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 Seven Faces of Dr. Lao [1963]
Description: Genre: Adventure / Studio: Warner Home Video / Director: George Pal. Newest Review: ... been about a strange little magician and you've nailed this film's essence. We get half an hour to establish the characters ... more  ... (lonely, attractive single mother who can't admit that she fancies the hero; uptight society woman with henpecked hubbie; villainous businessman and bullyboy helpers etc). Then, once we've established who we like and who we don't, they all go to the circus and get their heads well and truly messed with.
There's a distinctly dark edge to what goes on at that circus. The villain comes face-to-face with a talking snake that has his face and shares some uncomfortable home truths with him. Someone foolishly decides to s...more |
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Seven Faces of Dr. Lao [1963]: The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it. (918 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 29.04.08 (Very useful, 82 readings)
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A review of just the film. This is one of those fun-for-all-the-family type fantasy films that proliferated in the 50s and 60s (it hails from 1964). It didn't do terribly well at the box office at the time, but deserves to be as well known today as any of the Harryhausen Sinbad movies. It was directed by George Pal, who made many films of this type, from Tom Thumb in the 50s to the immortal Doc Savage The Man of Bronze in the 70s. Things aren't going well in a small town in the American West (this is probably set in the early 20th century). The town is poor, and a wealthy man is effectively forcing the townspeople to sell him their homes at a ...
