cmvgor

Yo, pastman; I'm enjoying your free-verse clues. Great misdrection; I wasted some time trying to look them up, thinking they were quotes from some source. Real Rod McKuen stuff. But, to level the field, could you occasionally work in a reference to decade, national origin, performer, etc? Otherwise, its unique to this Forum, and quite a treat. Incidentally, Paperhouse. 1988?

Tommy Chong ?

For the past 70 hours or so, I am not getting Email notices from TCM. I have "Watch This Thread" request tagged on to some 6-8 threads, but now, new messages are coming in, on the message boards without the usual notice on my Email site. ...Is this just me? ...I recently had to call in the Geeks and deal with a virus. Would antispyware mistake TCM Emails for something they shuldn't let in? ...Can TCM try sending me and Email to see if a problem is encountered? ...Is this something that a "troll" could accomplish?

Ding! We've got a winnerrrr! Do you have another one ready yet?

Not Omega, not Andromeda. 3. The lab where the germ was produced is sealed off, and no more of it can escape. The authorities say they have no choice but to leave it that way. The hero-agent retorts that they have no choice but to go in there to make sure that the rest of it is contained. (In case anyone's wondering, it is not the TV miniseries Stephen King's The Stand, either.)

Negative re Zebra or Colossus. It is in color. 2. A wind-borne germ gets out of a lab. Police, agents, scientists watch horrified as they see news reports of people get out of cars, stagger around, drop down dead.

Well, if you've seen it, and the island didn't tip you off, the next clue (wedding with a corpse) would have. Let me try another, coming from a different direction. There are other kinds of Horror besides the supernatural. 1. Cold War techno-horror. WMD, decades before that term was coined.

pastman; You got it on three clues. It's yours if you want it.

Negative re Evil Dead. (Had to check. It's had a couple of re-issue titles, but that ain't one of 'em.) Negative re Ghouls also. 3. An island setting. And there's a graveyard. Logging off for a while for my Dexter fix.

Much too easy. 2. Incantation for raising the dead. Done as a mockery. Turns out the damned thing works.

Okay, I'll try one in that vein.* 1. Animated corpses. ..*Tee Hee!

...Rachel, Rachel, Who Slew Auntie Roo In The Heat Of Passion After The Rehersal Under The Boardwalk, When Father Was Away On Business?...

Michael Kidd also did choregraphy for Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, a major stop in the career of Russ Tamblyn.

Yo, pastman; No response in 12 hours = a shortage of clues. Got any more?

unclecharlie is right -- Little Big Horn. The story is about a cavalry unit trying to travel far and fast to warn General Custer that he's up against more Sioux warriers than he realizes. The detail is hampered by internal strife, desertion, terrain conditions, etc. In the end {they are wiped out by the Sioux / the Native Americans eliminate this threat (choose one)}.* At this writing I can not remember if this happens before or after {the slaughter of Custer's 7th Cavalry / the great Native American victory (choose one)}* at the title location. Cast members Lloyd Bridges, Sheb Wooley and Hugh O'Brian all had TV series roles later in the 1950s. In the 80s Jim Davis had a key support role in the series Dallas. Remade as Desert Hell in 1958. Lloyd Bridges also had a role in that version. unclecharlie, it's yours. ...* In the name of Political Correctness, I'll sit firmly on that fence. Message was edited by: cmvgor

22 "You gotta believe me, Sarge! I fell asleep watching Letterman, and never left the house all night!"

Negative re Dark Command, negative re Bugles In The Afternoon. 7. This movie was remade in the late 50s as Foreign Liegon story, set in the Sahara. Also with one of the same stars.

Negative re Alamo. 6. Stress among comrads; an officer has had an affair with his Commanding Officer's wife.

5. Two soldiers attempt to desert, but are captured and killed by the Sioux.

4. TCM has this movie in their list, and also has DVDs. I don't recall ever having seen it since I got cable. The calvary's mission; they're under pressure to find Custer and his troops and warn him of a massave buildup of Sioux warriers.

Negative re those titles. 3. Purely fiction, but set against a backdrop of an actual historic event.

Danny Devito, currently working in an ongoing cable series, also worked in an earlier series, Taxi, with another currently-employed series actor -- Judd Hirsch.

2 At least three of the cast members had continuing roles in series television before the decade was out. Another had a key role in a 1980s series. Cavalry in hostile territory, with an important mission.

Herewego! Hang on. 1950s Oater Noir.

Jezebel, Bette Davis & Henry Fonda ?? OR Gone With The Wind, Scarlett & Ashley ??