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My mom said I had nightmares after my brother took me to a matinee that showed the earlier film THEM( which was released a few years earlier, so it was some re-release) but I don't remember any nightmares. But......
For ME the BIGGEST fright I got from a movie was from SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER and the horrifying thought that DISCO MUSIC might be here to STAY!
AIEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!
Sepiatone
Men in white suits dancing at disco nightspots is a horrible thing to see, Sepia fer shure!
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It was an Abbott and Costello film that did it to me . . . when they met Frankenstein.
But it wasn't Frankie that sacred me as a kid. It was Lon Chaney whenever he turned into the Wolf Man that had me freaking. Adding to that traumatizing experience as much as Chaney and his makeup was the super scarey Wolf Man theme music by Frank Skinner that played on the soundtrack.
The first time I saw the film I guess I was six or so - sitting on my Dad's lap and covering up my eyes with my hands (then peeking between my fingers, of course) every time I heard the Wolf Man music start to play.
Remember the scene in which Lou Costello is in Larry Talbot's room and swipes an orange from a bowl and stops to write a note, as the Wolf Man is creeping up behind him? I was vibrating so hard on Dad's lap that he had to stop me from falling off it!
Gosh, I had a great time that day . . . even if I did have to change my undies afterward.
Tom, they say combining horror with comedy ups the ante on the horror. Maybe it tricks one into a lulled sense and then "POW", Larry Talbot is headed right at you with claws extended. I think the Vampire Killer movie by Polanski also combines horror with comedy as well as your choice, doncha think? I love Costello in that film by the way!
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Love the 'original' IOTBS (1956)
Had to google it to be sure, but CG you got the character names spot-on!
Evidently your "memory lapses" are only episodic.
When I was a young child I used to have chronic nightmares.
Somehow I think the movie THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS (1946) was a great contributor to that.
I was a fan of "horror" movies at that young age but That movie scared me more than any of the others.
I think it was because a severed hand with a criminal 'mind' was small enough to easily hide in my room undetected.
In my closet, inside my toy box, under my bed, between the mattresses, under the pillows, disguising itself as a lump in my bed covers, practically anywhere....
Then, in my dark room late at night, after I'd dozed off, it could crawl from its hiding place to my sleeping throat.... and ARRRGHhhhhhh ..... I can almost bring back the horror!
I used to have this obsessive checking ritual.... I'd look at all those places and more before I lay down....but I never felt quite comfortable, as I was sure there was someplace in my room in which a 'hand' could hide that I hadn't checked, or rechecked.
Frankenstein and the Wolf Man were too big to be undetected, and I could always 'lock' them out of my room.
Dracula could still probably find a way in if he wanted, which is why my room often reeked of garlic. But I was a night owl anyway, and kind of fancied the idea of having vampire powers, so if he did come in for a nibble, I didn't think I would mind too much.
But a lone and devious hand.... could hide anywhere! I could never be quite sure where.
It got to the point where I was afraid to go to sleep for fear of another nightmare!
It took a wise and sympathetic babysitter to 'cure' me of my phobia.
When I finally mustered up the courage to share with her that I was actually afraid to go to bed, she shared with me a 'secret power' that enabled me to put those kind of nightmares behind me.
For that, and other things, I will be eternally grateful to her!
Didn't Bunuel do the thingie that crawled around in "The Beast With Five Fingers", Stephan?
Note, I am not referring to the other thingie that your babysitter educated you about.
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My wife and I burn the midnight oil watching COMBAT reruns on the H&I channel. We used to watch them on METV until THEY quit showing them.
But I noticed how educational the show was and is. NOT neccesarily about how WWII was fought, or the era's weaponry and such. But since watching, I HAVE learned------
1. Every church in every village in France during that war had identical steeples. They also almost all had identical doors!
2. And that many villages in France have identical man-made CANALS running through the center of them.
3. The U.S. military had at least FOUR G.I.s who looked like SAL MINEO.
4. Another THREE who looked like TOM SKERRITT!
5. The German army had THREE soldiers who looked like PETER HASKELL. The U.S. only had ONE
6. The German Army also had FOUR officers who looked like TED KNIGHT, and another three who looked like PARLEY BAER!
7. Many French farmhouses are of similar design, and furnished with similar furniture! Sometimes right down to the CURTAINS!
8. And that France back then looked a lot like southern California!
And WHO SAID television is detrimental to the learning proccess?
Sepiatone
I love Sal Mineo! I guess I need to watch more "Combat", Sepia.
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The Boy Who Cried Werewolf I think has always been underrated,
strange makeup it has. the creature looks more like a were-baboon.
and the sound is all wrong. sounds more like an enraged raccoon or squirrel.
I went to see it at the movies on a double bill with Ssssss back in '73.
"Were-baboon"? I think you just coined a new word, Nip. Great visualization!
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LOL
You probably know that it was Steve Allen would originated that phrase on that program, doncha CG.
