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Post by Hoosier X on May 20, 2014 13:43:28 GMT -5
I don't know French, but I do know Spanish. (I don't speak it very well though.)
I just like any little interaction with language. I've watched movies without sub-titles in Italian, Spanish and ... well, I've watched some Indian films without sub-titles. So that's probably Hindi. I like trying to figure out what's going on.
I seldom watch Almodovar with sub-titles anymore. Since it's Spain Spanish and not Latin America Spanish, I don't follow the dialogue all that well, but Almodovar is just such a great storyteller that you don't need sub-titles. (And it does help that I know some Spanish. But those Castillian accents are so thick!)
One of my favorite horror movies is "La Maladiccion de le llorona." It's a totally different movie if you watch it dubbed instead of watching it in the original Spanish.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 20, 2014 14:12:14 GMT -5
INNER SANCTUM MYSTERY
Dead Man's Eyes (1944)
Lon Chaney Jr.,Acquanetta,Jean Parker,Paul Kelly,Thomas Gomez
D-Reginald Le Borg
Painter David Stuart (Chaney) is engaged to glamorous Heather Hayden (Jean Parker), daughter of a wealthy philanthropist. David’s top model is another spicy dish named Tanya (Acquanetta, CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN) who is not only jealous of the couple's love but inadvertently causes an accident which burns his eyes to the point of blindness. David's future father-in-law agrees to a cornea transplant upon his death to help David regain his sight.The father-in-law is soon found dead,David is a suspect, but the transplant proceeds as scheduled anyways. The film also stars , George Meeker, Eddie Dunn, Jonathan Hale, Edward Fielding and Thomas Gomez (BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES) as the snooping police captain. Let me just say that Acquanetta is one hot looking doll but one of the worst actresses I've ever seen.Known as "The Venezualian Volcanoe" she also appeared in Jungle Woman,Tarzan and the Leopard Woman,Sword of Monte Cristo and Lost Continent. Just be prepared if you ever intend to watch those movies This is a straight up murder mystery.Chaney again is the tortured victim.Not so much for his blindness but more for having to rehearse his lines with Acquanetta.He does looks good in shades. 5 of 10 stars   
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Post by Hoosier X on May 20, 2014 14:20:54 GMT -5
Acquanetta is so awesome!!
I can't argue with you about her acting!
But just watch Captive Wild Woman and you will see ...
Acquanetta is so awesome!!
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Post by MDG on May 20, 2014 15:15:33 GMT -5
Thanks, MDG! I did a search for Weird Woman and I got so many hits that fit that criteria (like "Ten Weird Things about Women" and "Weird Woman at Wal-Mart") that I put it aside as a task for later. When you're looking for a movie like that, search on title and date--if it's there,it'll come up. One of my favorite horror movies is "La Maladiccion de le llorona." It's a totally different movie if you watch it dubbed instead of watching it in the original Spanish. I wish more of the Mexican horror movies on YouTube had english subs, especially: |
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Post by Hoosier X on May 20, 2014 15:38:00 GMT -5
I wish more of the Mexican horror movies on YouTube had english subs, I used to watch Mexican movies on Canal 22 in Los Angeles in the 1990s, long before I ever knew any Spanish. Try it! I especially find Mexican horror and fantasy to be very accessible. (The old ones, anyway. I could never get into more recent Mexican films w/o sub-titles.) I saw parts of "La maladiccion de la llorna" dubbed the first time I encountered it and it looked just horrible! But a few years later, I watched it on Canal 22 in Spanish, no dubbing, no sub-titles, and I found it very creepy. I also saw stuff like "La cabeza de Pancho Villa" and ... I can't think of the names of any others. There was a Frankenstein movie that was totally ridiculous and a Mexican Jesus movie that I liked a lot. A couple of Pedro Infante movies. I always had fun watching them, and I picked up a little Spanish before I went back to college and took a few courses. |
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Post by Pharozonk on May 20, 2014 23:36:49 GMT -5
We watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off today in school. Oh, the irony!
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Post by Jasoomian on May 20, 2014 23:58:24 GMT -5
That's Dan Quayle's favorite movie.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 21, 2014 7:05:31 GMT -5
INNER SANCTUM MYSTERY
The Frozen Ghost (1945)
Lon Chaney Jr,Evelyn Ankers,Douglas Dumbrille,Milburn Stone,Martin Kosleck,Elena Verdugo,Tara Birell
D-Harold Young
Alex Gregor (Chaney), professionally known as “Gregor the Great” is a well-known hypnotist who may or may not have killed a man through a mind trick during his stage act. The incident proves to be scandalous, and after leaving his love interest (Evelyn Ankers), he takes refuge at a wax museum/mansion run by Madame Monet (Tala Birell), who mysteriously disappears. Was she killed in the same hypnotic way? Martin Kosleck (HOUSE OF HORRORS) is wonderful as a slimy wax-sculpting creep who lusts after the Madame’s cute niece (Elena Verdugo, HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN). Also starring Milburn Stone, Douglass Dumbrille and Arthur Hohl.
