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'The clearing' -- a goof? (Possible spoilers.)

posted 16 years ago by hobnob53
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After their encounter with the spiders, the men journey on and eventually come to a spot where they stop and look ahead through their binoculars. They see a clearing off in the distance but Galbraith says it's several hours away, so they decide to camp there for the night. (And are then attacked by mutates.)

Jump ahead to the scene where Mories, discovered to be a murderer, flees the tunnel into the open and is cornered and killed by the beasts. The shot of him running into them as they surround him is in the exact same clearing the crewmen had looked at earlier. Check it out.

I assume this is merely a goof -- that the director used shots of the same spot in two separate scenes for economy's sake, not intending that they be taken for the same place. The men appear to go off in a different direction the first time, so they might not be on course for the clearing they saw through the binoculars. On the other hand, it may be that they really were looking at the place that turns out to be just outside the tunnel...in fact, from the angle they're looking at it, the same direction Mories runs out from, they'd almost be standing on top of the underground city when they first spy the site. That's why I doubt the two shots are supposed to be of the same place. But it would have been more intriguing if that's what had been intended.

Of course, mutate-wise, that would have been an even worse spot to camp out than where they stopped that first night!

[–] gary_overman 16 years ago

For some reason, it took a while to register with me just what it was that you are saying here. But now that I finally figured it out, yeah; it does make sense.
I had noticed that the place where the mutates got poor Mr Colman was the same place as the clearing pointed out earlier in the film, but the implications that you just mentioned never occurred to me.
Good one Hob.

[–] hobnob53 16 years ago

I just re-read my post and even I couldn't figure out what I meant. But you doped it out fine, as usual, g. I don't think it was supposed to be the same spot, but it is fun to think that it just might have been.

[–] haristas 16 years ago

Well, the exteriors for this movie look to have been shot on one of the many-used "ranches" just outside of LA. I haven't been able to find info on it. Maybe someone reading this will know. I think I've seen the same rocks and such in many westerns. I'll bet the location is still there, but probably with a freeway overpass nearby now. You probably can't even record dialogue there anymore because of traffic noise -- I'll bet 'ya!

[–] hobnob53 16 years ago

The beautiful desolation was certainly exquisite, and (as per our other thread exchange) added to the realism of the story. I've wondered where it was filmed, too -- no info available here on the IMDb site on filming locations.

I'd like to think that the area was a bit too rocky and mountainous to let that freeway in...but like you, I have little faith the spot is as pristine as it was when filming took place in 1955! If not a freeway, the Park Service may have built trails and installed picnic areas and bathrooms to "preserve" it.

Personally, I'd take the mutates.

[–] haristas 16 years ago

I have this book called "Hollywood Escapes" that's about the various locations in Southern California where movies were shot, and it has nothing about WWE, however from what is described I'd say parts of WWE were shot in what's known as "Corriganville Park" in the Simi Valley. It got its name because the property, around 250 acres, was onced owned by Ray "Crash" Corrigan (later bought by Bob Hope). Other movies shot there were "Fort Apache," "Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter," "Billy the Kid Vs. Dracula," and "The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant," as well as countless "B" Western movies and TV shows. Do a Google search for "Corriganville Park" and several sites will come up, some with photos. Looking at them I'm almost sure this is where the exteriors of "World Without End" were filmed.

[–] hobnob53 16 years ago

Thank you!!

[–] escalera-2 15 years ago

I came across this by accident and thought it might be useful:

"World Without End is a real oddity. It was written and directed by jack-of-all trades journeyman Edward Bernds, a veteran of the B-picture industry. As that market imploded he fanned out into westerns, Sci-Fi teen exploitation and Three Stooges features. His movie relocates H.G. Wells' The Time Machine into a rocketship, but most of the screen time is spent within skimpy Allied Artists sets and location work at Stony Point in the NW corner of the San Fernando Valley..." --- from the DVD Savant review http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s2646end.html

Does this look familiar? (I haven't seen the title in a long time and don't remember the scenery)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoney_Point_(California)

[–] hobnob53 15 years ago

The smaller photograph on the left does look a little like the area where some of WWE was shot. Hard to be certain, but definitely familiar-looking. Is there a rock-grave of a mutate anywhere abouts?

