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Frankenstein’s Daughter (1958)
Directed by Richard Cunha
(originally posted here: http://forums.tcm.com/index.php?/topic/23449-frankensteins-daughter-1958/page-2)
Another in the long line of Frankenstein offspring movies (Frankenstein’s First Cousin, Once Removed has yet to be released), this 1958 clunker sports an oddball cast, including Harold Lloyd's son, Richard Dix's son, and Jon Hall's father.
Donald Murphy plays Oliver Frank (your first clue), lab assistant to old geezer Felix Locher. Locher is so stupid he has no idea what is going on in his own lab; he's also unaware of a secret entrance to his lab. Apparently, he never consulted the blueprints. Murphy alternates between psychotic, psychopathic, and just plain "ic." He is experimenting on Locher's daughter, played by the cute Sandra Knight. Apparently, Murphy's potion turns Knight into Stockard Channing with buckteeth (see below)
John Ashley, that walking advertisement for Brylcreme, plays Knight's boyfriend. He is useless for most of the film, but his hair looks magnificent. Former Playmate Sally Todd plays the town mattress. First she dumps Harold Lloyd, Jr., then accepts a date with Murphy. This does not end well, since Murphy is seeking a brain to complete his latest experiment.
Oddly, the monster-woman is played by a man. With his black outfit and bandaged head, he/she looks like a nun on HGH. Voltaire Perkins has a bit as a chemist; I kept thinking he should be presiding over "Divorce Court."
But the film's most terrifying moments occur when Harold Lloyd, Jr. fronts for the Page Cavanagh trio (yeah, I never heard of them either).Sandra Knight as Stockard Channing.
The Page Cavanaugh trio (all four of them).
John Ashley fights for his life, but his hair remains calm.
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The results show that Millennials don't like movies pre-1970. Less than 25% have watched a single movie from start to finish made before 1960, and only 33% had watched a movie from the 1960s. 30% admit to never having watched all of a black and white movie, with the reason given that B & W movies are "boring".
I'd be willing to bet that a majority of millennials have seen The Wizard of Oz, based upon my own unscientific sample of canvassing my university classes over the last few years. Of course, maybe they all think it was made in the last decade or so.
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As far as I know, that is the default way threads are viewed, and there is nothing you can do, except to click on previous pages of the thread to see what came before.
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So now we're getting spam posted in already-established threads.
"What a revoltin' development this is."
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Nope, but I'm pretty sure Bissell always had a thing for cleaning carpets, anyway.
Now how's THAT for Whit..err..wit?!!!
(...btw...what a shame your earlier pics in this thing are now gone...damn photobucket, eh...grrrrrrrr)
Fortunately, I saved all these reviews/pictures in a word file, so when I get time, I can restore them.
I am beginning the restoration.
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How about Veronica Lake?
What, you didn't like her in Flesh Feast?
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Well, if you click on one of the earlier photos, both of their names show up
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"The Red Shadow" (1932)--Starring Reginald Carrington and Gracie Worth.
Twenty minute condensed version of "The Desert Song" uses four songs of the original score, plus reprises, and manages to incorporate the amusingly idiotic conventions of the plot (just one--the heroine sings a duet with the title bandit instead of shooting him). This one's very well sung, has good clear sound, and has more charm and enjoyability than the full length film that preceded it. 2.7/4.
I saw the last five minutes of this and was wondering what the hell it was. It looked like a high school production. The leads, Alex Gray and Bernice Claire, had toured in the stage production of The Desert Song, but it sure didn't look like it here. Maybe I will need to see this one from the start and my opinion will change.
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In Nacht Und Eis (1912) youtube
This German film, whose title translates as In Night And Ice, was one of the first attempts to film the sinking of the Titanic. From a historical standpoint, that fact makes it interesting. But the film itself is not that entertaining. It’s only about 35 minutes long, but there is one stretch which seems like an eternity as we just see people socializing in the dining room. Part of the problem is that the title cards are in German, and the version I watched had Portuguese subtitles. One semester of college German was not enough to get me through this, but then again, you really didn’t need the title cards to describe what was going on. A larger problem is that there are no characters to “latch on to.” The ship’s captain might have evoked some sympathy, but he ridiculously overacts.
The film opens with what appears to be actual footage of people boarding a ship, and many of the scenes do take place aboard a ship. However, the miniature models are not convincing, but let’s be honest … the director did not have James Cameron’s budget. One German reviewer wrote that the collision between the ship and the iceberg “looks a little as if a toy bouncing on the waves rams a couple of ice cubes.”
The film does have an interesting backstory. It was made on a Berlin backlot by director Mime Misu, just two months after the Titanic sank. Presumed lost, it was discovered in 1998 after some publicity surrounding the release of Cameron’s Titanic in late 1997. A 74-year-old retired film collector named Horst Lange remembered he had obtained a copy some twenty years earlier, paying around $120 for it. Lange said “it is an impressive film for June 1912. But there are mistakes in it. For instance, the captain and officers are showing wearing Germany navy uniforms.” To provide the sinking effect, the set was tipped by hand using ropes and pulleys.
