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telegonus		#41	[-]
Aug 2 09 2:12 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There was an excellent, Robert Altman-directed episode of Kraft Suspense Theater that was a reworking of The Most Dangerous Game in the modern American west, featuring Mickey Rooney in the Zaroff role, James Caan as the man he hunts down. The title was, appropriately, The Hunt. An intense show, nicely filmed and acted by all.
telegonus		#42	[-]
Aug 2 09 2:34 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Last Edited By: telegonus Aug 2 09 2:36 AM. Edited 1 times.
Buzz Dixon		#43	[-]
Aug 2 09 3:17 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	reddog122 wrote: I'm surprised Roger Corman never thought of remaking this with Vincent Price as Count Zoroff. Seems like a match made in heaven, what with Price's knack of creating a sense of menace within a campy exterior. What, pay for original source material instead of using public domain? www.SnokieStories.com www.BuzzDixon.com http://twitter.com/snokiestories
Dr Spyclops		#44	[-]
Aug 3 09 1:11 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In one of the more surprising variations of The Most Dangerous Game, a legendary big game hunter, played by Rory Calhoun, turns his sights on the least cunning prey of all .... GILLIGAN! In the Season 3 episode, "The Hunter", the Skipper's little buddy is pursued on the island for 24 hours by Calhoun and his assistant, Ramoo (Harold "Oddjob" Sakata!). Unfortunately, no steel brimmed hats are thrown and the accursed Gilligan lives to screw up another day.
telegonus		#45	[-]
Aug 4 09 2:33 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I can't recall specific episodes offhand but it's my sense that most of the major TV westerns of the roughly 1955-69 period featured at the very least one episode that was a Most Dangerous Game clone set in the Rockies, the desert, somewhere out west, with a stranger taking on (fill the blanks,--Lucas, Cheyenne, Paladin, one of the Cartwrights or Barkleys, one of the Rawhide or Wagon Train crew), with, if not a bow and arrow, a rifle. Sometimes there'd be a grudge, a Yankee-Southern thing, the loss of a girl-friend or brother; in any event a misunderstanding, something that cannot be resolved by reason. There's no one episode that I can remember yet I know that most of those series did those "hunting-revenge" shows at least once, in the cases of the longer running series probably several over a period of ten or more years.
Buzz Dixon		#46	[-]
Aug 4 09 11:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I borrowed =ahem!= the plot for an episode of TRANSFORMERS that I wrote. www.SnokieStories.com www.BuzzDixon.com http://twitter.com/snokiestories
Southern Beau		#47	[-]
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bela lugosi		#48	[-]
May 6 12 11:13 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Would anyone like to chat in our Blind Hermit's Hut for this week's TCM airing of this film? It is on Wed, May 9th at 8pm EST.
skull island escapee		#49	[-]
May 6 12 12:36 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This movie is a fantastic companion piece to KING KONG: the lush studio sets, exquisitely dense atmosphere, a few of the same actors [even Noble Johnson, the tribal leader of Kong makes a cameo here] and even very similar matte shots [dammit the famous 'log ravine' from KK appears stunningly in one unforgettable shot!]. Indeed I have often stated that the only thing missing---[and which would have launched this movie's reputation into the stratosfear]-----is a brief shot of Kong himself, lurking in the jungle foilage! That opening montage of the shipwreck is another masterful touch in this tautly-paced, superior work from this era. 'the horror..............THE HORROR!' Cartoon-strip blog here [updated regularly]: http://zoomertoonsrabsmith.blogspot.com/
Wich2		#50	[-]
May 6 12 1:55 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Skull, they're both great movies - but of very different kinds. A shot of a giant ape would've killed this one.
skull island escapee		#51	[-]
May 6 12 2:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think the two films were shot simultaneously, day and night, with different crews using the same jungle sets, Wich: the day crew on one of the movies packed up for that shoot then the night crew on the other movie took over on the same sets---can't remember which was which-----if it was Kong filmed at day or night---------- --------- that's probably where I get my unrealistic Kong fantasy from here! Just watched this again--it's as great as ever and in fact the Alpha Video DVD version of Most Dangerous Game seems clearer than Kong '33 [as indeed does the Son of Kong DVD]. I still don't have the blu-ray Kong 33 for comparison as yet------ 'the horror..............THE HORROR!' Cartoon-strip blog here [updated regularly]: http://zoomertoonsrabsmith.blogspot.com/ Last Edited By: skull island escapee May 6 12 2:57 PM. Edited 4 times.
professor liebstrum		#52	[-]
May 8 12 3:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	One I'd like to see again is Death Race (1973) with Doug McClure. It's a WWII story. DM is the pilot of a plane downed in the desert. He can't take off, the plane can only taxi. Then Lloyd Bridges turns up in a Panzer. Does anybody else remember this? Russ
Servant of Legendre		#53	[-]
May 22 12 6:15 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	No, but it sounds fantastic.

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