Esc, you can now get a great four-pack of 50s sf titles including World Without End, Them!, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, and Satellite in the Sky, in the TCM Classics series from Warner Video. These are all just recycled prior releases from WHV, but these sets (there are also ones for musicals, dramas, horror and comedy) do have some great flicks. This set combines the two-film disc featuring WWE and SITS (sounds like the aftermath for a defeated wrestler, no?), with the other two having been issued both as separates and a two-fer disc themselves. Sci-Fi set #1 in the TCM label included Forbidden Planet, The Time Machine, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Soylent Green. I haven't yet got either, but probably will. Target sells them (if you can find them) for $17.99 each, which is less than any on-line shop I've yet seen.

[–] escalera-2 15 years ago

"Target stores"? I've heard of them.

Thanks, again, for the tip, hobnob. I will surely watch for that set. That World Without End collection sounds great to me.

Satellite in the Sky is one I'm certain I watched on KHJ Channel 9 in Los Angeles, but do not remember it. After seeing stills from that title, I feel as if I have never seen it.

That's a lovely sounding title. On the front page of the October 5, 1957 morning edition of the Los Angeles Times there was a caption heading under an artist's (inaccurate) rendering of Sputnik I that was similar, reading "SATELLITE IN SKY".

B-b-big deal

The Go-Man told me youse guys were hanging around on this page.

[–] hobnob53 15 years ago

Of course, as Bill Warren in his book asked rhetorically, where else would you put a satellite?

I saw that film only a couple of times, once in the 60s (late night, WCBS channel 2 in NYC), then again on a videotape in the 80s. Both prints were pan & scan, and, amazingly, in black & white, even though the movie is in color. The VHS copy was so poor that I sent it back. It wasn't until the dual-flick disc with SITS and WWE came out in '08 that I finally saw Satellite in the Sky in its original glory -- widescreen and in color. My memories of it were sketchy and "colored", as it were, by the poor prints I'd seen it in before, but it isn't half bad -- rather ambitious in its execution, in fact, probably too much so for its budget. But what the two films have in common is that each was the first CinemaScope sci-fi film released in its home country (SITS is a British film, though distributed by Warner Bros.).

I wouldn't have thought of adding it onto the DVD containing WWE, but as it is a little-seen film I was finally glad to have it, especially in its original formats. Kieron Moore (later of The Day of the Triffids and Crack in the World) is the star, and his leading lady is Lois Maxwell, the first "Miss Moneypenny" in the Bond films until her retirement from the role at the age of 107.

I figured Gary may have tipped you off about us here. We've also been having further rounds on the Panic in Year Zero board. Come aboard!

Aaaaahhhhhhh!!!!! (I'm panicking.)

[–] escalera-2 15 years ago

Thanks, hobnob. I'd been meaning to get back to The Twonky (1953) as promised but got sidetracked by the Disney curiousity Moon Pilot (1962).

I'll have to lay those last two to rest, but I'll return to Panic... for a peek and check out what you and Gary are are chatting about.

[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 15 years ago

Pardon me for getting into this, but while you guys are lost in the wonder of WWE you shouldn't forget the majesty of Space Master X-7. I have not seen any rewarding conversations about this Bernds work. Also, if you are of a mind, and don't we all just love really awful sci fi movies, let us not forget that other Bill Williams starrer and scintilating, though many may say excruciating artifact of the early 1960's, Spaceflight 1C-1. Such beauty cannot be forgotten!

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[–] escalera-2 15 years ago

Allow me to welcome you, Yodzingie and forgive my sounding so pretentious. This is an open forum and you brought some interesting stuff to it.

I have never seen Space Master X-7 (1958) though I have read about it. (you had brought up the Bernds/Stooges connection in another post and now it all makes sense to me as to why Moe Howard scored his bit part in Space Master X-7. That Moe -- always the busniness man!)

I can't forget Spaceflight 1C-1 since I'd never heard of it! Great flaming comets!

I'll have to look it up. (I dug around for it and saw that someone had expressed an opinion that the title in question is a rip-off of First Specship on Venus (1960), a picture I have seen.

Anyway, thanks for that.

[–] hobnob53 15 years ago

E-2, please go check my musings on these two new films raised by Yodzingie, in my direct reply to his first post above. You might be interested. Then again....

[–] escalera-2 15 years ago

Sounds good to me. It is always good to find familiar faces in new places.

As previously mentioned I had read about Space Master X-7 here and there, mostly while searching for stills of Moe Howard in his minor role in same.

Jes' curious.

