NipkowDisc
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There needs to be a remake of village of the giants with a bunch of 30 foot teen girls picking up
their straying boyfriends.
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the whole thing was a bust because I wasn't there.
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On 4/7/2019 at 8:15 AM, Swithin said:
That's what I meant -- she is sympathetic. I think today making a "monster" out of a hunchback (like Ygor) would not work; just as in The Monster Maker (1944), the "monster" is a man with acromegaly, a disease of the pituitary gland. And would Rondo Hatton be used today, the way he was in the 1940s?
There is on the other hand, an ancient tradition that says the evil within is displayed without (ugliness, deformity), and that's the case in fairy tales, myths, and movies. There are exceptions. In Roger Corman's The Undead, the ugly witch (right, Dorothy Neumann) is the good girl; the beautiful witch (Allison Hayes) is evil:
hey, a cameo appearance by alec Guinness as fagin.
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2 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
This Week on Svengoolie:
Valley of the Dragons (1961)
sean mcclory kinda looks like Kenneth more.
joan staley woulda made a good 50 foot woman.
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son of dr. jekyll was a really bad film. I kinda sensed it with a scene of two victorian gentlemen holding a baby in a carriage. an awful film in terms of what it coulda been. what a trooper alexander knox was agreeing to appear in it. londoners just chaffing at the bit to label jekyll's kid another fiend. doan they have better things to do with their time than to fixate on that? but what gets me is the one scene where edward jekyll manages to bring about the film's one Hyde metamorphosis which is good although all he does is fall immediately to the floor unconscious after the change. the makeup is good in fact perhaps the best scary Hyde makeup ever put on film but hayward just gets to lay there for a few frames. after that the film waylays itself with the mystery of lanyon's ill intentions which nobody gives a sheet about. daughter of dr. jejyll with john agar and gloria talbot is much better which doesn't say an awful lot for this film.
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john wayne has a strong claim to being the greatest American movie star of all time!
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I have many friends and allies in all times and galaxies.
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who cares except for spitberg.
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you would see Hot Spell and Attila produced by dino de as in laurentis and starring Anthony quinn and Sophia loren! why does tcm ignore that?
the incident tony musante's best film and maybe tcm is a little afraid politically correct-wise to show it because of some of the harsh real life language. to some a searing film because of the mid-1960s racial tensions. some of the k. Gordon murray Mexican horror imports have terrific sets and cinematography like curse of the crying woman.
tcm slackness has greatly diminished their phony boasts of cinema excellence. I knew that when among other things they have shown themselves too cheap to get the BFI cut of the restored Hammer's Dracula.
you doan show proper homage to a guy like Christopher Lee with empty words uttered by schtootzes like mankiewicz. you do it by procuring the hard stuff.
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Desilu also gave us...
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okay, it's the early morning of the 15th but tcm has no titanic films scheduled. I hate the one with Barbara stanwyck and Clifton webb as the titanic sinking ain't no bleeping soap opera.
A Night To Remember is exactly what a motion picture about the sinking of the Titanic should be.
boy, are these guys slackers. that's why space cadets like me oughta be programming for this channel. we know how to do it.
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isn't the night of the 14th of April when Titanic sunk? I wanna see A Night to Remember the best motion picture of the titanic disaster ever made.
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Randolph scott, he's great on screen as the cowboy hero but he didn't like publicity and felt that if the public wanted to see him they should pay for it. that's just a little too mercenary for me...
when he croaked he was worth 100 million dollars.
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14 hours ago, Swithin said:
On Svengoolie tomorrow, April 13, 2019:
The Son of Dr. Jekyll has an all-star cast: Alexander Knox, a few years after giving won of the greatest film performances of all time (Wilson, for which he should have won the Oscar in a year that Oscar made one of its worst Best Actor choices ever); Paul Cavanaugh; Louis Hayward, Lester Matthews, and Rhys Williams. I haven't seen this film in yonks and look forward to it.
(I would like to see his sister, though, in a print that isn't so out of synch as the one on YouTube. The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll is the subject of some of the most amusing comments in Andrew Sarris's The American Cinema, in his essay on Edgar Ulmer:
"... 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." -- Andrew Sarris on The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll)
I have daughter of dr. Jekyll on a disc and I certainly hope son of dr. Jekyll is a lot better. jack pollexfen's name is on both.
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4 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
Probably not, but if you see the film, she is actually a sympathetic character. In the previous film in the series "House Of Frankenstein" the hunchback (J Carroll Naish) is a psycho killer.
"House Of Dracula" is IMO the weakest chapter in the Frankenstein Universal series. It repeats many things from the last one including some of the same dialogue. I found some of the scientific explanations of vampires and werewolves to be kind of boring, I prefer the supernatural explanations.
I kinda liked it last nite. doctor edelmann even had an explanation for Talbot's physical transformation into a werewolf.
nina the hunchback nurse deserved better than to be strangled and tossed aside like that.
a beautiful spirit
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they have hordes of movies yet to show before they get a single accolade from me. films like hot spell, curse of the crying woman and invasion of the vampires.
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the last great comedy imo to come out of Hollywood...
what about bob?
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why not a remake of CE3K? neary comes back 30 or 40 years later and his wife and kids look at him like a pile of rancid tapioca wanting an explanation for knowingly deserting them.
let spitberg make that one
"Roy, I came back here after your disappearance and had all the landscaping you destroyed repaired."
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15 hours ago, TomJH said:
Interesting that Eisenhower's favourite film had a pacifist message.
hate the film. peck's McKay is too uncompromising and he shouldn't have just given up on carol baker.
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1 hour ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
How about the lost film 'Incubus' (1966) starring William Shatner? Lost but rediscovered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubus_( ||_film)
Second film in history to be written and acted entirely in Esperanto.
I tried to watch it once. opens with some babe drowning a guy at the waters edge. film coulda used a 50 foot vina.
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doris as mata hari in the glass bottom boat
their straying boyfriends.
the incident tony musante's best film and maybe tcm is a little afraid politically correct-wise to show it because of some of the harsh real life language. to some a searing film because of the mid-1960s racial tensions. some of the k. Gordon murray Mexican horror imports have terrific sets and cinematography like curse of the crying woman.
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she was 14 LIS's 3rd year but I always felt she looked at least 17 with her new look.