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kochillt		#441	[-]
May 21 12 4:07 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	THE FACE BEHIND THE MASK is the first James Seay title I think of, followed by his starring role in PHANTOM FROM SPACE.
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skelton knaggs		#442	[-]
May 25 12 11:43 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I just finished watching the episode of Colonel March - The Case Of The Misguided Missal, with framed murderer Anthony Newley. I'm really diggin' on this show. Boris is a joy to watch... "You can't smell any reefer, can you"?
Rick		#443	[-]
May 29 12 12:41 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Just watched THE FRIGHTENED CITY, a British film from '61, and a few familiar faces (and forms) were front and center, including some Hammer faces. No fez for George Pastell this time, just a mild Italian accent as the owner of a restaurant. Hammer favorites Herbert Lom, Yvonne Romain, and Yvonne Romain's ... err...profile. Yvonne proves that she's not a total bust. Inspector Dreyfus hopes the new recruit from HMSS is an improvement over Clouseau. Last Edited By: Rick May 29 12 11:00 PM. Edited 1 times.
HalLane		#444	[-]
May 31 12 12:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Boy, that Connery comb-over makes it look like a much later film.
Rick		#445	[-]
May 31 12 8:59 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Just watched HELL DRIVERS, a British film from 1957. Surprisingly, there’s not a lot of Hammer actors involved, but there are familiar faces aplenty. When you appear in every British-made movie from the mid-forties to the mid-eighties, you’re bound to land in some horrors. The ubiquitous Marianne Stone did SPACEWAYS, THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT, QUATERMASS II, CURSE OF THE MUMMY’S TOMB, HYSTERIA, and COUNTESS DRACULA for Hammer. Elsewhere, she found time for CORRIDORS OF BLOOD, HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM, JACK THE RIPPER, THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE, WITCHCRAFT, BLOOD BEAST FROM OUTER SPACE, BERSERK, TWISTED NERVE, BLOODSUCKERS, THE CREEPING FLESH, and CRAZE. The future Mrs. Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, was creatively cast as “Jill.” And Alfie Bass, a decade before becoming a FEARLESS Jewish vampire. For the Who-vians, there's a crisply villainous turn from the very first Doctor, William Hartnell .... .... and for those who can find humor where I see very little -- none other than Sid James. The lovely Vera Day deserves two pics at least. She was in THE WOMAN EATER, THE HAUNTED STRANGLER, and, most memorably, QUATERMASS II. This thing is full of spies-to-be. There's Ilya Kuryakin... ....and both John Drake and that 007 feller. A particularly arty pose from Herbert Lom. He was probably delighted to play a rare nice guy, but he still lost the girl to Stanley Baker. And what a girl to lose! The adorable Peggy Cummins. Judging by release date, this was probably the movie she shot just before NIGHT OF THE DEMON.
PhantomXCI		#446	[-]
May 31 12 9:50 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Rick wrote: When I saw this shot, my first thought was... My God, Peter Cushing looks bloated!
Lady Tottington		#447	[-]
Jun 4 12 4:10 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This isn't so much about who as about where-----I watched "The Woman in Red" ('35) the other day on TCM. It initially appealled to me because it starred one of my favorite ladies, Barbara Stanwyck. It became even more interesting when I saw that Robert Florey was the director. Edward Van Sloan popped up as a lawyer, Dorothy Tree (one of Dracula's wives) and dear old Arthur Treacher (he seemed old even then!) made appearances. What was most interesting and fun for me, though, is that the characters visited and talked about places that I know very well. The movie was based on a book, NORTH SHORE and the rich characters spend time going from place to place on Long Island. I have lived all my life on Long Island. At one point, they were at the Huntington Yacht Club. There really is such a place, located about a mile from my parents' home and I have gone to one or two parties there. It looks nothing like the place Barbara and Dorothy visited!! Later, they were out in Long Island sound (yup, been there lots of times) and passed the "Shorham Light" . Now, maybe there was a light there in 1935 --believe it or not that was before my time!! But, I highly doubt it. A very quick Google check only brings up the Shorham Atomic Power Plant--a light of a very different kind!! Finally, their elegant yacht trip was to terminate (they never get there) at the Greenwich Boat Basin. Again, there really is such a place---and I've been there, too. It is kind of fun seeing favorites at places that, well, you really wouldn't expect to see them since they are so out of the way. It is also interesting to see the mistakes that movie makers allow--knowing that the average movie goer will not know the difference. Barbara and friends were zooming and zig zagging all over the Island!
skelton knaggs		#448	[-]
Jun 4 12 7:48 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Watching The Twilight Zone episode And When the Sky Was Opened featuring Rod Taylor, Jim Hutton, and Charles Aidman. Besides it being a well above average episode with an original story by Richard Matheson and directed by the great Douglas Heyes.....I knew I knew the nurse at the end but couldn't place the name or face. But of course it had to be Beaver Cleaver's school teacher Miss Landers. None other than Sue Randall. "You can't smell any reefer, can you"?
