Curtis Harrington: Films

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• People talk into tape recorders (heroine on spaceship dictates log: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, blind hero: How Awful About Allan, art appraiser: The Cat Creature)
• Women sit and make clothes (woman knits: On the Edge, Helen sews backstage, stage mother knits during dance class: What's the Matter With Helen?, mother does needlework while watching TV: The Killing Kind)
• Power lines (towers past walkway: Night Tide, US electrical infrastructure: The Four Elements, along right side of street as Olive drives downtown: How Awful About Allan, lineman, in shot with director's name in credits: Killer Bees, opening shot along street: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, behind strip mall at start: Angel in a Box, street leading away from airport: Usher)
• Oil refineries (documentary: The Four Elements, finale: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell) related (auto factory employee laid-off: Make-Up, dialogue about risks in oil business, Canadian tar sands: The Proposal, dialogue about oil company storage and pipeline: Colbys Deceptions, biofuels exhausted in future Earth: Voices in the Earth)
• Photography (hero uses photo booth to take self-picture: Night Tide, people leaving trial photographed and newsreel-photographed: What's the Matter With Helen?, Ann Southern likes to photograph son: The Killing Kind, detective Kate Jackson takes photo of bad-guy with hidden camera: Angel in a Box, dating service videos clients: A Date with Doomsday, automatic camera, slide projector: Deceptions)
• Photographs, often of missing people (photo of absent boyfriend and parents in living room: How Awful About Allan, Adele's photos of son, police photo of murder victim, photos in dance studio window: What's the Matter With Helen?, mother has wall of photos: The Killing Kind, prisoner's dead wife in jail cell: The Dead Don't Die, on edge of mirror: Ruby, photo used to hunt for missing Kris: Angel On My Mind, photo album: Angel in a Box)

• Movies (dance school for child performers, theater showing The Black Cat, newsreels, fan magazines: What's the Matter With Helen?, mother watches TV: The Killing Kind, heroine runs drive-in theater, film shown in drive-in, man strangled by film roll: Ruby, cleaning lady wants to date movie stars, video dating service: A Date with Doomsday, tribute to early 1930's horror films, movie posters, make-up kit: Make-Up)
• Popcorn (mother eats while watching TV: The Killing Kind, patrons eat in drive-in: Ruby, hero makes in kitchen: Kill Dan Tanna)

• Art objects on display in homes (Cameron's table and shelf: The Wormwood Star, Captain's home: Night Tide, Pop Art, Op Art: Games, paintings in shop: The Cat Creature, heroine's apartment: The Dead Don't Die, villain's study: Angel in a Box, near record player: Mata Hari, table, garden sculpture: Usher)
• Egyptian art (wall painting at fortune teller: Night Tide, collection, hieroglyphs: The Cat Creature, sculpture: Usher)
• Op Art (painting: Games, credits illustration: The Dead Don't Die)
• Women artists (Sherry: The Cat Creature)
• University backgrounds (dormitory: Fragment of Seeking, Basil Rathbone as professor: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, teacher hero, home near campus, Olive is researcher, memorial wing for university library proposed: How Awful About Allan, archaeologist professor hero, university librarian: The Cat Creature, history professor hero: Voices in the Earth)
• Teachers and students (dance teacher heroine and kids, elocution teacher: What's the Matter With Helen?, hero studied flying from woman pilot: Encores, hero is professor who taught woman starship commander: Voices in the Earth, young man comes to learn from poet: Usher)
• Bookstores (occult: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, Apollo's Newsstand: A Quiet Funeral)
• Culture (Charles Ives music on soundtrack: On the Edge, jazz club: Night Tide, Beethoven record, classical music appreciation course: How Awful About Allan, theater people like George Bernard Shaw sign recommendation letters: What's the Matter With Helen?, kid banned from reading books: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, librarian chewed out by father for reading too much, hates her job: The Killing Kind, Agatha Christie discussed, Goya painting: The Cat Creature, Craig Stevens plays classical piano music: Killer Bees, dead man was painter and poet, father opposed this: Angel in a Box, architect's hotel and blueprints: The Ring, architect boyfriend: Encores, Indian statues in museum, gamelan, Borobudur as heroine's birthplace, Sanctus in church, hero becomes painter at end: Mata Hari, Chopin Fantasie impromptu, Minute Waltz, Matisse, Picasso, Monet, Remington sculpture: Conspiracy of Silence, ballet rehearsal in studio: Colbys Deceptions, paintings recalling Arshile Gorky, Franz Kline and Mark Rothko plus book on Goya in Sable's office, ballet dancer: The Home Wrecker, Chopin Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2 on CD: Voices in the Earth, poet heroes, poetry discussed, T.S. Eliot, Auden, Pierre Reverdy: Usher)
• Sinister dancing where dancers collapse (heroine faints while dancing on beach: Night Tide, hero dances with drunk woman lawyer: The Killing Kind, dance marathon: The Dead Don't Die, final dance for Madeline: Usher)
• Radios (preacher: What's the Matter With Helen?, mother gets news: The Killing Kind, on beach: Angel On My Mind)
• Keyboard instruments (piano in living room: How Awful About Allan, piano in dance school: What's the Matter With Helen?, organ in church: Killer Bees, piano in family mansion: Killer Bees, organ in dance hall: The Dead Don't Die, evil piano player accompanies singer hero: Deceptions, piano in Carrington mansion: The Ring, piano in Colby living room played by Frankie: Conspiracy of Silence, piano in ballet studio: The Home Wrecker, piano music played on CD: Voices in the Earth, piano behind Roderick's chair: Usher)
• Musical instruments (pawnshop: Make-Up)

• Christianity (icon on wall near heroine's bed: Night Tide, revivalist preacher, religious fanatic: What's the Matter With Helen?, preacher talks of Samson and bees: Killer Bees, clergyman and condemned man, Catholic funeral sermon about future Resurrection, statue of Madonna and Child: The Dead Don't Die, praying maid says Rosary: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, discussion of God: Kill Dan Tanna, mention of Rosary service at church, crook reforms when he "gets religion": A Quiet Funeral, nun claims to have seen miracle: A Minor Miracle, church wedding, sermon about Christian marriage: That Holiday Spirit, cathedral: Mata Hari, Madonna and Child painting in Montalban's home: The Home Wrecker, last rites by priest, priest talks of Greatest Poet: Usher)
• Crucifixes (on wall: The Wormwood Star, despairing Helen discards cross, greedy preacher has gold cross: What's the Matter With Helen?, on Mrs. Orland's wall: The Killing Kind, altar boy attacks bees with cross, cross over altar: Killer Bees, on brother's coffin, hero makes Sign of the Cross: The Dead Don't Die, maid Maria wears cross, and has crucifix on wall, Ecuador holy man wears cross: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, huge crucifix in church: That Holiday Spirit, roadside shrine with cross on top, Red Cross on nurse uniform, convent: Mata Hari)
• Funerals (wake: Picnic, suspense: Killer Bees, executed man, funeral parlor: The Dead Don't Die, criminal at funeral parlor visitation: A Quiet Funeral, Madeline Usher: Usher)
• Skeletons embrace (girlfriend: Fragment of Seeking, in pond: Ruby, finale: Usher)
• Mythology (fates and thread of life: On the Edge, Death and the Maiden: The Assignation, sirens: Night Tide, Apollo's Newsstand: A Quiet Funeral)
• Occult (Cameron: The Wormwood Star, Tarot reading: Night Tide, Tarot in credits, medium: Games, phony medium: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, Tarot reading, occult supply store, I Ching mentioned: The Cat Creature, blue rose of forgetfulness, enchanted shawl attracts men: Deceptions, ouija board: Usher)
• Cameron (personal and artistic portrait: The Wormwood Star, appearance: Night Tide)
• Female preachers and priestesses (Cameron: The Wormwood Star, dialogue about Aimee Semple McPherson: Games, revivalist preacher: What's the Matter With Helen?, Ancient Egyptian priestess: The Cat Creature, evil Satanist villainess: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, heroine as temple dancer: Mata Hari)
• People brought back from the dead (comic routine at start about electricity preserving the dead: Games, zombies: The Dead Don't Die)
• Spirits take over machinery (drive-in movie loudspeakers: Ruby, make-up box: Make-Up, spirits appear on television monitor: Voices in the Earth)

• Corruption (rich family runs town, covers up killings: Killer Bees, kids use dirty tricks in school election: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell)
• Anti-Communism (KGB surveillance of ballet dancer: Colbys Deceptions, KGB condemned for following Russian dancer: The Home Wrecker)
• Vietnam War (combat and ethics: Kill Dan Tanna)
• Anti-war (dangers of research into germ warfare: A Date with Doomsday, arms merchants and war, heroine shown battlefield devastation: Mata Hari, Jason mentions he didn't like getting shot at in Word War II: The Home Wrecker)
• The poor and hunger (Roosevelt speaks about helping the poor and starving, hungry Depression beggar: What's the Matter With Helen?, Depression poverty and hunger drives people to work in dance marathons: The Dead Don't Die, homeless man on beach shares his food: Angel On My Mind, lunch counter worker feeds unemployed poor man: Make-Up, charity feeds homeless families, homeless abandoned child: Deceptions)
• Death penalty opposed (hero doesn't believe in capital punishment: The Cat Creature, innocent man executed for crime he didn't commit, innocent heroine executed: The Dead Don't Die)
• Ecological disaster (Earth biosphere wiped out, indictment of people for doing nothing: Voices in the Earth)
• Carbon (future Earth with mainly carbon dioxide atmosphere and no oxygen: Voices in the Earth) related (ill hero given oxygen: How Awful About Allan)
• Ability of humans to take meaningful action (technology and invention: The Four Elements, Roosevelt speaks about the ability to build society "from the bottom up": What's the Matter With Helen?, protect the environment: Voices in the Earth) related (heroine encourages hero to think of positive future: Make-Up, Krystle wants life of doing: The Treasure, pregnant Fallon wants to be active: The Home Wrecker)
• Latin America (Mrs Roosevelt goes to Puerto Rico: What's the Matter With Helen?, hero goes to Ecuador: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, heroine back from vacation in Mexico, Mexican shawl: Deceptions, honeymoon in Rio: The Ring)
• Looking for life in outer space (search for intelligent life on Venus in opening narration, other planets in closing narration: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, looking for life on future Earth: Voices in the Earth) related (space satellite project art in Jason's office and Miles' office: Colbys Deceptions, space satellite project art in Jason's office, kid wears NASA sweatshirt with rocket: The Home Wrecker)

