Born April 24, 1917. Died May 31st, 1977. In between, he directed 56 movies and worked with Roman Polanski, Robert Mitchum, Marcel Marceau, and Orson Welles. He's famous for being the king of movie gimmicks, however.

In 1968, his pentultimate film Project X was released. "In the future, a spy in possession of important information for national security has had his mind erased by a drug. Scientists are called in to try and help him recover the information."

He did not release another movie for six years. Perhaps he was recovering shreds of his memories. In his final movie, Shanks, there are scenes of a motorcycle gang raping and killing a young girl. The movie itself is 90% silent. Oddly reminiscent of the Oneiros.

Someone asked: "One of the agents of MONARCH was a Dr. Castle. Any connection?" Wow. Those two movies are yet another great example of cosmic synchronicity... or apophenia. I named Dr. Castle not for William Castle but for Max Castle, the sinister German movie director in Theodore Roszak's conspiracy-horror-and-film-history novel Flicker. Oh! And his name is also a reference to Philip K. Dick's Man In The High Castle, obviously referenced in the 1968 session. [Rob]