scsu1975
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30 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
YES!
That's what I want it to say FOR ME, right under my name instead of "Advanced Member."
Anyone know how I can do this?
Yes, go to your profile, then click on "edit profile" then type in whatever you want in the box for "member info." I'd be curious to see if all that stuff fits.
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Perhaps The Mortal Storm
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1 hour ago, Sepiatone said:
well, I could buy John pulling off Norman,
I can't, no matter how you meant that.
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#2 is The Brainiac
#6 is It Came From Outer Space
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#9 is so horrifying I can't even respond to it.
I know the rest so I'll just pick off a few:
#1: It! The Terror from Beyond Space
#3: Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers
$10: The Brain from Planet Arous
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John Gavin's voice always sounded "amplified" in some way, almost like it was recorded differently than his co-stars. The effect is a bit difficult to describe. Has anyone else ever noticed this?
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Well, here's another one for you. Did you know that Friar Tuck can really move it? Look at The Adventures of Robin Hood, in the scene where Robin is about to be hanged. Robin looks around, sees his buddies in the crowd (including Friar Tuck) and then the rescue begins. When next we see Friar Tuck, he is driving a wagon quite a distance away, and definitely out of the vision of Robin.
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9 hours ago, FloydDBarber said:
I might have asked this question before. There was a movie made around 1958 where a young boy is turned into a werewolf because of nuclear testing. I only remember a scene of him sitting on the porch and a little while later he looks like a wolf boy.
If it was a meteor and not nuclear testing, then it is probably Teenage Monster. You can check by reading my review here:
http://forums.tcm.com/topic/27767-richs-b-and-worse-horror-movie-thread/?page=9
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1 hour ago, Hibi said:
How'd she get her hair to curl back in those days???
Who is looking at her hair?
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11 hours ago, Dargo said:
And now that you've brought up the name Vicki Evans here Rich, as you probably know, there was another woman arrested along with Bob and Vicki at that time...actress Lila Leeds.
And so while Bob's career might not have been affected by the drug bust, Miss Leeds' career went nowhere after it.
(...and so you have to wonder if this was just a case of Bob being a much bigger star at the time causing his weathering the publicity storm afterward, OR perhaps Lila's fall from grace for the same infraction being a case of the old gender double standard?)
We had a discussion of Ms. Leeds awhile back and I posted this tidbit:
Four months after being busted with Mitchum, Lila Leeds was back in court, paying off a $5 fine for jaywalking. L. A. Police told the presiding judge that Leeds had tied traffic in a knot, walking across Wilshire Boulevard wearing a white turtleneck top, red plaid skirt, and red shoes. "I don't remember a thing," said Leeds, "except a lot of whistles, shouts, and horns blowing. I guess I'm guilty though."
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The connection is that all their names are nationalities.
#3 is Irish McCalla
#6 is Marla English
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1 hour ago, Vautrin said:
I doubt many folks today would be disturbed by Bob Mitchum blowing a little
weed. Back in '48 it was a big deal, though Bob's career didn't suffer.
In a little-known sidebar to this story, a dancer named Vicki Evans was also arrested as part of the group smoking joints. While out on bond, she fled to New York, where she was nabbed and jailed. Some guy claiming to be Robert Mitchum showed up to visit her in jail; the real Mitchum was in California at the time.
"What a jerk," Evans remarked about the imposter. "He looked enough like Bob to be his twin brother, though."
You be the judge:
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16 hours ago, bundie said:
But what about Joan Crawford's alleged porn movie?
Do you mean Mildred Pierced?
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Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
Directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr.
This is the greatest film of all time, from the greatest director of all time, starring the greatest Swedish actor of all time, featuring the greatest special effects of all time, along with the greatest script of all time. Now the costumes needed just a bit of work, but why nitpick.
Our story opens with Criswell (the greatest psychic of all time, sporting the greatest coiffure of all time) setting the stage for the spine-tingling story about to be played out before us. From there, we get tender scenes of Bela Lugosi, the greatest bloodsucker of all time, mourning at his dead wife’s funeral. Aliens from space, piloting the greatest flying saucers of all time, resurrect the wife, who is played by Vampira, the greatest television hostess of all time. She also has the greatest 2-inch waist of all time, and wears the greatest low-cut tight black dress of all time, which obviously made her funeral the greatest party of all time.
