clore
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The double-feature disc is...I believe...a public domain release. I wouldn't waste my money on it.
Is it? Then it gets no money from me. Thanks for the tip.
I'm still hesitant about the 35th Anniversary release though. If I could be sure that the old ones were all taken off the shelves, that's one thing. But I'm one of those sceptics and unless I can get the assurance that I won't have to be bothered with returning a defective disc, I'll hang on to my money until the 40th Anniversary release.
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This September will see the release of a two-fer with CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS and FOREVER EVIL which you can pre-order at Amazon for ten bucks. That's about half of what the previous single releases of the film are commanding.
There is a 35th anniversary single DVD release, but the word was that it was a sloppy transfer.
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You're welcome sir. I'm surprised that I didn't think of it sooner, it caused a massive roar of laughter in the theater when I saw it way back when. Connery owes half of his Oscar to that corpse.
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> {quote:title=MovieMadness wrote:}{quote}Clint Eastwood set out some dead soldiers in one of his westerns in a graveyard so they would be shot at and "killed" again.
That reminds me of Sean Connery coaxing a bad guy to talk by shooting another bad guy who was actually a corpse in THE UNTOUCHABLES.
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In CRY UNCLE, Allan Garfield disrespects a corpse in a way that I can't mention in this forum.
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Is this next photo a scene that was removed from the original film, showing Duke Mantee's girlfriend in her car?
That's Constance Bergen whose name is in WB records as playing "Doris" but apparently she didn't make the final cut.
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I spot checked a few scenes from there and I have the same complaint that I did when I saw the Hal Roach distributed colorized version a generation ago - James Stewart's eyes are supposed to be blue!
Everyone has the same flesh tones. The process is getting better, the earliest attempts were like looking at a child's coloring book with the crayons going outside the lines. I have the Legend copy of SHE because I wanted the film anyway and I got it quite cheaply. I've watched the B&W version twice, but have only skipped through the colorized edition.
There are some impressive looking scenes, mostly those involving the sets and costumes, but for me, the process is at its worst when there are close-ups of the actors.
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> {quote:title=Wayne wrote:}{quote}
> Lionel Barrymore in *You Can't Take It With You* (1938) was 3 years YOUNGER than son-in-law Samuel S. Hinds and only 8 years old than his daughter Spring Byington.
I loved Lillian Gish's comment about Lionel Barrymore:
Lionel Barrymore first played my grandfather, later my father, and finally, he played my husband. If he'd lived, I'm sure I'd have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.
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I have fallen and can't get up!
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And there are STILL those who think WILLARD was the rat, and that SUPER FLY was the dope dealer!
Or that William Powell was "the thin man?"
I have a friend who really lets that get in his way of enjoying the films, that's going a bit too far.
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They're generally not that cheap, but they're usually very well-crafted.
That's another reason why I don't go looking online for such things. I've seen kits for some Harryhausen creatures going for megabucks and it causes me grief to have to be living on a pension and not being able to indulge in some second childhood activities.
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> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote}LOL. He's admitted as much..........
He's said that about several of his female stars. It takes him down a peg in my view as I'm not one who goes for kiss-and-tell antics, never have been. Plus, he's outlived them, so that's an even more caddish thing to do.
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Actually both were designed by Robert Kinoshita.
I did mention that in my original post.
The one thing that has always bugged me about the Lost and Space B9 robot is its mode of locomotion.
Yes, Robby had his own high speed vehicle in FORBIDDEN PLANET which made sense - although there did seem to be a reasonable terrain there. Can't beat those Krel road designers.
I must admit to bailing out of LOST IN SPACE early - just about the time that it was announced that Jonathan Harris was going to be a regular, which was something like five or six episodes deep into the show. I never watched the show again. Did they ever show the robot falling over?
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You just did that...played "board monitor", in effect, with your "ounce of prevention" post regarding the Robot ad.
Closer to "purchase advisor" than board monitor. I'm not pointing out a fellow poster's "mistake" but do admit to pointing out an ad copy writer's error. As one who used to write on-air copy, it's an occupational hazard I guess.
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Lee J. Cobb, still in his 20s as William Holden's father in GOLDEN BOY was a sign of things to come. Cobb would go on to play Gary Cooper's Uncle, Frank Sinatra's father and Glenn Ford's grandfather.
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Just get a diving helmet and put it on a gorilla.
And don't forget the bubble machine.I saw that film once when I was about 12 and even then it seemed ridiculous.
This has to be the first robot that I ever saw in a film or TV show, McTavish:
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If someone wouldn't bother to check...that's their problem and their own dopiness.
True, but some of us may be interested in advising others before they demonstrate their own "dopiness." Why, if you had the ability to prevent duplicate threads in advance, wouldn't that be better than playing board monitor and pointing it out nearly every time it happens?
