Corruption 1968 Full Movie

[Gaetan Boren]

Corruptionis a 1968 British horror film directed by Robert Hartford-Davis and starring Peter Cushing, Sue Lloyd, Noel Trevarthen, Kate O'Mara, David Lodge, and Antony Booth.[1] The screenplay is by Derek Ford and Donald Ford,

The film is a loose riff on the plot of the French horror film Eyes Without a Face (1960) and is notable for its atypical contemporary setting (most of Cushing's Gothic horror films being set in the past) and its extreme (for the time) gore and violence.[2][3][4]

In need of more surgery and a new "donor", the couple tries to entice a young girl Terry whom Rowan contrives to meet at the beach and take back to their cottage. Complications ensue because Rowan does not want to commit another murder and because this girl is not what she seems to be. In fact, she is part of a gang of robbers who break into the house and hold Rowan and Lynn hostage. Soon they discover evidence of the murders and begin to menace the couple. After a short confrontation, everyone is killed when Rowan's surgical laser goes out of control.

Due to the strong graphic content of the film, different markets around the world received different versions of key scenes, most notably the murder of a prostitute who appears topless in some markets (Scandinavia, South America, and East Asia), but is clothed in the version which played in the U.K. and U.S. The two versions feature different actresses in the role as well as different dialogue.[5]

Cushing later said "It was gratuitously violent, fearfully sick. But it was a good script, which just goes to show how important the presentation is. The company that made the film split up halfway through as certain individuals could not agree on what should and should not appear in the final print. What you saw was the final result of their bickering. Audiences did not get the idea that it was supposed to be based on a dream, which in fact did not justify some of the scenes that were presented. With any film you participate in, the company, if they so wish, can destroy your original interpretation of the role."[2]

The film was negatively received at the time of its release; Vincent Canby of The New York Times noted that "Peter Cushing ... brings a certain seedy grandeur to the role," but dismissed the film as "silly," particularly due to the contemporary setting.[6] A review in Variety called it a "Fair horror picture ... [that] suffers from poor writing, plus often sluggish direction."[2]

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The classicism of the plot is nowhere reflected in Robert Hartford-Davis' direction, which finds its inspiration in such divergent sources as Blow-Up and The Penthouse. Murders and surgical operations are shown in lingering detail (with an anamorphic squeeze to establish atmosphere), and the elements of suspense and horror derive not from any subtly created mood or logical sequence of monstrosities but from the bludgeoning emphasis on physically unpleasant details, like the severed head kept in the refrigerator in a polythene bag next to the butter."[7]

The film has been better received in recent years as a cult film, sometimes enjoyed for its camp value.[2][8] Brian Orndorf of Blu-ray.com wrote in his 2013 review: "This 1968 film is set during the Swinging London period of gaudy liberation, where colors exploded, hair was uncomfortably cut, and free love was rampant. The image of Cushing, with his gentlemanly manner and impeccable style, is a potent one in the midst of all the youthful madness, with the opening of the effort traveling to a boisterous party where John is cornered by a picky hippie while Lynn's photographer guru goads her into nude shots. Corruption quickly moves away from the freak-out showdown, but its period fashion sense remains, lending the movie a distinct look that's almost as entertaining to study as the murder spree ... Corruption finds a pitch of cinematic madness and holds there for most of the picture, remaining taut, with a pinch of sleaze for seasoning."[9]

Critic John Beifuss wrote: "Probably the imperfect jewel of British director Robert Hartford-Davis's oddball filmography...Corruption had been perhaps the rarest of horror superstar Peter Cushing's many, many genre movies until the October appearance of this beautifully remastered and restored edition from Grindhouse Releasing, a company that exceeds even the Criterion Collection in its determination to create the definitive editions of the titles it licenses ... A truly wacked-out work of art."[10]

Corruption is a 1968 British horror film directed by Robert Hartford-Davis from a screenplay by Derek Ford and Donald Ford, and featuring Peter Cushing, Sue Lloyd, Noel Trevarthen, Kate O'Mara, David Lodge, and Antony Booth.

The film is a loose riff on the plot of the 1960 French horror film Eyes Without a Face and is notable for its atypical contemporary setting (most of Cushing's Gothic horror films were set in the past) and its extreme (for the time) gore and violence.

