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Happy Halloween Everybody.

Watching The Leopard Man again reminded me of the documentary TCM plays from time to time- the one narrated by Martin Scorsese. Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows I could listen all day to Scorsese talking about film.

From the witches at 1164 Morning Glory Circle (plus frequent guest)...

To make it a bigger win, put out an empty bowl with a 'take one' sign. Everybody will assume some greedy kid took them all.

In honour of the Hallowe'en season, my husband and I decided to have a William Castle fest. We own a set of Castle films on dvd, and we decided it was time to re-watch some of them. I won't "review" them all on this post, I'll just talk about one of his campiest ( and that's really saying something, since this guy was the King of "scary" camp): The House on Haunted Hill . This has to be one of the silliest, ( but in a good way ), campiest "horror" films of all time. I mean, you know you're in for both of those things (silly and campy) when you see that it stars Vincent Price. Who doesn't love Vincent Price? He and Castle were a good match, since they both revelled shamelessly in good clean schlock. Sometimes Mr. Price was in a "serious" movie, please don't think I'm "dissing" either of these guys. I absolutely love both Vincent Price's and William Castle's work. Anyway, don't try to figure out the plot of The House on Haunted Hill , since I'm not sure it would hold together if you tried to make sense of it. Suffice to say, it involves a group of seven people, four men and three women ( including Price's character and his wife), who commit to spend the night in Price's haunted house. If they survive the night, they each receive the handsome stipend of $10,000. dollars. There's a lot of crazy and obviously rigged scary effects, like the blind housekeeper who apparently rolls around on wheels, a hanged woman dangling from the rafters, a severed head turning up in one of the guests' suitcases,....stuff like that. I'm afraid I can't say it's very frightening, but I don't believe it's intended to be. I think it's all meant to be funny, and it is...at least, I've seen it about 3 times now, and it always makes me laugh. The only name actor in the film besides Price is Elisha Cook Jr., who seems to be in a different movie altogether from the rest of them. He, or his character, appear to think The House on Haunted Hill is a real ghost story, and he keeps shaking his head and murmuring about how "They're all going to get us, the ghosts want us, " etc. Everybody else seems to be in on the joke that they're acting in a kind of pastiche of a horror movie. Elisha Cook of course knows this too, but for some reason they wrote his character as someone who actually believes the mansion is haunted; he doesn't seem to realize all the hokey scary effects are the work of some of the humans staying in the castle. If you watch The House on Haunted Hill in the spirit ( hey, a pun ! ) in which it was made, you'll enjoy it very much. Just don't think about the vat of acid in the basement too much. ( I mean, why is there a vat of acid sitting around in the castle's basement? They 'splain its presence there, but not very well. ) Oh, and watch for the "Emerge-O" effect of the skeleton rising from said vat of acid. Apparently if you saw the film in a theatre, the skeleton has a 3-D effect. Scary stuff !

I think The Invisible Ray is a fine film. Perhaps in terms of the Karloff/Lugosi pairings The Black Cat is better, but The Invisible Ray is an excellent, important movie, perhaps one of the first about the ethics of atomic energy. As the brilliant Violent Kemble Cooper (Mother Rukh) says to her Boris Karloff (Janos Rukh) at the end: "My son, you have broken the first rule of science."

Due to the ridiculous drifting camera, I don't watch that stuff anymore. Actually, it's turned out to be a blessing in disguise. I haven't heard Ben Mankiewicz's babbling in quite some time. 😁

I absolutely agree. He's got so much versatility. But I would pick him because he has a featured role in three of my favorite films: Breakfast at Tiffany's Murder on the Orient Express & Psycho. Plus he was a staple in classic dramatic TV shows. In 1966 he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in for: A Thousand Clowns.

House on Haunted Hill is probably Castle's most entertaining film. Scared the crap out of me as a kid, now makes me laugh hysterically, especially at Price's acting - his hammiest best!

Don't you think Spider Baby should have won the Best Song Oscar? "Talk to the Animals" won that year Certainly the Spider Baby theme song is superior!

