Bronxgirl48

I don't seem to have the necessary installations to access that site. I'm not too knowledgeable about computer matters in this regard. Enjoyed AFRICA SCREAMS. Pretty lively, and Besser steals it, lol! Never saw Bud so greedy, or so distainful of his "buddy". But he gets his comeuppance, doesn't he? And also watched BLACK DRAGONS. It's worth it to sit through until the unexpectedly grotesque finale! Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48

LOL Thank you! Oh, I tried that second link you provided, which did look better, but I can't access the movies -- all I keep getting is a white screen, darn! I must be doing something wrong.

Thank you so very much!! I love the first link actually; I don't knw what to watch first! Maybe I'll start with AFRICA SCREAMS. Bless you! My mistake, it wasn't on YouTube of course. Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48

I've loved Ian Keith ever since seeing his outstanding performance as Pete in NIGHTMARE ALLEY. He sounded like himself to me here but what a waste of a fine actor. (I also saw him in FOG ISLAND the other day) Were you the one who provided that great link to public domain movies on YouTube, where I saw it? I can't remember, forgive me. (or what thread it was on) Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48

Tobey hasn't even seen her out of her radiation suit and already he's interested. Her male colleague wouldn't scream at a giant octopus of course. Faith has a lot of charisma actually; she reads the "scientific" lines very convincingly and is a pretty decent actress. But this movie has no thrills.

Average, straightforward, somewhat boring 50's sci-fi, with Ray Harryhausen hampered by the low budget; nevertheless he manages to make the tentacles menacing in a graceful kind of way. There's the usual annoying sexism, with marine biologist Faith Domergue a "new breed of woman" who nevertheless isn't above using feminine wiles to make a traumatized seaman open up about seeing the creature. We know Kenneth Tobey is a real macho man because he has an all-American breakfast: juice, eggs, bacon, coffee; then orders a T-bone for lunch. He also has his work-related jokes: "What's wrong with a little radiation?" I was more interested in the unusual earrings Faith wore during her Hawaiian repast than the story. Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48

That you deigned to sit through MONSTER A GO-GO for my edification surely bespeaks what a beautiful kindred spirit you are, lol! I think a good dose of sherry cordial is what's needed to get through it. So the only reason this movie was made was to showcase pretty girls gyrating their bottoms, apparently. Yes, i think I WOULD rather see your friend's lasik surgery. P.S. I saw FOG ISLAND last night on a public domain movie site. I seem to recall you discussed it in some thread, possibly Mystery, but I can't locate it. Not bad for PRC -- sort of like AND THEN THERE WERE NONE combined with a bit of THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL I rather liked the little party favors that Zucco handed out and the clues they had to decipher. The story had good bones thanks to the fact it was a play. The script and characters were certainly a notch above the usual poverty-row productions, although the plodding direction and busy score brought me back to the cheapness of it all. I liked the fact that the supposedly phony psychic Jacqueline DeWitt was actually seeing a correct vision for one of the guests. Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48

That MONSTER A GO-GO trailer certainly owes a lot to advertising of the time, doesn't it? The narrator references Clairol ("Is he or isn't he?") and the Rock Em Sock Em Robot.

Didn't see this. Loved your post.

You love ANNE OF GREEN GABLES too?? Yes, sherry cordial, lol. We must be kindred spirits.

Byron Barr or Gig Young, he's an unmemorable actor to me. (except for that TZ episode) I'll look forward to your take on MONSTER A GO -GO. There's probably a whole lotta shakin' going on with that one.

I'm sure other people have made this point, but, when Ethan lifts Debbie five years later, he's re-creating in his own mind that she's still the little girl he lifted at the house, so he can't do her any harm?

Yes, John Dall has that "look".

LOL, yes, it does.

I'm with you of course on this. Given the fact that (for better or worse in some people's minds) Halloween is getting to be bigger and bigger every year in the commercial sense, TCM would draw in a huge audience that month.

You're so lucky, seeing all these early, lesser-known Fords.... I always knew Sanders was a fine actor, but never thought of him in any hubba-hubba way, lol. (apparently Zsa Zsa and Magda did however; at least for a while) However, if ever I get to see this movie, I'll definitely check him out. After, of course, giving my Richard the once-over. Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48

I'm with you.

I would have preferred to see Richard Greene stripped to the waist.

Three Belvedere films? Okay TCM, bring on more Webb, and I don't mean Jack!

I too remember Joyce using the flour as make-up powder. She also bit into a cherry and reddened her lips, then pinched her cheeks to bring out their blush. (a fat lot of good all this primping is going to do on that raft in the tumultous ocean going back to Atlantis)

Just in time for Easter!

I had a feeling there was more than one Mr Belvedere film. I think Clifton and Robin Hughes would have gotten along very well together. Not that there's anything wrong with that!

Is that film THE REMARKABLE MR. PENNYPACKER? Never saw it. Lot of Clifton films I haven't seen yet. Maybe Webb should be SOTM.

Thanks for bringing up those questions that I myself also ask. I wondered about those theatre fan clubs in so short a time but also, I didn't know stage stars, and neophyte ones at that, merited the kind of attention I thought was more typical for movie stars. And how did Eve know that Erasmus High was in Brooklyn? That's something only a New Yorker might know. Then again, perhaps she was a rabid devourer of the fan magazines, and found out that was Missy's (or was it Susan Hayward they were referring to, I forget....) school. I was trying to figure out how Karen drained that gas tank myself. Such a devious act for a goody-goody, I could almost like her again. (ALMOST, lol) And I'm sure she wore the mink to bed as well. (maybe with nothing on underneath; after all, Lloyd needed SOME distractions!) Thank your aunt; I think she's right. If Bette had said to me, "Oh, s---, good manners", I probably never would have spoken to her again either!

LMFAO!!!