• Men and their mothers (hero and his parents: Picnic, middle-aged man and woman with yarn: On the Edge, mothers of killers: What's the Matter With Helen?, killer and mother: The Killing Kind, family matriarch: Killer Bees, Steven and Alexis: The Proposal Steven and Alexis: The Ring, Jeff and Frankie, Miles and Sable: Conspiracy of Silence, Miles and Sable: Fallon's Choice) related (woman and her mother: Deceptions)
• Dominating or possessive parents (Captain: Night Tide, mother: The Killing Kind, family tradition and town: Killer Bees, father wants macho son: Angel in a Box, Alexis commands daughter: That Holiday Spirit, Sable hounds daughter: The Home Wrecker)
• Negative views of parents encouraging boys to be athletes (son goes berserk when mother reminds him she went to all his Little League games: The Killing Kind, father's insistence that son be car racer and pilot kills son: Angel in a Box)
• Orphans runaway from bad situation (brother and sister run away from orphanage: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, boy runs away from foster home: Deceptions)
• Brothers and sisters (Roderick and Madeline Usher: The Fall of the House of Usher, hero and sister: Picnic, Anthony Perkins and Julie Harris: How Awful About Allan, young kids: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, busy adults: Deceptions, Miles and twin sister: Conspiracy of Silence, Roderick and Madeline Usher: Usher)
• People blamed for problems of relatives (mothers of killers: What's the Matter With Helen?, brother of condemned man told he didn't want to know about brother's trouble: The Dead Don't Die) related (off-world professor told he didn't want to know that Earth spirits existed: Voices in the Earth)
• Leading men (boyfriend: Fragment of Seeking, hero: Picnic, Dennis Hopper: Night Tide, John Saxon, Dennis Hopper: Queen of Blood, Trent Dolan: How Awful About Allan, David Hedison: The Cat Creature, Jerry Douglas: The Dead Don't Die, Ricky Nelson: A Hand for Sonny Blue, Gregory Harrison: Stargate, Colby Chester: The Destructors, Jonathan Frakes, Tommy in flashbacks: Angel On My Mind, Robert Urich: Kill Dan Tanna, Lyle Waggoner: A Date with Doomsday, James Houghton: Deceptions, Phil Morris: Encores, Christopher Cazenove: Mata Hari, Michael Nader, John James: The Ring, Michael Nader: That Holiday Spirit, John James, Maxwell Caulfield: Conspiracy of Silence, John James, Maxwell Caulfield, Adrian Paul: The Home Wrecker, Dennis Haskins: Voices in the Earth, Truman Jones: Usher)
• Boarders and outside residents in homes (saleswoman moves in with couple: Games, mysterious student boarder: How Awful About Allan, elocution teacher is not a boarder but is constantly around: What's the Matter With Helen?, visiting fiancee: Killer Bees, Claudia and baby move into mansion for safety: The Ring, Jeff staying with Colbys: Conspiracy of Silence, ballet dancer wants to move out of guest room: The Home Wrecker, professor is guest on spaceship: Voices in the Earth, Truman Jones visits to learn about poetry: Usher)
• Lesbians (Helen lesbian and attracted to Adele: What's the Matter With Helen?, shop customers, perhaps Sondergaard's character: The Cat Creature, woman psychologist lesbian, heroine bisexual: Mata Hari, Madeline's friend: Usher)
• Gay men (elocution teacher is perhaps gay: What's the Matter With Helen?, hotel employee is described as married to another man: Encores)
• Sinister women obsessed with reproduction (matriarch says making family is women's mission: Killer Bees, woman Satanist wants dog who is proven breeder: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell) related (Krystle wants to become horse breeder: The Treasure, Sable tries to get baby's paternity changed: Colbys Deceptions)
• Servants (maid: Games, housekeeper: What's the Matter With Helen?, footman: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, maid: Killer Bees, maid versus dog: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, heroine undercover as cleaning woman: Angel in a Box, cleaning woman heroine: A Date with Doomsday, servants at mansion: The Ring, servants at mansion take part in Christmas: That Holiday Spirit, maid at theater: Mata Hari, butler: Conspiracy of Silence, butler, maid unfairly fired over bracelet: Fallon's Choice, servants look for missing boy: My Father's House, at mansion: Colbys Deceptions, manservant-chauffeur: Usher)

• Sinister animals (see also Jacques Tourneur) (sea creature in dream: Night Tide, cats: The Cat Creature, bees: Killer Bees, dog: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, hero talks about being bit by dogs: Make-Up, frightening looking but harmless dog as spoof: Usher) related (hero can talk to dogs and wolves, untied by good dog: The Pariah)
• Birds (heroine pets sea gull: Night Tide, flying space creatures: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, cage birds at Dennis Weaver's house, sampler about eye-upon-the-sparrow: What's the Matter With Helen?, pet bird in shop: The Cat Creature, myna bird in cage, canary: The Killing Kind, owl: The Dead Don't Die, ducks near pond: Angel in a Box, Wonder Woman talks with dove: A Date with Doomsday, black swans at race track: The Proposal, doves in mansion: Usher)
• Eagle symbols in art (NRA symbol in Roosevelt dance tribute: What's the Matter With Helen?, truck with Native American eagle painting: Kill Dan Tanna)
• Native American art, general (Native American blanket on wall with design: Angel in a Box, Pacific Northwest Coast animal art on Calgary business: The Proposal)
• Bird art (birds in Cameron paintings: The Wormwood Star, bird design on Egyptian mummy case, bird painting in Sherry's apartment: The Cat Creature, heroine has painting of swans on living room wall: The Dead Don't Die, swan statues in Rio hotel room: The Ring)
• Snakes in art (snake mark on hand: The Dead Don't Die, painting of snake on stone in Ecuador: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell)
• Butterflies (drawing next to Paul Mathison's name in credits: The Wormwood Star, on wall: Games, collection on wall in Anthony Perkins' room: How Awful About Allan, dancer in butterfly costume in Animal Crackers number: What's the Matter With Helen?, kitchen curtain designs: The Killing Kind, moth at window: Mata Hari, butterfly pin worn at throat by Madeline: Usher)
• Rabbits, good (pet rabbits: What's the Matter With Helen?, lab rabbit used in test: A Date with Doomsday)
• Starfish (on table: The Wormwood Star, mermaid chamber, heroine's apartment, near Cameron at Blue Grotto: Night Tide, in hero's sleeping cabin: Voices in the Earth) related (shells on table at hotel: The Ring)
• Micro-organisms (bacterial cultures analyzed by coroner: The Cat Creature, sinister virus: A Date with Doomsday, cyanobacteria, plankton mentioned: Voices in the Earth)
• Humans in animal costumes (see also Louis Feuillade, Maurice Tourneur, Jacques Tourneur) (mermaid: Night Tide, kid dancers in Animal Crackers number: What's the Matter With Helen?)
• Sailor heroes named Drake (Johnny Drake: Night Tide, Don Drake and brother Ralph Drake: The Dead Don't Die) related (Hiram Drake estate: The Cat Creature, pilot John Blake the Snake on the Make: A Date with Doomsday)
• Teddy bears (little girl's: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, giant: Kill Dan Tanna, Steven's son's: That Holiday Spirit)

• Men carrying rose as a gift (hero with red rose: The Assignation, elocution teacher gives to Helen: What's the Matter With Helen?, blue rose given as gift: Deceptions, roses sent as gift by anonymous admirer: Encores, on breakfast tray: My Father's House, Jason gives Frankie red rose: The Home Wrecker)
• Other red flowers (rose on book: The Wormwood Star, red carnation passed by mouth as anniversary gift: Games, red flowers in vase at foot of stairs at start: The Killing Kind, red flower in vase on restaurant table: The Dead Don't Die, red flowers in pots on steps of restaurant: Angel On My Mind, red poinsettia for Christmas, red anthuriums on restaurant table, many red flowers throughout: That Holiday Spirit, red flowers in vase on table: Mata Hari, maid carries vase of flowers at opening: The Proposal, Sable's desk, tulips on Stanwyck's desk, Ricardo Montalban's bedroom, bouquet in Sable's dressing room, pink bouquet in lobby: My Father's House, red, pink and white flowers on breakfast table: Colbys Deceptions, pink flowers on breakfast table, pinkish bouquet in outdoor restaurant: The Home Wrecker, red rose in vase on table next to Roderick's chair, in garden: Usher)
• Apples (on table: The Wormwood Star, bowl of apples in kitchen during final fight: How Awful About Allan, in kitchen for pie during big fight: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, offered by villain to children: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, fruit tray includes apples: The Proposal, basket of apples on dancer's kitchen counter: The Home Wrecker, metaphor for discarding damaged Earth: Voices in the Earth)
• Grapes (grape designs on Tiffany lampshade: Games, grape vine fields, stained glass window design in church: Killer Bees, fruit tray includes grapes: The Proposal)
• Floral designs behind people's heads or on clothes (leaf-pattern behind mirror looked at by bride: Picnic, leaves on wallpaper behind photo booth, floral-and-bird wallpaper behind hero at Tarot reading: Night Tide, Tiffany lamps: Games, engraved on glass of front door, cloth over piano in living room: How Awful About Allan, floral wallpaper in opening shot: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, stained glass windows with a lily or grapes, porch chair with leaf carvings on back: Killer Bees, zombie in coffin, carpet on hotel floor: The Dead Don't Die, wallpaper in possessed girl's room: Ruby, abstract flowers on dining room wallpaper, parents' pillows: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, stencils of plants-and-birds outside Mexican restaurant: Angel in a Box, villain's lounge chair with abstract flower designs: Kill Dan Tanna, George's Hawaiian shirt: A Date with Doomsday, bedspread and matching chair: A Quiet Funeral, flower mural in crook's office, flowered couch: Make-Up, large picture in San Francisco hotel: Tracy, large single rose on carpet at Alexis' home: The Proposal, dining room walls, rug with rose leaf at Alexis' living room, Kirby's flowered dress: The Ring, Amanda's dress with floral pattern at wedding, plant design on altar cloth, Claudia and Steven's bedstead, Krystle's dress with green leaves at Christmas: That Holiday Spirit, Fallon's dress at start: Conspiracy of Silence, head of Jeff and Fallon's bed, hitman's bedspread, white ironwork chairs in restaurant, pillows on Montalban's couch, Frankie's couches: The Home Wrecker, Madeline's kimono with floral design, Tiffany lamp on Roderick's table: Usher)
• Gardens, often with camera movement (covered walkway where hero walks: Fragment of Seeking, with heroine: Picnic, courtyard with planter where lovers meet at end: The Assignation, hero walks by front yards in credits, around swimming pool: The Killing Kind, patio with fountain at mansion, in front of suburban house, patio of house: The Cat Creature, vegetation near church, trees near mansion: Killer Bees, camera movements past side of restaurant with plants, restaurant front with plants in pots on steps: Angel On My Mind, camera movement past side of tennis court with trees, front of resort, pond: Angel in a Box, camera movements past hospital entrance with plants: Kill Dan Tanna, front yard of scientist's house, opening shot of tree: A Date with Doomsday, in front of Signe Hasso's apartment building: Make-Up, family home: Deceptions, credits shot with Harrington's name and fountain and potted plants: Tracy, transition shot at start of pan over tree region at side of mansion: The Proposal, Rio hotel patio, park, flowers and Araucaria tree in front of Claudia's apartment: The Ring, leaving horse show on red carpet with plants in pots: That Holiday Spirit, hotel patio and fountain "reflecting pool": Colbys Deceptions, beautiful grove of trees at ranch, outdoor restaurant: The Home Wrecker, mansion: Usher)