Private Worlds 1935 . Paramount Pictures. Directed by Gregory La Cava. Claudette Colbert Charles Boyer Joan Bennett Joel McCrea Helen Vinson. Good cast on a touchy subject at the time in the world of mental institutions,apparently the first film where the word schizophrenia is mentionned,Colbert is a psy who must deal with a new head of the institution,Boyer, who is more conservative in his approach of the illnesses . a bit old .Great cast. 84 minutes 6.50 /10

Can't do the picture thing, but the silliest hair I've seen in a movie was how they "disfigured" GARY OLMAN'S head in BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA ('92) Sepiatone

Winged Victory (1944) Wings of Courage (1945) Wings of Desire (1987) The Wings of the Dove (1997) Secret of the Wings (2012) Red Wing (2013) On Wings of Eagles (2016)

I tend not to watch the intros/outros, but I watched part of Alicia Malone's comments related to Night of the Demon and Horror Hotel last night. I've never watched her comments before, and I'm afraid I wasn't impressed. She spouted the usual cliches about showing the monster in the former movie. Even if you've never heard those remarks, there are so many more interesting comments that can be made about that great film, and about Horror Hotel as well. Both movies lend themselves to discussions of folklore, mood, and technique. Very disappointing, but happy to see the films shown.

I'm really enjoying the Podcast. Like speedy, I know a lot about Lucy so not much is new to me. But I also love the personal accounts that hold tidbits of information from others' points of view. Listening to the story fleshes out some charactors better than reading, such as Lucy's gangster boyfriend. Lucy is such a strong charactor, I can picture her doing all those wild & crazy things easily, from years of seeing her myriad of wild expressions on TV. Lucy had a lot of hard heartbreak in her life but she so embraced what life offers and ate it up with more vivaciousness than anybody. Her determination and motivation is inspiring. I think TCM productions are really top notch, even their "This Month" 3 minute collages are so wonderfully done. We really should stop complaining, TCM rules. (although I vehemently hate the trite music stock bites in the podcasts 🤷‍♂️)

Can you see the line "please retire their films for awhile" was interpreted as "don't show those movies" with Lucy and/or Kate Hepburn? Seems that's exactly what you're saying in the original post. But you've been offended by: All that is being said here is if you don't like what TCM broadcasts, there's other alternatives. You have a choice of watch to watch, but little choice to what stations can & do broadcast. I don't care for violent movies, so I just don't watch them. To complain to the broadcast station (or anyone for that matter) is fruitless.

When I saw that a couple of Val Lewton films were scheduled for Sunday morning, I assumed the Noir Sunday was put on hold. What a grand surprise when Eddie popped up as usual. Nice stuff. I loved it.

We've Made a Rare Animation Artbook Free to All Bringing back 'Cartoon Modern,' plus retro ads. "Released in 2006, Cartoon Modern is the guide to the so-called “UPA style.” It’s full of art and production insights you can’t find anywhere else. The whole mid-century cartoon movement is here, from UPA to Mary Blair to Sleeping Beauty and beyond. On the back, you see a blurb from Craig McCracken of Powerpuff Girls fame: Besides the fact that it’s filled with tons of incredible, inspiring, and intimidating artwork, Cartoon Modern is impressive to me because it goes beyond the studios and really focuses on the fact that these cartoons are all made by unique and individual artists. I’ve been waiting a long, long time for a book like this! The author of Cartoon Modern, Amid Amidi, owns the book’s copyright and digital rights — and has written that he wants to see it reborn. “Would be delighted if someone scanned in and made available a high-quality PDF of Cartoon Modern,” he tweeted in 2019. “Book has been out of print for a long time and should be readily available to all.”............. An ethos entered the water supply, changing the nature of animation. Cartoon Modern quotes the historian Michael Barrier: [UPA was,] in the early fifties, exactly what the Disney studio had been in the thirties: the reference point, the studio with which every other studio automatically compared its cartoons, whether or not a given studio was trying to emulate the UPA films. This brought industry-wide changes not only to design and motion, but to subject matter. Human characters and modern-day issues came to the fore. Cartoon stories got more focused, relying less on loose chains of gags and more on concepts or messages............ https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/our-treat-to-you

Wings In The Dark (1935) Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

Bring on Turkey Day!

A Christmas Carol (1938)

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In Old Chicago

LOVE the Pics. (Especially that Last One). Kim Novak ,? Looks Like Her Eyebrows from where i sit.