(...and btw, for some reason, Martin Gabel always reminded me of a pint-sized Edward Arnold...but what a rich and mellifluous voice came from the diminutive gentleman, eh?!)
I did not.
You are always a source of illumination, Dargo.
Martin Gabel could be quite effective in his not so often parts. Wasn't he in "Marnie"?
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So, "The Imelda Marcos of ear adornment" are we, CG?
(...well, I suppose that sort of collection WOULD take up a lot less space than an equal number of footwear anyway, huh)
Right on, Dargo though I have a lot of shoes too.
But my movie collection is up to about 600 dvds and I haven't even bought any in the last year or so.
They are all in alphabetical order in Rubbermaid containers for easy access. I had to make a list of them, since I could not remember what I owned and would re-buy things.
Once a collector, always a collector!
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You are the Imelda Marcos of earrings.
Thanks, Dahling [as Zsa Zsa would say]!
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I am getting used to having a laptop instead of a tower computer. I type with one hand, the pad is supersensitive, and I often find myself suddenly on another page, having closed the internet, etc. whenever I have been compiling a long post in particular.
I realize laptops are more freeing so I can move around, but I have made some wonderful posts on various websites that took a long time to compose vanish before anyone has read them and it is frustrating.
Hey, GP when you are typing things the length of the Magna Carta, do you ever do a Control C move every paragraph or so that you can save to recopy in a Control V thingie intermittently as you continue writing? We don't want to have you lose all those extemporaneous thoughts that are so fun to read!
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"Mr. Bland Builds His Dream House"
Mr. Bland decides to move to the country due to his wife being continually dissatisfied with urban living. She looks a lot like Myrna Loy but he looks more like Thomas Gomez.
One day, he leaves for work and the house painter comes to get the choices the missus has picked for all the rooms. During the conversation about whether robin's egg blue or misty mauve pink would be right for the bedroom, the lady [and I use the term loosely] of the house looks deeply into the painter's eyes and finds him very appealing.
There would have been a roll in the hay, at his point but the barn is way outside so the proverbial and connubial bed is utilized and when Mr. Bland returns home, poof...wifey is all gone.
The End
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So you're saying a more realistic title would be I DIVORCED A WITCH.
Or maybe, "The War of the Roses"?
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I was once married to a "witch" and I know that she always kept me entertained."
Actually, as I remember, she was a very sweet girl when I met her. She only became a witch after the divorce.
This following quote might be apropos?:
“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”I thought Oscar Wilde said it, but some say it was Einstein. Sounds a lot more like Wilde though.-
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I remember reading, TB that the original choice for the tv series, "Bewitched" was actress Tammy Grimes. Now I have always liked her, and think she should have played a sister to
The classic TV sitcom Bewitched borrows from I MARRIED A WITCH, in terms of its basic premise. And it's interesting to note the original story, by Thorne Smith, was unfinished at the time of his death (it was completed by another writer). Somehow it all comes together and works brilliantly.
By the way, I think TCM could have a fun double-feature one night showing I MARRIED AN ANGEL (with Jeanette MacDonald) and I MARRIED A WITCH.
I remember reading, TB that the original choice for the tv series, "Bewitched" was actress Tammy Grimes. Now I have always liked her, and think she should have played a sister to Peggy Ann Garner in at least one show, but deep down I am glad they eventually contracted Elizabeth Montgomery for the role as she had just the right amount of insouciance.
Yes, IMAA and IMAW would make a great double bill!
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What! No nomination? part 1
Sometimes the unthinkable happens in Hollywood. A great performance either goes completely unnoticed, or else it is loved by millions of fans but for some reason, not as much by the voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. I suppose there are a multitude of reasons for this. It could be a case of industry politics, a backlash that a popular star is experiencing, or simply that a performance occurs in a film that is underexposed or marketed incorrectly.
With the passage of time, some of these wrongs may be righted. A job well done that was overlooked might be rediscovered and re-evaluated years later. I am going to mention two such performances in this column. In part 1, I will go over an example of someone that should have had a Best Actor nomination; and in part 2, I will discuss an example of someone who should have received a nomination as Best Actress.
Let’s get things started with this guy. Everyone knows who he is. It’s an iconic image from an iconic film– an iconic actor giving an electrifying performance. Literally. Even his costar Virginia Mayo deplored the fact that James Cagney was overlooked for WHITE HEAT.
It seems obvious that Cagney should have been nominated as Best Actor for 1949. It’s definitely one of his best screen roles, and he’s arguably better in it than he was earlier for his Oscar-awarded portrayal as George M. Cohan in YANKEE DOODLE DANDY. Perhaps there was a genre bias at the time, and prison dramas and the performances in them were not taken seriously. Who knows.
But it’s clear that by the late 1940s, Cagney’s skill as an actor had only increased. By this stage of his career, we see evidence that he has perfected the ruthless gangster type he had often played at Warner Brothers over the years, all the way back to his breakthrough hit in THE PUBLIC ENEMY in 1931. But Cody Jarrett, the dangerous lead character of WHITE HEAT, showcases Cagney’s greatness in scenes that convey tenderness as well as brutality. It also shows how powerful and spectacularly presented even his smallest moments can be that other actors would not have gone the distance to get right.
