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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2016 17:35:26 GMT -5
I'm just venting - yesterday, I was very happy to see Turner Classic Movies will be showing The X from Outer Space a 1967 Horror & Science Fiction Movie that I hadn't seen in years and they cancelled the last minutes and showed four Rita Hayworth's Movies in a row in honor of her birthday instead. I have all those movies on DVD and I wanted to watch the The X from Outer Space instead. I guess that I will be watching on You Tube tonight instead.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 18, 2016 12:58:17 GMT -5
I'm just venting - yesterday, I was very happy to see Turner Classic Movies will be showing The X from Outer Space a 1967 Horror & Science Fiction Movie that I hadn't seen in years and they cancelled the last minutes and showed four Rita Hayworth's Movies in a row in honor of her birthday instead. I have all those movies on DVD and I wanted to watch the The X from Outer Space instead. I guess that I will be watching on You Tube tonight instead. I've had a couple of frustrating cable experiences lately as well. I DVRed Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster and got the remake of Assault on Precinct 13 instead! (It wasn't TCM.) And a couple of days later, I DVRed Cabin in the Sky and the first fifteen minutes was missing! I don't know if that was a TCM scheduling problem or if it was cable. BOOOOO! I've been meaning to see if I can watch the rest on YouTube. It's so weird! It's been close to two years since I had a problem like this! I DVRed Goke, the Body Snatcher from Hell and The Woman Who Wouldn't Die off TCM but I haven't watched them yet. I don't know much about them. I DVRed them just because of the titles. Goke is a Japanese monster film from the 1960s, and you can usually count on those to be hilarious. The other one is also from the 1960s but I don't know a thing about it! I'm looking forward to them both!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 18, 2016 16:44:45 GMT -5
I'm just venting - yesterday, I was very happy to see Turner Classic Movies will be showing The X from Outer Space a 1967 Horror & Science Fiction Movie that I hadn't seen in years and they cancelled the last minutes and showed four Rita Hayworth's Movies in a row in honor of her birthday instead. I have all those movies on DVD and I wanted to watch the The X from Outer Space instead. I guess that I will be watching on You Tube tonight instead. I've had a couple of frustrating cable experiences lately as well. I DVRed Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster and got the remake of Assault on Precinct 13 instead! (It wasn't TCM.) And a couple of days later, I DVRed Cabin in the Sky and the first fifteen minutes was missing! I don't know if that was a TCM scheduling problem or if it was cable. BOOOOO! I've been meaning to see if I can watch the rest on YouTube. It's so weird! It's been close to two years since I had a problem like this! I DVRed Goke, the Body Snatcher from Hell and The Woman Who Wouldn't Die off TCM but I haven't watched them yet. I don't know much about them. I DVRed them just because of the titles. Goke is a Japanese monster film from the 1960s, and you can usually count on those to be hilarious. The other one is also from the 1960s but I don't know a thing about it! I'm looking forward to them both! I recieved a movie bummer today as well. Went back to the library to return my DVDs and hopefully find the disc for CC and Company that was switched for the Bruce Willis movie Cold Light Of Day. Well, they had the Cold Light Of Day case, but inside was the correct dvd. So somewhere out there the disc I want is floating around the wrong DVD case. Both branches of the library system I'm a member of do not have any more copies and it's doubtful it will be re-ordered due to budget constraints (I did sign up for a hold on it if it ever reappears). Well, I went 45 years without seeing it, I could go another 45
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 18, 2016 16:48:54 GMT -5
I've had a couple of frustrating cable experiences lately as well. I DVRed Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster and got the remake of Assault on Precinct 13 instead! (It wasn't TCM.) And a couple of days later, I DVRed Cabin in the Sky and the first fifteen minutes was missing! I don't know if that was a TCM scheduling problem or if it was cable. BOOOOO! I've been meaning to see if I can watch the rest on YouTube. It's so weird! It's been close to two years since I had a problem like this! I DVRed Goke, the Body Snatcher from Hell and The Woman Who Wouldn't Die off TCM but I haven't watched them yet. I don't know much about them. I DVRed them just because of the titles. Goke is a Japanese monster film from the 1960s, and you can usually count on those to be hilarious. The other one is also from the 1960s but I don't know a thing about it! I'm looking forward to them both! I recieved a movie bummer today as well. Went back to the library to return my DVDs and hopefully find the disc for CC and Company that was switched for the Bruce Willis movie Cold Light Of Day. Well, they had the Cold Light Of Day case, but inside was the correct dvd. So somewhere out there the disc I want is floating around the wrong DVD case. Both branches of the library system I'm a member of do not have any more copies and it's doubtful it will be re-ordered due to budget constraints (I did sign up for a hold on it if it ever reappears). Well, I went 45 years without seeing it, I could go another 45 That's the spirit!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 19, 2016 0:11:17 GMT -5
