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A Horror Maestro Goes West

by | Nov 4, 2014 | Uncategorized

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When Director William Castle was grinding through his last Western film, 1955’s Duel on the Mississippi, B-movie immortality probably wasn’t on his mind. Duel on the Mississippi was just another movie Castle would make for Columbia Pictures’ low budget-mogul Sam Katzman, shot fast and cheap, but good enough for the Bijou. Castle had made 36 movies by that point and always delivered. A flying skeleton changed everything. House on Haunted Hill was Castle’s Horror smash, with the gimmic


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