An ounce of prevention...
We all have out idiosyncrasies.
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Well, just for the record, I'm surprised you just found out about these...I've seen them online for quite awhile now.
I don't tend to do much checking online for toys - not at my age. We're a family of movie buffs, so I tend to buy DVDs for my twin granddaughters based on my son's suggestions.
What difference does that ad make when....once people search the Shop for it...find there are two different robots that are nothing alike?
What if one did want a real Robby the Robot kit and seeing the ON-AIR ad, got the impression that they were pushing the B9 as Robby and wouldn't bother to check? I noted the on-air error and gave a push for the real Robby, that was the intent.
I'm still confused by all of this. ?:|
Hopefully, not anymore.
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> {quote:title=kriegerg69 wrote:}{quote}
> Where? I found the shop pages for the B9 robot and for Robby...but I can see NOTHING which indicates or suggests that "The TCM ad gives the impression that the two robots were one and the same and only offers a glimpse of the box for the "Lost in Space" robot". You're mistaken, Clore...unless you can give the link to the spoecific page you're referring to.
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> This is the search I did...the results clearly display two DIFFERENT items.
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> http://classic-movies.tcm.com/search?v=tcm&asug=&w=robot+model
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It's an on-air ad that I saw last night after one of the Leslie Howard films. I did say "I'm glad the on-air spot tipped me off to its availability" as well as noted that "the TCM Shop page on the site makes the clear distinction that there are two models available, one of each."
The reason for the link of the Sci-Fi channel promo was to illustrate the differences between the two robots. That was in addition to the picture, just as an added extra. I never implied it had anything to do with TCM and even mentioned that it was a Sci-Fi Channel intro.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}Strange! Melanie.... oh, I mean Olivia de Havilland, getting Ashley.... uhh, I mean Leslie Howard, aside in a secluded room and declaring her love for him in 1937.
What got me was when de Havilland named her last big celebrity heartthrob and Howard asked "Who's Clark Gable?"
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I haven't seen the whole film since 1967. I remember coming home very late from work one night circa 1990 and it was already in-progress on TNT. I can't recall seeing it listed to air again since, but that isn't meant to be the final word on the subject.
Similar was the case for the similarly-titled HOME BEFORE DARK, a WB film of roughly the same vintage that hadn't aired in years but recently had two runs on TCM. Here's hoping that we'll get to see DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS soon.
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Saw an ad for the TCM Shop offering a model kit of "Lost in Space's Robby the Robot."
These are two different robots, although certainly "Robby" from FORBIDDEN PLANET was the inspiration for the design of the B9 robot featured on the Irwin Allen show indeed, they were designed by the same person, Robert Kinoshita. The two robots were even featured in an episode of the show, that's Robby on the left:
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Here's a Sci-Fi Channel movie intro that features both:
The TCM ad gives the impression that the two robots were one and the same and only offers a glimpse of the box for the "Lost in Space" robot. Yet the TCM Shop page on the site makes the clear distinction that there are two models available, one of each.
I just want to make the comment here for anyone interested in buying one or the other or both. I've wanted a Robby since I was a little boy and will revert to my childhood just long enough to build one so despite the error, I'm glad the on-air spot tipped me off to its availability.
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Ginny, you should also watch it to see a great performance from Ray Danton, one of the great cads of the screen who was probably born too late as his "type" was practically extinct at this point. You'll want to wring his neck, but that's only because he was so effective. And in the meantime, he got to go home to Julie Adams - what a life!
Otherwise, I'll undrscore all that Tom has been saying. I haven't seen this film in 40 years and I am so looking forward to it.
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Thank you, that's very gracious of you to say. Believe me, I'd be happy just to proof the text that they write, and not for the sake of my own ego, but just to do my best to see that what goes out over the air is accurate and makes the anchormen shine.
Believe me, Robert Osborne would walk all over me when it comes to things such as Oscar trivia as that kind of thing means little to me. When I was growing up, the films that I liked were more in line with CRIME WAVE than with the Oscar bait from Hollywood. As I grew more mature, my tastes changed, but I was touting a lot of what is now cult stuff when I was in my teens. Even my movie buff friends were bored with my rants about Boetticher, Aldrich, Karlson and the like.
Again, those were very kind words and I thank you from my soul for saying them. It means a lot to me.
PS - and I didn't even get into how Hayden, de Corsia and Timothy Carey all showed up again in Kubrick's THE KILLING.
Movie taboos violated: maltreating corpses
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In THE VAULT OF HORROR, Terry-Thomas was complaining that his wife Glynnis Johns wasn't very neat. He continually harped on her sloppiness, and took to having an affair which she found out about eventually.
SPOILERS BELOW
She got her revenge by killing him and then dismembered him, putting the body parts in neat, labeled jars.