Niall MacGinnis

  • Jacques Tourneur – Night of the Demon (1957)

    1951-1960HorrorJacques TourneurThrillerUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    Dr. John Holden ventures to London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the intention to expose devil cult leader Julian Karswell. Holden is a skeptic and does not believe in Karswell’s power. Nonetheless, he accepts an invitation to stay at Karswell’s estate, along with Joanna Harrington, niece of Holden’s confidant who was electrocuted in a bizarre automobile accident. Karswell secretly slips a parchment into Holden’s papers that might possibly be a death curse. Recurring strange events finally strike fear into Holden, who believes that his only hope is to pass the parchment back to Karswell to break the demonic curse. Read More »

  • John Llewellyn Moxey – Foxhole in Cairo (1960)

    1951-1960DramaJohn Llewellyn MoxeyUSAWar


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    In 1942, Rommel halts his victorious Afrika Korps and sends German agent John Eppler
    and radio operator Sandy to Cairo. Their mission is to learn where the British plan to
    launch their counteroffensive. Eppler immediately communicates with Amina, an Egyptian
    cabaret dancer and his former mistress, who agrees to help him. Unknown to them,
    British counterespionage chief Captain Robertson has learned of Eppler’s presence in
    Cairo and is working with the leader of Cairo’s Jewish underground, Radek. Amina lures
    an ineffectual British officer, Major Wilson, to her houseboat and has him drugged and
    robbed of his briefcase containing British counteroffensive details. While Eppler and
    Sandy relay the information to Rommel that the battle will take place at Alam Halfa,
    Yvette, a member of the Jewish underground, sneaks aboard the boat and revives the
    unconscious Wilson. They are interrupted by Amina, who shoots Wilson but is herself
    stabbed to death by Yvette. Eppler arrives and is about to kill Yvette when Robertson
    and Radek appear and arrest Eppler. Eppler’s satisfaction at having already informed
    Rommel that the counteroffensive will take place at Alam Halfa is short-lived. Robertson
    had seen to it that the plans in Wilson’s briefcase were false–the real battle will take
    place at El Alamein.Read More »

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