[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 15 years ago

Moe the Schmoe Howard was in a few other flix minus Stooges and as I commented on another site, Schemp was probably in more films sans Stooges than Moe and one of them was a Charlie Chan extravaganza. I suppose none of you know that much about Charlie, but I have a huge love in my gizzard for old Chans particularly the Sidney Toler ones. If you know anything about anything else, just dial me up.

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[–] hobnob53 15 years ago

My favorite non-Stooge appearance by a Stooge (actually a Stooge-to-be) is that of Joe DeRita (the soon-to-be "Curly Joe") in the 1958 Gregory Peck western The Bravados. He plays a phony hangman (!) who instead of stringing up the four outlaws sentenced to die helps them escape from jail, though he gets a bullet in the brain for his troubles. No screen credit, either. But just watching him in this ten-minute role of a murderous, crooked executioner -- especially the final shot of him lying dead on the jailhouse floor with a hole in his forehead and his eyes staring straight ahead -- brings on gales of giggles, knowing what was to come just a year later (Have Rocket, Will Travel).

I updated my earlier Space Master mention to note that the DVD I bought is in its full Regalscope glory, but a poor print. But I'll keep it, and make any other musings on that film on its own site.

[–] escalera-2 15 years ago

I did like Mr. Toler in the role of Charlie Chan the best, but the Warren Oland portrayal was good, too.

My siblings and I grew up watching The Charlie Chan Theater and so got to calling my old Dad, "Pop". Once my daughter, when she was maybe eight or so, heard me say this to my Dad and she thought it was hilarious and, along with her brothers, has called me "Pop" ever since. I don't think she knew where I got that from. I'm inscrutable.

And, my Dad, also a Charlie Chan fan, would sometimes playfully refer to my eldest brother as "Number One Son".

[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 15 years ago

Good for them and you. I have even read some of the original Earl Derr Biggers books. I suppose you know Chan was based on an actual Asian detective from Hawaii. On some of the dvds that Fox has released there are historical docus about him. I think his last name was "Ipana", but not like the tooth paste. Also, the Chan films were almost as big as Shirley Temple at keeping Fox afloat during those troublesome years. Warner Oland was the second biggest paycheck for Fox back then and when he died, they were inconsolate for about 3 mins. Another wonder was that Oland used no eyelid makeup. A very interesting man, too.

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[–] escalera-2 15 years ago

I'll go elsewhere for more on Charlie Chan and Mr. Ipana.

I liked Peter Lorre's Mr. Moto series, too.

[–] hobnob53 15 years ago

Talk about coinky-dinks....

Space Master X-7 got some surprisingly good reviews, but I had never seen it until I caught a piece of it a few months ago on the Fox Movie Channel. I just recently ordered a DVD of it and it's just arrived, though I haven't watched it yet. However, it's on again today (March 2, 2010) at 2:30 PM EST, back on FMC. Unfortunately I don't believe they're running it widescreen (and in fact I fear the DVD I got is also just pan & scan, as it's not a Fox disc), but still, if it's the only game in town, better than nothing. Any in-depth discussions of it should probably revert to its own site. Update: my DVD of Space Master X-7 is in widescreen after all, but a poor print. The version now running on FMC as I write is their previous p&s print, but a clear one. As I taped that one earlier, I'll keep both versions for the present, one for clarity, one for the whole picture.

Spaceflight 1C-1 has also popped up on various cable channels of late, but so far I haven't managed to see it yet. Both films were titles I'd known of for decades but which for some reason had escaped my generally vacuuming-up eye for sci-fi flicks.

Whereas my first encounter with World Without End was on New York's channel 9 (WOR, back then), when they ran it on Million Dollar Movie around 1963 -- and not in pan & scan, but in CinemaScope...sort of. Apparently they had not yet made a p&s print for television, so 9 ran the movie literally in squeezed 'Scope -- the raw, un-unsqueezed 35mm film print, everyone and everything all bunched together and about 8 feet tall. But you did get the whole picture.

[–] escalera-2 15 years ago

That tid-bit about the World Without End broadcast ("squeeze-cast"?) on your Channel 9 is a hoot. Recalling my impatient attitude back then, I would have been complaining all through it.

I wandered over to Space Master X-7 and Spaceflight 1C-1: Adventure in Space found neither hide nor hair of you, hob-nob and so I came back and found your above entry.

I'll look forward to reading your comments.

[–] hobnob53 15 years ago

No, I've never been to the SMX7 site. But I added an update to my post about it above, just noting that my DVD is, in fact, widescreen (in glorious Regalscope), but of a poor print. I'll mosey over to its own site at some point. For now, in the words of co-star Paul Frees, "Aaarrrghhh".

