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Post by bigjeep on Jun 5, 2024 11:27:59 GMT -5
Love reading this stuff. I love old B sci-fi movies--sometimes the worse they are the better. Just saw The Tingler starring Vincent Price this Saturday. A truly ridiculous movie. Loved it. Then there are the classics, many of which are mentioned above, like Them, The Thing, Forbidden Planet, The Day the Earth Stood Still, etc. One of the fond memories of my early youth was my father letting me stay up late on Friday night to watch the 11:00 creature feature. Have you see the movie "Plan 9 From Outer Space." Classic! Rated the worst movie ever made! One of my favorites! Its so bad, its good!  |
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Post by bomberhojoe on Jun 5, 2024 11:32:04 GMT -5
The scene where Hackman's character takes over for the barber that was shaving the face of the corrupt deputy that also beat his wife was an all time great. It was just so intense. Also when he casually grabs the "local" by the family jewels... I've seen so many Hackman movies, but "Mississippi Burning" is for me his most powerful performance. But he was also great in "French Connection", "Hoosiers", "Class Action", "Unforgiven", ............................. |
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Post by Max on Jun 5, 2024 11:32:35 GMT -5
Funny when watching a movie and see actors that I didn't know had a role in such movie. Jack Nicholson in "Little Shop of Horrors". Boris Karloff in the 1932 movie "Scarface".
I mentioned the 1932 movie "Old Dark House", Gloria Stuart is in the movie, she was also in the movie "The Invisible Man". Some might remember her as Rose Dawson Calvert in the 1997 movie "Titanic".
I believe Kevin Costner played the role of "corpse" in "The Big Chill". I believe he was uncredited in that movie.
Richard Jaeckel was in the movie "City Across the River" along with Anthony Curtis, later known as Tony Curtis.
Mike Farrell from MASH was a bellhop in the movie "The Graduate."
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Post by bomberhojoe on Jun 5, 2024 11:32:55 GMT -5
No one better than Humphrey Bogart!  I'm a fan!!!! "Caine Mutiny" one of my favorite movies of all-time!!! |
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Post by Max on Jun 5, 2024 11:35:15 GMT -5
That movie has an excellent cast. One of my favorite character actors Dwight Frye is also in "Bride of Frankenstein. Valerie Hobson is in also that movie. She was also in another horror movie classic called "The Werewolf of London". Una O'Connor is another one of my favorites, she always gives me a good laugh(s), especially in the movie "The Invisible Man". Dwight Frye also as Renfield in "Dracula", the inspiration for our very own poster. Una O'Connor is one of those easily identifiable character actresses. Like Maria Ouspenskaya, who made her first film when she was 60 years old. No wonder it seemed like she was never young. For the roles she played, I can't think of a better actress for those roles than Maria Ouspenskaya. Renfield is my favorite character in the movie "Dracula." |
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Post by Max on Jun 5, 2024 11:48:40 GMT -5
So do I. I like the Bride of Frankenstein better than Frankenstein which is another classic. By accident, I recently found a channel on Roku that shows a lot of those movies. I totally agree on "Bride" versus "Frank." I remember in "Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion" he had "Bride" as one his 100 favorite films, so that helped validate it for me as a great movie because I had great respect for his critiques. There was something about those Universal movies -- the prop plane circling the globe established a dark mood right from the start. "Dracula" directed by Tod Browning was another of those. Although I appreciate its mood and setting, I don't like it as much as some of the others. A bit too slow-moving and too many pregnant pauses for my taste. Not for Universal but for MGM Browning directed one of the ultimate unsettling movies "Freaks." Even though the studio cut it ruthlessly, it still seems amazing that a film like that would have been released in 1932. Silent film star Olga Baclanova and Wallace Ford are the only recognizable names to me. One of the truly bizarre endings. Browning did a lot of work in silents with Lon Chaney Sr. (a much better actor than his son IMO) including the disturbing "The Unknown" which starred Chaney and Joan Crawford. In which Lon deliberately has his arms amputated. The movie "Freaks" freaked me out. Dracula is another classic. When I was a kid on Saturday AM they showed the Spanish version of Dracula on TV with subtitles. It's a good movie. I tried to find that movie for years and I finally saw it again a few months ago.
