Hello!

It’s a brief notice today … I pride myself for going over my review of  The Silent Star and removing whole paragraphs that read too much like showing off, or that push opinions I can’t back up with real facts … not that the review isn’t still a bit overloaded. When discs are released that CineSavant really really really wants to see, this is what happens.

The only column item today is a winner picked out by our Michael McQuarrie: an archive audio recording from 1966 that’s a recital of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart.

The gimmick in this case is the voice talent reader of the short story, none other than cinema horrormeister William Castle, he of the showmanship gimmicks, and personal appearances with his everpresent cigar. Castle’s reading is …. enthusiastic?   emphatic?   Just too much?  He’s giving it all, so no complaints here. You know what they always never say about old Bill Castle: “Gee, if he had directed Rosemary’s Baby himself, it might have been much better!

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson