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Yep, Jim. I think this film is by far the best of all those "giant insects/animals born of a post-nuclear age come to attack civilization" flicks which would follow, alright. (...although every time I watch it, I still hate seeing Mr. Whitmore's fate up there unfold near the end of it)

Yep laffite, I'd say basically I'm pretty much an extrovert, alright. Yeah, I'd say this would be a similar sort of thing, I guess. BUT, would all depend on how good one's Brando impression might be. Now, this extrovert's HERE is actually pretty good, if I say so myself! (...and is actually pretty easy to do ONCE you realize HIS voice was even MORE nasally than Ben M.'s is!) LOL

Well Sans, considering your reference here first goes back over two decades BEFORE those giant ants terrorized The City of Angels, nope, I'd consider it having even longer whiskers. (...however, IF instead you might be referencing that funny spoof of this reference that Mel Brooks filmed a couple of decades AFTER the aformentioned giant ants wreaked their havoc upon said city, THEN I might have to admit to these whiskers being but a stubby presence)

Interesting, Moe. Because the Nissan Figaro was made for the Japanese home market only and that every one of them is right hand drive, the ones you've seen must have been personally imported by someone over to your little garden spot there in the great Northwest. (...although I do recall seeing one of these cute little retro-styled babies myself somewhere in L.A. a few years back)

LOL Yeah! Well, kind'a I guess. BUT perhaps REALLY more the thought that making more people "stand in lines" to perform some functions isn't really conducive to the idea of, say, "freedom of choice" and/or if say, they want a hot dog or NOT?! (...although AGAIN, perhaps we should reconcentrate our collective thoughts in this thread back to why people and regardless of where they might live in this great country of ours seem unfamilar with certain cultural touchstones, and before this baby REALLY goes off the rails here!)

Yes, maybe so Moe, but I ALSO understand that there's a movement afloat presently in the great state of Texas that'll make some of the lines people stand in down there even longer! Depending of course for what purpose they're standing in line for. Maybe you've heard this too?! Although of course, if they're lucky these proposed new laws might not affect the lines people stand in to get hot dogs down there. (...HEY! it's MY thread here, RIGHT?!...and IF I wanna "go here", I'll GO here, people!!!) LOL

Actually Lorna, I think that that's supposed to be Bill's chin, not his Adam's apple.

Interesting, sewhite. And here I would've thought the price of Costco's foot-long hot dog and Pepsi deal at their snack bars and regardless where in this country you might be talkin' about, would be the same price of a buck and a half. (...I know it's that at all Costco locations in both Arizona and California, anyway)

Yep, you saw Spence alright Hibi, but he's in this grouping of movie stars. He's second from the left on the top row and standing between William Powell and Ronald Colman... (...and yes MCOH...the caricature of Henry Binder DOES look a lot like Rudy Vallee, alright)

And now here's a pic which'll put faces to names in regard to some that worked at Termite Terrace back in the day...

Took two people down from Sedona here today for the two hour shuttle van drive to catch their flights out of Phoenix's Sky Harbor. After I dropped them off, I called the office and at which time they advised me that my one lone scheduled inbound passenger's flight had been delayed by a couple of hour, and so they said to just come on back empty. Started to do just that, but then decided to stop into the local Costco near the airport and grab a couple of things I've been needing. After I walked into the place and as I was passing through an aisle containing menswear, suddenly the sound of an alarm with a fast-paced high-pitched oscillating sound rang out from somewhere near the back wall of the store and which could be heard by all. After about five seconds of hearing this, I just couldn't resist yelling out in as loud a voice as I could muster, "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! THE GIANT ANTS ARE HERE!" Yep, that alarm sounded JUST like THIS... Now, I heard one guy, that's right, only ONE single solitary guy from a couple of aisles away laugh out loud at this, but THEN noticed that everyone within a twenty foot radius, about half a dozen people and none of which looked any older than about forty, were just staring at me and had a look on their faces as if to say "What the hell is this guy talking about?!" It was then that that alarm ceased sounding, and so I just threw up my hands and loudly said, "Sorry folks. False alarm, I guess", and continued on with my shopping. (...epilogue: After paying for my new shirt and my bundle of microfiber shop rags, I stopped by their little snack bar and got me one of their tasty foot-long hot dogs and a Pepsi...not a bad deal for only a buck and a half, right?!)

