Thursday, April 8, 2021

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

LIONS "we serve"

  MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (1949)




The lion is matted in brilliantly. 

You can only tell it's not "real" when the cage tips over and all four paws are still on the floor.

MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (1949)

The "other" KONG created by Willis O'Brien.
This is Ray Harryhausen's first animation job, supervised by O'Brien.



 

It won the Academy Award for best visual effects.





Monday, April 5, 2021

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GREAT way to start a week!

This tune is a winner by itself.
Listen to the ways the melodies intermix, it's total genius.

MANY NIGHTS we stayed up until 11:30 in the 1970s just to see Johnny's 10-min monologue.
Maybe longer if we liked the guest or follow-up.









NEVER FORGOT this particular tune I heard from a Revlon commercial.
Heard it maybe around '78 and this thing stuck with me for decades.
Its a Simon Park piece called "Printout"



Sunday, April 4, 2021

Metropolis (1927)


 




DENNIS HOPPER, Basil Rathbone, John Saxon

Queen Of Blood (1966)
also released to television as "Planet Of Blood", 
although there is actually very little blood in the movie.

Thumbnail: another fail from Blogger's useless random-thumbnail generator. I did not do that.


Interior of alien spaceship is VERY well-done.
These and other scenes were originally produced for Russian MECHTE NAVSTRECHU (1963)





Ultra-rare production still from MECHTE:






The wire antennae do tend to make the aliens
look less formidable.....they really do look like bunny-ears.

THE TIME TUNNEL concept art

 



Rod Serling's NIGHT GALLERY


I wonder if this VHS had the missing scenes that were removed for TV commercials







 


This show scared the hell out of me as a 10-yr old.....especially this damn thing:





AND a few others: