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2 hours ago, Hibi said:
Was it just me, or were others getting LESBIAN vibes from the mad teach?
Yes, definitely! I was going to ask whether the whole experiment thing was a surrogate/metaphor for lesbianism!
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I've posted this in the LGBT thread, but I'm thrilled that The Inheritance, which I saw in London a few years ago, won four Tony Awards this evening: Best Play, Director, Actor, and Featured Actress. The Broadway production closed due to Covid before I could see it, but I did see the two-part, seven-hour play in London several years ago, with Vanessa Redgrave in the featured part played by Lois Smith. However, I had the pleasure to work with Lois Smith a couple of times and found her to be a lovely, talented, and very special woman, who made her Broadway debut in 1952. She is now the oldest person ever to win an acting Tony Award.
Her film career includes the role of Annie in East of Eden, in 1955.
Lois Smith in The Inheritance
James Dean, Lois Smith in East of Eden
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A bit delayed, but The Inheritance has won four Tony Awards tonight (September 26, 2021): Best Play, Best Director, Best Actor (Andrew Burnap), and Best Featured Actress (Lois Smith). The venerable Ms, Smith is a veteran actor of stage and screen. Her long career included a performance as Anne in East of Eden in 1955.
Lois Smith in The Inheritance
Lois Smith, James Dean in East of Eden
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"Jubilee" -- Every Day's a Holiday (1937)
Song comes in at the 48 second mark:
Next: Another song from a post-code Mae West film
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Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)
Next: Island prison
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2 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
I thought this was an OK film. Sandra Harrison as the lead gives a decent performance. And those transformation scenes with the closeups and shadows give them a creepy feel. As Sven explained it was very similar to I Was A Teenage Werewolf, the plot is basically the same, an evil adult experiments on a troubled youth and turns them into a monster. Both films take time out to have a character sing a rock n roll song.
Last night's film was only 68 minutes so it gave Sven more time for his trivia, songs and skits. Although I did not recognize hardly anyone in the cast. The only one I knew was Malcom Atterbury, who plays the police lieutenant. One of his more memorable parts was his uncredited bit in North By Northwest, as the man out on the prairie who tells Cary Grant "That plane's dusting crops where there ain't no crops". He was also in the short lived 1970s TV series Apple's Way, playing the grandfather. This was another series created by Earl Hamner (The Waltons). Atterbury guest starred on many TV shows like The Odd Couple, as a funny elderly glue executive who listens to Felix and Oscar's presentation for a new type of glue. He was also in The Rookies, another 70s show, as a wino who witnesses a murder.
I agree, it's an OK film. I think the performances were decent. I wasn't familiar with any of the cast either, apart from Atterbury and Richard Devon, who played Satan in The Undead.
Blood of Dracula is unusual in that the mad scientist is a woman. Although there are women who are mad scientist helpers in many films, there aren't too many who are actually the main mad scientist. Two are Gale Sondergaard in The Spider Woman Strikes Back (who is a sort of mad scientist) and Laura Bowman in Son of Ingagi. The latter film also has the distinction of being perhaps the first all-black horror film.
Louise Lewis (left) in Blood of Dracula
Gale Sondergaard in The Spider Woman Strikes Back
Laura Bowman in Son of Ingagi
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Csardas by Monti performed in The Black Pit of Dr. M, (1959) on violin by Dr. M. and then later when he comes back in Elmer's body. Music is used over the beginning of this montage.
Next: Spiritual in a 1930s movie
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Btw, slightly off topic interlude: Jacques Bergerac was married to Ginger Rogers and Dorothy Malone.
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Phil Silvers (2 Emmys, also two Tonys)
Next: Chubby Emmy winner
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Dressed to Kill (1946) [Song lyric in film: "Oh you better hold your topper in your hand, just in case you meet a lady on the Strand."]
Next: Dressed to Kill (1980)
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1 hour ago, Twokeets said:
Possible Spolier--
This movie may not have received a wide viewing, but I taped it and enjoyed it. Very oddball! A Mad Men Era horror film with cool decor, cars and music. What I didn't understand, however, was the motivation of the 2 evil-doers. Does anyone understand why these crimes against the young women were being committed? It was made clear that the assistant of the great Desmond was angry and jealous, but I missed how she became this way, and what she might hope to gain. The ending looked effectively shocking, but made no sense. I really liked watching this unusual horror film, though, and am glad TCM showed it.
I've always felt that The Hypnotic Eye should be shown back-to-back with She Demons. In the former, the evil Justine throws down her mask, saying, "If you like my face so much you can have it!" In She Demons, the good Mona, says, "Would you go, if you looked like THIS?!!"
