Vautrin
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2 hours ago, Allhallowsday said:
Aurora? Never saw such.
The Bride did not sell well and was expensive to produce in a different sized box than any of the others in their "long box" series. Eventually, all of the kits were sold in square boxes but no Bride.
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.
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5 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:
I'm not sure why either; it happens all the time to me, having certain youtube songs verboten in Canada. Doesn't usually happen the other way around.
Anyway, I just went back to youtube and picked another upload of the song. same song, same recording. Hopefully this time you'll be able to hear it. It's the ever so sad "You've Changed". It's on that same post, I just edited out the other one and replaced it with the one that's there now.
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.
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Sounds more like a traffic safety film.
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Miss W--I clicked on your Billie Holiday video a few times and I got the video unavailable message.
Not sure why.
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Glam noir.
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5 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
Really? They had plastic models of Dr. Frankenstein one could put together? Did it look anything like COLIN CLIVE?
Or is this yet another case of someone confusing the monster with the maker?
Sepiatone
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.
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3 hours ago, slaytonf said:
Well, that settles it.
Yep. Just follow the money.
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3 hours ago, Dargo said:
Gosh, does this ever bring back a few memories of my youth, Vautrin.
While I was more into gluing together model cars and airplanes made by companies such as Revell and Monogram back then, Dennis, one of my childhood buddies was more into the whole gothic movie monster model thing. He also had the Hunchback of Notre Dame like the following one made by the Aurora Company and which I'll bet was the one you're talking about here...
...but also their Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula, Wolfman and Creature from the Black Lagoon which he glued together and painted.
(...I think he also had the Invisible Man, but I could never see that one for obvious reasons...sorry, couldn't resist)
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.
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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.
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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.
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Grunge noir. Maybe that's a redundancy.
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Country noir.
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Folk noir.
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Hollywood makes the unbelievable entertaining, but not any more believable.
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6 hours ago, laffite said:
Boy Scout's honor is good enough for me. I remember being a Cub Scout, not sure if they any honor or not. A pan of chicks, I think. Maybe Cronyn's limited physical appearance makes him all the more odious, the little man with authority (and could wield a mighty hose).
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.
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1 hour ago, laffite said:
...while the other guys were watching a movie. I had asked earlier on, does anyone know the movie that was showing. You could only glimpse of it but if you've seen it, it should be immediately recognizable. Anyone who has not seen recently might have trouble coming up with it. The scene they showed was pretty indicative of the movie.
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.
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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.
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I remember when I was a kid some people called them New Guinea tees.
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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.
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As Jane's Addiction might put it, obvious.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Yeah, glue the real gateway drug.