• in the 1940s. His son, also named Val Lewton, was a painter and exhibition designer. Lewton was born in Yalta, Imperial Russia and immigrated to the United...
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  • Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (also known as Martin Scorsese Presents: Val LewtonThe Man in the Shadows) is a documentary tribute to Val Lewton...
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    produced for RKO by Val Lewton. The film tells the story of Irena Dubrovna, a newly married Serbian fashion illustrator obsessed with the idea that she is...
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    (December 24, 1997). "Film Review; The Dalai Lama, Toddler To Grown Man in Exile". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 11, 2021. Retrieved...
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  • including A Letter to Elia (2010), and directed his own such as Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007). He also programmed with Bruce Goldstein a repertory...
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  • Afterwards she was assistant to the late Ted Demme, working on Demme's pictures Blow and A Decade Under the Influence. In January 2003, she joined Martin...
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    Val Lewton's classic horror films in the 1940s. Her screenplay credits from that era include I Walked with a Zombie, The Leopard Man and Isle of the Dead...
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    seven-year-old Carter played the part of Amy Reed in the classic fantasy The Curse of the Cat People (1944). Val Lewton, the film's producer, was friendly...
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  • (1973) Vakratunda Mahakaaya (2015) Val (2021) Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007) Vala In London (2003) The Valachi Papers (1972) Valar Pirai (1962)...
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    Mark Robson. It was produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictures as part of a series of low-budget horror films. The film can be seen as a "low-key psychological...
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    I Walked with a Zombie (category Films produced by Val Lewton)
    produced by Val Lewton for RKO Pictures. It stars James Ellison, Frances Dee, and Tom Conway, and follows a Canadian nurse who travels to care for the ailing...
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    Scott. "The Strange Pleasure of the Leopard Man: Gender, Genre and Authorship in a Val Lewton Thriller". CineAction 71. Archived from the original on...
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    produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictures, the film focuses on a young woman who stumbles on an underground cult of devil worshippers in Greenwich Village...
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    Jump scare (section In film)
    enters the frame with a loud unpleasant noise, scaring the viewer. The jump scare device is sometimes called the Lewton Bus after producer Val Lewton, who...
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  • currently the executive director of the What Works Media Project. Most of her films are distributed by PBS or HBO Documentary Films. Beardsley was born in Boston...
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    RKO Pictures in the 1940s, including many of Val Lewton's series of B-picture horror films. Born in 1892, Nicola Musuraca left his home in Riace, province...
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    Herbert Smith and Lou Rusoff. The film was an unofficial remake of Val Lewton's Cat People (1942).[citation needed] In the United States American International...
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  • Jacques Tourneur (category French emigrants to the United States)
    as the second unit director on the film A Tale of Two Cities he met film producer Val Lewton. Tourneur made his feature debut as director in the 1939...
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    and Blind Alibi in the late 1930s. Dix also starred as the homicidal Captain Stone in the Val Lewton production of The Ghost Ship. In 1941, Dix played Wild...
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  • (2003). Fearing the Dark: The Val Lewton Career (Reprint ed.). McFarland & Company. p. 139. ISBN 0-7864-1709-9. Archived from the original on 2024-04-29...
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  • clambake", while working on Val Lewton-produced pictures for RKO, referring to Lewton as "the man who rescued me from the living dead and restored my...
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  • noted story similarities with Val Lewton's earlier horror film Cat People, released in 1942. Before shipping home at the end of World War II, American...
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  • 2011. "The House of Hammer #v1#9", Grand Comics Database. Retrieved 29 Dec. 2020. Bansak, Edmund G. (2003). Fearing The Dark: The Val Lewton Career....
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  • Deceased Valerie "Val" Lewton, or Ms. Lewton, is one of the survivors of Flight 180. She is the third survivor to die. Ms. Lewton is a teacher at Mt...
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    was influenced by Isle of the Dead. Val Lewton, a producer best known for his horror films, used the painting in scene backgrounds for his 1943 I Walked...
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    films produced by Val Lewton. Location shooting took place at various places around the Los Angeles area, including Big Bear Lake, the San Bernardino National...
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    Releasing Corporation (PRC) for The Devil Bat (1941) and Monogram for nine features films. In March 1942, producer Val Lewton ended his working relationship...
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    budget films. In the 1940s, he began to get stereotyped into playing "mad scientist" roles. Karloff starred in a few highly acclaimed Val Lewton-produced horror...
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    Runs Wild (1944) for producer Val Lewton. RKO elected not to renew her contract. She made a brief uncredited appearance in One Mysterious Night (1944),...
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    11-part series, Shadows tells the story of Val Lewton's life and career, with Gatiss providing the introductions for each episode. In November 2018, Gatiss...
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