William Spier News Today

The Halloween season has arrived, and it couldn’t have come any sooner. While buying costumes, pumpkins, and candy, there’s still your entertainment to consider. I’m sure your scary movie schedule is all set, but what if you want to cozy up to something else while treating yourself to those Reese’s chocolates you stocked up for

The British folk horror wave of the late ‘60s and early ’70s wasn’t impervious to American influence. Though Roddy McDowall (1928-98), the director of The Ballad of Tam-Lin (1970), was born in Herne Hill, he was as Hollywood-steeped as its London-based star Ava Gardner. McDowall is best-known as a prolific actor (How Green Was My Valley, The Planet of the Apes films) and photographer than for his only foray into filmmaking.