When the guys who buried her turn up dead, Tor Johnson, as Inspector Daniel Clay, springs into action. Johnson, the greatest wrestler of all time, turns in a force-de-Tor performance, proving that you can indeed make an actor out of Clay. His rendering of lines is impeccable. When a detective warns him that the cemetery is dark, Johnson casually shrugs him off by saying “I vill get one of flashlight from patrol car.” No one alive (or dead) could deliver a line like that.
I don’t want to spoil the fun for anyone who has not yet seen this classic, but there are a few more performances that must be considered noteworthy. John Breckenridge, as the leader of the aliens, gives the greatest performance of a gay man not trying to pretend he’s not gay. Dudley Manlove, as the alien Eros, gives the greatest exhibition of chest-puffing ever seen on the big screen. Joanna Lee, as the alien Tanna, wears the greatest leggings in the history of legging-dom. And to top it all off, Director Wood snagged two of the greatest superstars from the 1930s … that’s right, Lyle Talbot and Tom Keene.
Why wasn’t this film nominated as best picture?
To quote Dudley Manlove, “because all you of Earth are idiots!”
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The Last Days of Pompeii (1913) YouTube
Oddball Italian version of the famous disaster, which basically revolves around the following subplots:
1. Nidia, a blind slave, is in love with her master, Glaucus.
2. Glaucus is in love with the hot-looking babe Jone.
3. Arbace, an Egyptian Priest, lusts after Jone.
Now Nidia gets hold of a love potion to use on Glaucus, but, unbeknownst to her, it will really turn him into a blithering idiot. This sets up the most ridiculous scene in the film, where Glaucus shakes, shimmies, jerks around, and looks like he is auditioning for Reefer Madness.
Arbace is bumped off, and Glaucus, who is now totally spaced out, is blamed. So Glaucus is sent to prison to face the lions. If the lions had been from Detroit, at least he would have a fighting chance. Nidia comes to his aid, and just as the real killer is about to be set upon by a crowd, Vesuvius explodes. At this point, I was about to commend the filmmakers for the incredible effects, until I realized I was watching deteriorated film and not an eruption.
For 1913, the sets are pretty good, and Fernanda Negri Pouget, as Nidia, gives a decent performance. Everybody else pretty much acts by way of hand-wringing and arm gestures. In one very strange scene, three women are taking a bath, but all are wearing towels. A shame. Some gratuitous nudity would have improved this flick quite a bit.
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1 hour ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
Yes, i would definitely consider Veronica Lake to be a classic star, appearing in great films like Sullivan's Travels, This Gun For Hire and I Married A Witch. I have never seen Flesh Feast, maybe I should be grateful.
If you like seeing maggots on Hitler's face, then this is the film for you.
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Country singer Lari White has died. She had bits in a few movies as well. She had such a sweet voice.
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I'm not sure if Veronica Lake would be considered a classic star (except, perhaps, for her hairdo), but her last film was the awful Flesh Feast. Here, she is getting ready to lower the kaboom on some German housepainter:
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Open up your profile and click on "see my activity." That should do it. I just tried it and I can read my posts back to 2005.
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On 1/18/2018 at 2:29 PM, Dargo said:
(...although of course, it also could have been because my first teacher in the subject was just about THE most boring teacher I think I had had up to that point...YOU know, kind'a like Ben Stein was in that one flick)
I used to show that clip to my class of student teachers and would ask them to critique his teaching.
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3 hours ago, universalkaiju said:
Why does everyone get mad at John Agar in Invisible Invaders? Yeah he killed that guy but did no one notice that he was threatening to kill them? What a bunch of jerks.
Because he acts (no pun intended) like a crumb for most of the movie. His only redeeming quality is that he has a pair, unlike Robert Hutton.
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56 minutes ago, Bogie56 said:
Monday, January 22
9 a.m. Anna Christie (1930). With Greta Garbo and Marie Dressler. I haven’t seen this one in quite some time.
Neither have I ... with good reason.
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The seance scene in The Time of Their Lives is pretty funny ... especially with Binnie Barnes wisecracking "oh fine, a ghost to ghost broadcast."
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My favorite scene from The Enforcer (this is a lousy print, but what the heck):
I Just Watched...
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What's really unfortunate is that after the novel Go Set A Watchman was published and critics were trying to figure out if Atticus might have been racist, some articles showed photos of Peck (without context). To me, these were just ignorant writers.