I recieved a movie bummer today as well. Went back to the library to return my DVDs and hopefully find the disc for CC and Company that was switched for the Bruce Willis movie Cold Light Of Day. Well, they had the Cold Light Of Day case, but inside was the correct dvd. So somewhere out there the disc I want is floating around the wrong DVD case. Both branches of the library system I'm a member of do not have any more copies and it's doubtful it will be re-ordered due to budget constraints (I did sign up for a hold on it if it ever reappears). Well, I went 45 years without seeing it, I could go another 45 That's the spirit! Hey, Hoosier-I found C.C. and Company on YouTube. There's even 3 separate postings of it. Man, I thought you seen them all by now
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 21, 2016 0:50:29 GMT -5
Did the cat get Francis' tongue? No, that mule will be back and i'll probably watch #5 tonight but needed some time off for other things/ other movies/ other impetuses in writing about what I've seen. Sometimes ya just don't want to be bothered writing
I've seen 2 other classics that were quite good
Deep Valley (1947) Ida Lupino, Dane Clark Ida and her family live in a ramshackle house in the middle of nowhere. An escaped convict meets Ida in the woods and she helps and falls in love with the escapee. How could you not love Lupino? Ida too
Dirty Little Billy (1972) Michael J. Pollard Do you remember Pollard who took his supporting role from Bonnie and Clyde and became a cult movie star for a few years? This is an unromantic little western, quite realistic about old west conditions. Nicely done. And Gary Busey in one of his earliest movie roles
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 21, 2016 12:29:38 GMT -5
Deep Valley (1947) Ida Lupino, Dane Clark Ida and her family live in a ramshackle house in the middle of nowhere. An escaped convict meets Ida in the woods and she helps and falls in love with the escapee. How could you not love Lupino? Ida too Is there a whole separate genre of movies where Ida Lupino gets involved with some disreputable character? It seems to me there are at least three or four of these, usually with Robert Ryan. And I've seen parts of Dirty Little Billy. But I was visiting my dad and had other things to do and couldn't watch much of it. From what I saw, it looked like it was worth seeing and I've been hoping to catch it again on TCM or MOVIES! or something.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 21, 2016 12:51:27 GMT -5
I didn't watch any movies for a few days. Several of my shows have started (Gotham, Supergirl, Scream Queens, to name a few), plus I watched the last debate. (Would people stop saying "Can the GOP possibly pick a worse candidate?" every campaign season? The whole party seems to be taking it as some kind of perverse challenge.) Not to mention the baseball playoffs. (Go Dodgers! (Although I wouldn't mind seeing the Cubs in the World Series, not one little bit!)) And also quite a bit of extra running around on behalf of an pet adoption organization that I volunteer for. But I did fit in a couple of short movies since Wednesday night. First up, Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968). Man, do I love crazy Japanese monster movies, and this one is pretty awesome! There's a bunch of people in an airplane. In the first ten minutes, there's a bomb threat, an attempted hijacking, bright orange skies, a UFO and a bunch of birds hurling their bloodied bodies at the windows. (And there was a guy with some writing that looked like Arabic on his T-shirt! They needed to throw him off the plane, pronto!) And then, after they crash land, there's no water for the survivors because the only white lady on the plane used all the water to wash the sweat off her body! She's all sorry and stuff! I didn't know it was our only water! The UFO lands nearby and starts taking over people's bodies! I love this stuff! Highly recommended for people who like movies like War of the Gargantuas and Dagora and The Attack of the Mushroom People. Hello? I'd like to talk to my agent ... Could you get me another Fritz Lang movie? And last night I saw The Woman on the Beach (1947), with Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan and Charles Bickford. Directed by Jean Renoir. In a small role, Irene Ryan, later most famous as Granny on "The Beverly Hillbillies." I don't think I would have recognized her if I hadn't seen her name in the credits. I think this is the only thing I've ever seen her aside from "The Beverly Hillbillies." The Woman on the Beach is a film noir - sort of - and a rather silly and listless one, but I liked it for the great cast and because it was 71 minutes. It might have made a little more sense if it had been a little longer but I doubt I would have enjoyed it more.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 21, 2016 16:13:22 GMT -5