• Coffee (heroine gives coffee to hero at beach, Ellen gives coffee to hero at Merry-Go-Round: Night Tide, hero pours in kitchen, drops cup: How Awful About Allan, heroine brings in tray for hero: The Cat Creature, hero and brother in jail cell, Ray Milland serves hero coffee, hero has coffee while heroine explains zombies: The Dead Don't Die, Larry Block's mug: Set Up City, homeless man gives Kris, sobering up, group in restaurant under director's name in credits: Angel On My Mind, breakfast: Tracy, Krystle pours Blake and herself coffee in kitchen: The Proposal, Rosalind in London, breakfast: That Holiday Spirit, Daniel has had coffee from tray while waiting for Blake: The Treasure, silver coffee service and cups on living room table: Conspiracy of Silence, on breakfast tray: My Father's House, breakfast, urn in ballet studio: Colbys Deceptions, urn and cups in ballet studio, Gina brings bag of coffee and tea to dancer's kitchen, Jason and Frankie at end: The Home Wrecker)
• Tea (fortune teller: Night Tide, Roderick and guest: Usher)
• Deserts served with coffee or tea (coffee cake baked by Olive: How Awful About Allan, scones and tea in hotel room: Deceptions, madeleines: Usher) related (table of cakes in restaurant: The Home Wrecker)
• Handbells to summon servants (Swanson: Killer Bees, Roderick Usher: Usher)
• Beer (hero in Blue Grotto night club: Night Tide, hero in restaurant: The Dead Don't Die)
• Christmas (English traditional: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, modern day: That Holiday Spirit)
• Birthday parties, often failed or sinister (failed party for girl: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, little girl's: Kill Dan Tanna, failed party for grandmother in hotel room: Deceptions, twins Roderick and Madeline Usher: Usher)
• Meals outdoors (family picnic at beach: Picnic, breakfast on balcony with beach and ocean view: Night Tide, porch: Killer Bees, homeless man on beach shares his food, coffee at outdoor table in restaurant: Angel On My Mind, witness sits at table outside Mexican restaurant: Angel in a Box, officers dining at tables near battlefield: Mata Hari, buffet lunch on hotel patio: The Ring, outdoor restaurant: The Home Wrecker, garden: Usher)

• Sailors (gondoliers: The Assignation, sailor hero: Night Tide, gambling ship, hydroplane: What's the Matter With Helen?, Navy hero: The Dead Don't Die)
• Spaceships and alien buildings (Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, Queen of Blood, Stargate, Voices in the Earth) related (kid wears NASA sweatshirt with rocket: The Home Wrecker)
• Airplanes (Mrs Roosevelt flies: What's the Matter With Helen?, heroine arrives in airplane, airport hangar, airplane finale: Angel in a Box, helicopter pilot, airport: A Date with Doomsday, hero hopes to fly to Miami: Make-Up, people arrive and leave on flights, Fallon to get flying lesson: The Ring, woman pilot, plane ride, hangar, mechanic: Encores, Blake and Krystle's private plane, airport, Krystle's joke about Alexis not needing plane to fly: The Proposal, helicopter, heliport: Colbys Deceptions, Jason's private plane: The Home Wrecker, start at airport: Usher)
• Convertible cars (Dennis Weaver: What's the Matter With Helen?, Edward Albert: Killer Bees, car entering drive-in: Ruby, Bosley: Angel in a Box, hero: Kill Dan Tanna)
• Used car lots (across from cafe at start: Killer Bees, owner attacked: Set Up City)
• Buses (hero travels to Santa Monica: Night Tide, hero arrives back in town on bus: The Killing Kind, cleaning lady and bus: A Date with Doomsday)
• Taxicabs (cab passes carriage in opening shot: Games, boyfriend: How Awful About Allan, mothers leaving trial at start: What's the Matter With Helen?, in Ecuador: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, heroine encounters, cab headquarters: Angel On My Mind)
• Chauffeurs (waiting at dance school: What's the Matter With Helen?, at airport: The Proposal, at airport: The Ring, at airport: Usher)

• Falls or diving from heights (surreal dive into ocean: Picnic, dive from balcony: The Cat Creature, telephone lineman: Killer Bees, boy rescued from falling: The Pariah, scientist victim dives from roof: A Date with Doomsday, hero falls from fire escape: Make-Up, fight on edge of high construction site: The Proposal, fight on skyscraper roof edge: Colbys Deceptions)
• Out-of-control drivers (can't see: How Awful About Allan, attacked by bees: Killer Bees, man in car with sabotaged brakes on cliff: A Quiet Funeral) related (attacked car: Ruby, man dies during auto race: Angel in a Box)
• Pedestrians attacked by cars (Frankie Specht at end: The Dead Don't Die, Kris by villain: Angel On My Mind)
• Disposing of a body (delivery boy: Games, intruder: What's the Matter With Helen?, in garbage can: The Killing Kind)
• People being stalked (heroines stalked by man in the street: What's the Matter With Helen?, baby and nanny visited by man in park: The Ring) related (Russian dancer under surveillance by KGB: Colbys Deceptions)
• Secrets in the attic (bee center: Killer Bees, cult: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell)
• Sinister machines (plow, fan: What's the Matter With Helen?, lawn mower: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell)
• Medical workers in sinister roles (doctor covers up killing: Killer Bees, doctor and nurse at dance marathon: The Dead Don't Die)
• Bad guys disguise as medical workers (hit men label truck as medical supplies, don white labcoats: Kill Dan Tanna, spy disguised as nurse: Mata Hari)
• Bandaged hands (hero cuts hand and bleeds on window: How Awful About Allan, Helen cut: What's the Matter With Helen?, hero after final confrontation: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, hero from fire: Kill Dan Tanna) related (woman's hands swell up sinisterly: The Ring)
• Severely disturbed men kill people for revenge (protagonist: The Killing Kind, man kills restaurant owner: Angel On My Mind, villain: Kill Dan Tanna) related (father plans revenge: Angel in a Box)
• Emotionally disturbed people kill animals (Helen and rabbits: What's the Matter With Helen?, hero and rat: The Killing Kind)
• Farms as sites of killing (plow: What's the Matter With Helen?, vineyard: Killer Bees) related (attempted shooting at ranch: The Home Wrecker)
• Condemned men (letter: A Burying for Rosey, brother on Death Row: The Dead Don't Die) related (hero awaits destructive takeover, says final goodbye: Voices in the Earth)
• Mind control (Sherry, cop hypnotized: The Cat Creature, dog: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, spies use hypnotism to control: A Date with Doomsday, shadow people and hero: Voices in the Earth)
• Sinister phone calls (hero gets phone call at Merry-Go-Round: Night Tide, dialogue about Aimee Semple McPherson buried with phone: Games, mysterious call to sister: How Awful About Allan, threatening phone calls: What's the Matter With Helen?, bad guy phones Angels in their car: Angel On My Mind, phone call from fake customer starts case, call from villain ordering hit: Angel in a Box, sentence of death, order to attack village: Kill Dan Tanna, from Madeline Usher: Usher)

• People as members of the opposite sex (Roderick and Madeline Usher: The Fall of the House of Usher, hero as female: Fragment of Seeking, impersonating boarder: How Awful About Allan, impersonators: A Date with Doomsday, Roderick and Madeline Usher: Usher)
• Doubles created (aliens make duplicates of heroes: Stargate, spies create impersonators: A Date with Doomsday) related (heroine models her makeovers on 1930's Hollywood stars: What's the Matter With Helen?, hero gets hand of criminal: A Hand for Sonny Blue, magic make-up case transforms user: Make-Up, Cyrano de Bergerac plot with man acting as romancer for other man: Encores, Adam creates imaginary businessman as part of criminal scheme: Tracy)
• Voices linked to other bodies (mother mimes her child's song: What's the Matter With Helen?, zombie master speaks from corpse: The Dead Don't Die, possessed woman: Ruby, impersonators: A Date with Doomsday)
• People interchanged with sculpture (corpse embedded in Pop Art plaster cast: Games, casts made by computer to create impersonation masks: A Date with Doomsday)
• Hands and sculpture (sculpture of hand in box: The Wormwood Star, hand in jar: Night Tide, casts made by computer to create impersonation gloves and fingerprints: A Date with Doomsday)

