Riccardo Freda

<p> In an eclectic career spanning four decades, Italian director Riccardo Freda (1909-1999) produced films of remarkable technical skill and powerful visual style, including the swashbuckler <I>Black Eagle</I> (1946), an adaptation of <I>Les Miserables</I> (1947), the peplum <I>Theodora, Slave Empress</I> (1954) and a number of cult-favorite Gothic and horror films such as <I>I Vampiri</I> (1957), <I>The Horrible Dr. Hichcock</I>