Not to flog a deceased equine, but a final postscript to yesterday's discussion of the great art director/production designer/director William Cameron Menzies: Thought you might enjoy the ultra-rare trailer for his 1953 horror classic The Maze.

Unlike the film, it's in 2-D and black-and-white, alas, rather than 3-D and astoundingly unreal Cinecolor, but it does give you an idea of how beautifully Menzies used his limited budget to impart a feeling of breadth and scale. And I particularly like the bit (46 seconds in) where Richard Carlson (then toiling as the star of TV's great anti-Commie-hysteria melodrama I Led Three Lives) shoves his hand in the audience's face; it's the kind of gesture that Joe Flaherty's Count Floyd would later immortalize on SCTV's Monster Horror Chiller Theatre.

Oh, and don't miss the sequence on the staircase at 1:26 seconds. As I mentioned yesterday [Spoiler Alert], The Maze has the most outrageous surprise ending in movie history -- when it turns out that Carlson's never seen cousin, the Laird of the Manor, is actually a giant mutant frog who the denizens of the castle have been tasked to care for in secret for the remainder of his life. Those guys with the blanket and the candlesticks are in the process of shlepping his Lordship out for his daily swim in the ancestral lily pond.

Once again -- I am not making this up. If you don't believe me, you can (and should) order a 2D version on DVD here.