Lon Chaney Jr again is haunted by blaming himself for the sudden death on-stage of a volunteer during his nightclub mindreading performance.Again with the internal whispered monologues.And again he channels the power of the future Roger Moore where every female from 16 to 60 in these movies falls in love with him.I never knew lon Chaney Jr was such a stud-muffin.And once again we have ole bottlehead introducing the film
I love these 40s B movies.We got the creepy wax museum. We got a creepy wax museum curator with a German accent, shifty eyes and occassional knive-thrower.And of course the persistant,plodding police inspector who suspects our hero,not the German sounding guy.
But we don't have a ghost.I was looking forward to a ghost. With the weather warming up, a frozen ghost sounded great.But no,it refers to the fact that in wax museums they keep the temperature cold so the figures don't melt.
I'm deducting 2 points for no frozen ghost. 7 of 10 stars
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Post by Hoosier X on May 21, 2014 8:42:04 GMT -5
Milburm Stone is, of course, most famous for playing Doc on Gunsmoke.
And Martin Kosleck is famous for playing Josef Goebbels more than once.
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Post by MDG on May 21, 2014 10:41:13 GMT -5
And Martin Kosleck is famous for playing Josef Goebbels more than once. I think he's a Nazi in The Flesh Eaters, a sleazy (but effective) low-budgeter written by Arnold Drake. |
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Post by Hoosier X on May 21, 2014 11:04:30 GMT -5
And Martin Kosleck is famous for playing Josef Goebbels more than once. I think he's a Nazi in The Flesh Eaters, a sleazy (but effective) low-budgeter written by Arnold Drake. The Flesh Eaters is great! I'd completely forgotten it was written by Arnold Drake!
Martin Kosleck played Goebbels four times, according to IMDB. (Which has a photo of Joel McCrea posted for Kosleck. Oops!)
I haven't been watching movies. I got kind of interested in the first season of "Heroes" - Ali Larter and Hayden Panattiere! - and the NBA playoffs - Go, Pacers! - but I hope to watch Weird Woman in the next day or two.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 21, 2014 13:06:16 GMT -5
INNER SANCTUM MYSTERY
Strange Confession (1945)
Lon Chaney Jr,J. Carrol Naish,Milburn Stone,Brenda Joyce,Lloyd Bridges
D-John Hoffman
STRANGE CONFESSION is told in narrative flashback and is basically a remake of Universal’s earlier THE MAN WHO RECLAIMED HIS HEAD with Claude Rains. Chaney plays brilliant chemist Jeff Carter, the brains behind a pharmaceutical company run by the shrewd Roger Graham (J. Carrol Naish). A humble family man who gets fired and re-hired, Carter creates a formula for a new wonder drug that cures influenza which is prematurely put on the market by his double-crossing boss. Roger Graham sends Chaney to South America for a project in order to keep him in the dark and to make time with his wife. Brenda Joyce plays Chaney’s glamorous wife and a very young Lloyd Bridges is his friendly colleague. STRANGE CONFESSION is unlike the other films in the series.Yes,the head under glass introduces the film.However there are no Chaney internal monologues and no bevy of babes swooning for the big galoot.Just a beautiful wife.The film opens with Chaney armed with a big briefcase,furtively walking down a dark street,avoiding a policeman and entering a home of a lawer he knew from school.He begs the lawyer to hear his tale and shows him whats in the briefcase.The lawyers face sickens as Chaney begins the story STRANGE CONFESSION is the least spookiest of the series.Its pure melodrama but enjoyable.Naish is great as the slimey capitalist. There seemed to be a lawsuit over this movie after its release due to it being an unauthorized remake.When the inner Sanctum films were sold to TV in the late 50s,this film was not amongst them. It didn't resurface until its 1990s VHS home video release 6 and 1/2 stars of 10.And theres a monkey in the movie!!  
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Post by DubipR on May 21, 2014 13:43:14 GMT -5
Did anyone catch TCM the past couple of nights? They were celebrating the films produced Brookfilms Productions, Mel Brooks' company? It was great.
May 19:
Fatso
84 Charing Cross
The Doctor & the Devils
May 20:
The Elephant Man
My Favorite Year
To Be or Not To Be
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Post by The Man of Tomorrow on May 21, 2014 17:05:35 GMT -5
Acquanetta is so awesome!! I can't argue with you about her acting! But just watch Captive Wild Woman and you will see ... Acquanetta is so awesome!! Yeah, she really sizzles on screen. I was only a kid when I first caught that film, yet, even then, found her, um, captivating.  |
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Post by The Man of Tomorrow on May 21, 2014 17:12:13 GMT -5
And Martin Kosleck is famous for playing Josef Goebbels more than once. I think he's a Nazi in The Flesh Eaters, a sleazy (but effective) low-budgeter written by Arnold Drake. I remember seeing that on Creature Features on WNEW around the mid-'70s. I believe that was the first time I saw a woman on television wearing only a bra above the waist. |
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