• Fire (steel mill, coke: The Four Elements, campfire and torches on beach: Night Tide, kills father, in pantry at end: How Awful About Allan, burning letter: What's the Matter With Helen?, Hansel and Gretel finale: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, murder by fire, burning car: The Killing Kind, cars at start: Killer Bees, fire and doll, burning zombies: The Dead Don't Die, kills maid, thrown fire as part of evil ritual, burning food in kitchen, campfire of Ecuador holy man, fire at finale: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, campfire on beach: Angel On My Mind, burning crashed plane: Angel in a Box, explosion leads to flames, flame thrower: Kill Dan Tanna, battlefield fires, fireplace: Mata Hari, fire grill in restaurant: Conspiracy of Silence, fireplaces: Fallon's Choice, fireplaces: The Home Wrecker)
• Mist (garden and heroine: Picnic, steam emerging from bubbling ground: On the Edge, around hero outdoors at night, steam in bath house: Night Tide, factory: The Four Elements, city at night on way to funeral parlor, brother in dream, smoke around zombie, at storage building: The Dead Don't Die, dog attacks Miles at night, smoke from burning food, smoke at finale: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, misty ground in mutant scene: Stargate, mist on beach in background: Angel On My Mind, knockout gas in dating service room attacks Diana: A Date with Doomsday, battlefield smoke, train steam, mist at execution: Mata Hari, rainy mist on heliport roof in finale: Colbys Deceptions, smoke from smashed machinery on spaceship: Voices in the Earth, garden: Usher)
• Puddles (bubbling ground: On the Edge, rain at end: Voices in the Earth)

• Beach and Pacific ocean (Picnic, Night Tide, opening: The Killing Kind, Angel On My Mind) related (Salton Sea: On the Edge)
• Rocky landscapes near ocean (hero emerges at start: On the Edge, talk on beach, dance with bongos on beach at night: Night Tide, pursuit at end: Angel On My Mind) related (rocky landscapes in Ecuador: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell)
• Long views down nearly empty beach (Night Tide, Angel On My Mind)

• Footprints followed (to door: Fragment of Seeking, prints attract man's attention to woman: On the Edge, hero follows heroine's wet prints to dock: Night Tide, bad guy tracks heroine through her footprints on beach: Angel On My Mind) related (man leaves prints on beach: On the Edge)
• Hand prints (hero leaves single bloody handprint on door: How Awful About Allan, series of bloody handprints on rail: What's the Matter With Helen?)
• Technology (machine identifies handprints for entry to labs: A Date with Doomsday)

Curtis Harrington: Structure and Influences

• Films made up of paintings (Cameron's art: The Wormwood Star, John Cline paintings in title sequence: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet)
• Dream sequences (heroine as mermaid and sea monster, mermaid escapes into sea: Night Tide, nightmares about childhood family conflicts, burned room: How Awful About Allan, hero in cradle on beach: The Killing Kind, cemetery and brother and Perdido: The Dead Don't Die)
• Flashbacks show bursts of memory (body of husband: What's the Matter With Helen?, childhood: Angel On My Mind, feverish hero remembers: Mata Hari)
• Musical numbers (jazz club, dance on beach: Night Tide, montage cut to Bach: The Four Elements, hero listens to classical records: How Awful About Allan, 1930's song and dance numbers, tango: What's the Matter With Helen?, heroine sings musical hall turn, opening folk song lullaby: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, dance marathon tunes: The Dead Don't Die, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Someone to Watch Over Me: A Hand for Sonny Blue, messenger sings "Tea for Two": Deceptions, Engelbert Humperdinck as nightclub singer: Encores, dances, song: Mata Hari, ballet rehearsal in studio played by Joffrey Ballet: Colbys Deceptions)
• Whodunit mysteries, with criminal revealed at end (Night Tide, How Awful About Allan, The Cat Creature, The Dead Don't Die)
• Comic fantastic tales with comic actors (Hermione Baddeley: A Date with Doomsday, Billy Crystal: Make-Up)

• "The Blood of a Poet" by Jean Cocteau (androgyny and man in a woman's blond wig, moving down corridor along wall: Fragment of Seeking, camera moves into mirror: The Wormwood Star, hero moves down hall clinging to wall after attempt to pull him down stairs: How Awful About Allan, feather fan in "Nasty Man" number: What's the Matter With Helen?, schoolchildren's games outdoors: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, robot armless on couch and Cocteau's man appearing in parts: Stargate, eye symbol on hand and Cocteau's mouth on hand: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, schoolchildren's games outdoors: The Ring, heroine's hooded cloak: Mata Hari, broken column in front of ruined building: Voices in the Earth, the poet's work and Cocteau's lecture on "The Blood of a Poet": Usher) Note: subjects from "The Blood of a Poet" that recur in many Harrington films are streetlights, hallways.
• Fritz Lang (genres such as crime thrillers, fantasy and science fiction in Lang and Harrington; mirrors; storefronts; staircases; still lifes; fire; symmetric images; octagons; Beyond a Reasonable Doubt on The Dead Don't Die: prison execution, anti-capital punishment)
• Lumiere (Workers Leaving the Factory on The Proposal: construction workers leave site)
• Edgar Allan Poe as source for Harrington's films (story: The Fall of the House of Usher, story: The Assignation, title comes from Poe's poem "Annabel Lee": Night Tide, story: Usher)
• Harrington's own films (The Dead Don't Die on A Quiet Funeral: funeral parlor visitation, Robert Bloch scripts; What's the Matter With Helen? on Deceptions: feeding the hungry poor, traditional urban streets, rejected mothers, woman visits Latin America; What's the Matter With Helen? on Encores: singer, sinister pianist accompanist, glitzy Deco set for musicians in ship and hotel, gentle good guy who wants to marry heroine who is otherwise in big trouble, woman on plane; The Proposal on Colbys Deceptions: Jeff Colby has fight on skyscraper edge with man who assaulted his wife, villain kicks Jeff during fight, young woman has romance with glamorous sophisticated man from exotic country; The Proposal on The Home Wrecker: protagonist has business meeting with company only to discover swaggering arch-rival has bought up company)

Curtis Harrington: Visual Style

• Blinking or alternate lights (photography booth, sign flashing on and off outside hotel room: Night Tide, over spaceship door: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, sign outside window: What's the Matter With Helen?, red and normal light in darkroom: The Killing Kind, death row lights go off and on: The Dead Don't Die, in projection booth after murder: Ruby, tubes of light on matter transmitter: Stargate, handprint reading machine: A Date with Doomsday, in front of Apollo's Newsstand: A Quiet Funeral, train lights flicker on heroine: Mata Hari) related (lights on Rover, computers: A Date with Doomsday, lights on spaceship controls: Voices in the Earth)
• Entertainment machines (Merry-Go-Round, Sports Center light in credits, arcade in credits, pinball machines in background: Night Tide, pinball, toy monkey circles around in game, galvanic electricity tubes: Games, blinking marquee at recital: What's the Matter With Helen?, dancehall organ and revolving ball: The Dead Don't Die, drive-in sign, soda vending machine: Ruby, lights on Las Vegas signs: Kill Dan Tanna, balloons and confetti pop out of box: Encores)
• Rotating machines (sign over photo both, light over Blue Grotto door, lights projected on mermaid room, Merry-Go-Round, carnival rides: Night Tide, fabric manufacturing equipment: The Four Elements, tape recorder wheels, record on turntable: How Awful About Allan, miniature golf windmill: What's the Matter With Helen?, window in shop office rotates on pivot: The Cat Creature, ball at dance hall: The Dead Don't Die, film projector: Ruby, car revolves when falling: A Quiet Funeral, opening lid of make-up case, opening elevator door, cap unscrews by itself, record turntable in Hasso's apartment, closet door with mirror, grilled door at pawnshop: Make-Up, kid's merry-go-round in park: The Ring, toy carousel: That Holiday Spirit, record on turntable, hurdy-gurdy with turned handle: Mata Hari)
• Other moving machines (rocking chair: On the Edge, rocking chair near Captain's home: Night Tide, stairway chair: The Killing Kind, Murphy bed, roll-out drawers for zombies: The Dead Don't Die, possessed wheel chair: Ruby, garage door opening into hero's apartment, hospital air pump: Kill Dan Tanna, Rover robot moves on floor: A Date with Doomsday, elevator at construction site: The Proposal, swings in park: The Ring)
• Grandfather clocks (hallway: How Awful About Allan, top of stairs in mansion: The Cat Creature, funeral parlor: A Quiet Funeral, party: Usher) related (smaller wall clock with pendulum: Killer Bees, smaller clock with pendulum in pawnshop: Make-Up, clock store: Mata Hari)
• Strings, in motion (yarn symbolizing life: On the Edge, manufactured fabric strands: The Four Elements)

• Sliding doors (door-with-window at Merry-Go-Round slides up: Night Tide, spaceship: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, study: Games, living room: How Awful About Allan, hot room: Stargate, coven, dad's den: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, funeral parlor: A Quiet Funeral, elevator: Deceptions, elevator at Alexis': The Proposal, elevator in Alexis' living room: The Ring, elevator in office: Conspiracy of Silence, elevator in hotel: Colbys Deceptions, spaceship: Voices in the Earth)
• Gates: ornamental, in pairs (mansion: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, estate: Killer Bees, white gates to villain's estate: Angel in a Box, in France after heroine crosses front lines: Mata Hari, estate: Usher)
• Gates: wire fences (apartment building: The Killing Kind, kennel: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, tennis court: Angel in a Box)
• Glass cabinet doors that open and close (Captain's curios: Night Tide, bookcase used by Madeline: Usher)

