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RONDO HATTON IBD

BEARMANOR MEDIA
10 / 2019
9781629334943
Inglés

Sinopsis

In the horror movie heyday of Universal Pictures, he made the studio back lot his own personal preyground: Rondo Hatton, star of the company&rsquo,s &ldquo,Creeper&rdquo, series. The victim of a disfiguring disease, Hatton needed no makeup to play the Creeper, a night-prowling vertebrae-ker, in The Pearl of Death (1944), House of Horrors (1946) and The Brute Man (1946).áA lot of misery and physical pain were packed into Rondo Hatton&rsquo,s 51 years on Earth and he met his challenges with courage. This book tells Hatton&rsquo,s full story and pays tribute with a full biography, the production histories of his five horror movies, artist George Chastain&rsquo,s tribute to other &ldquo,Brute Men&rdquo, of the movies, artwork (and an afterword) by celebrated pop culture cartoonist Drew Friedman and more. Also: Rondo&rsquo,s miraculous 21st-century &ldquo,rebirth&rdquo, as a coveted award for the finest in Monster Kid achievement.