Justine after she throws her mask down
Mona when she pulls off her bandages
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Geraldine Page as Big Sister in The Day of the Locust (1975). The role is based on Aimee Semple McPherson.
"Brothers and sisters of the silent congregation, out there by your radios, let us hear from you. Dial for Jesus. Let those phones start ringing right now. Praise God. Hallelujah! Let those joyous bells ring out like the harps of heaven. Glory! Hallelujah! I do not want to hear the tinkle of silver. The rustle of paper is music to the Lord.
It takes cash to fill the bread wagon of the Lord. It takes money to send missionaries to save souls for Jesus. Glory! Glory be!"
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Back to tonight's film.
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13 hours ago, Herman Bricks said:
Regis Toomey (like him but find his delivery to be bland and monotonous)
next: nice French accent
Marlene Dietrich (when she sings "Quand l'Amour Meurt" in Morocco)
Next: Schlepped across the desert
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Two more with Lenya:
The Threepenny Opera (1931)
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
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10 hours ago, Shank Asu said:
Dressed to Kill (1946) Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in their most famous roles as Holmes and Watson. Short and fun film.
Dressed to Kill has one of my favorite well-played bit parts: Edmund Breon as Julian "Stinky" Emery, the man with the music boxes.
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16 minutes ago, Eucalpytus P. Millstone said:
. . . such as watching Nothing But the Night (the sole production by Christopher Lee's production company Charlemagne), in which the geezers are at it again -- preying upon tender, young chillun for their own selfish, nefarious benefit!
I don't know Nothing But the Night at all, but what a cast! In addition to the leads, it has Diana Dors, Georgia Brown, Kathleen Byron, Michael Gambon, and Duncan Lamont! In Quatermass and the Pit, Lamont has one of the great OTT scenes in any horror film:
Duncan Lamont as Sladden in Quatermass and the Pit
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Another film from that great year 1957 film which features a school/detention home for young ladies is The Man Who Turned to Stone. The old folks who run the school (Victor Jory, Ann Doran) extract the youth juices from the young ladies so that they (Jory, Doran, et. al.) can live for hundreds of years.
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16 minutes ago, Eucalpytus P. Millstone said:
Blood of Dracula is an AIP flick, hence the Nicholson-Arkoff connection.
Furthermore, Blood of Dracula is a Herman Cohen production, screenplay by Aben Kandel. It continues a common leitmotif in Cohen-Kandel horror movies: unwary "innocent" youth preyed upon, corrupted, and destroyed by sinister elders. Also see:
Nice to see the Horrors of the Black Museum trailer. It features Graham Curnow as Michael Gough's young assistant. Graham was a friend of mine, a dear, sweet man who was the partner of Victor Spinetti. Gough turns Curnow into a monster in the film.
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3 hours ago, brianNH said:
Oh, Swithin, let the scales drop from your eyes! Everybody got Merch these days! Why even TCM, I hear, curates all kinds of gimcracks and gee-gaws.
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Wise Blood (1979) is a favorite film of this type. I'm of the opinion that John Huston did his best work late in his career, reaching his apotheosis with his last film, The Dead. Huston has a supporting role in Wise Blood, as the fire-and-brimstone preacher grandfather of the main character, Hazel Motes, played by Brad Dourif, who wants to start "A Church of Truth Without Jesus Christ Crucified." There's also a sidewalk preacher, played by Harry Dean Stanton.
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2 hours ago, brianNH said:
OK, the original movie poster has me hooked. I think I can even talk the wife into watching it, too -- she's become a Svengoolie fan lately! (I've been thinking of getting her Christmas present from the SvenStore this year; but, sadly, "No personal checks!")
He has a store?
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On Svengoolie tomorrow, September 25, 2021:
I don't think I've seen this one. The writer (who was born in Transylvania!) also gave us, under pseudonyms, I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Horrors of the Black Museum, How to Make a Monster, and The Headless Ghost. Some say Blood of Dracula should have been called I Was a Teenage Vampire.
Blood of Dracula was made in 1957, one of the great years for horror films. Richard Devon, who played Satan in The Undead (also 1957), plays a detective in the film.
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Guest Programmer John Mellencamp film picks
in General Discussions
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As an old arts programmer, I'm familiar with the tactic, which I've used often, to re-package programs that I've already presented, as part of a new thing. That makes it look fresh. In this case, it means that we have the fresh opinions of Mellencamp but without any expensive new rental issues (I am assuming).