• Hallways (dormitory: Fragment of Seeking, outside heroine's rooms: Night Tide, upstairs, downstairs, asylum: How Awful About Allan, upstairs in hotel: The Cat Creature, death row, seen from hotel lobby: The Dead Don't Die, resort: Angel in a Box, hospital: Kill Dan Tanna, Lyle Waggoner's headquarters, biolab: A Date with Doomsday, mansion: The Proposal, office building with fancy wood doors: Conspiracy of Silence, ballet studio, hotel, mansion: Colbys Deceptions, mansion, Cash's home: The Home Wrecker)
• Outdoor areas with long constrained paths (covered walkway where hero walks: Fragment of Seeking, wooden sidewalk on beach: On the Edge, walkway where hero follows Cameron: Night Tide, curved ramp at mansion: The Cat Creature, path through kennels: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, alley between buildings: Kill Dan Tanna, trenches at front: Mata Hari)
• Building facades with people in windows, often viewed with camera movement (heroine in window: Fragment of Seeking, glimpse into room, hero leaves by window: Picnic, Venice: The Assignation, Helen watching from dance-school window: What's the Matter With Helen?, kids at orphanage: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, early victim Sherry and balcony: The Cat Creature, camera movement from heroine in window down to bees: Killer Bees, mansion: Usher)
• Facades, without people (brownstones in opening: Games, family house, campus building: How Awful About Allan, family apartment house: The Killing Kind, mansion at start, row of stores including shop: The Cat Creature, dance hall, pan up facade of heroine's apartment: The Dead Don't Die, resort: Angel in a Box, government building at start, George hangs from roof: A Date with Doomsday, building at start: A Quiet Funeral, Signe Hasso's apartment building: Make-Up, Claudia's apartment building: The Ring, many large 19th Century buildings, small town street: Mata Hari, building across street when Jeff knocks Miles off roof seen only in next episode's recap: Colbys Deceptions, ruins seen in credits: Voices in the Earth)
• Storefronts (opening walk of hero at night: Night Tide, occult store, gallery across street, hero and heroine walk after meal in Chinese restaurant: The Cat Creature, cafe: Killer Bees, Apollo's Newsstand: A Quiet Funeral, Thrift Shop seen from alley: Make-Up, in slum street: Deceptions, village: Mata Hari)
• Towers on buildings (Venice: The Assignation, Merry-Go-Round building, other dock structures: Night Tide, apartment building: The Killing Kind, mansion at start: The Cat Creature, skyscrapers seen under film's title: Voices in the Earth)
• Alleys and back entrances of businesses, often visually complex (back of shop: The Cat Creature, entrance to warehouse at end: The Dead Don't Die, area back of restaurant where Kris is attacked: Angel On My Mind, suspense confrontation in alley: Kill Dan Tanna, alley where villain removes disguise: A Date with Doomsday, alley behind hero's apartment with fight: Make-Up) related (area outside projection booth: Ruby, airport hangar interior with doors and equipment: Angel in a Box, window opening to paint supply store: Tracy, construction site entrance: The Proposal)
• Traditional urban streets (1930's Los Angeles: What's the Matter With Helen?, near bar and hero's apartment: Make-Up, kid's slum street: Deceptions)
• Large public rooms with many windows (Merry-Go-Round room: Night Tide, hall with shadow people: Voices in the Earth)
• Indoor stairs (Merry-Go-Round building, Captain's house, Blue Grotto night club: Night Tide, family house: Games, front and back stairs: How Awful About Allan, dance-school: What's the Matter With Helen?, apartment building: The Killing Kind, circular staircase in mansion at start, to store room, hotel: The Cat Creature, family home: Killer Bees, hotel: The Dead Don't Die, family home, oil refinery at end: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, grand stairs: Mata Hari, Carrington family home: The Proposal, Carrington family home, Alexis' living room: The Ring, mansion stairs: Conspiracy of Silence, mansion stairs: Fallon's Choice, mansion stairs: My Father's House)
• Outdoor stairs (leading to garden, hard to ascend: Picnic, beach, to Venice: Night Tide, front steps: Games, steps of campus building: How Awful About Allan, leading down from kitchen: What's the Matter With Helen?, steps outside hospital under director's name in credits: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, fire escape: Make-Up, steps leading to construction site, race track: The Proposal, steps leading from swimming pool: The Ring, Usher mansion: Usher)
• Ramps (at beach: Night Tide, driveway at mansion at start: The Cat Creature, spaceship exit: Voices in the Earth)
• Stepladders indoors (in fire room: How Awful About Allan, in dance studio while being decorated and in finale: What's the Matter With Helen?, in TV news coverage of bombed area: Kill Dan Tanna, on balcony in large hall: Voices in the Earth)
• Under piers near ocean (climactic encounter: Night Tide, opening: The Killing Kind) related (beach and dock area with wood construction: On the Edge)
• Swimming pools, often linked to suburban indifference and alienation (apartment house: The Killing Kind, neighbor: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, round pool at family home: Deceptions, in patio in Rio hotel: The Ring, elaborately decorated shallow end of swimming pool: Fallon's Choice)
• Kitchens (house: How Awful About Allan, upstairs: What's the Matter With Helen?, mansion: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, Sherry's apartment: The Cat Creature, family apartment: The Killing Kind, Ray Milland's apartment kitchenette: The Dead Don't Die, family home: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, hero: Kill Dan Tanna, kitchenette in hero's slum apartment: Make-Up, Krystle and Blake in kitchen: The Proposal, group removes stuck ring in kitchen: The Ring, Kolya's apartment: The Home Wrecker)
• People locked in pantries, off kitchens (How Awful About Allan, Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?)
• Wood-paneled studies for men (father's in family house: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, villain: Angel in a Box, scientist's house: A Date with Doomsday, Dexter's office in Calgary: The Proposal, Daniel's office: That Holiday Spirit, Blake's library, Daniel's office: The Treasure)
• Older women's apartments (tenant: The Killing Kind, Signe Hasso: Make-Up)
• Screens (hiding burned room: How Awful About Allan, villain's study: Angel in a Box, Alexis' office: The Proposal, next to wall: The Ring, Christmas celebration: That Holiday Spirit, mansion: Conspiracy of Silence, mansion: Fallon's Choice, mansion: My Father's House)

• Miniature models of buildings (heroine's mailbox like room with door: Night Tide, model castle in game room: Games, miniature golf windmill: What's the Matter With Helen?, doll house, miniature castle: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, hive as small version of family mansion: Killer Bees, toy carousel: That Holiday Spirit)
• Dolls and figurines (small statues: The Wormwood Star, little girl with doll, figurines in heroine's apartment: Night Tide, monkey doll in game: Games, dolls, cardboard figure of Adele: What's the Matter With Helen?, dolls and animal statuettes in opening shot: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, doll on Cindy Williams' bed: The Killing Kind, honey-pot in shape of bee: Killer Bees, dancing figures used to clobber hero: The Dead Don't Die, girl's room: Ruby, lion stuffed animal: Tracy, Mesoamerican figurines on Fallon's shelf: The Ring)
• Model boats (ancient boat in professor's office: The Cat Creature, Steven's mantel at home, stylized ship in Peter White's office: Tracy, sail boat at Christmas celebration: That Holiday Spirit, in lawyer's office: Colbys Deceptions) related (baby's toy truck: The Ring)
• Bonsai (family garden in pot: Deceptions)

• Streetlights: a pole with light at top (top of outdoor staircase: Picnic, with sailor hero at start, after leaving Blue Grotto: Night Tide, knocked over by car, on hero's street: How Awful About Allan, across street from dance studio, row of lights behind Roosevelt in newsreel: What's the Matter With Helen?, seen under director's name in credits at start: The Killing Kind, in front of dance hall, above Loveland sign, outside hotel and antiques store: The Dead Don't Die, by villain's parked truck with puppies, also seen at night: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, in front of scientist's house: A Date with Doomsday, opening shot, finale as hero exits down street: Make-Up, on kid's slum street: Deceptions, park: The Ring, in transition shots of London: That Holiday Spirit, in transition shot showing Colby office tower, very short yellow light on heliport roof at finale: Colbys Deceptions)
• Streetlights: in front of pole and hanging down (streetlight outside home at start: Games, Keye Luke first seen on Los Angeles street at night: The Cat Creature, road along beach: Angel On My Mind, in transition shot of Montalban's building: The Home Wrecker)
• Outdoor-style lights used indoors as decor (traffic light in game room: Games, streetlight with branched lights in hero's apartment: Kill Dan Tanna, restaurant, courtroom: Mata Hari)

• Mirrors (hero removes glasses: Fragment of Seeking, bride at end: Picnic, camera moves into mirror: The Wormwood Star, hero reflected in cracked mirror, in store window, weight machine, outside photo booth, mermaid combing hair: Night Tide, three-part mirror in frame, large distorting mirror in hall, mirror with eye painted on it: Games, hallway seat, sister reflected in kitchen window: How Awful About Allan, dance school, three-way mirror, mirror-within-mirror shot during dance: What's the Matter With Helen?, elaborate: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, Ann Southern, on door in hero's bedroom: The Killing Kind, shiny light fixture at mansion, two mirrors in office back of shop: The Cat Creature, heroine's bedroom: Killer Bees, circular mirror in heroine's bedroom, pan past mirror in hotel lobby: The Dead Don't Die, circular mirror at heroine's dressing table, supernatural smashed: Ruby, maid's bureau-shrine, wife's dressing table, boy combs hair, mirror held up to sleeping person reflects soul: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, seeing trailing car in mirror: Kill Dan Tanna, closet door with hero reflected, make-up case lid: Make-Up, circular mirrors in Alexis' buildings: The Proposal, circular mirror with outside ring of second mirror, mirror in Carrington foyer: The Ring, florist with big mirror and circular mirror: Encores, three-part mirror with one wing at angle: Mata Hari, Sable puts on necklace in dressing table mirror: My Father's House, mirror at Miles, full-length in ballet studio, behind bar in restaurant: The Home Wrecker)

