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Midnight Video

An archive of two chaps, a laptop and a mic attempting to unearth the lost, forgotten and overlooked in cinema.

“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.” - Pauline Kael

Midnight Video 24: Princess Iron Fan, Black Legion and Demon's of the Mind

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China's first animated feature film, Humphrey Bogart as a drunk klansman and Robert Hardy with barely concealed incestuous urges.  It can only mean one thing... another episode of Midnight Video has entered the iSphere.
Princess Iron Fan is China's first major commercial contribution to the world of animated feature films and derives from the moralistic tales found within the great Chinese tome; Journey To The West.
Humphrey Bogart plays a disillusioned blue collar worker in Black Legion who becomes a slave to the bottle and a rather dubious 'club' who model themselves on the Ku Klux Klan.
And Hammer studios' Demons Of The Mind sees Robert Hardy turned up to 11 as the pater familias of an aristocratic family with dark secrets.

Phurious Phil