Francis The Mule meets Francis The Mule Francis Joins The WACS (1954) Donald O'Connor, Julie Adams, Chill Wills, Mamie Van Doren, Lynn Bari, Zazu Pitts, Joan Shawlee, Alisson Hayes, Mara Corday Peter is recalled to active duty but a government snafu has him report to a WACS regiment. Francis is recalled as well to the same regiment for animal laboratory experimentation. The WACS regiment is in competition with a regular army troop headed by General Chill Wills The Francis movies have their formula that serves them well. Peter gets info that benefits him but once he admits it's from the mule, he lands up in a pyscho ward. Until Francis starts talking to everyone else. While this film, 5th in the series, is not quite as good as #4, it has quite a few things well worth watching I found it hilarious that every time Francis appears, he has more and more bandages on his rear end form experimental injections. They love that jackass So many great female co-stars in this one. A beautiful 22 year-old Mamie. Alisson (Attack Of The 50 Ft Woman) in her film debut. Zazu Pitts returns from the first film as the nurse who is in charge of the psycho ward as well as shooting up Francis' heinie. Julie Adams, Mara Corday and Joan Shawlee all had long careers appearing in both cult and prestigious movies But the best and funniest thing of all is that the voice of Francis The Mule, Chill Wills, finally plays a major character in the film as the rival general. And of course when people hear Francis speak they think it's the general and vice versa. One scene has Peter hearing the familiar voice and looks up to see the general with Francis' head speaking. Francis makes a Superman reference in one scene he he's spying into a WAC dorm, watching a cadet changing clothes. "Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superwoman" Oh that mule And, of course, the film calls for a scene with Donald O'Connor in drag
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 22, 2016 6:40:59 GMT -5
Go ahead. Make My MuleFrancis in The Navy (1955) Donald O'Connor, Martha Hyer, Jim Backus, David Janssen, Martin Milner, Clint Eastwood
6th Francis film and another military setting. Why o Why. Peter is a lieutenant in army intelligence (which for a guy sent to a psycho ward 38 times is quite the accomplishment) when he gets a top secret coded message form Francis himself. Francis needs Peter's help (a switch). Francis is now in the navy and is about to be sold off as surplus. Peter arrives at the naval base to learn there's a popular sailor there who is a dead ringer The military setting s tiresome to me at this point. Donald O' Connor playing dual roles and the resulting situations is as brainless as a typical Patty Duke Show. There's not much in the way of genuine funny situations and hilarious dialogue. Clearly the Francis series seems to be running out of steam However, the supporting cast makes this at least somewhat of interest. This is Clint Eastwood's first role with his own credit. Not impressed with his acting here but he looks good and has lots of lines. jim Backus is his usual blustering self as a naval Commander. David Janssen is on screen a lot but hardly speaks. Martin Milner of later Adam-12 fame is just one of the boys I guess both Donald O'Connor and the director of all the Francis films to date, Arthur Lubin, also agreed that the series has been played out. This is the last time they would participate with it. Or as Donald's famous quote about quitting "When you've made six pictures and the mule still gets more fan mail than you do..." But Francis was stubborn. He insisted the show must go on. And he always wins his arguments.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 22, 2016 10:56:41 GMT -5
I definitely remember the one where Francis runs into the general with the same voice. Doesn't he say that he modeled his voice on the general when he decided to teach himself how to talk? So I've definitely seen this one.
Looking at that cast makes me want to see it again. A lot of people who meant noting to me when I was 8 but now I think they are great. Not only O'Connor and Wills, but also ZaSu Pitts, Allison Hayes, Mamie van Doren, Julia Adams. And Mara Corday from Tarantula! She's great. I was looking at her filmography and she's in The Black Scorpion which is showing on TCM next week.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 22, 2016 11:25:13 GMT -5
I watched Torchy Blaine in Chinatown (1939) yesterday. Kind of fun. Less than an hour long!
At the end, the bad guys were these menacing dudes wearing hoods and threatening one of the good guys and talking in really bad pseudo-Chinese accents. You know, saying things like "You got lansom money? You be prenty careful if you want to rive." And I thought "If these guys don't turn out to be stupid white men masquerading as Chinese then this may be the most racist movie I've ever seen."
And they turned out to be white men masquerading as sinister Chinese stereotypes. Good job dodging that bullet!
