The Queen of Spades, stars Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell and Ronald Howard. It’s clear that Russians are very good at telling Ghost stories and notorious for telling tales about selling your soul to the Devil! Boris Karloff stars in an adaptation of Tolstoy’s story in the segment about The Wurdelak. From Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath 1963 vignette The Drop of Water based on a story by Chekhov. Directed by Frederico Fellini 1968 Based on the short story by Poe, Never Bet The Devil Your Head. Terence Stamp as Toby Dammit in the segment of the same name as part of Spirits of The Dead. Which of course was brought to life by Frederico Fellini in the segment of Spirits of The Dead 1968 called Toby Dammit, featuring the work of actor Terence Stamp. It brought to my mind, his short story Never Bet The Devil Your Head. My partner Wendy even mentioned Edgar Allan Poe as she watched along with me. The story could have easily been dreamt up by Aleksei Tolstoy, Ivan Chekhov -( The Drop of Water) Nikolai Gogol or even Oscar Wilde. Adapted to the screen by Rodney Ackland and Arthur Boys from the story written by Alexander Pushkin. Associate Producer Jack Clayton was on board for this film, directed by Thorold Dickinson ( Gaslight 1940) who came onto the project last minute. The Queen of Spades is a masterpiece if ever I saw one. “The Dead Shall Give Up Their Secrets!” THE QUEEN OF SPADES 1949
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