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I sent you a PM re this movie. Check your in-box.

Isn't there one by Disney set in Alaska called THE NOME MOBILE? Okay, okay. NEVADA, a 1944 B-Western with Robert Mitchum.

Another one of Fred Astaire's movies that's worth checking out is ROYAL WEDDING from 1952. In it, he dances with a coatrack (!) and makes it look good(!). But this film also contains Fred's wonderful dance up the walls and on the ceiling, a sequence still untopped by anyone, as far as I'm concerned.

Anyway, the first "decade" of issue numbers that I have a substantial amount of issues from is the 30s, which I think includes that issue you mentioned. I can picture that cover now...

I believe so (I'm not at home to check). Did that have the ISLAND OF LOST SOULS filmbook?

I'm happy to say I still have every issue I ever owned!

Possibly this was a rights/scheduling gaffe, as this just played within the past couple of months on one of the Cinemax channels.

I think I read that about those two ladies getting their series in Famous Monsters too, in the filmbook for the movie. Remember those? In those pre-video days, when we were at the mercy of television programmers, they were the only game in town.

TCM does play STAR OF MIDNIGHT occasionally, Bob, so hang in there. I'm sure they will again. You might even request it. However, I don't think it's the movie the OP was talking about because in that one Powell and Rogers are not man and ex-wife.

Well put, Stephan. I know that the colorized version of KING KONG was released on video back around 1993 for the film's 60th anniversary, so you may be able to find a copy of that on e-Bay or Amazon.

I have heard that the two Cockney ladies were going to have a series of their own, but for one reason or another it failed to materialize.

I like this movie, too. The only part of it I could do without is the subplot where Lester Matthews keeps trying to move in on Hull's wife! I don't know that I prefer the makeup to THE WOLF MAN but I do like it. Great scene with Spring Byington becoming ill at the sight of a plant eating a frog!

I agree about "the call of responsibility" and Kirk's having made the right decision at the end. I'm not sure things will end as well for Kim, but I was left with the impression that there might be some hope for her. Anybody else struck by the notion that Kirk's character was in some ways reminiscent of Gary Cooper's Howard Roark in THE FOUNTAINHEAD and might almost be seen as a "whatever happened to?" him ten years or so down the line from that film?

Thank you, ladies. They're all definitely worth a look.

Sounds like THE EX-MRS. BRADFORD from 1936, with William Powell and Jean Arthur. A similar film would be 1935's STAR OF MIDNIGHT, with Powell and Ginger Rogers. A few other films starring husband and wife sleuthing teams would be: A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (1943) with Brian Aherne and Loretta Young; The following films, with husband-and-wife sleuths Bill & Sally Reardon: THERE'S ALWAYS A WOMAN (1938) with Melvyn Douglas & Joan Blondell; THERE'S THAT WOMAN AGAIN (1939) with Melvyn Douglas & Virginia Bruce; The following three films, with different actors playing husband-and-wife-sleuths Joel & Garda Sloane: FAST COMPANY (1938) with Florence Rice & Melvyn Douglas; FAST AND LOOSE (1939) with Rosalind Russell & Robert Montgomery; FAST AND FURIOUS (1939) with Ann Sothern & Franchot Tone. These should be enough to get you started.

Hi Martin: I like the two movies with Peter Cushing the best: DR. WHO AND THE DALEKS (1965) and DALEKS' INVASION EARTH 2150 A.D. (1966). Nightwalker

Bronxie, Here's a little something I posted elsewhere re Ralph Meeker in a discussion of his performance as "The Ice Man" in BIG HOUSE U.S.A.: Some other Meeker performances of note, in which he is more than, or other than, his usual "icy" self: 1) Bernie Jenks in THE NIGHT STALKER, the original 1972 TVM starring Darren McGavin as everybody's favorite reporter, Carl Kolchak. Meeker's character is an FBI agent investigating the series of killings, which we know (and the film's cast will discover) are being perpetrated by an honest-to-goodness real-life vampire. Meeker's regular-joe characterization as one of the few "official-types" who actually seems able to stand Kolchak is solid and, at times, even amusing. Also worth noting is his genuine reluctance at the film's end to assist the others in suppressing Kolchak's story. 2) Jim McAndrew, the police lieutenant in the TVM BIRDS OF PREY (1973) with David Janssen. Friends since their WWII days as part of the Flying Tigers, Meeker's character is now a Lt. (I think) on the Salt Lake City police force while Janssen, whose character misses the good old days and feels somewhat disconnected with things as they are in the present day of 1973, is a radio station helicopter traffic announcer. During the course of his work one day, he spots a bank robbery in progress and, seeing the thieves take a young lady hostage and being aware that they will likely escape if he doesn't intervene, decides to follow them in his 'copter. Before long, he becomes much more involved with this scenario than he imagined he would be. The interchanges between Janssen and Meeker during the pursuit, as well as the final encounter between the forces of law & order and the criminals, are indeed memorable and worth a look. 3) as tormented war vet Trevor Stevenson in A WOMAN'S DEVOTION (aka BATTLE SHOCK) from 1956, Meeker scores as an artist who may be responsible for a series of young women's deaths in Acapulco. Trouble is, since he suffers from the (alternate) title's affliction, even he isn't sure! 4) as stalwart & heroic (!) Capt. David Malcolm in 1955's DESERT SANDS, Meeker bravely leads his men, a present-day unit of the French Foreign Legion, against evil desert hordes. Although not all "leading man type" performances, they do showcase Meeker's ability to do more than snarl and be unpleasant.

Hi Martin: Good post, good thread. I like the Dr. Who movies, too. Nightwalker

There was also a Mexican horror film titled THE LIVING HEAD from 1963, in which archaeologists enter a tomb and annoy the still-living head of an Aztec general. AND: To be reviewed in the future on the "Mexican Horror Films" thread under "HORROR" right here on these boards. Also, leave us not forget THE FROZEN DEAD (1966) starring Dana Andrews as a Nazi mad scientist in present-day England who also has a disembodied head (among other things) in his basement laboratory. Then there's THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN from 1963, starring the head of everybody's favorite Fuehrer.

> {quote:title=alex212 wrote:}{quote} > Stallone's First Blood (1982) was inspired by Lonely are The Brave. As was Robert Redford's THE ELECTRIC HORSEMAN (1979).

It's really not all that bad, but don't expect lots of gunplay or fisticuffs.

Let me know when it's time for JOAN CRAWFORD VS. THE AZTEC MUMMY.

And how about TERROR IN THE WAX MUSEUM, with Ray, John Carradine, Louis Hayward, Patric Knowles, Broderick Crawford & Elsa Lanchester? What a cast!

> {quote:title=CineSage_jr wrote:}{quote} > And, yes, Fred, Bill Dolworth's (Lancaster's) forgoing the $10,000 as a matter of principle certainly is a very liberal thing to do. Well, not really. Now, if it was someone else's money he was giving away...

> {quote:title=dianabat wrote:}{quote} > > I never realized Castle wrote a bio. Maybe it was 'ghosted?' Seems more likely, don't you think? ;-) > > Di As far as I can make out, Di, William Castle did indeed pen Step Right Up! himself. I've read nothing to suggest otherwise in any articles or fanzines, etc. that I consulted that mentioned the book. John Waters, who wrote the introduction to the 1992 reprint, also indicates this in writings of his own, even after Castle's death. And, for what it's worth, the book certainly reads as though the man wrote it himself!