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Rapfred	Re: Woman Eater	#21	[-]
Apr 29 07 7:11 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	My vote for the tastiest dish on the Womaneater's menu goes to Marpessa Dawn, the scrumptious Eurydice of BLACK ORPHEUS.
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Monsterpal	Re: Woman Eater	#22	[-]
Apr 30 07 12:01 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'd like to eat her myself.
yendor1152	Re: Woman Eater	#23	[-]
Apr 30 07 12:56 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Wasn't there a similar kind of film starring Cameron Mitchell? I remember seeing something on late night TV when I was a kid--a garishly colored foreign film with a very frenzied Mitchell. All I recall is that he somehow fell into the tree, and it ate him. There were loving close-ups of blood spurting from the tree, intercut with shots of his screaming face. What the heck is this movie? I always thought it was Woman Eater! Rod
TomWeaver999	Re: Woman Eater	#24	[-]
Apr 30 07 1:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	That's ISLAND OF THE DAMNED or DOOMED or something like that. Directed by Mel Welles.
yendor1152	Re: Woman Eater	#25	[-]
Apr 30 07 1:49 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	YES! Thanks, Tom! I found it on IMDB under Cameron Mitchell. When I saw the film, it was called "Man Eater of Hydra" and featured a "vampire tree." No wonder I got it mixed-up with The Woman Eater! Rod
Bill Warren	Re: Woman Eater	#26	[-]
Apr 30 07 2:36 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* That's ISLAND OF THE DAMNED or DOOMED or something like that I think but am not sure that BOTH those titles were used--ISLAND OF THE DAMNED for theatrical release, ISLAND OF THE DOOMED for television showing. I believe this was also true of the U.S. titles of NIGHT OF THE BIG HEAT--in theaters, it was ISLAND OF THE BURNING DAMNED, on TV ISLAND OF THE BURNING DOOMED. I'm sure many children were saved from lives of crime by these thoughtful alterations.
Monsterpal	Re: Woman Eater	#27	[-]
Apr 30 07 4:11 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I wasn't.
Zombie Dad	Re: Woman Eater	#28	[-]
Apr 30 07 4:15 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Me neither.
Bill Warren	Re: Woman Eater	#29	[-]
Apr 30 07 4:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It's the same thinking that was applied to the Kingston Trio song (written by Hoyt Axton) "Greenback Dollar." They recorded it with the line "And I don't give a damn about a greenback dollar," but Capitol got cold feet. That line was retained on the album, but the 45 release was changed to "And I don't give a [loud guitar twang] about a greenback dollar." In concert today, the trio announces that they are about to sing their only obscene song, a song that included a word so foul that it was deleted, then sing the damn-included version.
Monsterpal	Re: Woman Eater	#30	[-]
Apr 30 07 8:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	When, oh when will they put THE MAN WITHOUT A BODY on DVD? After working with Orson Welles, George Colouris found another marvelous director in Dennis Saunders. They were the Ford and Wayne of cheap British horror pictures.
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Unregistered(d)	Re: Woman Eater	#31	[-]
Apr 30 07 11:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* I think but am not sure that BOTH those titles were used--ISLAND OF THE DAMNED for theatrical release, ISLAND OF THE DOOMED for television showing. I believe this was also true of the U.S. titles of NIGHT OF THE BIG HEAT--in theaters, it was ISLAND OF THE BURNING DAMNED, on TV ISLAND OF THE BURNING DOOMED. I'm sure many children were saved from lives of crime by these thoughtful alterations. I think it was released as ISLAND OF THE DOOMED in theaters. I have a half-sheet and that's the title on the poster. ISLAND OF THE DAMNED is an alternate title for WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? (1976). I guess by the 70s, people weren't so uptight about the word "damn." But, I wonder, under what title did the musical DAMN YANKEES (1958) air on TV? DARN YANKEES? Just to steer back on topic, I do like WOMANEATER. (Or is it WOMAN EATER?)
Bill Warren	Re: Woman Eater	#32	[-]
May 1 07 1:48 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Maybe NIGHT OF THE BIG HEAT also played in U.S. theaters as ISLAND OF THE BURNING DOOMED, but it definitely played many areas as ...DAMNED. I just Googled and found many hits, some of which also identified it as NIGHT OF THE BIG HEAT.
Plastic Sam	Re: Woman Eater	#33	[-]
May 1 07 8:06 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	ISLAND OF THE BURNING DAMNED is the title I saw NIGHT OF THE BIG HEAT under, on a double bill with GODZILLA'S REVENGE. When AMC ran it, it was retitled ISLAND OF THE BURNING DOOMED.
THE Steve Johnson	Re: Woman Eater	#34	[-]
May 1 07 3:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Monsterpal, I think you mean CHARLES Saunders, director of WOMANEATER and nominal director of MAN WITHOUT A BODY. I say "nominal" because I've read that Saunders' name was used for quota purposes, when the real distinction belongs to credited co-director W. Lee Wilder. It certainly fits in with the Wilder oeuvrrrrre, if you're into that sort of thing, although to my eye it seems so much smoother than any solo Wilder a case could be made for SOMEBODY's collaboration (the cinematographer, maybe?).
Monsterpal	Re: Woman Eater	#35	[-]
May 1 07 3:32 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Quite right, THE. Charles is the Saunders in question. W. Lee is credited as co-director on MAN WITHOUT A BODY, but Charles gets sole credit for THE WOMAN EATER.
Rick	Re: Woman Eater	#36	[-]
May 3 07 12:53 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* It's the same thinking that was applied to the Kingston Trio song (written by Hoyt Axton) "Greenback Dollar." They recorded it with the line "And I don't give a damn about a greenback dollar," but Capitol got cold feet. A radio station in Louisville alternated versions of Jimmy Dean's BIG BAD JOHN for a while. The 'G' version ended..." at the bottom of that mine lies a big, big man--Big John." The horrible NC-17 lyrics were "at the bottom of that mine lies one hell of a man--Big John." In an old-fogey sort of way I kinda miss those timid days.
DonM435	Re: Woman Eater	#37	[-]
May 4 07 12:54 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Odd, but I think that the laundered lyric is more powerful. Saying "hell" for the hell of it is overrated. (The word has its uses sometimes, statimg something blatantly obvious, such as as in "Hell, that's why nobody paid any attention to that particular ruling . . . ")
Bill Warren	Re: Woman Eater	#38	[-]
May 4 07 11:29 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Odd, but I think that the laundered lyric is more powerful. Saying "hell" for the hell of it is overrated. So do I, but less for the use of "hell" and more for the re-use of "big."
Rick	Re: Woman Eater	#39	[-]
May 4 07 11:53 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Odd, but I think that the laundered lyric is more powerful I agree. But when I was a kid, I loved 'em both. I loved the whole song. The 'big, big', as Bill said, was actually more powerful, but 'hell' on the radio in...whenever it was...was pretty darn shocking. When I would sing along with the radio (as I always did), I would try to cram both versions in at once, "at the bottom of this mine lies a hell of a big, big man..." Ya had to really speed to get it all in.
Monsterpal	Re: Woman Eater	#40	[-]
May 5 07 6:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	But back to Vera Day. The interviews on THE HAUNTED STRANGLER disc are great. Kudos to our own Tom Weaver. And to Robert Day's hair.
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