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I like the end when the radioactive sphere goes supercritical and the blonde homicidal bimbo gets incinerated along with the rest of the beach house. the sound effects make it kinda scary. after the bimbo opens the box you doan wanna be anywhere around that place... a real hot box.

Looks like John Wayne was the luckiest guy in the whole picture.

I love his songs to Gunfight at the OK Corral and Blazing Saddles. seeing Frankie decked out in the cowboy outfit it occurs to me he was kinda a cross between Sal Mineo and Buddy Hackett.

a pixillated public domain chestnut.

so here I am enjoying a hearty sunday breakfast of pepperidge farm chocolate goldfish crackers and a mug of milk watching the last half hour of You Can't Take It With You. after the movie is over and they got some break time so what does tcm do? they take a few minutes to throw accolades at Sophia Loren and I'm naturally thinkin' to myself here's Anthony Quinn SOTM and they're throwin' accolades at Sophia Loren... so why doan they show Attila?... the 1954 italian peplum effort from Carlo Ponti, dino de laurentis with Quinn in the title role and a young steaming hot Sophia Loren in her ancient babe regalia? answer: because that would make sense. an obvious divergence between on-air hype and actual programming. even I a space cadet can see this.

obviously, their fixed film catalog and it's accompanying rotation. they got their catalog and dam it, they're gonna stick with it come hell or high water. a course.... their real problem is their stubborn inability to appreciate that the vast majority of cable viewers in the u.s. and Canada aren't their festival cruise passengers. to summerize, doan look for the uk cut of William Cameron Menzies' invaders from mars anytime real soon. we all got a better chance of being mooned by a mutant.

yet nary a trace of Hot Spell or Attila. it not be right. if you're gonna honor Anthony Quinn then by thunder, honor him!

it was Irwin and his bucket. the first season black & white eps are pretty decent and a lot of the 2nd and 3rd year eps too. best thing about the 4th year is the neato revamped opening music. love it. you know, Dargo, with all of it's shortcomings in the special effects department, vttbots is still hundreds of leagues ahead dramatically and in terms of inspiration of modern politically correct chum like SeaQuest DSV. no comparison. the old a-1 guys like Irwin allen knew what they were doing in terms of drama and escapism and today's Hollywood dregs are laughably clueless...so clueless that they can have no conception of just how clueless they are. no amount of cgi can long compensate for no feel of story, drama and just how to execute it in front of the camera. you know why later attempts at TV sci-fi by steven Spielberg's amblin crowd like seaquest and amazing stories fell flat? 1. because Spielberg now being a big shot felt he did not have to be directly involved. Gene Roddenberry always wanted direct involvement in star trek. 2. now being a big man he turned his attentions more and more towards a profit-minded assembly line approach, delegating areas of creativity to subordinates like Kathleen kennedy. it always happens. guys like Spielberg eventually lose sight of their basic mojo. Irwin Allen always held on to his. often times silly, but it was there.

you bet!

Flag the flick! tcm programmers will see it.

Jack Cass, I just got it!

the great man beams aboard the 23rd century earth ship enterprise.

I say the severely unappreciated Charles Watts should be a SOTM. We all know him as suspender salesman O.W. Schultz in The Spirit of St. Louis who tells jimmy Stewart's Charles Lindbergh that the atlas suspender company holds up the pants of the middle west. Charles Watts excelled at playing pompous businessmen and politician types. I love it in that ep of dennis the menace when Watts as the park commissioner announces that the new park swimming pool will be dug directly across from Mr. Wilson's house on elm street.

decades, this wonderful new cable channel is countdowning to it's launch by goin' through the four seasons of voyage to the bottom of the sea. of his four tv shows the closest irwin allen ever got to doin' star trek. the stage is inner space and the hammer, the fantastic nuclear sub seaview. lotsa great acting from Richard Basehart as Admiral Harriman Nelson. they're in the 2nd season color eps now and sometime late tonight they'll be where me tv is. this is the channel to be a watchin' right now. vttbots rules! naturally I be a recordin' my favorite eps... tcm could learn a thing or two from decades consideration of the viewer.

I still like it. irregardless of O'Neal mimicking Grant he is still good as howard bannister and Barbra streisand is enjoyable as the babe who thinks she is bugs bunny...and after her bubble bath she is real hot wrapped in that bathtowel.

that'll do it.

really enjoyed this island earth last nite on svengoolie. he said it was a good print and it looked it...but they did cut it off after 'the end' without the closing cast credits and accompanying star field. if I were host that would never happen. lost in space ep war of the robots followed and this is the first ep which really begins to establish the will/robot rapport. the mummy ep of vttbots that followed I found disappointing. seen it before of course many times. svengoolie's print of this island earth was nice with the still impressive 1950s technicolor hues but last nite's vttbots mummy ep the color hues were off a tad. space cadets will notice that sort of thing. wasn't terribly over the top neither. a 3000 year-old egyptian mummy takes a shine to crane and a pointless ep insues. why should an ancient egyptian mummy care if the seaview gets in on time to prevent a mid-east war? that pesky ol' mummy keeps getting up and accosting crewmembers. beats up two guys and erases their memory of their rucus with it. then the mummy's in the flying sub (which is never explained. guess it was just a good place to hide) and strangulates a hapless blue jump suiter. I guess irwin allen mummies are just naturally ornery. nelson finally dispatches it with an electrified hose. smartly done.

oh yeah, I forgot about the thing.

Well?................................ Do we get a Richard Dysart nite with primetime showings of The Hindenburg, Prophecy and Pale Rider or doan we?

I'm sorry, Dargo. I thought that was very clever. obviously, Exeter looks like Heston's old hickory in The Buccaneer rather than in The President's Lady.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interocitor

yeah, I've always liked that. a way ahead of it's time sci-fi film with it's star trek-like star fields and the neutrino beam-equipped interocitor.

. yeah, I've always liked that. :lol:but it is a way ahead of it's time film in no small part to those neat star trek-like star field effects amd who doesn't love the interocitor with it's neutrino beams.

I thought he was very good in John Frankenheimer's Prophecy (1979). in that he mercilessly gets bitten in half by a freakazoid bear-sausage while trying to crawl beneath a chain-link fence.

Barabbas next wed. at eight...but they've shown it once this month already! this be what I be bellyachin' about. it makes more sense to tcm to beat an oft repeated film into the ground then to do right by Anthony Quinn and show two not seen films like Hot Spell and Attila... that ain't doin' right by Quinn as sotm. no sir.