Absolutely love this gem of a film! 📽

Today's PICTURE OF THE DAY is from the classic Hammer Films movie THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (1959), starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. marruda3.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/p...

On this day in 1943 The Dancing Masters was released. It was Fox's third biggest earning film of the year and 20th on the list of the top 50 moneymakers for 1943. Stan: The harder they fall, the bigger I am!

Six years ago today I started my current job at a wonderful school library. Little did I know exactly how much I would absolutely fall in love with it! I work with the most amazing kids & colleagues, who can ask for more? 🥰📚

The silent horror film classic ‘The Phantom Of The Opera’ starring Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin was released to theaters on this day 100 years ago 🎶 😱 💞 #OTD "𝙸𝚏 𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚘𝚖, 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚗'𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚖𝚎 𝚜𝚘. 𝙸𝚏 𝙸 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚍, 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚍𝚎𝚎𝚖𝚜 𝚖𝚎."

Watching Barbara Stanwyck and John Lund in 'No Man of Her Own' (1950) A pregnant woman, rejected by her boyfriend reluctantly assumes the identity of a bride killed in a train crash and moves in with her rich in-laws....but she's not the only one who knows she's lying 📽

The Finishing Touch (1928) was filmed in the Cheviot Hills area of Los Angeles. The house #laurelandhardy were building in the film was located at 2830 Motor Avenue (destroyed after filming). The hospital building (2728 McConnell Drive) still stands today.

If you missed the news, my latest book is out now! (The sequel to The Legacy of Frankenstein) amzn.to/47PhzuI

£5 for this giant Jane Austen book? Okay! 😀 📖

Loved this series!!! One of my favourites 📺

Seven years ago today, I was hosting a remembrance event & had a crazy idea to work alongside the Victoria Tunnels & have an author read a section of their war related book 55 feet underground. Who would be mad enough to help me? It was always the legend that is @dansmithauthor.bsky.social

10 November 1889 – 1967 Claude Rains, 77, English-US actor. Oscar nominations: Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1938) * Casablanca * Mr Skeffington * #Hitchcock Notorious (1946) Film debut The Invisible Man (1933) The Adventures of Robin Hood * Darkness at Noon (Tony Award) Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

I love "It's a Wonderful Life" BUT What is the worst thing that could have happened to Mary without George? Oh yes! Lose all her personality, liveliness, fun & fashion sense and become a Librarian! Heaven forbid! 🙄📚

Spending my Sunday afternoon with William Powell and Myrna Loy and my Thin Man box set 😀📽

The only problem with these excellent reviews by Dark Corners is I then want to buy them!

Love finding fellow Ray Harryhausen fans 🥰

Educating our children today on the decisions and consequences of the past is the best way ensure all those who suffered are not forgotten. We can then hope this leads to a better tomorrow. Here are some favourite books which I feel give a rounded view on WW2. #RemembranceSunday

Hee hee! 😁 Merry Christmas 🎄

Okay.....my Santa Claus is out....what next? 🤔 Oh yes.... The TREE!!!! 🎄😃

Kid (who normally only reads sport): Have you got any books on Greek Mythology? Me: yes of course, what's started the sudden fascination on Greek myths? Kid: I watched this amazing film called 'Jason and the Argonauts'. There was a HUGE bronze statue & it came to life! Me: 😏

Was in excellent company at Frankie and Benny's 🥰🥰🥰

Monster worlds collide in a classic clash of the titans. Wonderfully shot with style in spades and a terrific cast. Not perfect perhaps, but it kind of is. 1943. #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam

Behind the scenes with The Boys. Looks like the fleet's in. Two actual British sailors managed to get the 1920s version of a selfie with #StanAndOllie & #JamesFinlayson during a break in filming of Men O' War. #LaurelAndHardy #StanLaurel #OliverHardy

TV Tuesday - The Buster Keaton Show "The Detective Story," 1951, finds Buster in the back of the Sporting Goods store where he is studying to be a detective. Falling asleep, he dreams that he is a private investigator. #ooldhollywood

