Kolchak: The Night Stalker – The Complete Series
Blu ray
Kino Lorber
1974/ 1.33:1/ 1,020 Minutes
Starring Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland
Directed by Gordon Hessler. Alexander Grasshoff
“I saw what I saw when I saw it.” That was the mantra of Wilbur Grey, an anonymous shipping clerk who made a habit of bumping into some pretty famous monsters. As with most cautionary tales, no one will believe Wilbur about his strange encounters until it’s too late. Carl Kolchak, a beat reporter for Chicago’s Independent News Service, is stuck in the same boat; it seems that toddlin’ town is not only the City of Big Shoulders but Big Monsters—and they have a habit of playing in Kolchak’s backyard.
The newsman made his debut in the early ’70s when producer Dan Curtis parlayed Jeff Rice’s The Kolchak Papers into two television movies, 1972’s The Night Stalker and 1973’s The Night Strangler.
Blu ray
Kino Lorber
1974/ 1.33:1/ 1,020 Minutes
Starring Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland
Directed by Gordon Hessler. Alexander Grasshoff
“I saw what I saw when I saw it.” That was the mantra of Wilbur Grey, an anonymous shipping clerk who made a habit of bumping into some pretty famous monsters. As with most cautionary tales, no one will believe Wilbur about his strange encounters until it’s too late. Carl Kolchak, a beat reporter for Chicago’s Independent News Service, is stuck in the same boat; it seems that toddlin’ town is not only the City of Big Shoulders but Big Monsters—and they have a habit of playing in Kolchak’s backyard.
The newsman made his debut in the early ’70s when producer Dan Curtis parlayed Jeff Rice’s The Kolchak Papers into two television movies, 1972’s The Night Stalker and 1973’s The Night Strangler.
- 10/26/2021
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
From Synthia.Ca, Sneak Peek the "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" episode "The Zombie", directed by Alexander Grasshoff, starring Darren McGavin and Simon Oakland, that aired September 20, 1974 on ABC:
"...investigative reporter 'Carl Kolchak' discovers key figures in the Chicago numbers racket are routinely urning up dead...
"...killed by someone, or something with incredible strength.
"Kolchak soon learns that someone is using 'voodoo' to gain revenge on the criminals in the form of a ruthless 'zombie'.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" - 'The Zombie'...
"...investigative reporter 'Carl Kolchak' discovers key figures in the Chicago numbers racket are routinely urning up dead...
"...killed by someone, or something with incredible strength.
"Kolchak soon learns that someone is using 'voodoo' to gain revenge on the criminals in the form of a ruthless 'zombie'.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" - 'The Zombie'...
- 10/7/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Orson Welles’s voice is so distinctive that the creators of the '90s animated series “Pinky and the Brain” based the voice of the titular Pinky on the famed director. So yeah, Welles had a great set of pipes and it’s no wonder he started his career on the radio, or why director Alex Grasshoff tapped Welles to drop some narration on a short documentary. Open Culture shared Grasshoff’s 45-minute-long documentary “Future Shock,” and before Y2K, there was this. The short doc is based on futurist Alvin Toffler’s 1970 book on his conjectures of what the future of technology will bring for us as a society—Spoiler: nothing good. Basically, Toffler put forth the notion back then that things were changing too quickly, and that humans simply weren't prepared to deal with such rapid technological growth. Maybe it's a good thing he didn't live to see...
- 12/11/2014
- by Cain Rodriguez
- The Playlist
Alone Yet Not Alone has some company.
The obscure religious drama, which had its Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song revoked over allegations of improper campaigning, is one of the few films in history to suffer such a fate.
In one case, the film actually won the Oscar — and the victory was overturned after the fact and awarded to the runner-up. And in another — the earliest in the organization history — no one is sure why the film was rejected from consideration.
Updated: While the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences disputes that some crediting and nominating issues of...
The obscure religious drama, which had its Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song revoked over allegations of improper campaigning, is one of the few films in history to suffer such a fate.
In one case, the film actually won the Oscar — and the victory was overturned after the fact and awarded to the runner-up. And in another — the earliest in the organization history — no one is sure why the film was rejected from consideration.
Updated: While the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences disputes that some crediting and nominating issues of...
- 1/30/2014
- by Anthony Breznican
- EW - Inside Movies
The Academy has announced the Board of Governors has voted to rescind the Original Song nomination for "Alone Yet Not Alone," by Bruce Broughton. A press release says the decision was prompted by the discovery Broughton, a former Governor and current Music Branch executive committee member, had emailed members of the branch to make them aware of his submission during the nominations voting period. This is an important distinction as the song's eligibility was also called into question as noted by the Hollywood Reporter as it did have an Oscar-qualifying run took place at Laemmle Town Center 5 in Encino, where it screened once daily at 9:55 p.m. from Nov. 15 through Nov. 22, but in order to be eligible the distributors must also purchase advertising prior to the film's one week run... There was no such advertising. The Academy, however, chose to focus on Broughton's lobbying of his former Branch members,...
- 1/29/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Last Dinosaur Directed by: Alexander Grasshoff, Tsugunobu Kotani Written by: William Overgard Starring: Richard Boone, Joan Van Ark and Steven Keats The Last Dinosaur might be worth watching solely to see a clearly hammered Richard Boone scream at one his shipmates, calling him a, “ding dong.” And yes, Last Dinosaur was meant to be taken seriously. This is a co-production from longtime cartoon producers Rankin & Bass and Tsubaraya Productions, scheduled for a theatrical release stateside before being pulled for TV instead. The same two companies, or at least the same people, also delivered King Kong Escapes, a live action take on the Rankin & Bass “King Kong” TV series. That one is a blast, given a goofy, comedic tone, skilled miniatures, and one great looking T-Rex named Gorosaurus. The last dinosaur is no Gorosaurus. There are plenty of unconvincing dinosaur suits out there, from the flop-headed clunkers of Unknown Island...
- 4/7/2011
- by Matt P.
- FilmJunk
With the news that the musical score from The Dark Knight has been disqualified from Academy Awards consideration on the grounds that too many people were credited with composing it, outrage against the Academy's stringent, complicated rules has erupted afresh. In the interest of fueling this indignation and making the world an angrier place, let's take a belligerent march down memory lane and look at seven other controversial disqualifications.
The Jazz Singer disqualified for being a talkie. When the very first Academy Awards were held in May 1929, honoring films released between August 1927 and July 1928, everyone was talking about The Jazz Singer -- the first feature-length movie to use recorded sound in some of its talking and singing scenes. So great was the attention that the Academy disqualified the film from the inaugural Best Picture category, reasoning that its use of sound put it on an uneven playing field against the films still stuck in silence.
The Jazz Singer disqualified for being a talkie. When the very first Academy Awards were held in May 1929, honoring films released between August 1927 and July 1928, everyone was talking about The Jazz Singer -- the first feature-length movie to use recorded sound in some of its talking and singing scenes. So great was the attention that the Academy disqualified the film from the inaugural Best Picture category, reasoning that its use of sound put it on an uneven playing field against the films still stuck in silence.
- 11/16/2008
- by Eric D. Snider
- Cinematical
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