Rick		#449	[-]
Jun 5 12 1:04 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	What do you get when you take director William Dieterle (who made three great horror/fantasy films -HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY, PORTRAIT OF JENNIE), screenwriter Barre Lyndon (THE LODGER, HANGOVER SQUARE, WAR OF THE WORLDS, MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH), special effects wizard John P. Fulton (just about everything), and composer Victor Young (THE UNINVITED, NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES, and about 7 zillion others)? Whatever ya get it must be a masterpiece, right? Well...no. It’s a big piece of colorful but silly cheese called OMAR KHAYYAM. But even a lousy movie can provide work for some worthy and very familiar folk. For example.... Raymond Massey (THE OLD DARK HOUSE, ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, Ol' Klaatu his ownself gets to dress up mighty purty. THINGS TO COME) gets a nice juicy death scene. Good old Morris Ankrum takes time off from fighting anti-matter turkeys Maxwell Smart's "Chief" Ed Platt puts his basso tones to good and thyroidal grasshoppers to play wise guy...err...wise man. use, spouting a load of exposition. Some guys don't even rate a close-up. Here's Henry Brandon. Whether Barnaby, Fu Manchu, And Douglas Spencer, Scotty from THE THING, plays with birdies. or Chief Scar this guy was always dependable. And let us not forget the fair sex. And very fair they are. Joan Taylor (EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS, 20 MILLION MILES TO And our leading lady, the incomparable Debra Paget, wearing just wayyy too much. EARTH) plays a slave girl with some nice abs. Two thoughts... 1. Dieterle shot a whole lot of this thing in only master shots. Either he was proud (with some justification) of the opulent sets, or he was in a hurry to finish this sucker and move on. Also a likely notion. 2. Wally Westmore's budget for fake beards must have been ENORMOUS!!
Rapfred	Lots Stars Cheap	#450	[-]
Jun 5 12 2:33 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I finally caught up with THE 27TH DAY, a reputedly outrageous piece of sci-fi agitprop a la RED PLANET MARS, and it did not disappoint. The movie is a jaw-dropping experience, you betcha, what with its crude, red-baiting propaganda and climactic deus ex machina in which a final solution to the Cold War is engineered by anti-Commies from outer space. Better still, it boasts a glittering array of stars from the galaxies commonly known as the WhatDaFudge cluster. To wit: Mel Welles as a Soviet muckety-muck (think Comrade Mushnick). George Voskevec, bka Juror #11 in 12 ANGRY MEN, as a Teutonic scientist. Mushroom-headed Frederick von Ledebur (THE MAN WHO TURNED TO STONE) as Voscovek's brainiac bud. Paul "My eyes are alien" Birch as an Ankrumesque military bigwig. Paul Frees as (what else?) a TV news commentator. All this plus a couple of visitors from the planet Nyuck Nyuck: Emil Sitka, the Fourth Stooge himself, as an airport newsie. Phil Van Zandt of SPOOKS and FIFI BLOWS HER TOP fame in a blink-and-you'll-miss-him bit as an airport cabbie. Last Edited By: Rapfred Jun 5 12 2:36 AM. Edited 1 times.
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Rick		#451	[-]
Jun 12 12 10:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Okay, today it was ARIZONA RAIDERS, a 1965 Audie Murphy western that feels like a 1958 leftover. There aren't a lot of genre connections with this one, not good ones, anyway. But the first 10 minutes or so were just so weird that I have to share. Here we see Booth Colman, not really a genre figure though he does turn up in WORLD WITHOUT END and THEM! In ARIZONA RAIDERS, we start with some nice, old-fashioned cowboy-painting credits, then we meet Booth in his newsman garb. He then talks to us, right into the camera, telling us the story of Quantrill's Raiders (the famous historical figure is actually called "Quantrell" here). He talks and talks...a 7 minute monologue. Just ol' Booth and, toward the end, a couple of short action clips of the Raiders in action. I hope Colman was well-paid, if only for sheer memorization. When he finally finishes talking (and probably passes out offscreen), we never see or hear from him again. Well, he probably had lost his voice by then anyway. During his soliloquy, Booth Colman shows us a couple of photos of "Quantrell". Oddly, as you can sort of see in this screenshot, the "photos" seem to be not photos at all, but simply Fred Graham standing still for a few seconds inside some sort of frame. It's possible these are actual photos, but there's a "live" three-dimensional quality to them that certainly seems to belie that possibility. Fred Graham appeared in a coupla hundred movies and serials, including 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, REAR WINDOW, and VERTIGO. But he is most fondly remembered, at least by me, as the sensible, friendly sheriff of THE GIANT GILA MONSTER. He may have been Flash and Buck and Tarzan, but Buster Crabbe always looked most comfortable, at least to me, in his cowboy togs. Gloria Talbott in one of her sweet Indian girl roles. One of those ripped-shirt, bared-back scenes which must have seemed awfully hot in '65. And, because I was reminded of Gloria, here's a shot of Miss Talbott from GIRLS' TOWN. This crummy screenshot is from the Mystery Science Theater version. When Gloria enters the room, the comment is "Uh-oh -- Romulans!" Well, I mean, look at her hairdo!!
