joefilmone Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 I wish the masterpiece was out on DVD with the shocking color climax. The good doctor and his muscle bound creation ( he was made from the bodies of dead high school jocks) have an interesting relationship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 http://www.hermancohen.com/teenfrank/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo_Chuck Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 SCSU, thanks for the great link. Both of these films are curiously absent from DVD shelves. I presume this is another rights issue as we've seen fairly good prints shown on TV in 2006 and 2007, so someone is deciding they'd rather refuse DVD sales than put these out for people to buy them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsclassic Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Teenage Werewolf was better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 I've always thought Michael Landon was a little scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightwalker Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 True, but you've got to give him a little credit: he always seemed to maintain an affection for that movie since it did give his career a boost and did lead to his being cast as "Little Joe" Cartwright on BONANZA. He never treated it as an embarrassment. Agree about the scariness of the scene in the gym! And the film has another great turn by Whit Bissell as the mad scientist, to boot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Interesting that Bissell played the mad scientist in both "I was a teenage ...." movies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo_Chuck Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Yes, Bissell was doing his best to be the American Michael Gough - and was quite capable, too. He was a fairly handsome actor, but was usually cast as the wronged or shunned male while the pretty woman had her eyes on a more handsome fellow. And we all know what Bissell and Gough would end up doing after that - teenaged monsters or giant simians running amok. And there was always a woman to blame! I wonder if Bissell and Gough were the first mayors of Margaritaville? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Gough is a riot when he is over the top, like in KONGA. He was rather restrained in the Batman movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 On the other hand, in TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN, Bissell did have the gorgeous Phyllis Coates, so he was hardly shunned. Of course, he had to do her in when she got too nosy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo_Chuck Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Yes, well, "that's the price we pay", ha ha... I mean, if women don't shun us and betray us, then they hang on and get in our way! Just think about how much fun Clyde could have had without that albatross Bonnie?!! He coulda been like John Dillinger! Oh wait... dead in a street shoot-out. Hmmm... seems like some guys ain't gonna make it anyway! I've been collecting quite a few Michael Gough films of late, including KONGA, but I think Whit Bissell should get my attention, too. He plays about the same character in all his films, usually smaller parts but always has an important role. HE WALKED BY NIGHT is one of those. And certainly these two TEENAGE films. Sounds like the start of another thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Come to think of it, Bissell also played a doctor in THE CAINE MUTINY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
princessananka Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 I fell violently in love with the hunky, gorgeous Gary Conway who played the poor teenage monster. When I first saw it, I could so easily see myself ignoring that terrible, scarred face of his (well, maybe the whole damned head) because he had a body by God. He was one of my teen idols--the other one being the hot and hunky Johnny Sheffield who portrayed the monosyllabic Bomba and who carried around a chimp that had more dialogue than poor--but gorgeous--Bomba. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Princess, did you watch Gary Conway in "Burke's Law?" Or reprising his teenage role in HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
princessananka Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 No, I wasn't aware Gary was in either of those shows! OhmiGod, I've now got to find stills of those productions. I always wondered whatever happened to him. I could easily see him playing in some of those 60s muscle man movies in Italy but maybe that came too late in his career when he was getting up in years. I could easily see him playing Hercules. Imagine pairing him and Steve Reeves and Mark Forest together! That would have melted the screens around the world! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 He was also in the short-lived Irwin Allen TV series "Land of the Giants." Check here for some of his photos: http://www.iann.net/vaults/giants/ He also posed nude for "Playgirl" magazine. Sorry, I don't have that link. Message was edited by: scsu1975 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
princessananka Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 Wow, thanks for the great link featuring the male god known as Gary Conway. And he also posed nude for Playgirl? Ohmigod, I've gotta find that copy somewhere. I've framed the one of the very nude and very hunky Peter Lupus. He was the real champ of them all. But now, for Gary...Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 You're welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OllieTSB Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 Has anyone heard anything about this or TEEN WW coming out? They're on my Watching-For-DVD list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 I haven't heard, but I know you can get HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER, which combines the teenage werewolf with the teenage frankenstein. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William735 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Susan Nicholson-Hofheinz owns the rights to several American International Pictures films including I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF, I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN, IT CONQUERED THE WORLD, INVASION OF THE SAUCER-MEN and AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN. These films were released on VHS around 1993 before the rights to the AIP library were split up between her and Sam Arkoff, which is why HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER, BLOOD OF DRACULA, EARTH VS THE SPIDER and WAR OF THE COLOSAL BEAST have been released on DVD but not the films Susan owns the rights to. In fact the Arkoff-owned films were remade by Showtime (but were nowhere as good as the originals!) If you check her name on google, you'll find she tried to sue AMC and A&E for showing short clips from a few of her films trailers but lost both cases. You would think she could receive some nice royalties if her films were released on DVD but for some reason she hasn't allowed this to happen yet. The last times the films she owns the rights to were shown on TV was in the 1990's on Cinemax and American Movie Classics. Message was edited by: William735 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redriver Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 Nightwalker, you make an interesting point about Michael Landon. When appearing on talk shows and the like, he always had an air of humility. Like he didn't take himself so all-fired seriously. He'd talk about shows that weren't big hits. Poke a little fun at himself. And, you're right. He didn't seem embarassed by any of it. I think I would have liked Little Joe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 You want embarassment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OllieTSB Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 Susan N-H earns all my disdain with her preference to bury the films she inherited. I wish they'd be taken away and put into public domain rather than let a so-called rightsholder bury them because she can't make her billions off of their sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joefilmone Posted December 30, 2007 Author Share Posted December 30, 2007 This woman must be waiting for the right offer to release these films on DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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