NipkowDisc

great cinemaphotography and directed by Francis D. Lyons who directed Cult of the Cobra which was on svengoolie last saturday.

no, I came here nuts.

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the svengoolie offering last saturday. I have never watched it before last saturday. I always passed on it for some reason. then again it was never on too many channels in my viewing area either. a pretty sub-par feature if you ask me. marshall thompson who is usually pretty square jawed heroic in these things is a pretty wishy-washy sap here. some G.I.s including daktari, nanny's professor and richard kimble get into a local snake-worship temple courtesy of some roadside snake charmer who needs a few bucks. no cameras mind you. out comes the flash-equiped brownie and a ruckus ensues with ed platt primed and ready with "one by one you will all die!" a few months later lovely faith domergue as the cobra babe shows up in the states to exact revenge. what has she been doing all her life I wonder. putting the bite on boyfriends who doan make the grade? the only sap who I enjoyed seeing getting his payback was jack kelly. jim garner could be ingratiating on maverick all he wanted but kelly was just irritatingly muggy. kimble the italian gets his bite in his own bowling alley. william reynolds figures the whole revenge deal out and confronts the cobra babe in her apartment. what's he do? waits for her to change so she can come out and bite him. smart. thompson snoozes on her couch in her place but she doesn't put the bite on him. falling in love with him I guess. big showdown in the theatre. daktari takes on his girl with a chair and chucks her out a window. the only imaginative scene in the whole film ensues with a shot of the cobra babe glowing on the street below as she metamorphosizes back to human form with the lovelorn daktari with bowed head at her side. compared to this The Thing That Couldn't Die is a masterpiece.

Going Berserk

has HOT SPELL ever aired on tcm? I remember it airing on tcm many times. the only way my recollections of HOT SPELL airing on tcm could be in error is if I have somehow mistaken amc for tcm but this will have to be proven to me. until then I will continue to believe that HOT SPELL has aired on tcm. my friends, you have read my sworn testimony... can you prove it didn't happen? that's my criswell impression.

all I will say is that I prefer jane greer in man of a thousand faces as the most supportive of women to a homicidal babe. that's the real jane greer.

how about THE MAN. a guy who has saved the universe many times... WILLIAM SHATNER!

exactly. they are all to willing to shortchange horror and science fiction.

I love Moross' TV theme to Lancer.

Alex North's score for Spartacus.

their regular gorgeous print must not be back from the dry cleaners yet. hey, these are the guys who didn't even try to get the 2012 restored print of hammer studio's Dracula (1958) to truly honor horror giant the late Christopher Lee. so what to expect? superlativeness in presentation? methinks not.

gonna be watchin' cult of the cobra tonite. faith domergue's gonna be hot. tonite's vttbots ep is a favorite of mine too. Kowalski sticks a screwdriver in a superbomb's missile silo and puts a dirty black mark on the access plate. scruffy.

they woan bust a gut to get the bfi print then they shouldn't crow so much about what great cinemaphiles they be. slackers be all, slackers!

would these guys ever show an inferior print of The Third Man? how then have they properly payed tribute to Christopher Lee by not showing the 2012 restored BFI print of Hammer's Dracula from 1958? tcm's older Americanized cut does not have the fully restored sunlight disintegration climax. I say Lee's passing rated tcm going to the trouble of getting a hold of it. you're either going to do justice to the horror and science fiction genres and their icons or you are not.

have his scores to star trek II the wrath of khan and star trek III the search for spock on cd.

well, maybe you're right.

the psycho with a sense of humor (tee-hee). the delooxe short dinner guy.

now if I were running tcm... you can bet Valerie Gaunt's bo som the 2012 BFI restored print of Hammer's Dracula woulda been shown.

and just like I said they would, tcm showed their aging inferior unrestored print of Horror of Dracula. what kind of respect for Christopher Lee is that? not much I would say, no, not much.

his Dracula persona was hamstrung by the hammer stupes, everyone knows that. you think the lack of Dracula saying anything was Lee's idea? of course not. but when they did let him speak as Dracula it was always powerful and forboding. only idiots would compare Lee's powerful incomparable Dracula persona to Lugosi. there's no visual horror. Lugosi doan even have fangs.

They're showing stuff like the mummy, curse of frankenstein and the first three hammer dracula films to pay tribute tomorrow to the screen's greatest count dracula, Christopher Lee. betcha tcm will show their older non-restored horror of dracula print with the incomplete sunlight disintegration climax. there is the 2012 restored BFI print with the complete sunlight disintegration but that would be too much to expect of tcm, wouldn't it?... slackers!

just read up on Gloria Holden on IMDb. she was alright. She didn't like being remembered for Dracula's Daughter and she was the mother of TV and film actor Glenn Corbett, star trek's original Zefram Cochrane.

yeah, some follow-up to Todd Browning's Dracula. I think her manservant shoulda had his head examined. he wants a bite from her? ... and just how is it that the uh...countess zeleska was it?...could be dracula's daughter? he was a 500-year old vampire. van helsing said she was beautiful when she died a hundred years ago? it doan figure.

OF COURSE tcm ignored Widmark's 100th birthday. tcm ain't gonna honor or tribute anything unless it can be reconciled to their fixed unchanging film coffer. you honor widmark you're gonna wanna show films that feature some of his best underrated acting like in The Last Wagon. At the tail end of his career you got something like Twilight's Last Gleaming with some very good acting by Widmark as a general. you think tcm is gonna get a hold of that just to honor widmark? of course not!... be too much trouble.