Top cast:John R. Cumpson,Arthur V. Johnson,Charles Avery
Director:Pat Powers
Genre:Documentary
Region:Taiwan
Year:2015
Storyline:In the middle of the night, passengers debark the train in the rain at Vizhegrad.Werdegast, his enormous mute servant Thamal (Harry Cording), and the Alisons board a rickety bus.Werdegast instructs he driver: "Take me to Engineer Poelzig's house." As they drive ahead into the darkness (a minimalist film set exterior), the countryside where the Great War was fought is described by the bus driver as a place where Europeans continue to live, with their loved ones buried in mass graves.Michael passed by patient Harold's room (where he was studying up on Ted Bundy in aDetectivemagazine), and approached Laurie's room with his bloody knife.They crashed through a window, and Jason was stabbed with a metal rake and hit with a shovel, while Steven suffered multiple rake-handle and shovel hits and was thrown into a jungle-jim metal scaffolding [used in Hitchcock'sThe Birdsscene in front of a school house].He drank from it, but perished from immediate decomposition - it was the wrong cup.After Donovan died, Elsa told Indy: "It would not be made out of gold" as he selected a different chalice - a simple earthenware cup of a humble carpenter.The film had its U.S.premiere, under the title ofHot Blood, on December 30, 1953.One of the film's taglines on its posters stated:"Hot feelings hit terrifying heights in a story that really boils over!"[Note: Benedek and Kramer had originally collaborated on the Oscar-nominated film adaptation of Arthur Miller's critically-acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning playDeath of a Salesman (1951), with Fredric March in the lead role, replacing Lee J.