[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 15 years ago

Hey there Mr. Endless Knowledge of All Films Some of them Worth Seeing, what was the title of that Richard Demming thing with the one robot? Wasn't it something with "End of the World" or "Earth" in it??

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[–] escalera-2 15 years ago

I'll take "Raw Panic!" for 200, Alex.

What is Target Earth (1954)?

(I always liked that one)

[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 15 years ago

And over on "Panic in the Year Zero" thread, Dr. Hob hasn't said anything about Arch Oboler's "5" which is similar to everything being written about there. And thanx for that other title. Didn't it stink or am I in the wrong universe?

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[–] escalera-2 15 years ago

I believe you had mentioned that you were a little older than me, Yodzingie, so Target Eath had a better chance of scaring the stuffing out of me.
And it did. I liked the empty street scenes. I even liked the robots.

[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 15 years ago

I saw it first on the tube and remember being disappointed with it. It was on Chiller, KTTV. I know you'll remember that.

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[–] escalera-2 15 years ago

Sure. As the pendulum swings with a click and a clack:
"It's...five o'clock....time for....Chiller!"

I ate up all of that stuff. I guess movies like The Incredible Petrified World (1957) or The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959) were a mite too slow for this lad. (I'd give ...Skulls another go now)

But, I liked Target Earth. It was faithful to the short story, too, except the ending.

[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 15 years ago

"World" was fun cuz of Carradine and the boredom of it. Hob hates it, but psychotronic films are what drive me; I enjoy rubbish often as much as supposed greatness. Have fun with Herman.

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[–] escalera-2 15 years ago

I watched The Incredible Petrified World a while back as I have it on a DVD collection and I liked it for the reasons you give (I don't know how "psychotronic" films are defined - I remember the psycho-tron from that Boris Karloff picture -- a pretty neat picture, too. Wild.)

I liked the porthole painted on the weather balloon diving bell that was hanging off the side of the boat flopping around in the wind. And how the divers got out of the bell without flooding the device and drowning everyone else is anybody's guess!

[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 15 years ago

Go to hermancohen.com/bhsc-targetearth.html and enjoy. All will be revealed.

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[–] escalera-2 15 years ago

Thanks for that, Yodzingie.

Dial 9 for an outside line:

hermancohen.com/bhsc-targetearth.html

[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 15 years ago

Didn't know there was a short story for it.

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[–] escalera-2 15 years ago

Yes, Deadly City by Paul W. Fairman became Target Earth. It is included in the book They Came from Outer Space compiled by Jim Wynorski (yes -- THAT Jim Wynorski!)

There are a couple of editions of this out of print book on e-Bay right now. They go from less than ten bucks to over 20! I first bought one a few years ago off a book store discount bin and got it signed by Wynorski. Unfortunately I did not get it back from someone who had borrowed it. I bought another copy later through e-Bay. Fun stuff.

[–] hobnob53 15 years ago

Boy, you two have certainly been at it all afternoon.

Yes, I knew Target Earth, though I never read the short story it was based on (I read a synopsis of it in Bill Warren's book). Cool 'bots. The empty city scared me as a kid, when it was broadcast on channel 4 (WNBC) here in NY.

And Yodz, wherever did you get the idea that I hated The Incredible Petrified World? Not at all. For shame for saying such a thing! (Are you a Republican member of Congress?) It's silly and poorly made, like most Jerry Warren stuff, but much better [sic] than our old fave, Invasion of the Animal People, and I do like the hermit and Robert Clarke and Lois Lane #1, as well as poor JC. A proud addition to my DVD collection.

Since you guys grew up in LA, and I know I've asked this somewhere before but have forgotten, there was a creepy guy dressed as some sort of weird forest ranger, who ran late-night sci-fi flicks Saturdays at I think 11:30 (on channel 11 maybe?). I saw him once, when I was visiting friends there in Dec. 1974, and the film he was running that night was The Deadly Mantis. I remember one of his comments during a break, when he said something like, "So those scientists are going to the Arctic to look for fossils. And speaking of fossils, where did they find that reporter they're taking with them?", referring to the woman played by actress Alix Talton...who I always hoped was not, for her sake, tuned in to the program that evening!

And with that, let's try to steer this thread back to some worthy WORLD WITHOUT END topic, okay?

