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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 27, 2015 14:27:16 GMT -5
Scared To Death (1947) Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat Pendleton
I won't go into the plot, its silly but Oh brother what a campy film
Laura is dead, on a slab in a morgue and is narrating the movie with flashbacks Bela Lugosi has a mute dwarf assistant who steps on a cops toes and does nothing else in the movie except run around George Zucco keeps getting hit in the head Someone who looks like they came from The Blue Man Group keeps peeking into a house through a window Nat Pendleton is a Brooklyn speaking , dumb as a gorilla homicide detective
The only movie filmed in color that starred Bela Lugosi. Enjoy
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2015 14:30:50 GMT -5
Blue Velvet (1986) Written/directed by David Lynch Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Dean Stockwell, Hope Lange Kyle finds a human ear out in the woods . He brings it to a detective who tells him not to discuss the case with anyone. Kyle is curious, and with the help of the detective's daughter is determined to uncover the mystery himself. I LOVE THIS FILM. It has touches of John Waters' influence with its parody of perfect suburban life. It has touches of Quentin Tarrantino with the over the top criminal played by Dennis Hopper. One of Hopper's best roles (and that's saying a lot). Its so quirky, so unsettling but so easy to follow and so suspenceful. David Lynch would follow this up with the TV show Twin Peaks. Seriously, see this film Outstanding Lynch film...very disturbing but you can't take your eyes off it. Love the scene where Hopper lip-synces to In Dreams. It helped to revive Roy Orbison's career who I am a HUGE fan of. Twin Peaks is also my favorite tv show of all time.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 27, 2015 15:14:18 GMT -5
Scared To Death (1947) Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat PendletonI won't go into the plot, its silly but Oh brother what a campy film Laura is dead, on a slab in a morgue and is narrating the movie with flashbacks Bela Lugosi has a mute dwarf assistant who steps on a cops toes and does nothing else in the movie except run around George Zucco keeps getting hit in the head Someone who looks like they came from The Blue Man Group keeps peeking into a house through a window Nat Pendleton is a Brooklyn speaking , dumb as a gorilla homicide detective The only movie filmed in color that starred Bela Lugosi. Enjoy Yeah, this is a one-of-a-kind movie experience. I love it! Be careful - your eyes might fall out! And that's not just any dwarf as Lugosi's assistant. It's the great Angelo Rossitto!
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 27, 2015 15:20:59 GMT -5
And Blue Velvet is pretty good too. When I lived in Los Angeles, there was a revival theatre I used to frequent. And they had several double bills that they showed a lot. At least once a year. Like Taxi Driver with Raging Bull. (I saw that once.) Or Fellini Satyrican and Fellini Roma. (They showed that bill once a year, I'm sure. And I went to that one a bunch of times.)
They also showed a double of bill of Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart. I saw that so many times! If I saw it on the schedule, I would change my plans to see it again.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 27, 2015 19:54:20 GMT -5
Scared To Death (1947) Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat PendletonI won't go into the plot, its silly but Oh brother what a campy film Laura is dead, on a slab in a morgue and is narrating the movie with flashbacks Bela Lugosi has a mute dwarf assistant who steps on a cops toes and does nothing else in the movie except run around George Zucco keeps getting hit in the head Someone who looks like they came from The Blue Man Group keeps peeking into a house through a window Nat Pendleton is a Brooklyn speaking , dumb as a gorilla homicide detective The only movie filmed in color that starred Bela Lugosi. Enjoy Yeah, this is a one-of-a-kind movie experience. I love it! Be careful - your eyes might fall out! And that's not just any dwarf as Lugosi's assistant. It's the great Angelo Rossitto! Had to look up Angelo's resume and it seems I've seen him in so many movies and TV shows. Incredibly, he was NOT in The Wizard Of Oz
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 27, 2015 20:09:29 GMT -5
Yeah, this is a one-of-a-kind movie experience. I love it! Be careful - your eyes might fall out! And that's not just any dwarf as Lugosi's assistant. It's the great Angelo Rossitto! Had to look up Angelo's resume and it seems I've seen him in so many movies and TV shows. Incredibly, he was NOT in The Wizard Of OzAngelo was too busy to appear in Wizard of Oz. He was in Freaks, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Corpse Vanishes, Mr. Wong in Chinatown, Sign of the Cross, Babes in Toyland, Spooks Run Wild, Hellzapoppin', The Greatest Show on Earth, Mesa of Lost Women, Pocketful of Miracles, The Magic Sword, Doctor Dolittle ... ... and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 27, 2015 23:10:26 GMT -5
The Buccaneer (1938) Directed by Cecil B. DeMille Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff, Walter Brennan, Anthony Quinn
The War of 1812 in New Orleans. March plays the swashbuckling pirate Jean Lafitte, a thorn in the side of the American governor and the British see him as a potential ally. Can Andrew Jackson persuade Lafitte to fight with the Americans in the upcoming Battle Of New Orleans?