If I recall correctly, the young girl who falls in love with the kid was not Alfredo's daughter but was his younger sister.

Gotta admit your fellow baby boomer here can kind'a see what ya mean, Bronxie! (...never would have put these two together before at all)

Yep, really, and for the reason I gave you above. I also think if it WERE supposed to be Aherne, the caricature would have been drawn more like that of how Ronald Colman and Errol Flynn's were drawn in this cartoon, and by exaggerating those long straight noses of theirs. (...and like how Aherne's nose was)

I don't think it was supposed to be Aherne here Sepia, and because the caricature implies the man is of more heft than the much thinner and more angular faced Aherne was.

LOL Good analogy here, Ed! (...yeah, it does, doesn't it)

According to Wikipedia (although of course this being the very same source which states that that's Don Ameche in the aformentioned cartoon, and when instead it is SO damn obvious that it's REALLY George Brent ) Romero was given his nickname of "Butch" by another person, Lorna. That being his friend and fellow Hollywood actor/dancer George Murphy and who Romero helped get elected as a Senator from California in 1964. (...and btw, from the look on Joan's face in almost all those pics of her with Cesar, it appears as if she might've thought he could've been the love of her life if only he weren't gay, doesn't it...well, maybe after another guy that's also caricatured in this cartoon anyway...you know, the one with those big ears)

Thanks for the link to that Tex Avery website/blog, Dan. TERRIFIC find, and one in which, yes, ALSO questions the (Wikipedia) identification of not only the man-in-question of my thread here but also that of the "Paulette Goodard" and the "Rita Hayworth" caricatures. The more I look at the gal who's dancing with Cesar Romero, the more I think you might be right about it possibly being Ginger Rogers, although I still can't figure out why the cartoon artist would paint her with red hair. (...you da man, dude...thanks again!)

LOL Yeah, or maybe...Don Ameche! (...now wouldn't THAT be a coincidence here, EH?!)

Have just now done what you've suggested here Swithin, but sorry, I'm not seein' that here. (...left or right profile, he still looks like ol' tubby butt Georgie to me)

I agree with ya Dan that this doesn't look much like Hayworth other than her hair color of red, and even though in the Wiki page for this cartoon short (or at least once again whoever offered up their take of this cartoon short anyway) has identified her as being Hayworth. Excerpted here: Cesar Romero dances with Rita Hayworth; considered to be two of the era's best big-screen dancers, they dance clumsily and spastically and Hayworth's gown is tattered at the bottom from being continuously stepped on. However, if it WERE supposed to be Ginger Rogers, then wouldn't she have been drawn as a blonde? (...I think so)

And btw, Cesar Romero, who's seen dancing with Rita Hayworth (not that good a caricature of her I'd say) was also contracted to Fox during this time. (...and with Rita being contracted to Columbia Pictures)

Yep, and not only MGM stars but also quite a few Fox stars too, and such as Tyrone Power and his dancing partner Sonja Henie.

Yes, but this is the very point of my thread here, Swithin. That in essence, WHOEVER this was, and I'm sure NOT someone associated in the least with the making of this cartoon short nor affilitated with the Warner Brothers animation department at all either in the past or the present, was INcorrect with their identification of Ameche as the seated movie star who turns to profile himself during the opening sequence. AND that whoever this person was who posited this just might have assumed it to be so primarily because of a point someone earlier made in this thread...the idea of this caricatured actor's proximity to that of an old co-star of his, Claudette Colbert. (...nope, still say the boy or boys at Termite Terrace intended their drawing to be that of George Brent, and primarily because it obviously looks a heck of lot more like HIM and who I might add was ALSO a big W-B contracted movie star in 1941, than it looks like Don Ameche)

Thanks, speedy! Yeah, it is kind of a fun one, isn't it. Saaaay, maybe I should start MORE threads around here than I do, EH?! (...attention all: please remember to blame speedy here if I do) LOL