[–] gary_overman 15 years ago

<And with that, let's try to steer this thread back to some worthy WORLD WITHOUT END topic, okay?>

It has gotten slightly off track, hasn't it?

With that, something that you said earlier in the thread struck a chord with me, Hob. That was about the lack of ahem!!! 'facilities' on XRM.
I noticed that as well. Just where in the heck did they go to the bathroom? Of course, once the ship landed, they could go whenever and wherever they had to, but I can't help but to be amused at the differences between movies back then and the movies of today in this regard. And of course, we never saw any TP around anywhere, did we?
I think the first time that I heard this in a movie was in a comedy that took place in WWII in the Pacific, made in the early 1960's. An elderly Asian gentleman was being questioned by the Americans and mentioned that he had been been there for a long time and that he had to go to the bathroom. I was shocked and amused at the same time.
On another board, that you and I frequent, it was mentioned something about the 'Hays Code'. Since you are the resident expert on such things, did the code prohibit mentioning such things or showing toilets?

[–] gary_overman 15 years ago

BTW, welcome aboard to both of our two friends. WWE is a fun movie to watch.

[–] hobnob53 15 years ago

Good question about the Hays Code and lavatories. Specifically I don't recall reading the prohibition, but know the matter was addressed in the Code, which was unbelievably didactic in its obsession with minutiae, as well as idiotic and obtuse. (Plus its administrators were as dumb as a box of rocks.) You could never even say "bathroom", or even "men's room" -- "washroom" and such non-toiletesque terms were required.

Psycho was the first modern, mainstream American film to even show a toilet. All other Hollywood bathrooms seemed not to have been equipped with one, although we never saw a complete such "washroom" anywhere in the movies during the heyday of the Hays Code.

When looking at a really confined area like a spaceship, the question only got worse. In WWE I always assumed we could infer it was in the unseen back of the ship, where they did have some stuff stashed, and anyway theirs was an all-male crew. On the other hand, the very small cabin in Rocketship X-M really left nothing to the imagination about where such a facility could be tucked away, so that question was left, well, hanging -- not to mention this was a mixed, male/female crew. They re-used the same spaceship interior for Flight to Mars, where there were even more people aboard, and also a mixed M/F crew, hence the issue -- I said issue, not tissue -- was even more acute...especially when they took the Martian girl and man back with them. What would they have known about Earthman plumbing? Oh, I forgot -- they'd been monitoring our radio waves for many years and had gotten a complete layout of our washrooms...except for those, those, whatchamacallits?

As to relieving themselves on the surface of Mars, I suspect that, atmospheric and biological contamination issues aside, the Martians wouldn't have been too keen at the sight of humans using their planet as a galactic rest stop.

Of course, as to a certain crucial paper product, imagine the special effects shot of the end of the roll drifting upward in the absence of gravity, and the Captain barking out the order, "I said loop it under the roll! Under!! Emergency rockets forward! Now!" Rocketship T-P?

[–] escalera-2 15 years ago

We do get to visitin', don't we?

Apparently your long lost TV host was a fella with the handle of Ranger Bob. He was a Seymour supporting character. Here's a handy site:

http://www.tvacres.com/horror_seymour.htm

I used to watch Seymour -- he was a riot. He would assume the identity of Banjo Billy from time to time and while I have no vivid memories of Ranger Bob like you do, hobnob, your quote seems to be in line with the stripe of the show. Seymour was wild in a deadpan sort of way. After he left us Elvira, Mistress of the Dark came on the scene and I think she may have been the last of the red-hot chiller horror theater monster movie hosts.

I'm getting off the line and I am headed to Target Earth (1954) to respond to your comment.

[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 15 years ago

For the death of me I cannot remember Ranger Boob, but I can tell you I was at a very unusual awards show a few nights after Larry's demise and part of the awards show contained a memorial service for Seymour. If I mentioned the name of that academy I may be pummeled so I keep it under my shroud. Count Floyd, ehh. A posseur! Also, I thot that going off thread was what private messages were for, but few peeps ever answer mine.

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[–] escalera-2 15 years ago

We got carried away.

Count Floyd (Joe Flaherty) was hilarious. http://sctv.org/characters/countfloyd/count.gif

Seymour was an absolute riot. There was nothing on TV like it, save The Soupy Sales Show years before. Seymour was -- at first -- a regional phenomena. I suppose other cities had their whacky TV hosts.

I wish you'd do some postings on Larry Vincent, aka, Seymour's IMDb page, Yodzingie, since you have stories to tell. He could use a few postings and deserves them.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled program World Without End...

