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MonsterGuy95	The Terror	Lead	[-]
Nov 20 10 6:47 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I have just watched the 1938 version of The Terror. I know there was a 1928 versio but it is lost. Then I heard of a movie Return of the Terror. Is this true?
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VideoCellar		#1	[-]
Nov 20 10 7:46 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There is a sequel of sorts to the 1928 "The Terror" (sometimes referred to as the first talkie horror film, for which only the sound discs survive). Made in 1934 "The Return of the Terror" has Mary Astor, Lyle Talbot, J Carrol Naish and Irving Pichel in it. It is apparently as much a remake as a sequel. Its not widely available and may also be lost. Last Edited By: VideoCellar Nov 20 10 7:53 AM. Edited 2 times.
PhantomXCI		#2	[-]
Nov 20 10 2:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	RETURN OF THE TERROR was, as VideoCellar states, more of a remake than a sequel, with a death ray substituting for the original's hidden gold/bonds/whatever. And, according to those who have actually seen it, it was strictly a low-class "B". It has never been syndicated to TV. I believe it may be unavailable due to the sale of the story rights to Associated British. But it's not lost. The Library of Congress has the negative, and the Wisconcin Center for Film has a 16mm print.
Rick		#3	[-]
Nov 20 10 5:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I actually have a memory, but no hard evidence, of RETURN OF THE TERROR showing up in TV Guide listings when I was a kid. I did a search on Google News Archive and found two listings for '63. The Hartford Courant lists RETURN for a tv showing on November 10, 1963. The Beaver City Times (wherever that is) has a listing for August 24, 1963. The Google site wouldn't let me copy the page (or maybe I just don't know how), but this link will, hopefully, lead the interested to that page. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=t_QuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TdsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4174,4035169&dq=return-of-the-terror&hl=en So it's possible that someone around here might have caught it on TV decades back. Personally, when it showed up in my TV Guide, it was for a station not in my reach.
VideoCellar		#4	[-]
Nov 20 10 6:38 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	PhantomXCI wrote: I believe it may be unavailable due to the sale of the story rights to Associated British. Of course the irony is that the play is in the public domain in Britain and just about everywhere else but the USA.
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doctor kiss		#5	[-]
Nov 20 10 7:35 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Rick wrote: I actually have a memory, but no hard evidence, of RETURN OF THE TERROR showing up in TV Guide listings when I was a kid. I did a search on Google News Archive and found two listings for '63. The film shows up with surprising regularity in TV listings throughout the period from 1959 to 1965, particularly in California and New York, but also in Connecticut, Maryland, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Texas and Vermont, and likely elsewhere too. The unlikely-sounding Beaver City Times was published in Nebraska, by the way!
PhantomXCI		#6	[-]
Nov 20 10 9:10 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	WOW. Thanks Rick and Dr. Kiss. This is the very first that I have ever heard of the film being shown on TV. This, then, raises the question of why it seemingly, and mysteriously, disappeared from television 45 years ago. But it was also available for 16mm rental during the mid-1970s (I did see that listing); but I have yet to meet anyone who ever rented it, let alone has a print.
PhantomXCI		#7	[-]
Nov 20 10 9:14 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	VideoCellar wrote: PhantomXCI wrote: I believe it may be unavailable due to the sale of the story rights to Associated British. Of course the irony is that the play is in the public domain in Britain and just about everywhere else but the USA. The double irony is that it has never been published in the U.S. Samuel French Ltd published the play in Britain in 1929; but the American arm of Samuel French never released the script.
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