It must be said that WHITE HEAT only received one Oscar nomination. It was for original story, and it did not win. As for Cagney’s competition, the other nominees for Best Actor in 1949 were as follows: Kirk Douglas for CHAMPION; Gregory Peck for TWELVE O’CLOCK HIGH; Richard Todd for THE HASTY HEART; John Wayne for SANDS OF IWO JIMA; and Broderick Crawford for ALL THE KING’S MEN (recipient). Please don’t tell me Cagney wasn’t as good or not better than these five gentlemen. I simply won’t believe it.
I love "White Heat",TB. That scene where Cagney goes nuts in the prison and is running on top of the tables is amazing. And the mother love subtext is fab. I do like Broderick Crawford [and his mommy too, Helen Broderick!] and am just guessing his role as the Huey Long inspired demagogue was a bit more unusual at the time, and the prison theme films might have been looked upon as more old school, but still, Jimmy is deserving for sure!
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I'm glad I have Me-TV and comet.
Me aussi, Nip!
Let's see I could live happily with, um, TCM, Me-Tv, Comet, Antenna, PBS and oh yeah, HLN.
Can't give up seeing the best ways to off people and not get caught. Don't want to end up in the slammer by leaving carpet fibers on the corpse, or saliva emissions or even a gun whose serial number can be reestablished with some acid layer testing, after I spent hours trying to scratch it off.
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Pardon my illiteracy, but What the heck is this (LMREO) ???
Actually, Stephan you proved your literacy by not being aware of cyberspeak.
Kudos!
I knew, but am not as literate as you.
LMREO stands for Latent Munchausen Recidivistic Evolutionary Organism obviously.
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So Swithin, I take it Arlene's character in this film didn't deal with a product then, right?!
(...and now I'll pass to Bennett Cerf)
Dargo, is Arlene's part in the film bigger than a breadbox?
I wonder if Martin Gabel is also in the film. I always liked him a lot.
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So where does the "148 hits" come from? That seems like a lot.
I have over 148 pairs of earrings, DGF and it doesn't seem like a lot to me at all.
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From what I read, Bogart was quite devoted to Mayo Methot. They obviously had a volatile relationship but he kept trying to make it work with her. Even after he had an affair with Bacall while making their first film together, he still went back to his wife. But it was painfully clear that the marriage was beyond repair because of her alcohol-fueled episodes. He was probably attracted to Bacall because she was much younger and not as hardened as Mayo Methot was at that point of her life. That's my take on it.
I think Bogart's friends called Bacall, Ladder Legs and maybe Humphrey had visions of being a fireman?
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Every guy can't look like Tor Johnson.
Now he was almost as much a hunk as Man Mountain Dean!
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Post Traumatic Movie Syndrome can happen to the best of us.
For me, ever since I first saw at around the age of eight, the Don Siegel film "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" from the book by Jack Finney, I get spooked when I drive late at night on highways and see big paneled trucks rolling along.
All I can think is "Oh no, the seed pods are coming to town and the alien bodies will be planted in everyone's basement."
For me the scariest scene in movies, is when Becky Driscoll [Dana Wynter] opens up her eyes after falling asleep, and looks at Miles Bennell [Kevin McCarthy] and then you know the change has come and Santa Mira has been taken over by the pods!I am writing those names off the top of my head without checking so correct them if I have misidentified them. My brain is too full now of wondering if my neighbor is currently one of the pod people or not.
What is your PTM Syndrome ailment?
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I cease to stop being amazed... Each day at least one or more new threads to look at (almost reminds me of a female version of another prolific thread starter on these boards, only much more amicable), and now Latin, CG!
Even with your "memory lapse" Impressive, very impressive.
Facere tu loqui Graeca quoque?
I wonder, were you ever a cheerleader in HS or college?
I do not speak Greek but keep trying to study it, Stephan but will have to rely on my four years of Latin in high school instead. Those nuns beat it into you and much of it stays stuck in the cranium. And as to your question, no I was not a cheerleader but many of my friends like Jane, Suzy and Barb were, which might explain why I had to proof all their papers for them. Please share privately if need be just who here was the most "prolific thread starter"?
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looks like Barbie's beau Ken's gettin' a makeover too!
http://www.today.com/style/barbie-s-beau-ken-gets-dad-bod-hipster-makeovers-shopping-t71091
Wow, with choices like this no wonder some women end up in the ladies only pool!
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Love her!
I only watched the beginning of that 1936 film yesterday with wooden Robert Taylor and Eleanor Powell, so I could see Una as his secretary.
Then I turned it off to watch Forensic Files.
She's always entertaining.
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Bob Elliott (1923-2016)
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Ah, how sad.
Anyone who birthed Chris Elliott, I revere!
RIP, Bob!