Dracula, the legendary horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, has spawned multiple big screen adaptations since its 1897 release. In 1992, Francis Ford Coppola released his own take on the classic vampire tale. Aptly titled Bram Stoker’s Dracula, it is a sprawling, neo-gothic, ultraviolent Grand Guignol. It’s a strange movie, and one that seems […]
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The character of Lemmy Caution – a cliché-surfing private eye in the Sam Spade / Philip Marlowe mould – first appeared in a series of stories (with titles like ‘Dames Don’t Care’ and ‘You Can Always Duck’) by English author Peter Cheyney and then, played by American actor Eddie Constantine, in a number of popular […]