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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 23, 2014 9:07:23 GMT -5
Marilyn, Monroe, Cary Grant, a monkey AND Ginger Rogers!?!?
I'm in!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 23, 2014 9:14:11 GMT -5
Marilyn, Monroe, Cary Grant, a monkey AND Ginger Rogers!?!? I'm in! Some rare footage of marilyn promoting the movie. Its NOT on the DVD |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 23, 2014 9:33:39 GMT -5
Some other classic films I've seen recently:
The Big House 1930 Wallace Beery,Chester Morris,Robert Montgomery-Possibly the first feature length prison movie. Beery got an Oscar nomination for supporting actor. All the cliches most likely started here except dropping the soap in the shower
The Earrings Of Madame De-1953 Danielle Darrieux,Charles Boyer D-Max Ophuls-Opulent 1890's drama of the French wife of a general who secretly sells her earrings to pay a personal debt and then claims the earrings are stolen. Darrieux is gorgeous and the sets are stunning. Ophuls is the master of tracking shots, outdoing Hitchcock
The Ex-Mrs Bradford 1936 William Powell,Jean Arthur-Its practically a Thin Man movie and it came out the same year too. Entertaining
PT 109 1963 Cliff Robertson Released a few months before the Kennedyassassination,Hollywood loved the president and adapted his WWII experiences to this movie. Obviously romanticized but very well done
Above Suspicion 1943 Joan Crawford,Fred MacMurray-MacMurray is a newlywed Oxford professor (Huh?) in early 1939 and agrees to work for the British secret service to do some spy work in Germany on his honeymoon with Crawford. Decent and light hearted
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 24, 2014 7:06:49 GMT -5
Angels Wash Their Faces 1939 Ann Sheridan,Ronald Reagan,The Dead End Kids-The Dead End Kids debuted in 1937's Dead End w/Humphrey Bogart. This is their 6th or 7th feature. This time on of the squirts is appointed honorary Mayor of the Week of a big city and names the other members of the gang as part of his cabinet. The real Mayor and his staff leave town for a conference. The Dead End Kids crack down on the corruption and organized crime that plague the metropolis aided by Assisstant DA Reagan. Its a decent Dead End Kids/Bowery Boys flick
Four Sided Triangle 1952 A bunch of British actors everyones forgotten. A very early Hammer Studios movie-OK heres the plot. Bill is a kid genius and grows up to be brilliant scientist. His childhood pal Robin assists him as well as the girl they both love,Lena. 25% of the way thru the movie we finally find out what he's working on. Its a duplicator, it duplicates everything. Then Robin and Lena announce their marriage leaving Bill heartbroken. So he creates a duplicate of Lena. But the duplicate of Lena is also in love with Robin-she's a duplicate DUH. She even attempts suicide. So Bill the genius invents a machine that will empty out the memories of the duplicate Lena. It seems to have worked but a fire starts in the lab,everything blows up,Bill and duplicate Lena die, the end and a real sucky finish
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 24, 2014 10:49:03 GMT -5
Next time you're in the mood for a crazy project like the Charlie Chan marathon, try watching the entire Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys/East Side Kids/Bowery Boys oeuvre.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 24, 2014 11:21:30 GMT -5
Next time you're in the mood for a crazy project like the Charlie Chan marathon, try watching the entire Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys/East Side Kids/Bowery Boys oeuvre. Now is that a recomendation Rob or a dare? The next marathon's I was planning on were between Mr. Moto, Torchy Blaine or Weismuller Tarzans |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 24, 2014 13:10:20 GMT -5
Gelatinous Monsters
Which was the most frightful? 1956's X-The Unknown was a chocolate pudding creature from the bowels of the earth
1958's The Blob was a cherry jello alien that gave Steve Mcqueen a hard time
1985's The Stuff was a yummy tasting goo that can turn you into a zombie
Which is the champ and are there other contenders?
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 24, 2014 14:53:02 GMT -5
The Blob wins that contest, no question.