Lady Tottington		#452	[-]
Jun 18 12 3:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	June 13, in honor of Basil Rathbone's birthdate, TCM ran some early films of his. Among them was 1930's LADY OF SCANDAL with Ruth Chatterton. When Ruth went to Basil's English country house, we get to see Herbert Bunston (Dr Seward), Frederick Kerr ( old Baron Frankenstein), and a familiar looking Moon Carroll---who the IMDB tells me is the nurse who lets Dracula into Mina's room and who was also in THE13th CHAIR. More interesting, was Nance O'Neil who was --from 1904 to 1906-- a housemate and a very special friend ( so they say) of Lizzie Borden.
skelton knaggs		#453	[-]
Jun 20 12 12:37 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The Crawling Eye's Laurence Payne as the killer in the Boris Karloff series Colonel March, episode Passage at Arms. "You can't smell any reefer, can you"?
HalLane		#454	[-]
Jun 20 12 8:39 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Rick wrote: It’s a big piece of colorful but silly cheese called OMAR KHAYYAM. With a different shirt ol' Raymond could be The Big RED Cheese -- so THAT's what Captain Marvel's cape would look like in color!
skelton knaggs		#455	[-]
Jun 26 12 11:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Wow, here's a dandy. While watching an episode titled Surprise of Mr. and Mrs.North with Richard Denning and Barbara Britton, well who do you think shows up? I didn't catch him till the end of the episode with that voice that was so familiar...None other than Vazec the Innkeeper himself, Rex Evens! Also on hand, the murder victim, the Rocket-man himself Tristram Coffin. "You can't smell any reefer, can you"?
clore103051		#456	[-]
Jun 27 12 10:50 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	skelton knaggs wrote: Also on hand, the murder victim, the Rocket-man himself Tristram Coffin. Hopefully, he stayed dead this time. I'll save myself some typing and use this quote from the IMDb: He was the infamous "dead man walking" from early television, an often-told tale about the "corpse" who got up and walked out of a scene on live TV. The incident was so well known that Los Angeles Times ran an article a few days after the incident, saying, "It seems that on the new high-budgeted CBS dramatic series, "Climax!" (1954), which had its debut on KNXT (2) Thursday night, actor Tristam Coffin was lying under a blanket and Detective Dick Powell was talking about having the body removed when the actor arose from the dead and strolled off scene. Powell and the other actors went right on talking as if nothing had happened. And the show went on and the private eye finally solved the murder, leaving televiewers a little perplexed. CBS blushingly explained yesterday that Coffin thought the scene was over and that he was off-camera when he took his macabre stroll". It was in an adaptation of "The Long Goodbye" with Dick Powell returning to the role of Philip Marlowe.
kochillt		#457	[-]
Jun 28 12 3:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	THE WOMAN IN THE HOUSE, a 1942 short featuring a silent cameo from Peter Cushing, will air on TCM Friday night between 9:30 and 10:00 PM Eastern time.
Rapfred	Like, out of this world	#458	[-]
Sep 12 12 3:22 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I recently revisited VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET, a childhood favorite of mine. Alas, some things are better left to memory (as is often the case with Jerry Lewis films). But at least one scene still remains fresh and funny: the spaceman's visit to a small beatnik joint. It also boasts a couple of real gone sightings. As goatee-sporting, jargon-spouting daddy-os: Joe Turkel, aka Lloyd the bartender in THE SHINING, aka Sheriff WTF Am I Doing Here in VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS Paul Wexler (far right), aka the tight-lipped Jivaro curare-dispenser in FOUR SKULLS OF JONATHAN DRAKE, aka the Lurch-like butler in THE BOWERY BOYS MEET THE MONSTERS
flashback		#459	[-]
Sep 12 12 1:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	i don`t know if these were mentioned but vincent price ,boris karloff and peter lorie showed up at the end of BEACH PARTY movies. "classic "freddie blassie ,the wrestler. showed up on the dick van dyke show.
TomWeaver999		#460	[-]
Sep 12 12 1:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Paul Wexler (far right), aka the tight-lipped Jivaro curare-dispenser in FOUR SKULLS OF JONATHAN DRAKE, aka the Lurch-like butler in THE BOWERY BOYS MEET THE MONSTERS << After a lifetime of avoiding DOC SAVAGE--MAN OF BRONZE, I finally watched it a few months or a year ago, and was shocked that Paul Wexler had a major role as the villain. Not one of the villain's many henchmen, not one of 14 villains -- the villain. No offense to Paul Wexler but ... "WTF? PAUL WEXLER?? Co-STARRING in a major studio movie in the 1970s??" I remember that I saw it. I remember that I liked it a tiny bit more than I thought I would. I remember that Paul Wexler played the villain. Other than that, even though I just saw it a few months ago, I don't remember one frame of it (no exaggeration). In my experience, I don't think any movie ever went in one eye and out the other faster.
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