• Octagons (design on glass jar that is near-hexagon with tiny vertical sides: On the Edge, repeated green octagons in Pop Art painting in hall: Games, upstairs window, small paintings in living room: How Awful About Allan, giant bowl in Animal Crackers number: What's the Matter With Helen?, half-octagon top of Cindy Williams' bedstead: The Killing Kind, tiled wall at mansion patio with octagon-like pattern, window of suburban house: The Cat Creature, elongated octagons in church stained glass window: Killer Bees, ticket booth, table in heroine's music studio: Ruby, matter transporter: Stargate, half-octagon washbowl in kids' bathroom: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, planters for trees along restaurant side: Angel On My Mind, mirror in Bosley's office, windows at night on villain's home exterior, umbrellas over tables outside villain's house, half-octagon step in villain's study: Angel in a Box, half-octagon elevator interior at Mrs Cabot's: Deceptions, part-octagon shelf near entrance of Alexis' office, part-octagon bar at la Mirage: The Proposal, half-octagon topped box on table in Musical Memories store: Voices in the Earth, teacups: Usher)
• Stop signs (at railroad tracks, next to Tucker Cafe at start: Killer Bees, stop sign: Angel On My Mind)
• Octagons: Building facades and exteriors (tower at Merry-Go-Round: Night Tide, half-octagon protruding corner of family house: How Awful About Allan, high part-octagon balcony where mother stands over swimming pool: The Killing Kind, bay windows form modified half-octagon on facade of heroine's apartment: The Dead Don't Die, stables: That Holiday Spirit, balcony is modified half-octagon: Usher)
• Inside rooms with octagonal corners (heroine's living room: Night Tide, upstairs hall: How Awful About Allan)
• Doorways and windows with corners off at top (bed of pinball machine: Games, window on gambling ship: What's the Matter With Helen?, pillared entrance doorway to police station: The Dead Don't Die, cabinet doors with alien doubles: Stargate, doorway in villain's living room: Kill Dan Tanna, Classified Waste chamber front opening: A Date with Doomsday, doorway in home: Usher) related (platform with stairs at either side in alley behind shop: The Cat Creature)
• Shapes with one corner cut off (metal gantries extending below dam: The Four Elements, window to right of funeral parlor door: The Dead Don't Die, concrete ruin at finale: Kill Dan Tanna, corner of pipe in hangar: Angel in a Box, recesses in bar: Make-Up, huge doorway in large hall with one corner shaded: Voices in the Earth)
• Sidewalks with octagon-like corners (outdoor walkway at beach: On the Edge, city sidewalk where couple walk after Chinese dinner: The Cat Creature)
• Hallways with bends not at right angles (heroine's apartment building: Night Tide, zigzag hallway at Lyle Waggoner's headquarters: A Date with Doomsday)

• Repeated squares or rectangles of different colors (four windows in lintel over corridor: Fragment of Seeking, coverlet on hero's bed, fire seen from multiple panes of glass in Olive's room, hero's sweater with squares tilted as diamonds: How Awful About Allan, lapels of heroine's dressing gown: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, Cindy Williams' shower curtain: The Killing Kind, stained glass on shop door, windows in office back of shop with bottom row shaded, windows and doors leading to suburban home patio with top row curtained, matching books behind professor's head at office: The Cat Creature, gray window panes above dance hall entrance: The Dead Don't Die, man in wheelchair's lap robe: Ruby, rectangular window panes in shades of gray back of restaurant, side of restaurant: Angel On My Mind, fence outside restaurant with different colors showing through, windows on left of hangar, gray and black tennis backstop behind Jill: Angel in a Box, red and white squares of building's flat roof in opening shot: Kill Dan Tanna, squares and blank areas around funeral home outside door: A Quiet Funeral, checkerboard floor in hero's lobby, column of rectangles to the right of Thrift Shop with one rectangle green: Make-Up, diamonds on piano player's sweater, kid's shirt: Encores, chessboard-topped table at Montalban's, Kolya's sweater with small black and blue rectangles, multi-colored tile wall in restaurant: The Home Wrecker, windows outside Musical Memories building in shades of orange: Voices in the Earth)
• Grids with irregular patterns seen through (grids of windows in Merry-Go-Round building, at door to stairway, ceiling windows of mermaid chamber, bead curtains leading to balcony, rug where hero sleeps next to heroine's bed: Night Tide, Kent Smith's murder shown as shadows cast on irregular grid, curtains in Egyptology room: The Cat Creature, cage of friendly dog: The Pariah, windows in facade of building as cyclist arrives at start: A Date with Doomsday, kitchen window panes: The Proposal, window and doors of hotel room in Rio: The Ring, giant stained glass church window in rectangles and irregular color patterns: That Holiday Spirit, curtains on train windows: Mata Hari, dark gray skyscraper behind Miles with various curtains in windows in the finale: Colbys Deceptions, window grids on balcony and above on facade of mansion: Usher)
• Grids of uniform colors (tile floor: The Wormwood Star, roof panels of Dodgem pavilion, quilt on heroine's bed: Night Tide, windows of downtown office buildings near bus stop at start, laundry basket near ironing board: The Killing Kind, tile wall at coroner, wall of drawers at coroner, grid of boxes with keys behind hotel desk: The Cat Creature, white tile wall: A Hand for Sonny Blue, multi-paned windows and door: Ruby, equipment in refinery near end: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, black tennis backdrop behind pro, windows at night on villain's home exterior: Angel in a Box, grid of small red squares on villain's chair: Kill Dan Tanna, white screen and pillows with small grid squares behind seated Diana in government office: A Date with Doomsday, pasteboard wall behind pawnbroker, alley paving and window: Make-Up, white bedspread, Jeff's suit pattern during fight, tiled wall behind Blake in kitchen: The Proposal, chair back and door and round window near Rio pool, Carrington foyer floor, Fallon's floor, wallpaper in Clauia's apartment: The Ring, floor of Javanese dance at start, garage windows, prison windows: Mata Hari, Maxwell Caulfield's checked suit: Fallon's Choice, windows in ballet studio, grids on lapels of Sable's blue robe and yellow blouse: Colbys Deceptions, spread on ballet dancer's apartment couch: The Home Wrecker)
• Irregular rectilinear patterns (study curtains with small rectangles: Games, Olive drives by modernist building with grid of windows: How Awful About Allan, rectangles in stained glass window, upstairs windows facade of movie building on the corner: What's the Matter With Helen?, storefront of Charles S. Grieve gallery across from shop: The Cat Creature, base of stained glass window in church, tablecloth in cafe: Killer Bees, window in Milland's apartment after nightmare, drawers in warehouse in finale: The Dead Don't Die, Stuart Whitman's robe: Ruby, hero's shirt, spread on cot near where hero is captive: The Pariah, complex design on gates at hero's job, pictures and shadows on staircase wall when hero returns at end: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, complex facade behind George hanging from roof: A Date with Doomsday, house facade at start: A Quiet Funeral, plaid shirt: Make-Up, Fallon's shirt at start, shirts of both clerks at purchasing window, wallpaper at Steven's home, chairs: Tracy, grid behind Sable Colby in restaurant: Conspiracy of Silence, Katherine Ross' suit: My Father's House, Sacha's shirt during ballet rehearsal, wire rectangles around roof, light gray skyscraper windows in finale, squares on ground looking down in finale, windows in building across street seen only in recap in next episode: Colbys Deceptions, Sable's office curtains, photos on Jeff's office wall arranged in grid: The Home Wrecker)

• Hexagons (honeycomb: Killer Bees, tile floor around burning zombie: The Dead Don't Die, tile near Rio pool: The Ring, openings in arches in spaceship control room: Voices in the Earth)
• Complex diagrams with many triangles and lines (accompanying film title: The Wormwood Star, logo on cab company sign: Angel On My Mind) related (three-dimensional design of tilting lines in wood along beach: On the Edge, diagram of lines on pavement when couple embrace: The Assignation, designs behind band on ship: What's the Matter With Helen?, pattern on wall of mansion patio behind Whitman and Hedison: The Cat Creature, knot pattern in mansion stained glass front door: Killer Bees, complex lines on mod shirt: A Hand for Sonny Blue, belts on alien uniforms: Stargate, box on Steven's desk in complex black-and-white pattern: Tracy, heroine's headdress: Mata Hari)
• Diamond lozenges (on back door leading to swimming pool, cyclone fence, Mrs. Orland's windows, doorway to high balcony: The Killing Kind, cyclone fence: The Pariah, hero's tie at end: A Quiet Funeral, hero's tie while wearing white suit: Make-Up, Adam's sweater: Tracy, grillwork near elevator at construction site top, Alexis' chair back: The Proposal, Steven's suede jacket: The Ring, window grid at hospital through which people see babies: That Holiday Spirit, windows at Berlin headquarters: Mata Hari, white wicker chairs at breakfast table: Colbys Deceptions)
• Nested rectangle corners (sidewalk corner in front of covered walkway where hero walks: Fragment of Seeking, courtyard paving with petals scattered over it: The Assignation, Op Art painting: Games, fireplace in hero's bedroom, on kitchen counter near stove when Olive makes soup: How Awful About Allan, Adele's orange-and-gray scarf: What's the Matter With Helen?, green stripes on robot's shirt: Stargate, Ecuador holy man's cap: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, stripes on Dennehey's shirt: Make-Up, raised ledge around Rio pool, brick and non-brick path in park, wooden design behind Fallon: The Ring, bathroom wall: Mata Hari, Shanna Reed's sweater: The Home Wrecker, jerseys of crew members: Voices in the Earth)
• Hands resting on rectangles (hand sculpture: The Wormwood Star, green squares for fingerprint id: A Date with Doomsday)
• Areas with small three-dimensional polyhedra such as tetrahedrons and half-octagon shapes (roof lid of small house-shaped hive: Killer Bees, figures on tables of Musical Memories store: Voices in the Earth)
• Arrows (Blue Grotto sign: Night Tide, Loans sign across the street: What's the Matter With Helen?) related (heart-and-arrow graffiti in alley: Make-Up)
• Stars (on Dodgem pavilion: Night Tide, on bed of pinball machine: Games)