I like both Lon Sr. and his son. Lon Chaney Jr. I think is the only 1 from that era that played all put 1 of the main monsters of that era (The Wolfman, Count Alucard aka Dracula spelled backwards, Frankenstein, The Mummy). I think the only 1 he didn't play was the Invisible man. The Wolfman is the only one of those monsters that was cured. That happened in the movie "House of Dracula." |
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Post by Max on Jun 5, 2024 11:54:49 GMT -5
I would be very remiss if I did not mention 1958's "The Blob," which was the first starring role for Steve McQueen, with Aneta Coursault, later to be Helen Crump on "The Andy Griffith Show" as his girlfriend. I always found her strangely alluring. It was filmed in my neck of the woods, using a movie theater in Phoenixville PA and a diner in Downingtown PA, both of which are still around. The theater, called The Colonial, has an annual re-enactment of the scene from the movie where everybody runs out of it. I haven't participated because you have to sign up early if you want to pretend to be in a panic with hundreds of others running from an alien life form. That theme "Beware Of The Blob" was written by Burt Bacharach and Mack David, brother of Burt's long-time collaborator Hal. Perhaps fortunately for Bacharach's future career he was uncredited in the film, although he later owned up to it. I loved watching that movie as a kid, I liked the song too. I got a good laugh when I later read that Bacharach wrote it. |
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Post by Max on Jun 5, 2024 12:05:57 GMT -5
There was something magical about those often campy horror shoes and movies in black and white. They showed just enough that they made your imagination run wild and made your mind complete the story. Then came the 70’s and 80’s when color was fully established and “special effects” meant bare breasts and who could make the best spurting arteries, and sort of ruined the entire genre… Sometimes in horror, it was what you couldn’t see that made it special…the blood and gore was never as good as the original product… The first somewhat gory movie I can recall was the original "Night Of The Living Dead"... Yeah, I think you're right. There was even more gore in the second movie "Dawn of the Dead" (1978). |
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Post by Max on Jun 5, 2024 12:14:43 GMT -5
I would be very remiss if I did not mention 1958's "The Blob," which was the first starring role for Steve McQueen, with Aneta Coursault, later to be Helen Crump on "The Andy Griffith Show" as his girlfriend. I always found her strangely alluring. It was filmed in my neck of the woods, using a movie theater in Phoenixville PA and a diner in Downingtown PA, both of which are still around. The theater, called The Colonial, has an annual re-enactment of the scene from the movie where everybody runs out of it. I haven't participated because you have to sign up early if you want to pretend to be in a panic with hundreds of others running from an alien life form. That theme "Beware Of The Blob" was written by Burt Bacharach and Mack David, brother of Burt's long-time collaborator Hal. Perhaps fortunately for Bacharach's future career he was uncredited in the film, although he later owned up to it. My "Kids" live there! Yes, the Diner and Theater survive! But it is literally such a dark movie, finding anything watching the movie is tough! The old man in "The Blob" also played Jensen in the movie "Them". He was the guy in the hospital that was in bed that kept saying "make me a Sargent in charge of the booze." That scene always give me a good laugh. James Whitmore who played the role of Brooks in Shawshank Redemption" was also in the movie "Them." |
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Post by azbob643 on Jun 5, 2024 12:25:16 GMT -5
Dracula is another classic. When I was a kid on Saturday AM they showed the Spanish version of Dracula on TV with subtitles. It's a good movie. I tried to find that movie for years and I finally saw it again a few months ago.
I was obsessed with Dracula when I was a little kid. The Bela Lugosi version was ok, but couldn't compare to the truly frightening "Nosferatu" as played by several including Gary Oldman.    |
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Post by Max on Jun 5, 2024 12:28:56 GMT -5
That's fair. I am a big Liam Neeson fan, as well. I don't necessarily think he is in the same league as the others I mentioned, but he is very entertaining. He was great in that movie where his daughter went to Paris and was abducted by the sex slave traders. I know there were two sequels but I thought the first was best. The title of the movie you're talking about is called "Taken." |
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Post by Max on Jun 5, 2024 12:30:45 GMT -5
Have you see the movie "Plan 9 From Outer Space." Classic! Rated the worst movie ever made! One of my favorites! Its so bad, its good! Those so called "special effects" were comical. |
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Post by bigjeep on Jun 5, 2024 12:33:46 GMT -5
My "Kids" live there! Yes, the Diner and Theater survive! But it is literally such a dark movie, finding anything watching the movie is tough! The old man in "The Blob" also played Jensen in the movie "Them". He was the guy in the hospital that was in bed that kept saying "make me a Sargent in charge of the booze." That scene always give me a good laugh. James Whitmore who played the role of Brooks in Shawshank Redemption" was also in the movie "Them." Fess Parker was in the movie "Them". Walt Disney was so Impressed with his performance in the movie that he decided that he would get the role of Davey Crockett! |
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Post by Max on Jun 5, 2024 12:37:53 GMT -5
Dracula is another classic. When I was a kid on Saturday AM they showed the Spanish version of Dracula on TV with subtitles. It's a good movie. I tried to find that movie for years and I finally saw it again a few months ago.
I was obsessed with Dracula when I was a little kid. The Bela Lugosi version was ok, but couldn't compare to the truly frightening "Nosferatu" as played by several including Gary Oldman. Nosferatu was a good movie. The Christopher Lee Dracula movies scared me as a kid. I'm taking holding the bed covers up to my eyes scared, as my older brothers that I shared a bedroom with laughed at me.  |
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Post by Max on Jun 5, 2024 12:41:45 GMT -5
Dracula is another classic. When I was a kid on Saturday AM they showed the Spanish version of Dracula on TV with subtitles. It's a good movie. I tried to find that movie for years and I finally saw it again a few months ago.
Gary Oldman. Gary Oldman was an excellent Dracula. Tom Waits who played the role of Renfiled in that movie was also very good. |
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