As usual, DeMille's films are big budget, large scale epics. I never cottoned to Fredric March. I'm still not persuaded. Franciska Gaal plays a cute young Dutch woman who wants to stay on the pirate ship with Lafitte. Walter Brennan, as his style plays an old man-he's always as old man, even before he hit puberty.
I'm sure this has no true historical basis but a decent enough rainy Saturday afternoon old time movie worth spending 2 hours with.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 28, 2015 13:19:25 GMT -5
The Warrior And The Sorceress (1984) David Carradine, Luke Askew, Maria Socas
On a hot, barren planet with 2 suns, a lone swordsman comes upon a small village in the midst of a war between two brutal gangs over the only water well in the vicinity
Please, if you have any sense at all, go see the classic Yojimbo before watching this cheesy ripoff. One gang leader is a fat man in diapers who has a rubber lizard as his advisor. The other leader has a dancing girl with 4 breasts. OK, that might be reason enough to watch this. In fact all the women in this film are topless all the time. But really, Yojimbo is still better. David Carradine is obviously trapped in stereotype casting after his TV show Kung Fu.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2015 21:08:48 GMT -5
Red Headed Woman - 1932 - Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Charles Boyer, Lewis Stone
An ambitious secretary tries to sleep her way into high society.
Reportedly, Red-Headed Woman was one of the movies that led directly to the Hays Code being enforced. Not only does it show Jean Harlow in revealing outfits; but more importantly it shows her completely amoral character getting ahead by any means possible and with impunity.
Early in the movie while trying on a dress she asks the salesgirl, “Can you see through this?” The girl replies, “I’m afraid you can, Miss.” Red: “I’ll wear it!” Harlow plays Lil "Red" Andrews, a woman who isn't afraid to do whatever it takes to get what she wants; which in her case means seducing rich men. She never cares who gets hurt. She is totally without a conscious. Although her slutty ways are eventually exposed, she never gets a comeuppance. Although Harlow steals the show there are several delightful performances by supporting actors. Una Merkel as Sally brings a dimwitted charm to the character, clearly loving the vicarious thrill of being Red’s best friend and confidante. A young, devilishly handsome Charles Boyer has a small part as the chauffeur Albert. In addition there is the stalwart Lewis Stone. Best remembered today as Andy Hardy’s father in the long running MGM movie series.
The people whose lives she ruined say to themselves, “She’ll get hers, just you wait …” but methinks they will wait a long time.