They had faked their own deaths in an elaborate plot to extort $250,000 from jade collectors and were trying to pin it on the Chinese!
Torchy (Glenda Farrell) figured it out early in the movie without even hearing their bad accents! She's pretty smart, that Torchy.
One of the conspirators pretending to be Chinese was Patric Knowles. But he reformed and later became a doctor in the Welsh city of Cardiff where he did his best to cure Lawrence Talbot of his delusions that he turned into a woof and killed people. This was in the movie Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, which by coincidence I started last night but I only watched 30 minutes because I was falling asleep. I'll finish it today.
I've heard of the Torchy series but I'm not sure I've ever seen one. They seem to have copied the Torchy template and merged it with the Charlie Chan template when they made those Mr. Wong movies with Boris Karloff. The girl reporter is Bobbie London, played by Marjorie Reynolds, and I love Marjorie Reynolds! Did you see Ministry of Fear? I love the end where she shoots the bad guy THROUGH THE DOOR and kills him.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 22, 2016 14:49:57 GMT -5
I finished Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) this morning. I've seen this so many times. I used to think it was pretty bad, but it's part of a series that I love so much, probably my favorite movie series ever, that I have just seen so many times from all those years where October meant watching all the Frankenstein movies from the 1931 original to 1945's House of Dracula. It's grown on me. There is so much to enjoy here after you have figured out that you just have to ignore how silly it all is. I love the vague time period and the Central European fantasyland where the film is set. (Universal's German village in Burbank.) Also, the early scenes are set in ... Cardiff! That's wonderful! Horrible murders in Cardiff! Lawrence Talbot's desperate quest to find peace in death! ("You don't understand. I turn into a woof! I kill people!") Lon Chaney's anguished performance. Inspector Lestrade investigating the strange tale of Lawrence Talbot. Patric Knowles as the doctor and psychiatry enthusiast who quickly masters the secrets of life and death well enough to invigorate the monster! The lovely Ilona Massey as the Baroness Frankenstein. The Festival of the New Wine! And then there's Bela Lugosi as the monster. I've come to love it! It's an eccentric performance made even more awkward by studio interference when all of Lugosi's dialogue was cut and all the references to the monster's blindness were deleted. And then the climatic fight in the castle laboratory as the cranky bartender dynamites the dam! Also: Lionel Atwill, Dwight Frye and Martha Vickers! I understand people who don't like it. It took me awhile to warm to it. There were times when I kind of dreaded watching it after I finished Ghost of Frankenstein every October. But I've totally come around. The one that still kind of annoys me is House of Dracula. It has its moments though.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 22, 2016 15:00:07 GMT -5
I watched Torchy Blaine in Chinatown (1939) yesterday. Kind of fun. Less than an hour long! At the end, the bad guys were these menacing dudes wearing hoods and threatening one of the good guys and talking in really bad pseudo-Chinese accents. You know, saying things like "You got lansom money? You be prenty careful if you want to rive." And I thought "If these guys don't turn out to be stupid white men masquerading as Chinese then this may be the most racist movie I've ever seen." And they turned out to be white men masquerading as sinister Chinese stereotypes. Good job dodging that bullet! They had faked their own deaths in an elaborate plot to extort $250,000 from jade collectors and were trying to pin it on the Chinese! Torchy (Glenda Farrell) figured it out early in the movie without even hearing their bad accents! She's pretty smart, that Torchy. One of the conspirators pretending to be Chinese was Patric Knowles. But he reformed and later became a doctor in the Welsh city of Cardiff where he did his best to cure Lawrence Talbot of his delusions that he turned into a woof and killed people. This was in the movie Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, which by coincidence I started last night but I only watched 30 minutes because I was falling asleep. I'll finish it today. I've heard of the Torchy series but I'm not sure I've ever seen one. They seem to have copied the Torchy template and merged it with the Charlie Chan template when they made those Mr. Wong movies with Boris Karloff. The girl reporter is Bobbie London, played by Marjorie Reynolds, and I love Marjorie Reynolds! Did you see Ministry of Fear? I love the end where she shoots the bad guy THROUGH THE DOOR and kills him. I got the complete 9 movie Torchy Blaine DVD collection via the Warner Bros Archive Collection, purchased about 5 years ago. Part of my to-be-viewed pile. Possibly the next box-set I'll go through
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 22, 2016 15:06:29 GMT -5
When you get done with Torchy, you can move on to Bobbie London and Kitty O'Day (I love Kitty O'Day!) and then the Maisie movies.
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