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starring Boris Karloff Anna Lee.
This classic from the Val Lewton stable was inspired by a Hogarth print of the notorious
18th-century asylum, St Mary's of Bethlehem. Boris Karloff plays the sadistic Master Sims , so bent on preserving his niche of power that he arranges to have the troublesome Nell Bowen incarcerated in the asylum to stop her exposing his tyranny. A chilling, superb reconstruction of a hard and pitiless age....
Screenplay by Carlos Keith and Mark Robson Produced by Val Lewton Directed by Mark Robson

starring Bradford Dillman Joanna Miles
After an earthquake strikes a small American town, a strange species of fire-raising bug emerges from a deep rift in the ground. Bradford Dillman stars as the obsessed scientist whose attempt to tamper with nature leads to even greater disaster.
Screenplay by William Castle and Thomas Page
Based on the novel The Hephaestus Plague by Thomas Page
Produced by William Castle Directed by Jeannot Szwarc

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