How do you measure your own sanity in a world gone mad?Director Ingmar Bergman explores ... more
the horrors of 1920s Germany and creates a hell on earth. This psychological thriller casts a hypnotic spell of evil with a power few other directors could match.Ou...
Abel Rosenberg (Carradine) is a circus acrobat out of work and living in a defeated ... more
Germany after the First World War. He takes a job at the Veregus Clinic and there he finds the truth behind the work of the Professor Veregus (Bennett) work that led ...
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Advantages: Fast action, lots of history Disadvantages: Maybe weaker character development and writing than previous Cussler books
Serpent is a novel by thriller writer Clive Cussler. For those familiar with the works of Cussler, they normally involve a character called Dirk Pitt, but this book marks the arrival of a new character, Kurt Austin. The book is the first in the NUMA series of books, of which more have since been released since this title was published.
The basic plot is that a group called "The Brotherhood" try to wipe from
the record the evidence that they had been contact in the past between the New and Old Worlds. Kurt Austin, Cussler's new character, is the boss of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA).
The book begins with the destruction of the SS Andrea Doria and MS Stockholm, before jumping forward in time to new conflicts around the world. Austin saves the life of the archaeologist, Nina Kirov, who then helps in his tasks ...
Advantages: Committed performances. Disadvantages: Hackneyed writing and obvious direction.
for the big search, which fade away into simple creepy piano tunes with flutes and chimes. But this is a rather misleading suite as it suggests the story hasn't quite come to an end, so when the credits start to roll, you may feel a touch perplexed.
"The Serpent" is a middle-of-the-road blackmail thriller that fails to bring anything new to the genre. It is capably directed, if a little hackneyed in places. The writing is more problematic as it sticks steadfastly to convention throughout, without putting an individual stamp on the narrative and is riddled with contrivances. The performances are committed if rather generic. If you are a fan of detective fiction or the work of Ted Lewis, then it might be worth a watch on a wet Sunday afternoon when you have nothing better to do. But I wouldn't pay to watch it again. ...
of New York. Things do not go according to plan however as he also finds a rather large hole in the dome structure, together with a huge nest, one very large egg and several partially devoured human corpses...At the same time two New York detectives have been investigating a number of bizarre disappearances, which seemingly involve people being snatched off of rooftops, whilst nobody has noticed a thing other than their disappearance...and the occassional bloody mess left behind. It eventually arises that the Aztec god Quetzecoatl, a giant winged serpent, is at fault, alive and well and living in New York...
Like I said, a silly premise, but made more than a little believable by Cohen's expert handling. Anyway, King Kong stunk as a concept and turned out to be one of the most enduring cinematic masterpieces ever to touch the silver screen ...
Abel Rosenberg is a circus acrobat out of work, and living in a defeated Germany after the First World War. He takes a job at the Veregus Clinic and there he finds the truth behind the work of the Professor Veregus; work that led to his own brother committing suicide.
Release details
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DVD
Studio(s)
MGM ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS, Castle Home Video; Pinnacle Vision
Dolby Digital English, Dolby Digital Stereo English
Aspect Ratio
4:3 Full Frame
DVD Description
This unusual political drama by Ingmar Bergman was filmed at Bavaria Film Studios in Munich during the director's exile from Sweden after encountering problems with tax officials back home. THE SERPENT'S EGG, a big-budget German-American coproduction, was Bergman's second work in English after THE TOUCH and is set in 1920's Berlin, shortly before Hitler's rise to power. Abel (David Carradine), a Jewish trapeze artist, and his late brother's wife, Manuela (Liv Ullmann), a cabaret performer and part-time prostitute, are forced to seek employment at a medical clinic run by Dr. Vergerus (Heinz Bennent), because other work is hard to come by in the poverty-stricken and inflation-prone city. But Abel and Manuela's financial problems are overshadowed by a gruesome discovery: The mad-scientist-like Vergerus is secretly conducting human experiments--foreshadowing the horrors of the concentration camps. Carradine was considered miscast by many critics who didn't know quite what to make of this film. Nightmarish and gripping, it depicts the political turmoil, ever-increasing Nazi brutality, and general moral decay of the time period in vivid, graphic images. Bergman has admitted to being a follower of Hitler's in his youth, and some have speculated that this film, deviating from the director's usual subject matter, represented an act of repentance of sorts.
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