NipkowDisc
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oh and I have daughter of dr. jekyll on a cd. jack pollexfen's explanation is that Hyde was a werewolf. actor Arthur Shields gives us the movie's most memorable line "are you surrre?"
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3 hours ago, Swithin said:
As I've said many times, 1957 was one of the best years for horror films!
A film from that year which is not often mentioned is Edgar Ulmer's Daughter of Dr. Jekyll. In his seminal work The American Cinema, Andrew Sarris wrote:
"Anyone who loves the cinema must be moved by The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll, a film with a scenario so atrocious that it takes forty minutes to establish that the daughter of Dr. Jekyll is indeed the daughter of Dr Jekyll."
yeah, but that's from Frankenstein's Daughter.
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a great underrated underapprecated thriller and a true monster chiller. some critics try to minimalize it but the prehistoric sea snail creature is so well-conceived it covers some of the film's weaknesses. sure it coulda been better but that monster! the trailer is dumb with a line like "as big as a dinosaur!" it's not a dinosaur or anything reptillian. one or two things do bother me like showing movie footage of present day snails and trying to compare them to the salton sea's horrendous prehistoric sea snail monster is pretty lame.
another problem is that no one in the film suggests capturing one of the creatures for scientific or zoological study but they leave an unhatched creature unattended in the lab water tank so a little girl can wonder in and screw around with the thermostat control.
they shoulda let it hatch outside, kill the dam thing and then examine it after it was dead.
and of course there is the film's misleading title. all we have is Dr. Rogers played most ably by hans conried saying "I don't want to alarm you unduly but if just one of these giant creatures got by the patrols and escaped into the canal the species could threaten the entire world. first devouring all life in the ocean and then foraging on land. can you imagine an army of these things descending on one of our cities."
yeah, these things are gonna take out great whites and giant squids and even **** whales.
two more things I doan like. when they're diving into the underwater cavity and the monster catches Blake Dr. Rogers' reactions are all wrong. he seems irritated by the radio transmissions from Blake becoming garbled. Dr. Rogers will just have to pardon poor Blake. he's just been seized by the neck in the mandibles of a prehistoric horror that is proceeding to thrust it's proboscis into the back of his neck and suck out all his body's edible fluids. so Dr. Rogers will just have to excuse his bad pronunciation.
another thing that impresses me as stupid is after the film's climax in the lab when the final creature is gunned down by fire from military rifles. a fat Tim Holt comes out carrying little mimi Rogers and she beams with joy when he tells her she can once again go swimming...
are you kidding me? in the real world after encountering prehistoric blood-sucking horrors like these creatures. responsible military and civil authority's wouldn't let anybody swim in the salton sea for a good 6 months until they were completely certain all these horrors were completely dead.
so gimme a break. there was only one I believe mechanical monster made for this movie. I read that it wound up on a california amusement pier back in the 1960s. after that I suppose it was either discarded or destroyed. -
why drag me into it?
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can you imagine the tabonga grapping mrs. Kilgore.
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she appeared with fred MacMurray in those Disney flubber films but wouldn't she have made a nice carol brady..
sometimes I would confuse her with jean hagen.
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I still think this is an unfairly maligned movie. I have always liked it. they say bad acting. the acting is quite professionally adequate. there is no hysterical over the top deliveries.
the movie is quite good opening with our heroes having a leisurely chat in their lab headquarters. the place has got a stove, a divider and even a fridge.
I read the IMDb bio for tina carver. in 1958 she lost her 5 year old daughter in a car accident. acted in mostly TV fare after that and then quit.
she is uncredited in Humphrey Bogart's last film The Harder They fall playing nick benco's wife.
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I guess that is why I admire them that barebones approach of his but dammit he kept that wonderful MGM theme.
deitch the genius outsourced the whole deal to Czechoslovakia.
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jonathan winters as harry powell.
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a good actor and I always thought him playing a **** sheriff in first blood was a thankless job for him.
"yeah, ME. you want some grub than just hike 30 miles up the highway, sweetheart."
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I gave up as my connection this time of day is lousy but I got a good mp4 file I downloaded last nite,
the first time I saw this was on channel 5 out of nyc when they still had their Saturday morning b-movie slot.
thought it was half-decent then and still do.
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or THAT TRIFFID WOMAN...
woman eats a triffid twig and zooms up to 50 feet!
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she certainly thinks marguerite Churchill is a hoddee.
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13 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
I like the Tabanga's teeth.
His large, glassy, unblinking eyes add much to his wooden performance.
This Linda Watkins actress, playing Mrs. Kilgore, received an "Introducing" credit at the beginning. She's terrible. I also see that she was in at least 6 movies in the 1930's, including a Charlie Chan flick. "Introducing", my eye!
catch her as mrs. schumacher in Bad Ronald (1974)
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13 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
That was the worst spear throw in the history of spear throwing.
you mean the one that got bobo in the back?
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14 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
That's really weird. I just started re-watching this, and then someone starts a thread on it.
So far I've noticed how awful the dialogue is and how utterly dreadful the acting is. I'm still a ways off from Tabanga making his appearance.
I liked how there were a bunch of chickens hanging around the guy who got executed at the beginning. Plus, these Polynesian islanders sure seem to have been influenced by Hollywood B-movie African tribal customs.
yeah, I've always wondered about them chickens.
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not a review just a few remarks. not nearly as bad as it has been made out to be. those or mock this are the same kinda geniuses who have always trashed TROG merely because it was joan crawford's last movie. the acting and dialogue in this are no better or worse than dozens of other low-budget flicks I've watched throughout my life. okay, the tabonga tree monster is a bit laughable. there's the one hilarious scene where tabonga is walking along the jungle pathway and two natives act like they're scared ****less when they see it which is unintentionally funny.
but much of this little feature is simply not all that bad. the tabonga drops his betraying wife kori in the quicksand which is kind of a shame because she is a hoddee. the female scientist too is a hoddee and I give her credit for trying to muster a scream at the end but she just doan have the chords for it.
I'm gonna try to watch it streaming three thirty tomorrow afternoon but downloaded tonite anyway by maybe the only good torrent out there.
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How do we complain about the programming? It is happening more and more... where I have to change the channel from TCM to anything intelligent that I can find as there are no classic movies showing anywhere... why is that happening more and more?
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they're hoarding the older fare for DVD and Blu-ray purchases of course.