Newspapers erroneously reported the discovery as the first film ever made about the Titanic. But according to film historian Frank Thompson, the Éclair Moving Picture Co. of Fort Lee, New Jersey, released a short entitled Saved From The Titanic just one month after the sinking. (This film is presumed lost, despite someone on youtube trying to foist off an old documentary as this film.) The film starred actress/model Dorothy Gibson, who had survived the sinking.
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A very colorful collection of performers
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Get Outta Town (1960) youtube
A cast of no names manages to inject some life into this quickie about a former hood (Doug Wilson) who returns to his old stomping grounds to find out who killed his brother. The cops aren’t too happy to see him; one of them tells Kelly to get outta town because he stinks. He refers to Wilson as “rough as a stucco bathtub.” Wilson’s mother isn’t too happy to see him and tells him to get outta town. Wilson’s former girlfriend (Jeanne Baird) tells him to … well, you get the idea. Wilson decides to look up his old pals (with classic names like Rico and Tony), but first he runs into Rico’s wife (Marilyn O’Connor). The two quickly go to her apartment for some tonsil hockey, and, for a change, she doesn’t tell him to get outta town. As the plot develops, we meet a goon named Rocky and a jerk named Squirrel. Meanwhile, Wilson and O’Connor exchange more saliva. Then Wilson collects some bruises and contusions because somebody wants him outta town. Eventually, we find out what happened to his brother, and Wilson gets outta town.
Wilson is decent in the lead, although the way his hair protrudes over his head was a bit much. All the babes in the cast (including extras) are great looking … except for the crone playing Wilson’s mother. The jazz score is snappy, and the script is pretty good.
Nationwide, this flick was on a double bill with The Amazing Transparent Man. That film was promoted with a million dollar contest in which moviegoers were asked what they would do with the invisible ray featured in that film. Get outta town!!!
In case you’ve ever wondered, this is how Italians do the minuet.
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The eyeball stuff makes me almost sure it is Prince of Foxes, starring Tyrone Power.
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Great thread, I wish I had more time to get involved in it. Regarding Intolerance, I once remember reading a short interview that Morris Ankrum gave, saying he had a bit part in it. I can't remember where I saw the article, so I am trying to find it. It's possible, since Ankrum was a student at USC at the time, and may have done it as a lark.
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#1 is Robert Coogan
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I'm supposedly one of the horror "experts" around here, and yet I can't think of it. I tried researching it, but couldn't find anything to match up with it. You can't recall any more details? Any cast members or character peculiarities?
From the description, it doesn't sound like a horror movie, which may be throwing us off.
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#3 is Lana Wood
#10 is Carlos Montalban, aka "El Exigente"
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Screaming's still floating around the public-domain waters of streaming, under its Terror/Haunted title--Not sure if it's still on Amazon Prime, like (ahem) the rest of them, but that's where I saw it.
I saw it on youtube several years ago, and it's still there.
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Yes, she tried to get it launched in the late 50s, but Paramount wouldnt release the rights. A score was written and there is a recording of it with Gloria singing. I think Paramount initially agreed to it, then changed their minds and that was that. A huge disappointment for Gloria at the time as she envisioned another comeback.........
A bigger issue was that William Holden had trouble singing while submerged. They probably should have hired Paul Winchell.
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A Gerald Mohr double feature!!
But sometimes less of Mohr is better.
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If you join TCM Backlot, the bug disappears from your screen.
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In unrelated remake news, I read this morning that there's a new version of Papillon coming soon. The 1973 film is a personal favorite, and in my opinion Steve McQueen's best acting performance.
I look forward to this musical.
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Date With Death (1959) New Mexico Noir
The second Hollywood movie filmed in "psychorama," a process using subliminal information through film by flashing images on the screen so quickly that they cannot be perceived by the conscious mind. The subliminal communication was by Precon the Precon psychologist was Dr. Robert E. Corrigan, and the Precon engineer was Mr. Hal C. Becker.Interesting, hadn't heard of this film. In Philly, it played on a double bill with the other "Psycho-Rama" film, My World Dies Screaming, aka Terror in the Haunted House, which also featured Mohr. That one I've seen.
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No Man’s Woman (1955) youtube
Modestly entertaining murder yarn featuring Marie Windsor as a nasty beyotch who manages to pile up so many enemies that you know she is going to get bumped off. When somebody pumps two slugs into her (by the way, her stunt double does a nice roll down a flight of stairs), suspicion falls on her husband (John Archer), who was trying to get a divorce from her so he can marry Nancy Gates. But there are plenty of other suspects as well:
a. her assistant (Jil Jarmyn) who is ticked off at her for ruining her engagement to a guy named Dick (Richard Crane) who owns a fishing boat
b. Dick, who is ticked off for the same reason
c. an art critic (Patric Knowles) who was carrying on with Windsor before being dumped
d. Archer’s father (Douglas Wood), who is willing to pay off Windsor
As is usual in films of this type, one of the suspects manages to solve the case, and the ending is pretty much by-the-book. Still, it’s worth a look for Windsor’s performance.
Best exchange:
Wood: “Any way you look at it, that woman’s a witch."
Archer: “No matter how you spell it.”
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Screening Of 'Gone With the Wind' Cancelled -- 'Insensitive'
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You ain't just whistling Dixie.