I'd never heard of Torchy Blane before; she sounds interesting.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2014 15:22:35 GMT -5
Other contenders? Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959) is waaaaaaay up there, IMHO.
Also The Unknown Terror, my DVD-R of which I mailed Stephen Bissette just yesterday (along with The Flame Barrier) for an article he's researching on, IIRC, Lovecraftian-type amorphous menaces in old films.
The '70s Blob sequel was fun. The '80s remake has made more than one underrated-horror-movies-you-really-should watch lists that I've come across.
Haven't watched it yet, though I own it on DVD-R, but I do believe the titular menace of The Creeping Terror -- widely considered one of the worst flicks ever -- is supposed to fall more or less in the blob-like category ... though evidently it's pretty clear it's just an old carpet.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2014 15:31:22 GMT -5
I had a guy I hung out with in high school who was fascinated and obsessed with The Stuff. We had a running joke that started at the time about McStuff, the raw material all McDonald's "food" was made from that was just shaped and artificially flvored to resemble what it was sold as, and then they started selling McNuggets which just about confirmed that theory  -M |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2014 15:33:38 GMT -5
A cut-rate DVD of The Stuff is one of the first discs I ever bought, probably around 12 years ago.
I still haven't watched it (cue the "hoarding" thread).
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 24, 2014 15:46:59 GMT -5
Other contenders? Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959) is waaaaaaay up there, IMHO. Also The Unknown Terror, my DVD-R of which I mailed Stephen Bissette just yesterday (along with The Flame Barrier) for an article he's researching on, IIRC, Lovecraftian-type amorphous menaces in old films. The '70s Blob sequel was fun. The '80s remake has made more than one underrated-horror-movies-you-really-should watch lists that I've come across. Haven't watched it yet, though I own it on DVD-R, but I do believe the titular menace of The Creeping Terror -- widely considered one of the worst flicks ever -- is supposed to fall more or less in the blob-like category ... though evidently it's pretty clear it's just an old carpet. Caltiki looks good. Reminds me of egg plant But if I ever visit your home I will keep my shoes on. Creeping Terror is clearly a carpet |
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Post by MatthewP on Sept 24, 2014 18:59:16 GMT -5
Other contenders? Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959) is waaaaaaay up there, IMHO. Also The Unknown Terror, my DVD-R of which I mailed Stephen Bissette just yesterday (along with The Flame Barrier) for an article he's researching on, IIRC, Lovecraftian-type amorphous menaces in old films. The '70s Blob sequel was fun. The '80s remake has made more than one underrated-horror-movies-you-really-should watch lists that I've come across. Haven't watched it yet, though I own it on DVD-R, but I do believe the titular menace of The Creeping Terror -- widely considered one of the worst flicks ever -- is supposed to fall more or less in the blob-like category ... though evidently it's pretty clear it's just an old carpet. is my pick for the worst movie I have ever seen. The monster is pathetic, the story is virtually non-existent (at 75 minutes the movie is too long), the acting is awful, the sets look like junior high school projects, the picture quality is poor, and they apparently messed up the sound so that for chunks of the movie instead of dialogue there is a narrator telling you what the characters are talking about. But worst of all, the movie is just downright boring, with multiple long sequences of pretty much nothing happening. Maybe the movie makers thought they were building tension, but if so they failed miserably. The only amusing bits are watching the "victims" throw themselves under the "monster" - because it's not like the monster could ever have eaten them on its own. As for whether the monster counts as gelatinous, I would say that while it has a somewhat blobby shape, it does not possess the malleability I would expect from a proper gelatinous monster. And yes, it does have a significant carpet-like quality property (cannot use the word quality in any way in reference to anything in this movie). |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2014 20:22:08 GMT -5
Marilyn, Monroe, Cary Grant, a monkey AND Ginger Rogers!?!? ... walk into a bar ... |
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Post by dupersuper on Sept 24, 2014 20:37:45 GMT -5
I'm currently listening to an old Nerdist podcast interviewing the people behind Airplane!
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