The Fatal Witness (1945) -- horror movie!

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feeds@yuku.com (atkalu) — Sun, 27 May 2012 19:16:44 PST

SPOILERS. I'm glad you pointed this one out again, Rick, because I just checked it out and yes, the detective angle is pretty laughable. It's just so predictable as well. And then in the last 5-8 minutes they end it with a total curveball. Very inter...
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feeds@yuku.com (Wich2) — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:50:28 PST

>she brought the spooky with her... the cast was littered with Universal stalwarts< Sounds like the setting Columbia put Boris in for THE BLACK ROOM.

Re: The Fatal Witness (1945) -- horror movie!

feeds@yuku.com (Rick) — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:22:40 PST

In spite of the fact that I read this thread with enormous interest last year ("Oh my God, an unknown ghost film from the '40s."), I somehow managed to absolutely forget about it. So when I finally got around to watching it tonight I thought ...
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feeds@yuku.com (M F Berry) — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:09:30 PST

Due to a Cetcil wind, Dystor's vectored us into a 360-tarson of slow air traffic. Now we'll maintain this Borden hold until we get the Forta Magnus clearance from Melnics."Why, you have a young navigator, here!"[all dialogue courtesy of Dean Martin, speak...
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feeds@yuku.com (thehorrorboy) — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:13:08 PST

Talking about Hitchcock's "Banquo's Chair," that episode must have come in very short in the editing. The end credits run for about three minutes! Go back and check for yourself, if you never noticed.

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feeds@yuku.com (TomWeaver999) — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:08:25 PST

Well, see for yourself -- it starts around 14:20: HITCHCOCK's "Banquo's Chair": http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi3552772889/ How funny -- if IMDb is to be trusted, a dinner guest, SEEING the ghost in FATAL WITNESS, *was* the ghost on HITCHCOCK -- an...
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feeds@yuku.com (TomWeaver999) — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:02:34 PST

Yeah, in the HITCHCOCK she doesn't peep a peep; if memory serves, she just looms out of the dark in the next room, and then steps back into it, two or three times.

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feeds@yuku.com (Count Gamula) — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:31:54 PST

You're right Tom. When the old lady started walking toward the room from the darkened hallway, it was pretty creepy and I expected her to just stand there a while, freaking the guy out. But she walked right into the room and started talking and it really ...
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feeds@yuku.com (TomWeaver999) — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:57:05 PST

When this same story was done on ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS, Hitchcock directed. In FATAL WITNESS, the ghost comes over to the dinner table and practically stands over the bad guy and yaps at him. In the HITCHCOCK, the bad guy sees her through a doorway, i...
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feeds@yuku.com (Count Gamula) — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:42:27 PST

I watched it last night through Netflix. Glad I waited to read Tom's spoilers until later. I recognized Gil Perkins when he came on and was waiting for some fight to break out or something, but as Tom said, he has one shot, leaves and we never see him aga...
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feeds@yuku.com (dcwillis9) — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 02:40:51 PST

I'm so pleased to see this title/thread/post here. I wish I could say that I was the monsterkid who "discovered" "Fatal Witness", but it was actually my Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) buddy Pierre LePage who first unearthed it, 20-plus years ...
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feeds@yuku.com (The Drunken Severed Head) — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:38:06 PST

Comfort food.

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feeds@yuku.com (HalLane) — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:12:12 PST

And if you move your lips while you read, like I do, this becomes a thread about The Fatal Wetnurse. Holy milk and cookies!

Re: The Fatal Witness (1945) -- horror movie!

feeds@yuku.com (Wich2) — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:57:36 PST

I find that if you WimWam the Furshluginer along the Whistlefart, the Mishegas usually framulates properly.

Re: The Fatal Witness (1945) -- horror movie!

feeds@yuku.com (Friend of Daniel) — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:26:00 PST

Vampire's GhostGood news. I've been curious to see lil' John Abbott play a vampire since reading about this in that poverty row horrors book by - who else? - Tom Weaver. FUN IMDB JOHN ABBOTT FACT: In 1944 Abbott was cast in the lead role of Elwood P. D...
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Re: The Fatal Witness (1945) -- horror movie!

feeds@yuku.com (Rakshasa) — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:08:11 PST

TomWeaver999 wrote: << BTW, I know Tom has NO idea what I'm talking about! I'm just thinking out loud here! <Read More

Re: The Fatal Witness (1945) -- horror movie!

feeds@yuku.com (TomWeaver999) — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:01:33 PST

<< BTW, I know Tom has NO idea what I'm talking about! I'm just thinking out loud here! << Due to a Cetcil wind, Dystor's vectored us into a 360-tarson of slow air traffic. Now we'll maintain this Borden hold until we get the Forta Magnus c...
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feeds@yuku.com (Camps) — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:19:02 PST

You're right that you'll need wi-fi, Rak. My Roku box was essentially useless until I got a Netgear wireless router. It's ethernet-cable-connected to my cable modem, about 6' away from my Roku box, which itself is HDMI-connected to my HDTV, and... voila...
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feeds@yuku.com (Rakshasa) — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:45:25 PST

I actually have a Netflix account and a Blu-Ray player that I can stream Netflix through, but my Blu-ray player doesnt let me connect to our wireless router (its doesn't have Wi-Fi capability), and the actual internet cable modem is on the other side...
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Re: The Fatal Witness (1945) -- horror movie!

feeds@yuku.com (Camps) — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:42:53 PST

Yes, it's among the Republic titles streaming on Netflix (courtesy the Netflix deal with Republic library owner Paramount). Other Republic titles streaming on Netflix are Vampire's Ghost, Girl Who Dared, Valley of the Zombies, among others (all discussed...
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The Fatal Witness (1945) -- horror movie!

feeds@yuku.com (TomWeaver999) — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:15:19 PST

Wellll, in the last reel anyway. Maybe everybody knew about this movie but me, but it came as a great surprise to watch it tonight and find that it had an honest-to-goodness --SPOILERS-- ghost!It's a Republic "mystery" with an English setting. A rich, gro...
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