From Forbidden Hollywood volume 1 featuring pre-code films.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 29, 2015 0:45:39 GMT -5
Barbarian Queen (1985) Lana Clarkson
A barbarian horde decimates a village leaving Lana as one of the few survivors. Wielding a sword and big hair she begins to gather allies to take revenge
A double bill Roger Corman producing DVD with Warrior and the Sorceress. And this one is so much the lesser. That's saying a mouthful. Yes topless and bikini clad females abound but no imagination, no campy outrageousness, no memorable villian, just rudimentary story and conclusion. Poor Lana Clarkson, this was her cinema starring role high-point and her end to the creepy Phil Spector will be whats chiefly remembered
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 29, 2015 14:33:42 GMT -5
Edward Scissorhands (1990) Directed by Tim Burton Johnny Depp, Dianne Weist, Winona Ryder, Anthony Michael Hall, Alan Arkin, Vincent Price
Edward lives alone in a haunted (?) mansion after being created by an old inventor who died just before giving him real hands instead of sheering digits. The Avon lady pays a call and decides to adopt him
Still, my all time favorite Tim Burton film. Johnny Depp's first staring role and he hits it outta da park. Dead on acting performances all around, imanginative story that never flags, touches on all emotions from frightening images, heart tugging sequences and momoents of chuckles. Vincent Price as the old inventor was supposed to have a larger part but he was suffering medically and this would turn out to be his last theatrical role. Edward's hair was modelled after Robert Smith of The Cure. Collness abounds. Edwards skill with topiary designs are amazing but fake. Those creations actually have wire mesh underpinnings . A few exist and have been displayed in Central Park's Tavern On The Green
Anyhoo, after some brain dead barbarian films of late, I really needed this
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2015 15:26:53 GMT -5
Still, my all time favorite Tim Burton film. Johnny Depp's first staring role and he hits it outta da park. Actually Depp's first starring role was months before this film in John Water's Cry Baby. This is definitely one of Burton's best...2nd to me only after Ed Wood. Love Vincent Price in this.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 30, 2015 13:08:32 GMT -5
The Devil Bat (1940) Bela Lugosi, Arthur Q. Bryan (The voice of Elmer Fudd)
Supposedly kindly doctor and mad scientist Bela wants revenge against a cosmetics company for profiting with his concoctions and not paying him appropriately. Bela microwaves a bat that make it grow 3 times its normal size. He also trains the bat to attack anyone wearing a particular aftershave lotion. "Attack mein devil bat". Several victims later, the voice of Elmer Fudd, managing a city newspaper, sends 2 intrepid reporters for the scoop. Back then most reporters were intrepid. Or at least smarter than the police. Can anything stop The Devil Bat?
Bela, Big Bats, Elmer Fudd's voice, after shave lotion-what's not to like?
Beware-1946's The Devil Bat's Daughter was not really a sequel
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 30, 2015 13:18:38 GMT -5
Blithe Spirit (1945) D-David Lean Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings (Love That Name), Margaret Rutherford, Kay Hammond
Rex invites a medium (Rutherford) to a dinner party for a séance as entertainment . She brings forth the spirit of Rex's first wife (Hammond). Only Rex can see or hear her. Which annoys his current wife (Constance Cummings-possibly its distracting her from acting on her name)
Very witty and droll script from Noel Coward. By Jove, it's a bit of alright. Nice Technicolor too. The spirit of Kay Hammond has a green tint to her all through the movie. David Lean is a master with his direction by this point. And its available from Criterion. God, I miss Criterion its been a while since I watched one of their DVDs. Best comedy, supernatural film of the forties. Even better than I Married A Witch. 8 stars of 10
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 30, 2015 14:43:16 GMT -5
The Devil Bat (1940) Bela Lugosi, Arthur Q. Bryan (The voice of Elmer Fudd) Supposedly kindly doctor and mad scientist Bela wants revenge against a cosmetics company for profiting with his concoctions and not paying him appropriately. Bela microwaves a bat that make it grow 3 times its normal size. He also trains the bat to attack anyone wearing a particular aftershave lotion. "Attack mein devil bat". Several victims later, the voice of Elmer Fudd, managing a city newspaper, sends 2 intrepid reporters for the scoop. Back then most reporters were intrepid. Or at least smarter than the police. Can anything stop The Devil Bat? Bela, Big Bats, Elmer Fudd's voice, after shave lotion-what's not to like? Beware-1946's The Devil Bat's Daughter was not really a sequel I love this movie so much! It's hilarious! My favorite thing about it is the lousy ethics of the journalists! These guys are terrible!
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