); Something Big (1971); Studio One (1958); Summer Love (1958); Tales of Wells Fargo (1959); Telephone Time (1957); The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1960); The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna (1958); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1955); The George Burns Show (1958); The Investigators (1961); The Millionaire (1958); The New Breed (1962); The Night Walker (1964); The Raiders (1963); The Restless Gun (1958); The Roaring 20's (1961); The Tall Man (1961); The Virginian (1966); Toma (1973); Vacation Playhouse (1964); Wagon Train (1959); Wild Heritage (1958); Yancy Derringer (1959).

Born on this day – Melinda Dillon:

Melinda Dillon

Actress

October 13, 1939 – January 9, 2023

Credits:

A Christmas Story (1983); A Christmas Story: Audio Commentary (2003); A Painted House (2003); Absence of Malice (1981); Adam & Steve (2005); Bonanza (1969); Bound for Glory (1976); Captain America (1990); Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977); Confessions: Two Faces of Evil (1994); Cowboy Up (2001); Debating Robert Lee (2004); Dinah! (1978); East Side / West Side (1964); Enigma (1977); Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996); F.I.S.T. (1978); Fallen Angel (1981); Freeman (1976); Harry and the Hendersons (1987); Heartland (2007); Hellinger's Law (1981); How to Make an American Quilt (1995); Insight (1981); Judging Amy (2001); Judgment Day: The John List Story (1993); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2005); Magnolia (1999); Marriage Is Alive and Well (1980); Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge (1995); Nightbreaker (1989); Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers (1974); Picket Fences (1996); Reign Over Me (2007); Right of Way (1983); Sara (1976); Science Fiction Film Awards (1978); Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012); Shattered Innocence (1988); Shattered Spirits (1986); Sioux City (1994); Slap Shot (1977); Songwriter (1984); Space (1985); Spielberg (2017); Spontaneous Combustion (1989); State of Emergency (1994); Staying Together (1989); Storefront Lawyers (1970); Story Theatre (1971); TCM Remembers 2023 (2023); That Moment: Magnolia Diary (2000); The 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2023); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 54th Annual Academy Awards (1982); The April Fools (1969); The Client (1995); The Critical List (1978); The Cry of Jazz (1959); The Defenders (1963); The Effects of Magic (1998); The History of Christmas (1997); The Jeffersons (1975); The Juggler of Notre Dame (1982); The Lyon's Den (2003); The Making of 'Absence of Malice' (1982); The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (1977 / 2001); The Mike Douglas Show (1977); The Mississippi (1983); The Prince of Tides (1991); The Real Story (2012); The Shadow Box (1980); The Twilight Zone (1985); TMZ on TV (2014); To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995); Tracey Takes On... (1997); Transplant (1979); Un hombre solo (1969).

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Born on this day – Pamela Tiffin:

Pamela Tiffin

Actress

October 13, 1942 – December 2, 2020

Credits:

ABC's Nightlife (1965); Brigitte, Laura, Ursula, Monica, Raquel, Liz, Maria, Florinda, Barbara, Claudia, e Sofia, le chiamo tutte... anima mia (1974); Cinéma, de notre temps (2003); Come Fly with Me (1963); Cose di Cosa Nostra (1971); Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears (1973); E se per caso una mattina... (1972); For Those Who Think Young (1964); Girl Talk (1967); Harper / aka The Moving Target (1966); Here's Hollywood (1962); I protagonisti (1968); Kill Me, My Love! (1973); Kiss the Other Sheik (1965); La signora è stata violentata (1973); Live from Lincoln Center (1982); Music of Williamsburg (1960); No One Will Notice You're Naked (1971); One, Two, Three (1961); Password (1967); Quattro storie di donne (1989); State Fair (1962); Straziami ma di baci saziami (1968); Summer and Smoke (1961); TCM Remembers 2020 (2020); The Almost Perfect Crime (1966); The Archangel (1969); The Celebrity Game (1964); The David Frost Show (1970); The Ed Sullivan Show (1965); The Fifth Cord (1971); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Billy Wilder (1982); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (1975); The Fugitive (1963); The Hallelujah Trail (1965); The Last of the Powerseekers (1969); The Lively Set (1964); The Merv Griffin Show (1966); The Pleasure Seekers (1964); The Responsive Eye (1966); The Survivors (1970); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963); This Proud Land (1966); To Tell the Truth (1964); Vacation Playhouse (1965); Viva Max (1969); What's My Line? (1966–1967).

Born on this day – Kelly Preston:

Kelly Preston

Actress

October 13, 1962 – July 12, 2020

Credits:

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On this day in movie history - Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

Odds Against Tomorrow

directed by Robert Wise,

written by Abraham Polonsky and Nelson Gidding,

based on the novel by William P. McGivern,

was released in the United States on October 13, 1959.

Music by John Lewis.

