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I sure do like that airy convent high in the himalayas in black narcissus.

every generation has a new story... translation: star wars for millennials. this rey fella probably takes out solo like vader took out kenobi. "now wasn't that a good guess?" -lee marvin, bad day at black rock

how about a film about johann dippel, the guy who inspired mary shelly's character of victor frankenstein. the guy boiled organs thinkin' heat would help. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Conrad_Dippel

most of the alexander & zoltan korda fare are london films like the thief of baghdad.

I bet they still owe louie a ton of money.

I think it should be the other way around.

show hot spell once and I'll never bring it up ever again.

what is tacky and silly about the 1973 dan curtis version? it is one of the best with outstanding cinematography by oswald morris.

brad dourif was billy bibbitt?

isn't john wayne uncredited in I married a woman with george gobel?

"a planet so cruel, so hostile that man may find it necessary to bypass it in his endeavour to explore the universe. another name for mars... is death!" whatta great line.

they also use those rocketship scenes in the 2nd season outer limits episode 'the invisible enemy' about those fanged sand shark monsters in the martian sandscape.

I think in the opening narration marshall thompson identifies himself as col. edward carruthers of the united states space command so it is an american rocketship.

I guess so. I'm a great kid.

that makes two of us.

they were always showing this one saturday nites when I was a kid on WPIX Channel 11's Chiller Theater back in the 1960s.

I woulda liked some lancaster fare to honor burt's birthday. my recommendations woulda been... 1. elmer gantry (1960) 2. lawman (1971) 3. twilight's last gleaming (1977)

but I would also give some credit to ray corrigan's acting too. he succeeds in acting quite convincingly best ial. the suit was designed by paul blaisdell who was initially to be in the suit but they went with corrigan who was an actor. the monster is convincing in no small way due to corrigan's performance inside the rubber suit.

tcm is contractually obliged to show movies uninterrupted by commercials... but would they like to??? slackers!

well maybe somebody shoulda pointed out to mr. osborne that hot spell is shown absolutely nowhere on cable television except pelicula with spanish subtitles. somebody with enough guts coulda brought up hot spell to him but that woulda meant admitting that I'm right. right? right. when a man is right he knows it.

then again... ray corrigan's chin?

were those frisbees??? what about the sound effect of the ship moving through space? I've always found it atmospheric. I've seen a lot worse low-budget sci-fi than ITTFBS. a lot worse. in fact, I think it is better than alien since it tells it's story in a much shorter time and at a faster pace. for all of it's high-tech visuality, alien is not scary. kids like me and my siblings were scared seeing ITTFBS on our living room TVs saturday nites when we wuz kids. I guess I'm too old school because I think ITTFBS is worth ten 2001 a space odysseys, paper metal and frisbee stars not withstanding. back in those days filmmakers on a budget accomplished a helluva lot more cinematic-wise with much less. a testament to their greater ingenuity and talent than todays cgi-dependent hollywood hindquarters.

not one mention of hot spell I bet.

I'm a-rootin' for the empire with this one. "I will finish what you started" hell, I hope he is vader's kid,

no, you would classify it as science fiction.