HarryLong
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Next we'll find out that you didn't research your dog, either...
Sheesh!
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The film was shot under the "Loves of Count Iorga, Vampire" because the original intent was to include soft-core sex scenes. Robert Quarry took credit in interviews for convincing the producers they had a perfectly exploitable film by making a straight horror film. I didn't know any prints went out with that title, but apparently some did. When American International picked up the film for distribution they shortened it to "Count Iorga, Vampire" and - maybe they figured no one would be able to figure out how to pronounce "Iorga" - changed the spelling to "Yorga." I guess prints exist under all three titles beacuse AIP was notorious for not wasting anything. "Count Yorga, Vampire" is the most common version of the title in books and magazine articles and has been used on every home video release. "Yorga" is also the spelling used in the title of the sequel.
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*All studios are guilty of melting down nitrate negatives and prints for the silver, especially during the War.*
I've also heard that many studios made use of their "worthless" silent films by threading prints & negs into campfires to make them burn more brightly for the camera. So next time you're watching a scene of cowpokes gathered round the fire (or gypsies if you';re into Universal horrors)...
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It also shows up on TCM with some frequency, so making a DVDR is a possibility.
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scsu...
That was my other possibility...
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I'm rather fond of CHARLIE McCARTHY, DETECTIVE, which may be the only film "they" headlined.
There's also a somewhat strange post-Laemmle Universal film called LETTER OF INTRODUCTION in which, if I recall correctly, Charlie ends up going steady with Eve Arden.
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*Harrylong, I know Bergen and Charlie were on radio and I assume they must have been in vaudeville, but you know what they say when you assume. When I think about it I believe the only film I have seen them in is the one with Fibber and Molly.*
It's strange enough contemplating a ventriloquist act being successful on radio (I meam, think about it!), but that they came to success that way really stretches my credulity. Vaudeville of Ziegfeld Follies type shows are the only venues I can think of for specialty acts coming to prominence back then.
And if you've never seen Edgar & Charlie in their film with WC Fields, YOU CAN'T CHEAT AN HONEST MAN, you really must track it down.
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I'm sure we could find some way to tie it into McCarthyism & start some very uncivil debate.
That'd do it.
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Oh, heck, pick darn near any Republic serial for epic brawls.
BTW: The Stewart/Dietrich DESTRY wasn't even the first version. There was a film made in 1932 starring Tom Mix. (And a B'way musical with Andy Griffith & a TV show with John Gavin...)
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*and even if they deny having gay sex I'm sure someone in working on "Big Mine ****"....*
Oh, Al Parker did one along those lines years ago...
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As you mention Bergen & McCarthy... where did they get their start? I know they had a very successful radio show, but weren't they in the movies prior to that? And before...? vaudeville...? Ziegfeld Follies...?
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Well, at least after years of appearing on camera in only a loin cloth, he'd have been used to a minimal wardrobe.
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And I realized after looking at the IMDB credits a second time that it was Lux Studios in Italy who was one of the producers, not TransLux that distributed it in the US.
I'm trying to recall who did distribute in the US. It could have been AIP or Allied Artists or United Artsits (in which case Warner/TCM might have broadcast rights).
On the other hand - particularly as you note broadcast rights were passed around like has brownies at a college party - it might be a case where the rights were only good for a limited time or were in packages that were sold from one outfit to another.
it's actually not a bad little monster-on-the-loose flick. It would be nice to see a good copy (I have an OK bootleg).
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Unless you count things like stars playing themselves in some of those wartime extravaganzas like FOLLOW THE BOYD and STAGEDOOR CANTEEN, the only other example I can think of is a TV movie where an actress who had survived an attack (by a nutzo fan?) played herself. I'm blanking on the name of the actress...
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The INNER SANCTUM series.
Several films with Fibber mcGee and Molly (HEAVENLY DAYS is the only one I can recall ofhand).
Fred Allen was primarily a radio personality (I can't recall if he started in vaudeville, but I think he was most famous for his radio show). His IT'S IN THE BAG (a version of The Twelve Chairs) is very funny.
And there's a Crime Club film set in a radio station (sorry, my memory...)
Red Skelton is a radio detective in the WHISTLING FILMS...
Bob Hope is a radio personality in GHOST BREAKERS...
Gene Autry had to keep breaking off battling with the denizens of Murania to do his broadcast in PHANTOM EMPIRE...
Clifton Webb has a regular broadcast in LAURA as does Monty Wooley in THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER...
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CALTIKI, THE IMMORTAL MONSTER appears to have been released in the US by Trans Lux... heaven only knows who owns the rights these days. I haven't seen it broadcast anywhere in ages, so it might be in legal limbo.
There are bootlegs available, however, if you go looking.
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*It is a bit of a conundrum but was born out of a need to halt poster(s) dragging up long dormant threads to add only innocuous or superficial comments that really added nothing to the current discourse - but kept their name(s) all over the first page of each Forum.*
The logic behind this seems faulty to me. It's every bit as easy (easier, in fact, I should think) to start a new thread consisting of an innocuous or superficial comment & be on the Front Page _and_ have one's name displayed as the author of said thread. I'm also not clear on what the problem is with seeing posts from departed members. As someone noted above, there can be a wealth of info tucked away in older threads. What does it matter who it comes from?
As also noted, locking a thread and directing members to start another just seems to shut down the discourse rather than redirect it, though surely that's not the intention. (No, Kyle, I didn't just call you Shirley.)
I'm just sayin...
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So they're offering the edited TV version...
Pass.
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*I have a gorgeous 16mm print of CLUB HAVANA.*
How do we get this onto a DVDR...?
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I have no idea but it sounds wonderful!!!!
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It doesn't seem to have ever been released legitimately to DVD, but it was out on VHS. Amazon has copies of the tape from third-party vendors.
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DRACULA, PRINCE OF DARKNESS has no sequence with a body in a bell, as does DRACULA HAS RISEN...
Is it possible you saw it on television. At one time prints made for TV showings were often in black & white (even with color films) & that may have been the case with DRAC HAS RISEN...
Carl Reiner's THE COMIC
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The film is generally considered to be based on Keaton who, like the character Billy Bright, also had a problem with alcohol, had extramarital relationships (Norma TAlmadge, supposedly, at one point deiced to cease being a wife to Keaton - whether this precipitated or sprang from the affairs I don';t know) and from the early 1930s on pretty much had to accept whatever job offer came his way.