help w/film title!!!!
help w/film title!!!!
virgil blessing2
Leading Actor Joined: 7/12/04
#0help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/23/05 at 10:46pm
Hi all. Can someone PLEASE help me? Years ago I saw a great black & white horror film. It was from the 1950's, possibly very early 1960's. It was American.
It was a bit campy yet eerie. Murders are being committed, in a desolate old house. In the final climax, the it is revealed that the murderer is one of the female characters, who, as it turns out is actually a man in female drag.
The entire film you believed it WAS a woman. The drag was ASTOUNDINGLY convincing. The actor essaying the role was a genteel lady in look, manner, vocal. In the final showdown, this "woman" reveals to her intended final female victim that she is really a man and is, in a Norman Bates-y way, closing in on her with either a knife, or a pair of scissors. (It has not been revealed at all until this climactic finish that this is really a man in drag.)
I recall being amazed that this was actually cranked out during the conservative 50's/early 60's. The drag aspect of it was VERY daring for the day. The "female" killer does not succeed and is killed in those final moments by the hero.
Can anyone PLEASE tell me what the title of this film was? If you know the year and the cast also, terrif. BUt I really need to know the title so that I can find a copy of it.
It was not your usual b&w "haunted mansion" flick. He/she was soooo haunting. Thanks!
"I am not 'a' Eunice Burns. I am THE Eunice Burns!!!"
#1re: help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/23/05 at 10:48pmPsycho
"I think Harvey [Fierstein] wishes he were a black woman. I say he's the largest black woman in the show. I wish Harvey were straight, cuz I'd do him in a minute. I like big burly mother f***ers like him." ~Mary Bond Davis on Harvey Fierstein Thanks to Mistress @ spouzic.com
LetMeLeave
Featured Actor Joined: 1/16/05
#3re: help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/23/05 at 10:52pmoh, i didn't bother reading the whole thing
"I think Harvey [Fierstein] wishes he were a black woman. I say he's the largest black woman in the show. I wish Harvey were straight, cuz I'd do him in a minute. I like big burly mother f***ers like him." ~Mary Bond Davis on Harvey Fierstein Thanks to Mistress @ spouzic.com
LetMeLeave
Featured Actor Joined: 1/16/05
#5re: help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/23/05 at 10:54pmSounds to me like "Dressed to Kill", which was horribly remade in the early 80's.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
beacon1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/04
#6re: help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/23/05 at 10:54pmCan you remember the names of any of the characters or any of the actors?
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virgil blessing2
Leading Actor Joined: 7/12/04
#7re: help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/23/05 at 10:55pm
huh? no, please read above carefully. it's a 1950's/early 1960's horror film.
lol given my specific description above, where in the HELL did you come up with a 2004 film about a dance battle??
no no, read my original post. it's rather specific as to the genre, plot and rough release year.
"I am not 'a' Eunice Burns. I am THE Eunice Burns!!!"
LetMeLeave
Featured Actor Joined: 1/16/05
#8re: help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/23/05 at 10:56pmwhoa, listen, I was just helping....psht, see if I help ever again. So ungrateful.
virgil blessing2
Leading Actor Joined: 7/12/04
#9re: help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/23/05 at 10:56pmpeople - no, please read carefully. it was a black and white film from the 1950's/early 1960's.
"I am not 'a' Eunice Burns. I am THE Eunice Burns!!!"
#10re: help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/23/05 at 10:57pmDRESSED TO KILL as I stated before. I'm almost positive that is what you are describing
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
virgil blessing2
Leading Actor Joined: 7/12/04
#11re: help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/23/05 at 10:57pmletitleave, it was sweet of you to reply, but your suggestion was 180 miles away from what i clearly describe din my original post. lol
"I am not 'a' Eunice Burns. I am THE Eunice Burns!!!"
beacon1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/04
#12re: help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/23/05 at 10:58pm
more info needed. Why were the folks in the house? Was the hero a cop? a boarder? A love interest?
Character names? Any actor names come to mind?
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#13re: help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/23/05 at 10:58pmFORGET HELPING YOU, snobby snobberson
"I think Harvey [Fierstein] wishes he were a black woman. I say he's the largest black woman in the show. I wish Harvey were straight, cuz I'd do him in a minute. I like big burly mother f***ers like him." ~Mary Bond Davis on Harvey Fierstein Thanks to Mistress @ spouzic.com
LetMeLeave
Featured Actor Joined: 1/16/05
#14re: help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/23/05 at 10:59pmSuuriously! Me and Phantom over here took time out of our busy schedules to help and this is what we get. I didn't even say Lord of the Rings...which, it clearly is. Your welcome!
#15re: help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/23/05 at 11:00pmBSO
"I think Harvey [Fierstein] wishes he were a black woman. I say he's the largest black woman in the show. I wish Harvey were straight, cuz I'd do him in a minute. I like big burly mother f***ers like him." ~Mary Bond Davis on Harvey Fierstein Thanks to Mistress @ spouzic.com
LetMeLeave
Featured Actor Joined: 1/16/05
#17re: help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/23/05 at 11:03pm
you are now on my sh*t list
congratulations!
"I think Harvey [Fierstein] wishes he were a black woman. I say he's the largest black woman in the show. I wish Harvey were straight, cuz I'd do him in a minute. I like big burly mother f***ers like him." ~Mary Bond Davis on Harvey Fierstein Thanks to Mistress @ spouzic.com
virgil blessing2
Leading Actor Joined: 7/12/04
#18re: help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/23/05 at 11:05pm
guys, chill, i am not a snob. grateful you replied, it is just that u mentioned a 2004 flm about a dance battle from 2004 when i layed out that it wa sa horror film from years earlier. lol
where or WHERE did u get dance band from in my decsription??
justice, i checked IMDB and they all say that the prior versions of DRESSED TO KILL were sherlock holmes films. so that doesn't sound like thats it. hmmm. was the original under a different title?
the actors were B list. none of the names stayed with me.
i do not know why they were all in the house sadly. this was a few years ago. the hero was the final victim's beau coming to save her. but it was eerie with the guy pulling off a wig, eerie smile raising the scirros and u had no CLUE that it was a man.
"I am not 'a' Eunice Burns. I am THE Eunice Burns!!!"
LetMeLeave
Featured Actor Joined: 1/16/05
#20re: help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/23/05 at 11:09pm
the original House on Haunted Hill....
If you don't get it by tues, PM me this info - my english prof is a horror movie buff
"I think Harvey [Fierstein] wishes he were a black woman. I say he's the largest black woman in the show. I wish Harvey were straight, cuz I'd do him in a minute. I like big burly mother f***ers like him." ~Mary Bond Davis on Harvey Fierstein Thanks to Mistress @ spouzic.com
virgil blessing2
Leading Actor Joined: 7/12/04
#21re: help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/23/05 at 11:18pmsadly no, i wish it was the original HOUSE, but it's not.
"I am not 'a' Eunice Burns. I am THE Eunice Burns!!!"
#22re: help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/23/05 at 11:21pmany clue about the director?
need to defrag my brain.
virgil blessing2
Leading Actor Joined: 7/12/04
#23re: help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/23/05 at 11:23pmsorry, no. i caught this on tv a few years back. it was like a poor man's PSYCHO.
"I am not 'a' Eunice Burns. I am THE Eunice Burns!!!"
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
#24re: help w/film title!!!!
Posted: 1/24/05 at 12:25amI know it! I know it! Its HOMICIDAL, starring Glenn someone and guset starring Eugenie Leontovitch as a mute woman who gets her head lopped off. The drag character is surely an actress who is heavily made up and dubbed when playing the guy.
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