• Spirals (next to Curtis Harrington's name in credits, butterfly antennae in credits, on letters of "Wormwood Star": The Wormwood Star, design on wall over stairs at Blue Grotto, grillwork over Captain's window outside, metal object standing outside Captain's home: Night Tide, on wife's chair at opening party: Games, railing inside dance school: What's the Matter With Helen?, balcony at Sherry's building, candle holder on wall of shop, tiny spiral in Sondergaard's necklace, in gate at suburban home patio: The Cat Creature, mansion gates, row of spirals at base of miniature house hive: Killer Bees, tea tray on villain's desk: Angel in a Box, on gate behind transforming Wonder Woman: A Date with Doomsday, funeral home door: A Quiet Funeral)
• Art nouveau curves (elevator door grill: Make-Up)
• Spheres, often sinister (ball of yarn, bubbles in mud: On the Edge, light of many spheres outside Blue Grotto, ceiling lantern in heroine's apartment: Night Tide, crystal ball, hanging sphere in game room: Games, lanterns in Chinese restaurant, crystal ball in shop, globe in professor's office: The Cat Creature, on gate pillar of creepy family estate: Killer Bees, silver ball at marathon dance hall: The Dead Don't Die, lamp with bomb: Kill Dan Tanna, globe and strange sphere in scientist's study: A Date with Doomsday, globe in Blake's study: Tracy, four spherical legs of glass-topped table: Fallon's Choice, lights around Sable's mirror: My Father's House, lamp bases in Miles' office: Colbys Deceptions, Miles spins globe in Jason's office: The Home Wrecker, Earth seen from space: Voices in the Earth, on outdoor staircase at mansion: Usher)
• Doorways or windows with curling top arches (Venice windows at finale: The Assignation, over dance school entrance: What's the Matter With Helen?, doorway inside shop: The Cat Creature, chapel door inside funeral parlor: The Dead Don't Die) related (lintels over Merry-Go-Round, zigzag over door to Captain's home: Night Tide, strange design over door of mansion, scallops on Keye Luke's bed: The Cat Creature, irregular arch in attic: Killer Bees)
• Strangely curved rooms or other architecture (semi-circular niche in wall: The Wormwood Star, arched footbridge on which Cameron and hero walk, Merry-Go-Round: Night Tide, apartment house tower: The Killing Kind, circular staircase and curved ramp in mansion at start, spiral display rack in shop: The Cat Creature, wine casks: Killer Bees, doorways in dating service: A Date with Doomsday, arched airplane cabin with round portholes, cloverleaf highway seen from construction site, round fences at race track, arch doorway at La Mirage bar: The Proposal, Alexis' round desk with strange curved legs, staircase to Alexis' living room: The Ring, round room with fencers, restaurant table and booth, canopy over heroine in Asian dance: Mata Hari, circular lobby of mansion, oval room in art gallery discussed: Conspiracy of Silence, shallow end of swimming pool, circular lobby of mansion: Fallon's Choice, circular lobby of mansion: My Father's House, circular lobby of mansion: Colbys Deceptions, arched airplane cabin with round porthole: The Home Wrecker, hero's cabin: Voices in the Earth)
• Chairs with curved frames (chair along wall in kitchen: How Awful About Allan, dating service: A Date with Doomsday, restaurant: Mata Hari, funeral home chapel: A Quiet Funeral, ballet studio: Colbys Deceptions, hero's cabin on spaceship: Voices in the Earth, chair next to bookcase used by Madeline: Usher)
• Circular viewing devices (glasses with circular lenses: Fragment of Seeking, mask with circular eyeholes: The Assignation)
• Curved lights (circular tubes at party: Games, drive-in ticket booth: Ruby, lamp with grill of concentric circles: A Hand for Sonny Blue, strange curved light at dating service: A Date with Doomsday)
• Circular masking regions around image (through telescope: Ruby, through hotel door peephole: Colbys Deceptions, through rifle scope: The Home Wrecker)

• Past groups of people (Blue Grotto: Night Tide, across study at start: Games, backstage at recital: What's the Matter With Helen?, kids playing games in orphanage courtyard: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, first shot across dance hall with marathon dancers: The Dead Don't Die, kids playing in park: The Ring, party after music performance: Encores, party in France at start: Mata Hari)
• A character moves past objects, accompanied by camera (Olive enters kitchen and crosses to pantry soon followed by 2nd movement making soup: How Awful About Allan, Kent Smith walks across room filled with Egyptian statues, Keye Luke enters shop: The Cat Creature, hero moves through machinery during final confrontation: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, Alexis and Dex cross Alexis' living room: The Ring, brief move as waiter walks through outdoor restaurant: The Home Wrecker)
• Pans around interiors (opening shot around room: The Wormwood Star, gambling ship: What's the Matter With Helen?, cafe: Killer Bees, hotel lobby: The Dead Don't Die, love-making in hotel room: Deceptions, track past staircase to corridor then pan to door and pan back to corridor: Tracy, across rehearsal at ballet studio, back-and-forth across hotel corridor: Colbys Deceptions, ballet studio, pan back-and-forth across ballet dancer's apartment: The Home Wrecker)
• Pans outside (past wooden structures on beach: On the Edge, Blake and Krystle leave horse show walking on red carpet: That Holiday Spirit, hotel patio: Colbys Deceptions)
• Vertical pans (camera moves down from Jeff to Miles in finale: Colbys Deceptions)

• Tilted camera angles (hero flees down corridor against wall: Fragment of Seeking, hero and lamppost at start, hero follows footprints on staircase: Night Tide, night view of storefront of Charles S. Grieve across from shop: The Cat Creature, murder of lawyer: The Killing Kind, brother and Perdido in dream: The Dead Don't Die, some shots of machines in finale: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, overhead view down stairs of Carrington foyer: The Ring, Madeline returns: Usher)
• Blurred images (blind man's vision: How Awful About Allan, honeycombs un-blur in finale: Killer Bees, injured heroine sees double, drunk's vision is blurred: Angel On My Mind, private eye looks through gauzy curtains: My Father's House, shadow people: Voices in the Earth)

• Lamps hanging from ceiling (ceiling lantern in heroine's apartment: Night Tide, chandeliers in game room, Tiffany lamps in dining room: Games, kitchen: How Awful About Allan, table in Adele's original home: What's the Matter With Helen?, seance room: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, poker game over card table: Make-Up)
• Symmetric three-part images (through doors: The Assignation, towers past walkway while hero trails Cameron: Night Tide, man in tee shirt flanked by paired machines: The Four Elements, three-panel mirror: Games, three-way mirror: What's the Matter With Helen?, looking in through window to hotel room: The Ring, shot of building entrance under Harrington's name in credits: Conspiracy of Silence)
• Symmetric images of altars (funeral parlor chapel: The Dead Don't Die, wedding: That Holiday Spirit)

• Depth staging through windows or doors (street seen through Merry-Go-Round doors, through bus window: Night Tide, through cafe window seeing killing aftermath outside: Killer Bees, hero sees brother through restaurant window: The Dead Don't Die)
• Depth staging in hallways (entrance hallway of heroine's apartment with camera movement: Night Tide, through suite of rooms at party with camera movement towards front room: Games, hallway with sister on phone and brother upstairs in background: How Awful About Allan, zigzag hallway with elevator in back at Lyle Waggoner's headquarters: A Date with Doomsday)
• Landscape (traffic seen from phone lineman's perch: Killer Bees, highways seen from high construction site: The Proposal)

• Purple (wall with Palace Of Joy sign: Games, lavender doll dress, costume and fan in "Nasty Man" song: What's the Matter With Helen?, heroine's dressing gown, lampshade over seance table, much imagery: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, hero's striped shirt with some purplish lines, Mrs. Orland's dress: The Killing Kind, mauve sweater of woman at drive-in: Ruby, heroine's lavender dress at start: Kill Dan Tanna, make-up can at end: Make-Up, social worker's light purple suit: Deceptions, Mrs Cabot's dress, ex-wife's lavender nightgown and purple evening gown: Encores, mother in park: The Ring, Rosalind's dress: That Holiday Spirit, Barbara Stanwyck's dress: Fallon's Choice, Fallon's purple sweater when running: Colbys Deceptions, mauve kitchen in Kolya's apartment: The Home Wrecker, hero's sweater, Madeline's lavender shift, title "Usher": Usher)
• Metallic colors (see also Michelangelo Antonioni, Vincente Minnelli) (silver wall panels: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, John Saxon's silver space suit helmet: Queen of Blood, woman guest with gold hair-do and gloves, gold pillows, woman in silver plays pinball, gold items in make-up sales case: Games, gold crosses in church, Adele's silver sailor blouse, lamps and tablecloths on gambling ship tables: What's the Matter With Helen?, heroine's off-gold dressing gown: The Killing Kind, gold door knocker at mansion, gold amulet and chain, gold Egyptian statues, Sondergaard's huge gold necklace and earrings: The Cat Creature, Swanson's gold chair, gold threads on heroine's red gown: Killer Bees, gold coverlet, heroine's silver robe: The Dead Don't Die, brass handle of telescope: Ruby, mod gray silver-ish shirt: A Hand for Sonny Blue, blue-ish silver and copper alien uniforms: Stargate, gold clock below portrait, portrait in off-gold color: Angel in a Box, shiny gray dress of villainess, Rover in gold: A Date with Doomsday, Mrs Cabot's gold dress: Encores, copper bed-sheet with Adam and Shelley: Tracy, Krystle's blue-silver blouse in kitchen: The Proposal, Krystle's pale gold nightgown at end: The Ring, Joan Collins silver wedding dress, Amanda in gold, Claudia in silver, gold pendant with diamonds, gold candlesticks on altar at wedding, gold box: That Holiday Spirit, heroine's gold crown, silver headdress: Mata Hari, Barbara Stanwyck's gown: Conspiracy of Silence, silver iron in ballet costume room: Colbys Deceptions, Bliss' gold jewelry and belt, Kim Morgan Greene silver gown for charity ball: The Home Wrecker, gold and silver spacesuits: Voices in the Earth)
• Priestesses develop spectacular metallic looks at climax (finale with gold dress and objects around Cameron's head: The Wormwood Star, priestess of Bast in elaborate robes at end: The Cat Creature) related (glittering headdress on heroine: Mata Hari)
• Orange-blue color schemes (orange touches on gondola and blue water: The Assignation, dance class: What's the Matter With Helen?, heroine in orange and hero in blue in orange-ish home, hero's bedroom, Williams' room: The Killing Kind, ticket booth: Ruby, several scenes in home: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell bar, hero's apartment: Make-Up, construction site: The Proposal, Kolya's robe and Gina's dress and bag in apartment: The Home Wrecker)
• Blue-yellow-beige color schemes (Cindy Williams' bedroom seen at night: The Killing Kind, hero untied by friendly dog: The Pariah)
• Mustard colored clothes (hero's pajamas at start: How Awful About Allan, Larry Block's shirt: Set Up City)
• Yellow truck with unusual open walls (parked beyond excavation in street: What's the Matter With Helen?, driving in daytime in street near hotel: The Dead Don't Die)
• White flowers in church (revival preacher Alma: What's the Matter With Helen?, funeral: Killer Bees)
• White or pale soup (poured into bowl: How Awful About Allan, lunch: Usher)
• Red clothes on evil people (James Caan at party: Games, Roo in red gown, footman in red vest: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, ambitious heroine in red gown: Killer Bees, Perdido during fight with hero: The Dead Don't Die, crook Larry Block's shirt: Set Up City, priestess: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, henchman's sweater, red-and-gray shirt, tennis pro's warm-up suit, lying actor's sweater: Angel in a Box, villain's red turtleneck, red toolbox carried by hitman: Kill Dan Tanna, bodyguard's shirt: The Proposal, Joan Collins: The Ring, Joan Collins gown: That Holiday Spirit, Miles' red sweatshirt: Colbys Deceptions)
• Bartenders, waiters and service employees in red jackets (gambling ship: What's the Matter With Helen?, waiter serving beer in hotel restaurant: The Dead Don't Die, restaurant: Angel On My Mind, hotel: Deceptions, hotel: Encores, airline worker in airport: The Proposal, red bellhop uniforms at London hotel, red jackets on grooms at horse auction, groom with horse: That Holiday Spirit, waiters in restaurant: The Home Wrecker)
• Red environments (hot room: Stargate, restaurant table and booth: Mata Hari) related (London hotel suite in red-pink-gray, restaurant with salmon walls: That Holiday Spirit)
• Red candles (candle in shop: The Cat Creature, evil ritual: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, Christmas: That Holiday Spirit)
• Red curbs (by fireplug: What's the Matter With Helen?, motorcyclist at start arrives and parks bike: A Date with Doomsday)
• Red-and-white signs (used car lot: Set Up City, bicycle store at start: Angel in a Box, lettering on floor of heliport: Colbys Deceptions)
• Red-black-and-white signs (sign next to hero after he gets off bus at start: The Killing Kind, Grand Prize sign in dance hall, cold storage door: The Dead Don't Die, Four Seasons store at start: Angel in a Box, huge sign in opening shot: Kill Dan Tanna) related (man in black with white mask carries red rose: The Assignation)
• Red-yellow-blue primary color schemes (Roosevelt dance number: What's the Matter With Helen?, Wonder Woman's costumes and motorcycle, motorcyclist at start arrives and parks bike: A Date with Doomsday)
• Red-white-blue color schemes (hero's US Flag shirt: The Killing Kind, hallway at research facility with matching colored clothes: A Date with Doomsday, rehearsal in ballet studio: Colbys Deceptions)
• Red-green-yellow color schemes (garden and patio at family home: Deceptions, Sable's yellow suit and pink-and-green gladiolas at her dressing table: My Father's House)
• Red-green-blue color schemes (racetrack: The Proposal)
• Screen suffused with one color (green images: The Four Elements, red light from blinking sign: What's the Matter With Helen?, red light in darkroom: The Killing Kind, zombies in green light in dream sequence: The Dead Don't Die, green operating room: A Hand for Sonny Blue, gold while wandering in future Earth: Voices in the Earth)