Appellant, a police officer, was subpoenaed by and appearedbefore a grand jury which was investigating alleged bribery andcorruption of police officers, and was advised that the grand juryproposed to examine him concerning the performance of his officialduties. He was advised of his privilege against self-incrimination,but was asked to sign a "waiver of immunity" after being told thathe would be fired if he did not sign. He refused to do so, wasgiven an administrative hearing, and was discharged solely for hisrefusal, pursuant to 1123 of the New York City Charter. The NewYork Supreme Court dismissed his petition for reinstatement, andthe New York Court of Appeals affirmed, holding that Garrity v.New Jersey, 385 U. S. 493, wasnot controlling, and distinguishing Spevack v. Klein,385 U. S. 511(both decided after appellant's discharge).

Held: If appellant, a policeman, had refused to answerquestions directly relating to the performance of his officialduties, without being required to waive his immunity with respectto the use of his answers or the fruits thereof in a criminalprosecution of himself, Garrity, supra, the privilegeagainst self-incrimination would not have been a bar to hisdismissal. However, his dismissal solely for his refusal to waivethe immunity to which he is entitled if he is required to testifydespite his constitutional privilege, and the New York City Charterprovision pursuant to which he was dismissed, cannot stand. Pp.392 U. S.276-279.

In the 60's, some horror movies were produced in the UK and audiences there got a slightly tamer version than international markets. In order to give everyone the dosage of shock and scandal, many scenes were filmed twice. One time with naked girls, one time without. One time with a little more blood, one time without.

And one of those films is Corruption from 1968. Grindhouse Releasing will give it its HD premier on Blu-ray in October and puts two versions on board: the tamer British cut and the more revealing and harder international version. However, there's concern that only the UK version will be on the medium in the best possible quality since the description says:

Spectacular new hi-definition digital restoration of the original uncensored version - PLUS - the "International Version" of the movie with bloody violence and nudity presented for the very first time in America

By the 1960s, thousands of Czechs and Slovaks had been imprisoned or otherwise persecuted for their politics, including through show trials and executions. Under Stalin and his successors Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, Czechoslovakia was a nation living in fear.

But as censorship was lifted, Czechoslovak media published explosive stories alleging corruption, murder, and other official wrongdoing. With newfound freedom to speak, Czechs and Slovaks began calling for fundamental political change.

From the Kremlin, Brezhnev and others watched with alarm as the Prague Spring began to melt Czechoslovakia's rigid state apparatus. The risk of democratic contagion became clear when students in Warsaw took to the streets and chanted their support for Czechoslovakia.

Early on August 21, 1968, around 250,000 soldiers, 2,000 tanks, and hundreds of aircraft from the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Poland rumbled into Czechoslovakia. Just 29 years after the nightmare of the Nazi invasion, Czechs and Slovaks once again awoke to foreign troops on their soil.

The most famous street battle was fought outside Czechoslovak Radio headquarters in the capital. Fifteen people died in the clash as crowds tried to prevent troops from taking control of the broadcaster.

As Czechoslovaks cleared their streets of blood and wreckage, Brezhnev declared Soviet readiness to intervene militarily if any other communist nation veered from the party line. Or, as one writer described the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, "Workers of the world, unite or I'll shoot."

In the 1960s, director Robert Hartford-Davis (The Black Torment, The Fiend) teamed up with producer/cameraman Peter Newbrook (The Asphyx) to make a series of low-budget films capitalising on the cinematic crazes of the day. In 1968, the duo stridently ventured into the surgical horror subgenre with Corruption, a grim update of Eyes Without a Face, transposed into the scenic south-coast seaside town of Seaford, via Swinging Sixties London.

In a surprising performance, Peter Cushing (Captain Clegg, The Revenge of Frankenstein) stars as a high-class plastic surgeon who is driven to murder as part of a demented quest to rebuild the decaying visage of his fashion model wife (Sue Lloyd, The Ipcress File), who has been severely scarred at a party.

How did Detroit's neighborhoods get so destroyed? Take a look at this 1976 report from the archives of 60 Minutes, and you'll see that the problems in Detroit's blighted housing stock are decades in the making.

Back in '76, Mike Wallace charged into homes all over Detroit for his story about the federal government's role in the city's deteriorating neighborhoods. "Hell Upon Detroit," Wallace's 60 Minutes report, aired on April 18, 1976, and it opens with an interview with a young Carl Levin, then president of the Detroit City Council (and now a U.S. senator).

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