Vautrin

Yeah, glue the real gateway drug.

That was a joke about having a model of Dr. Frankenstein instead of his monster. I don't think I had the Bride of Frankenstein kit. I did have a lot of the others--Wolf Man, Mummy, King Kong, Phantom of the Opera, et. al.

That one came through and is available. I've always liked Billie Holiday's version of I'll Be Seeing You, but I can't help thinking of David Sedaris' spot on impression of Holiday singing the Oscar Meyer song.

Sounds more like a traffic safety film.

Miss W--I clicked on your Billie Holiday video a few times and I got the video unavailable message. Not sure why.

Glam noir.

They did, but it didn't sell very well. This is a losing battle. Folks have been referring to the monster as Frankenstein for decades and will do so in the future, whatever the technicality dictates. I always wondered what would occur if the hunchback still had a hunchback but looked like Cary Grant. Be interesting to see what the reaction would be.

Yep. Just follow the money.

That's the one. It's been such a long time I had forgotten the name of the company. I was really into that stuff. I guess I had close to a dozen of those things. There was even one for The Munsters TV show. I would put them together and my grandfather, who was a pretty good amateur painter, would paint them. When I looked at the Hunchback it seemed something was missing. Yeah, he had chains attached to his two wrists. Without them he looks like a drunk who's trying to go under a unseen limbo bar at the local tavern. I think I gave them away to some other kid when I got older. They sure could be dust collectors. Yeah, any kid who was dumb enough to buy The Invisible Man kit deserved to get ripped off.

Going by those plastic models I glued together as a kid, Quasi-Modo was horror. There was one of him right along with usual suspects Frankenstein and Dracula.

Yul Bummer, er Brynner. A smug guy is bad enough, but a smug bald guy. A smug bald guy who seems to think he is the smartest guy in the room, when that is highly unlikely. Then there's his off-screen bs pose as an international man of mystery. Good riddance.

Grunge noir. Maybe that's a redundancy.

Country noir.

Folk noir.

Hollywood makes the unbelievable entertaining, but not any more believable.

I was also a Cub Scout. Sure, they have honor. Maybe Boy Scouts have a smidgen more honor, about 1/4 of a merit badge's worth. Yes, on the outside Munsey is just another regular civilian. In the hoosegow he's the man. The man with a rubber hose who knows how to use it.

On my honor as a former Boy Scout I did recognize the scene was from The Egg and I, though I could just barely make out that it's Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert in the picture, perhaps with a pan of chicks between them or maybe those are sweet buns. I didn't watch Brute Force when it was on a little while ago, but I've seen it a number of times. A very entertaining, gritty prison flick. The funny thing about Cronyn is how tough he is compared to his rather unimpressive physique.

While most inmates hated him, a few looked forward to a night time visit from Munsey and his long black snake to their lonely cells.

I remember when I was a kid some people called them New Guinea tees.

I believe Hume wore a wife-beater and also brandished a little riding crop or something along those lines. Some of his scenes look like outtakes from a underground 1940s s&m porn flick.

As Jane's Addiction might put it, obvious.