• Leather jackets (cab driver: How Awful About Allan, cop guarding alley: The Cat Creature, hero in black leather jacket while disposing body: The Killing Kind, brother Matt on tractor: Killer Bees, hero: The Dead Don't Die, hero's brown leather mod coat: A Hand for Sonny Blue, hero Lucan in brown leather bomber jacket: The Pariah, criminal: A Quiet Funeral, Steven's suede jacket: The Ring, Adrian Paul fashion black leather jacket: Colbys Deceptions, Truman Jones at start: Usher) related (coroner's apron: The Cat Creature)
• Tee shirts (sailor hero: Night Tide, green in factory: The Four Elements)
• Tuxedos (James Caan: Games, Dennis Weaver, men on ship: What's the Matter With Helen?, boyfriend and gangsters at start: Ruby, singer, musicians and audience: Encores, Blake in white tux on honeymoon: The Ring, Dexter at Christmas party: That Holiday Spirit, John James and Charlton Heston at party: Conspiracy of Silence, Ricardo Montalban: My Father's House, Maitre' D, Maxwell Caulfield: The Home Wrecker, birthday party: Usher)
• Three-piece suits (James Caan: Games, Dennis Weaver' suit and tuxedo: What's the Matter With Helen?, David Hedison, Kent Smith: The Cat Creature, Roger Davis: Ruby, villain at kennel: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, murder victim in gray pinstripe suit, Bosley: Angel On My Mind, villain, Bosley: Angel in a Box, Lyle Waggoner in gray pinstripe, checks, black suits, villain: A Date with Doomsday, doctor: Kill Dan Tanna, crook Brian Dennehey, henchman "Burt" (Ronald Spivey): Make-Up, James Houghton: Deceptions, Bo Hopkins: Encores, Peter White, Gordon Thomson, Jack Coleman, Peter Mark Richman: Tracy, Peter Mark Richman, Rio hotel manager, Claudia's assistant: The Ring, Dexter's tuxedo at Christmas party: That Holiday Spirit, heroes in museum: Mata Hari, doctor's white suit, Ricardo Montalban's black suit, Charlton Heston's gray suit: Conspiracy of Silence, Charlton Heston's gray suit: Fallon's Choice, Charlton Heston's suits: My Father's House, Heston: Colbys Deceptions, John Dehner: The Home Wrecker)
• Uniforms (military school cadets: Mardi Gras, sailor hero, police in slickers at finale, guard, Shore Patrol: Night Tide, 1930's police, officer in uniform with braid in Roosevelt newsreel: What's the Matter With Helen?, LAPD policeman at mansion: The Cat Creature, police: Killer Bees, prison guards, police: The Dead Don't Die, aliens: Stargate, guard at father's company, cop: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, cop in parking lot: Angel On My Mind, bellboy: Angel in a Box, guard: A Date with Doomsday, bellboys: Encores, young Air Force man waiting in airport: The Proposal, WWI German black with spiked helmets, German gray, heroes: Mata Hari, spaceship crew: Voices in the Earth)
• Uniform high-peaked caps (military school cadets: Mardi Gras, police in slickers at finale: Night Tide, 1930's police: What's the Matter With Helen?, cop guarding body at end: The Dead Don't Die, chauffeur at airport: The Proposal, chauffeurs: That Holiday Spirit, chauffeur: Usher)
• Helmets of working men, sometimes with lights (with cylindrical lamps in front: The Four Elements, lineman: Killer Bees, men in bright-colored hardhats leaving construction site: The Proposal) related (light on top of police car at end: The Dead Don't Die, side lights on spaceship helmets: Voices in the Earth)
• Athletic clothes (Dodgers baseball players: A Hand for Sonny Blue, Richard Crenna's warm-up suit: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, tennis gear and warm-up suit, heroine in racing clothes in photos: Angel in a Box, baseball jacket of pilot: A Date with Doomsday, kid's Mets shirt: Deceptions, fencing: Mata Hari, tennis, Miles' running shorts and sweatshirt: Colbys Deceptions)
• Tights worn in ballet rehearsals (Kolya: Colbys Deceptions, Kolya: The Home Wrecker)
• Clothes that envelop other person during embrace (masked man: The Assignation, woman's kaftan: The Cat Creature) related (wife's white robe with white trim in seduction scene: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell)
• Traditional European hairstyles (Gloria Swanson: Killer Bees, Russian ballet dancer who is hero's sister: Colbys Deceptions)
• Veiled women (Cameron on beach: Night Tide, heroine: The Dead Don't Die, Joan Collins as bride: That Holiday Spirit, heroine: Mata Hari)
• Masks (death-figure: The Assignation, ritual: Games, on wall of shop: The Cat Creature, impersonation: A Date with Doomsday, phony eye-patch: Make-Up, fencing masks, costume party: Mata Hari, birthday party: Usher)

Rankings

Short Films

• The Fall of the House of Usher (1942) *1/2
• Crescendo (1942)
• Renascence (1944)
• Fragment of Seeking (1946) **
• Picnic (1948) **1/2
• On the Edge (1949) **1/2
• Dangerous Houses (1952)
• The Assignation (1953) ***
• The Wormwood Star (1955) **1/2
• The Four Elements (1966) ***
• Usher (2002) ***

• Night Tide (1961) ***1/2
• Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965) *
• Queen of Blood (1966) ***
• Games (1967) **1/2
• How Awful About Allan (1970) **
• What's the Matter With Helen? (1971) ***
• Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972) ***1/2
• The Killing Kind (1973) no stars
• The Cat Creature (1973) ***
• Killer Bees (1974) **
• The Dead Don't Die (1975) **1/2
• Ruby (1977) *
• Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978) *1/2
• Mata Hari (1985) **1/2

• Baretta: Set Up City (1975) **
• Tales of the Unexpected: A Hand for Sonny Blue (1977)
• Logan's Run: Stargate (1978) *
• Lucan: The Pariah (1978)
• Sword of Justice: The Destructors (1978) *1/2
• Charlie's Angels: Angel On My Mind (1978) **1/2
• Charlie's Angels: Angel in a Box (1979) **
• Vega$: Kill Dan Tanna (1979) **1/2
• Wonder Woman: A Date with Doomsday (1979) ***
• Darkroom: A Quiet Funeral (1981) **
• Darkroom: Make-Up (1981) ***
• Hotel: Deceptions (1983) **1/2
• Hotel: Encores (1984) **
• Dynasty: Tracy (1983) 1/2
• Dynasty: The Proposal (1983) ** (Construction site, racetrack: **1/2)
• Dynasty: The Ring (1984) *1/2 (Rio patio and hotel, park: **1/2)
• Dynasty: That Holiday Spirit (1984) 1/2 (Wedding, Christmas party: **)
• Dynasty: The Treasure (1985)
• The Colbys: Conspiracy of Silence (1985) *1/2
• The Colbys: Fallon's Choice (1986)
• The Colbys: My Father's House (1986)
• The Colbys: Deceptions (1986) * (ballet dancer sequences & finale: **1/2)
• The Colbys: The Home Wrecker (1987) **1/2
• The Twilight Zone: Voices in the Earth (1987) ***