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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:15 am  Post subject: The Curse of the Wraydons (1946) - UNCUT Tod SLAUGHTER movie
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Announced as SPRING HEELED JACK OR, THE TERROR OF LONDON, filmed as SECRET OF THE WRAYDONS, then released as THE CURSE OF THE WRAYDONS, this 1946 oddity is a museum piece, even for a Tod Slaughter movie.

By far the longest (almost 100 mns) of all his films, it's also probably the less satisfying of them. It was the only feature ever directed by Victor M. Gover, who also made, some years later, the series of featurettes co-starring Slaughter, Patrick Barr and Tucker McGuire. The series was planned for television but apparently never broadcast and several episodes were reunited to form two "features", theatrically released in 1952 and 1954. Two others were released as short films. One of them, "Murder at the Grange", was finally aired on BBC in recent years. The other, "A Ghost for Sale", with the same principals but not really part of the main series, was in parts composed of flash-backs, taken from "The Curse of the Wraydons".

It's the less satisfying of Tod's films, it's a fact - much too long and talkative, and Tod is not on the screen for long periods. In spite of this handicap, it contains some wonderful moments, so any fan of Tod Slaughter just can't dislike this movie.

This is the complete version, taken from Channel 4 in Great-Britain, and was recorded 15 years ago. From my original record I made a DVD-R, the two or three commercials were carefully eliminated, and it's probably the best version available - until somebody release the movie on DVD from an original print.


In America it was released by Hoffberg in the early Fifties, under the title STRANGLER'S MORGUE, and reduced to 72 mns, in a triple-bill with two other British movies, one of them being "The Greed of William Hart", renamed 'Horror Maniacs" and also cut to ribbons (and a much better movie, incidentally).

Four years later, in 1950, Tod played the same role in a theatrical version, which was the first play ever directly transmitted on TV in Great-Britain - but unfortunately it was apparently a "live performance" and nothing seems to subsist of this historical premiere...

THE CURSE OF THE WRAYDONS
GB, 1946
An Ambassador-Bushey Production / An Ambassador Film Release
Producer: Gilbert Church
Director: VICTOR M. GOVER
Screenplay & Dialogue: Owen George, based on the play "Spring-Heeled Jack, or The Terror of London"
Director of Photography: S.D. Onions
Art Director: Victor Hembrow
Editor: Victor M. Gover
Music: De Woolfe

The Cast:
Tod Slaughter (Philip Wraydon), Bruce Seton (Jack Wraydon), Henry Caine (George Wraydon), Pearl Cameron (Rose Wraydon), Andrew Lawrence (George Henningham), Alan Lawrance (Squire Sedgefield), Loraine Clewes (Helen Sedgefield), Ben Williams (John Rickers), Gabriel Toyne (Lieutenant Payne), John E. Coyle (Dennis Stoke), Daphne Arthur (Alice Maitland), Barry O'Neill, Herbert Appleby, Lionel Gadsden, Joseph Cunningham, Patricia Grant, Martin Goodwin [uncredited].

Note: the original British pressbook mentions Barry O'Neill as George Wraydon, but the movie itself credits Henry Caine in the role. Barry O'Neill is also listed, but his character is not mentioned. IMDb "solved" the problem in crediting both actors for the same role !!!


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:41 am  Post subject: Re: The Curse of the Wraydons (1946) - UNCUT Tod SLAUGHTER movie
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Thanks fantomas2, I've never seen any Tod Slaughter films, but I have read his name in many obscure horror movie catalogs, it seems most of his films are in the public domain and nobody cares to remaster them :cry:
About your post, please add rip specs. You can do that with GSpot http://gspot.headbands.com/
If you don't know how to use it, just save the following text as .txt in the Gspot folder, the enable "export" from its options and select the saved .txt from the custom browsing dialog.
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# The field  are shown below. They're no longer part of this comment,
# rather they comprise the actual format specifications should this
# file be specified as the format file:

AVI File Details \r\n
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Name.........: %FILE_NAME% \r\n
Filesize.....: %FILE_SIZE% bytes \r\n
Runtime......: %VIDEO_DURATION%  (%VIDEO_FRAME_COUNT% fr) \r\n
Video Codec..: %VIDEO_CODEC_NAME% \r\n
Video Bitrate: %VIDEO_BITRATE% kb/s \r\n
FPS..........: %VIDEO_FRAMES_PER_SEC% \r\n
Audio Codec..: %AUDIO_CODEC% %AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE% Hz \r\n
Audio Bitrate: %AUDIO_BITRATE% kb/s (%AUDIO_CHANNEL_COUNT% Ch)  %AUDIO_BITRATE_TYPE% \r\n
Frame Size...: %VIDEO_SIZE_X%x%VIDEO_SIZE_Y% (%VIDEO_DAR%:1) \r\n
QF...........: %VIDEO_QF% bits/pixel \r\n


Then when you open any movie with GSpot, you'll find a text log with same moviename with all its specs. :beerchug:

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:49 pm  Post subject: Re: The Curse of the Wraydons (1946) - UNCUT Tod SLAUGHTER movie
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OK, I'll use GSpot very soon, and I'll complete the post above. Incidentally, "The Curse of the Wraydons" is probably not the better movie for a first encounter with Tod Slaughter... But very soon I'll post the much better "The Greed of William Hart" ("Horror Maniacs" in the USA but cut to ribbons) and other great Tod vehicles... :beerchug:


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 8:02 pm  Post subject: Re: The Curse of the Wraydons (1946) - UNCUT Tod SLAUGHTER movie
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Thanks, fantomas. :beerchug:


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 8:56 pm  Post subject: Re: The Curse of the Wraydons (1946) - UNCUT Tod SLAUGHTER movie
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fantomas 2 wrote:
Incidentally, "The Curse of the Wraydons" is probably not the better movie for a first encounter with Tod Slaughter...

Haha, no prob, months will pass before I watch this, I have hundreds of movies waiting to be watched, and by that time I will for sure have got all your other rips :mrgreen:

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:05 pm  Post subject: Re: The Curse of the Wraydons (1946) - UNCUT Tod SLAUGHTER movie
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Hey fantomas, any other Tod Slaughter movie? :)

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