Sign of the Pagan (1954)

One of my LB buddies, Wilson, considers the phrase "and starring Jeff Chandler", as a cinematic no-no, and who am I to argue? Everyone is different, everyone has different actors that infuriate them, and despite my affection for Jeff Chandler, an actor I warmed to almost…

Andy Summers 🤠

Um grande filme sobre fé, sobre dúvida, sobre barbárie (todo grande filme sobre fé acaba sendo também sobre barbárie, de uma forma ou de outra, em um contexto ou em outro), sobre ideologia (todo grande filme sobre fé acaba sendo também sobre ideologia - vejam e revejam e…

Bruno Andrade

Sword and sandal schlock courtesy of Douglas Sirk. But even as schlock, Sign of the Pagan falls woefully short. With too much talk about prophecies and the threat Christianity poses to the barbarians at the gates, the action only makes a fleeting appearance with the film's…

Christopher Moore

Directing Jack Palance in his coffee-coloured Attila the Hun make-up was one of Douglas Sirk's off-days.

Fint

É preciso estar atento e forte Não temos tempo de temer a morte.

Carla 🔻

On the one hand, Jack Palance is doing good work in this, presenting a Sirk antagonist only slightly less terrifying and bloodthirsty than Mona Plash. On the other hand, everybody else brought all the interest and verve of a room temperature glass of water. I was enjoying…

Bill

Add it to your auteurist litmus test kit. What may, at first, seem functional and impersonal eventually gives way to a subtle kind of Sirkian intensity and madness; as the Empire's day becomes twilight decline, out comes the Technicolor shadings of mysterious blue and…

Billy Stanton

Excerpt from Sirk on Sirk, a book of conversations with Jon Halliday. Jon Halliday: Well, there's Sign of the Pagan, which was done before All That Heaven Allows and which needs discussing, because this seems a slightly bizarre component in your work, it is right that you…

SovietSpaceDog

Technicolor Festival 2019: Film #11 Jack Palance rock a pretty sweet Fu Manchu moustache as Attila the Hun, the role he was born to play. Otherwise there's too much stuffy speechifying about ancient prophecies and not a whole lot of action. I guess barbarian movies aren't…

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