Two Actors, October Edition.

[CBHagman]

The rules are the game are these: Someone posts pictures of two actors and someone else tries to guess the film. Broad and cryptic hints are allowed. Graybeard always wins.

First round comes from the horror movie genre. Here are your two performers:

[elleng]

1. Horror? That's West Side Story!!!

#1

[Graybeard]

2. A British Maria?

That would have been...interesting.

[elleng]

3. Russ Tamblyn,

RIFF!!!

[Graybeard]

4. And the movie is:

Top - Russ Tamblyn (of West Side Story fame)

and

Bottom - British beauty Claire Bloom

appeared together in:

Movie - The Haunting (1963)

[CBHagman]

5. Completely right...

...as always.

And the movie is being featured this week as part of TCM's Classic Horror series.

[longship]

11. A horror classic.

Also had Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell) in a supporting role.

This is my favorite ghost film, although it really is more of a psychological drama than anything else, as is the way Shirley Jackson wrote her original novel.

The remake sucked!

And Claire Bloom rocks in this film.

I was in Jr. High when this came out. Some friends and I went to see it one night. It was one scary ride home after dark on my bicycle and didn't sleep well that night.

[Auggie]

6. Two actors:

This film has been shown on TCM twice within the last year and a half.

[Graybeard]

7. Clue:

In the same year as this movie was made the actor

in the top photo also made a film with Boris Karloff.

[Graybeard]

8. A Golden Age of Horror.

The classic horror films made by Universal in the 1930s and early 40s whetted the public's appetite for more of the genre. The other studios provided a steady stream of vampires, zombies and haunted houses.

Some of the finest actors joined in the fun appearing in these very popular films. Actors like Lionel Barrymore, Fredric March, Basil Rathbone and, here, Charles Laughton.

Top - Charles Laughton plays the mad doctor in this telling of the Dr Moreau tale.

Bottom - Bela Lugosi is dependably spooky as the "Sayer of the Law".

Movie - Island of Lost Souls (1932)

That same year Laughton appeared with Boris Karloff in The Old, Dark House (1932).

[Bolo Boffin]

9. At least this one I did get when I saw the pictures!

Although I'm late...

[Auggie]

10. I loved Laughton in this film

He was a great actor