GOODBYE CHARLIE — reincarnation! NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD — zombies! GHOSTBUSTERS — ghosts GHOST AND MRS MUIR My fav Mickey Mouse cartoon LONESOME GHOSTS

Street Scene - Twenieth Century Fox Symphony Orchestra - How To Marry A Millionaire song sung while walking

I did go to Larry Edmunds. I think I already own The Films of Errol Flynn. I did get a different Errol book though. It’s a biography of him and his son. I also got Eddie Muller’s book about Gun Crazy.

😂 Mr. Mature has never stood out to me much as an actor, though I do like most of the films I've seen him in. I understand he was something of a male "sex symbol" in his day, so your Mom probably wasn't alone. Both my grandfather's and my first movie that either could remember was King Kong; he on the big screen when he was a boy, and my on my parents VHS. We were both completely swept up in the magic of it, in 1933 and nearly sixty years later in the early '90s, and that spell still hasn't been broken for me! Such is the power of cinema.

times ET....... 12:49 am Metropolis (1926) 1h 23m | Silent | TV-PG In this silent film, a city of the future is threatened with destruction when a ... Director Fritz Lang Cast Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel 3:45 am Vampyr (1932) 1h 23m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG Classic tale of a young traveler finding himself in a sinister castle. Director Carl Th. Dreyer Cast Nicolas Degunzburg, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel 5:15 am Haxan (1922)

I am just leaving little goodie bags of candy on my front porch with a sign that says "take one!" I did the same last year, too. That way kids still get some fun, and I don't have to interact with anyone. Win-win! 😁

I have seen both of today's presentations before, but watched again and throughly enjoyed them. Think Cat People is the better of the two, but they are also different. Particularly enjoyed hear Eddie do two intros and two outros. Maybe more double features could be done.

When it first came out on official DVD, the big news was that Sony restored Castle's "Illusion-O", where the ghosts appeared in separate blue-projection, and you could choose to watch them depending on which red/blue end of the 3-D glasses "Ghost viewer" you watched them through (they'd "disappear" under the blue filter). Up to that point, on TV and VHS airings, they only showed the main B&W print of the movie, where characters would look at things being flung across big empty spaces in a room...Do the newer disks still have the "true" copy of the movie?

The Ghost Goes West 1935 The Ghost Breakers 1940 Poltergeist 1982

Happy Halloween, David!

Warning - those with heart conditions should not watch this trailer. And for those others who dare to view it, happy nightmares!

I'm already planning for next month! Any actress requests appreciated 😆 Gonna have to hunt down some Christmas photos to choose from lol And yes, thanks, I suppose you're right 😂

Too bad, was hoping it was--It's seemed to have dropped off the ether and become MIA. It's not a "gimmick" or "campy" Castle film, but one of his creepier later 60's Hitchcock-wannabe suspense mysteries, like I Know What You Did, and has Barbara Stanwyck as bonus. Although, if you don't mind Russian subtitles, it's possible to unearth lost rarities on YouTube:

The Wing and the Thigh (1976) When Pigs Have Wings (2011)

Ivanhoe 1982. Columbia Pictures for television. Directed by Douglas Camfield. James Mason (top billed) Anthony Andrews (Ivanhoe) Sam Neill Olivia Hussey. Made for tv this could have been released in theatres,well done ,closer to the real story by Walter Scott. Excellent acting by everybody,Neill is such a great villain ! Hussey at 31 is extremely beautiful, a natural beauty.The anti semitism in 1194's England is clearly depicted in this film. In Sweden apparently it is showed every year between Christmas and NewYear's. Nice UK scenery. 142 minutes 8/10

The TCM At-A-Glance schedule for December 2021 is now available at: http://www.escapepress.com/tcmsched/tcm_overview.html - On this page, click on the At-A-Glance link for December to view the latest pdf file. - You can then use the Save command in your browser to make a local copy. - Information for November is also available (updated with latest schedule changes). The December schedule is very preliminary. The document will be updated as details are provided.

Cults (in most cases involving ritual sacrifice)?

Angel on My Shoulder (1946) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Field of Dreams (1989)

The 2001 remake isn't horrible. My interest was seeing Tony Shalhoub in something other than Monk. I don't regret watching it, but come to think of it, I've never had the slightest compulsion to watch it again. The 1985-1986 series was actually pretty decent. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088628/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

Danton, Ray

Treat Wiliams in Hair (1979)