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5 November 1913 – 1967 Vivien Leigh, (b. Hartley), 53, (Tuberculosis, Pneumonia), British India born UK actress. Fire Over England (1937) * Waterloo Bridge * Gone with the Wind (Oscar) * Cleopatra * Anna Karenina * A Streetcar Named Desire (Oscar) * Tovarich (1963 Tony Award) * Ship of Fools (1966)

Today we celebrated #NationalAuthorDay You could sit in our paper frame book booth & have a photo taken with the name of your favourite author & only ONE celebrity made the cut! My hard work is finally paying off! 🥳

I'm not drinking peppermint hot chocolate and watching a cheesy Hallmark Christmas film, you are! 🤣🎄

Behind the scenes of Way Out West... Stan with daughter Lois & Dinah the mule. #LaurelAndHardy #StanAndOllie #StanLaurel #OliverHardy #LoisLaurel #DinahTheMule

After a traumatic road accident a young woman is drawn to a creepy abandoned carnival. A much copied masterpiece of low budget menace. Haunting. 1962. #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #film #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam

Night, night laughter fans... #LaurelAndHardy #StanAndOllie #StanLaurel #OliverHardy

Wonderful first visit to the Newcastle Lit and Phil Library 🥰 📚

Halloween wouldn't be complete without watching my all-time favourite witch movie, 'The Undead' (1957) It's mystical, magical, gothic, has more fog than a London murder mystery novel and stars the wonderful Allison Hayes. All excellent reasons to watch #HappyHalloween

The trick or treaters are knocking, the costumes are fabulous, the kids are so excited and my house is decorated inside and out.....happy Shaz tonight 😀 ##HappyHalloween

Time to visit 'The House on Haunted Hill' (1959) Can't let Halloween pass without some Vincent Price 💀 Also stars Carol Ohmart and Elisha Cook Jr This is my favourite Price movie. He is loving every second and I can't help but be swept along with him 🎃 📽 #HappyHalloween

Starting my Halloween viewing with the 1944 comedy horror, 'One Body Too Many'. Starring Bela Lugosi & Jack Haley. Picture a stormy night, relatives gathered in a mansion, secret passages & the reading of a will & you've got this fun horror/mystery movie 📽 👻 #HappyHalloween

My Halloween mug of choice today 🦇🦇🦇

Happy Halloween! 🎃👻🦇

Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, and Basil Rathbone in The Comedy of Terrors (1963) 🦇

Sara Allgood in "The Lodger" (with Laird Cregar) - BOTD

"The Bride of Frankenstein" 1935 d by James Whale, screenplay by James Hurlbut. Universal. 75 m. **** Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Ernest Thesiger, Valerie Hobson, Elsa Lanchester, Gavin Gordon, Douglas Walton, Una O'Connor, E.E. Clive, Lucien Prival, O.P. Heggie, Dwight Frye, Reginald Barlow.

Out to buy on DVD from Amazon, Laurel and Hardy's Yorkshire Adventures.

Our Halloween special looks at the career of a horror legend!

Time to join my favourite, Peter Cushing for another Amicus horror extravaganza! This time in 'The Skull' (1965) also starring Christopher Lee, Patrick Wymark, Jill Bennett, Nigel Green, Patrick Magee and Peter Woodthorpe #HalloweenCountdown 📽

Just listened to this latest instalment and can confirm you should all enjoy a pint with Mr Ripper! 🍻 The Scarlet Vault is open once more......

Spending the afternoon with my girls watching one of my childhood favourites 'The Worst Witch' (1986) starring Fairuza Balk, Charlotte Rae. Diana Rigg and Tim Curry. Eighties TV at its best! 🧹📺 #HalloweenCountdown

Art showcasing the creations of Ray Harryhausen c/o spoof magazine "Crazy Hip Go-Go Way-Out Monsters" No.32 (2004). #Kaiju #scifiart

#Halloween #comedy From time to time, Laurel and Hardy would encounter the supernatural. This is one of those times......Or is it? (Sorry about the aspect ratio. It was the only copy I could find on YT with the original soundtrack) www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI1Y...

Last couple of days before Halloween so it's time to watch more of my favourite creepy classics and tonight I am starting with 'The Frighteners' (1996) Gotta love a bit of Michael J. Fox! 📽 #HalloweenCountdown