Dargo
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1 hour ago, laffite said:
Okay, I give up. What was the actual alarm you heard. I ask this because i am quite sure that was no ant attack. Oh, the exit alarm when someone may be stealing something. Good show, laffite, but you're slow. I saw the movie on a Saturday afternoon one day in the 50s. The only thing I remember is Edmund Gwynn, who played a scientist, announcing the last of the great ants, infants they were huddled all together and vulnerable as all get out, just before the ant-fighters fire hosed them incinerating THEM to extinction. Boy, Dargo, you must be an extrovert. I don't think I could have done that. My only claim to fame in that regard was a loud MUHAHAHAHAHAH during a scary movie in that same theater. I was sitting in the third row and the manager actually came all the way down and proceeded to eject me from the premises. But I was still pretty young then and have always wondered how I got the wherewithal to do that. I couldn't do that today, i am a complete coward.
Yep laffite, I'd say basically I'm pretty much an extrovert, alright.
40 minutes ago, laffite said:Sort of bring up the idea of famous movie yells. I mean, what if you can't find your wife in a busy department store. If her name is Stella ... well then, holler away.
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!)
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3 hours ago, SansFin said:
Would you consider it a bewhiskered reference also when a particularly bright flash of lightning and crack of thunder is heralded by a person shouting: "It's alive! It's alive!"?
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)
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33 minutes ago, Moe Howard said:
Well, that was my best guess. They were popping up a lot about a year ago, even have a few running around locally.
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)
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27 minutes ago, Moe Howard said:
You're quite right. It could likewise effect lines for Bratwurst, Knockwurst and heaven forbid, even Polish Sausage.
Hopefully this will not result is a mass exodus BACK to blue states of all those tax refugees who are currently enjoying Texas's conservative fiscal policy.
Is that what you were alluding to?
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!)
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22 minutes ago, Moe Howard said:
I don't know what the price is up here. I've never stopped by the snack bar, but the line is longer than the line for gas. I suppose there's a sweet irony there somewhere.
The Great State of Texas has Costcos so assume their snack bars are equally popular. 🌭😋💦
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
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3 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
They even got Powell’s bulbous Adam’s apple.
I think their C. Aubrey Smith is a little too virile looking though,(Although if he heard me say that I’m sure C. Aubrey would challenge me to some bareknuckle fisticuffs or whip out his blunderbuss or something....)
Actually Lorna, I think that that's supposed to be Bill's chin, not his Adam's apple.
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5 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
This jumped out at me more than any other part of the story. It would be entirely impossible to do this at any place of business in the entire state of Texas, I'm quite sure. Four bucks, maybe, if it was a 50 per cent off day.
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)
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5 hours ago, Hibi said:
Wasn't that Spencer Tracy? I saw him somewhere.
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)
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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...
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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?!)
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5 hours ago, Vautrin said:
...He did miss the rather embarrassing position of being the father-in-law to the
son whose father he had killed. Every cloud has a silver lining.
If I recall correctly, the young girl who falls in love with the kid was not Alfredo's daughter but was his younger sister.
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4 hours ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
I've mentioned these two before on other threads but thanks to my faulty Baby Boomer memory, don't remember which ones or if it's even this one, so here goes:
Mildred Natwick and Eli Wallach
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)
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7 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
Really, looking at the image pages of them both I see more similarities than differences between the two.
Sepiatone
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)
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7 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
I'm still(like a dog with a bone) holding out for THIS guy. Scope some of the profile shots and recall his co-starring with Colbert in a 1941 movie, who is supposedly the woman the man in the cartoon is sitting with, and..... remember too, the cartoon IS more or less a CARICATURE!
Sepiatone
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.
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3 minutes ago, Citizen Ed said:
Nose silhouettes, hair partings, Wikipedia entries, reissues/originals.
We're getting close to Trekkies debating warp nacelle placements.
😉😂
LOL
Good analogy here, Ed!
(...yeah, it does, doesn't it)
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1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
that's how he got his whole start, his popular nickname "BUTCH" came courtesy of lifelong friend JOAN CRAWFORD, who was stunned when she found out he was gay.
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)
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9 hours ago, LuckyDan said:
I think the edition Dargo posted is the reissue. The opening card shows a copyright date of 1942 (though this film was released in 41) with no blue ribbon, but the title card shown before the opening sequence is spliced in with a date of 2016.
This site has a scene-by-scene summary and appears to be the same cut we have. The blogger says it is the 48 reissue.
I also came across - but didn't bookmark - a version that begins the Ciro's interior with Cary, skipping the mystery diner entirely.
So, I don't know what if anything was cut or altered from the original 41 release and 48.
A more interesting question is whether Avery had other ideas that Schlesinger vetoed before release.
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!)
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2 hours ago, TomJH said:
That's because he thought he looked like Errol Flynn.
LOL
Yeah, or maybe...Don Ameche!
(...now wouldn't THAT be a coincidence here, EH?!)
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2 minutes ago, Swithin said:
If you pause the film (as you may have done) before the mystery man turns, from his left profile, seen only briefly, he does look more like Ameche than Brent.
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)
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2 minutes ago, LuckyDan said:
I doubt that's meant to be Rita. Looks more like Ginger.
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)
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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)
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1 minute ago, Swithin said:
I was surprised that a Warner Brothers cartoon would have focused so much on MGM stars. Although many WB stars were included, many were not.
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.
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1 hour ago, Swithin said:
This is posted in the IMDB summary:
"A tour of Ciro's Nightclub packed with caricatures of many top stars, including (in order) Cary Grant, Greta Garbo, Edward G. Robinson and Ann Sheridan, Johnny Weissmuller, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and George Raft, Harpo Marx, Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Leopold Stokowski, James Stewart and Dorothy Lamour, Tyrone Power and Sonja Henie, The Frankenstein Monster, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Curly Howard, Oliver Hardy, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and Lewis Stone, Kay Kyser, Peter Lorre, Henry Fonda, J. Edgar Hoover, Ned Sparks, Jerry Colonna, and Groucho Marx; many more just get sight gags, such as Claudette Colbert, Norma Shearer, William Powell, Don Ameche, Wallace Beery, C. Aubrey Smith, Boris Karloff, Arthur Treacher, Buster Keaton and Mischa Auer."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)
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3 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
Dargo, this thread is amazing, thank you for creating it.
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
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A day in the life of an old classic movie buff...OR, when you know your cultural references have grown whiskers.
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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)