Cast:

Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley, Gloria Grahame, Will Kuluva, Kim Hamilton, Mae Barnes, Richard Bright, Carmen De Lavallade, Lew Gallo, Lois Thorne, Wayne Rogers, Zohra Lampert, Allen Nourse.

On this day in movie history - Midnight Lace (1960)

Midnight Lace

directed by David Miller,

written by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts,

based on the play Matilda Shouted Fire by Janet Green,

was released in the United States on October 13, 1960.

Music by Frank Skinner.

Cast:

Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowall, Herbert Marshall, Natasha Parry, Hermione Baddeley, John Williams, Richard Ney, Anthony Dawson, Rhys Williams, Richard Lupino, Hayden Rorke, Doris Lloyd, Gage Clarke, Elspeth March, Peter Adams, Rex Evans.

On this day in movie history - Double Indemnity (movie & books):

Double Indemnity

directed by Jack Smight,

written by Steven Bochco, Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler,

based on the novel by James M. Cain,

released in the United States on October 13, 1973.

Music by Billy Goldenberg.

Cast:

Richard Crenna, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Webber, Samantha Eggar, Arch Johnson, Kathleen Cody, John Fiedler, John Elerick, Joan Pringle, Gene Dynarski, Ken Renard, Joyce Cunning, Arnold F. Turner, Rand Brooks, Tom Curtis, John Furlong.

Recommended reading:

Double Indemnity

by James M. Cain.

Filmed as:
 
Double Indemnity (1944), directed by Billy Wilder.
Double Indemnity (1973), directed by Jack Smight.

Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard.
Published 1943.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 9780679723226
ISBN-13: 9780679723226

Description:

“An American masterpiece.” – Ross Macdonald.

“No one has ever stopped reading in the middle of one of Jim Cain’s books.” – Saturday Review of Literature.

Walter Huff was an insurance salesman with an unfailing instinct for clients who might be in trouble, and his instinct led him to Phyllis Nirdlinger. Phyllis wanted to buy an accident policy on her husband. Then she wanted her husband to have an accident. Walter wanted Phyllis. To get her, he would arrange the perfect murder and betray everything he had ever lived for.

Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1935, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir.

 

Double Indemnity: The Complete Screenplay

by Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler, Jeffrey Meyers.

Published by University of California Press.
Published 2000.

ISBN-10: 0520218485
ISBN-13: 9780520218482

Description:

On every level -- writing, direction, acting -- Double Indemnity (1944) is a triumph and stands as one of the greatest achievements in Billy Wilder's career. Adapted from the James M. Cain novel by director Wilder and novelist Raymond Chandler, it tells the story of an insurance salesman, played by Fred MacMurray, who is lured into a murder-for-insurance plot by Barbara Stanwyck, in an archetypal femme fatale role. From its grim story to its dark, atmospheric lighting, Double Indemnity is a definitive example of World War II-era film noir. Wilder's approach is everywhere evident: in the brutal cynicism the film displays, the moral complexity, and in the empathy we feel for the killers. The film received almost unanimous critical success, garnering seven Academy Award nominations. More than fifty years later, most critics agree that this classic is one of the best films of all time. The collaboration between Wilder and Raymond Chandler produced a masterful script and some of the most memorable dialogue ever spoken in a movie.

This facsimile edition of Double Indemnity contains Wilder and Chandler's original -- and quite different -- ending, published here for the first time. Jeffrey Meyers's introduction contextualizes the screenplay, providing hilarious anecdotes about the turbulent collaboration, as well as background information about Wilder and the film's casting and production.

On this day in movie history - Jade (1995)

Jade

directed by William Friedkin,

written by Joe Eszterhas,

was released in the United States on October 13, 1995.

Music by James Horner.

Cast:

David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri, Richard Crenna, Michael Biehn, Donna Murphy, Ken King, Holt McCallany, David Hunt, Angie Everhart, Kevin Tighe, Victor Wong, Robin Thomas, Victoria Smith, Jay Jacobus, Bud Bostwick, Darryl Chan, Ron Ulstad, Buddy Joe Hooker, Bobby Bass, Sandy Berumen, Dick Ziker, Ron Yuan.

On this day in movie history - Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998)

Phantasm IV: Oblivion

a.k.a. Phantasm: Oblivion

directed and written by Don Coscarelli,

was released in the United States on October 13, 1998.

Music by Christopher L. Stone.

Cast:

A. Michael Baldwin, Reggie Bannister, Bill Thornbury, Heidi Marnhout, Bob Ivy, Angus Scrimm, Christopher L. Stone, Chloe Kay, Sylvia Flammer, David Gasster, Sasha Kassel, Aidan Kassel, Eric Avary, Andy John, George A. Craig, Steven C. Kassel, Robert Gates, Todd Mecklem, Jason Jacobs, Michael Perkins, Colin Jessup, Stanley Potter, Roger Avary, Bret Schweinfurth, Robert Tomaszewski.