[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 15 years ago

I'll think aboot it. I suppose you recamember Jeepers Creepers and Jeepers Keeper from KCOP in LA; I've dug some stuff up about him and for me he was as outrageous as Seymour. I haven't been to his site on here in quite awhile; I'll have to haunt it soon.

Didja get to Herman's pages yet?

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[–] escalera-2 15 years ago

Yes, thanks. I poked around Cohen's pages last night. Neat stuff. I'll go back to it someday.

And yes, again -- Jeepers Creepers was a hoot in his own right but I can't say I remember much about his antics. Seymour was much more memorable to me. Jeepers Creepers had a worse movie catalogue than Fright Night with Seymour, too. Jeepers Creepers would present stuff like Robot Monster (1953) and, sure, it's a hoot but usually he had poor prints of Devil Bat (1940) and other deary movies.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UyEDx81-mBo/R43l43DDapI/AAAAAAAAA08/6H_f404r 3Oc/s400/Jeepers.jpg

http://www.horrorhostgraveyard.com/2008/10/jeepers-keeper.html

I hope to see you around Larry Vincent's page, Yodzingie!

[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 15 years ago

Since I brought you up to speed on giallo flix, you must understand what "psychotronic" flix are. Everybody on this thread and most of the others on other threads, are already mired in psychotronic stuff. Look it up on wiki and a million other places and then you'll know you are one of the anointed!

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[–] escalera-2 15 years ago

Thanks once again.

I thought "psychotronic" came from The Devil Commands (1941). Didn't the Boris Karloff character call his machine the psychotron?

[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 15 years ago

I love that movie and the original title was "When the Devil Commands". I think his contraption was that, but not sure. I loved that movie yes, and one reason was becuz the Catholic Church condemned it. I always thought that was neat, but then I threw the Church over long ago. Also, I read in some curious volumn of forgotten lore that it was one of Willie's favorites as well. He was a very shy man, but knew when something was good.

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[–] escalera-2 15 years ago

He sure gave many the willies, that's for sure.

I'll catch you at that page.

[–] hobnob53 15 years ago

As one of the "few peeps" who failed to answer your PM, Yodz, my apologies. I kept meaning to but as it's not readily in front of me kept forgetting to check my PMs. As I'm getting married in a month things have been a bit busy and it's all I can do to keep up with these things, about which IMDb at least notifies one (unlike PMs, which I have to be proactive about getting, something I'm not adept at). Anyway, Yodz, try again and I will answer; in fact, I very much wanted to reply to your last but by the time I remembered and had some time it had been eviscerated by the site's unforgiving 21-day-and-out rule.

[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 15 years ago

Really? Actually? My Pms from imdB come through on my regularly announced account. I can't remember much of what I put in there cuz now I'm so old my memory turns to dust except for blatherskeit. I know there was an exchange of some of my puny life and professional rubbish. And I did notice from other threads that you are getting hitched. I've been with my wifey poo for 33 years now and yer just getting into it now? Perhaps its another love. Well, I'll think something up and post a Private soon. Thanx for getting back to me.

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[–] hobnob53 15 years ago

Yeah, some people have told me they get email notices about having PMs waiting for them. But I don't, for whatever reason; only about replies to posts on these boards. But I'll see you in PM-land soon, I hope. (And I do remember the gist of most of your PM.)

[–] gary_overman 15 years ago

<Yeah, some people have told me they get email notices about having PMs waiting for them. But I don't, for whatever reason; only about replies to posts on these boards. But I'll see you in PM-land soon, I hope. (And I do remember the gist of most of your PM.)>

Didn't you know about that, hob? I don't normally check my PM box, and had missed several until I signed up for the email alerts from IMDb notifying me about an incoming PM.

[–] hobnob53 15 years ago

I learned about it, but I thought that by signing up for email alerts for the regular boards I'd also get the PM alerts. Guess I'll have to do that. Is there some trick or difficulty about signing up for such PM email alerts, gary? (And don't reply in a PM!)

[–] gary_overman 15 years ago

<I learned about it, but I thought that by signing up for email alerts for the regular boards I'd also get the PM alerts. Guess I'll have to do that. Is there some trick or difficulty about signing up for such PM email alerts, gary? (And don't reply in a PM!)>

PM sent.

No, not really. It's simple: go to your main profile page and just under the personal data, you'll find a Notifications box.
It's pretty self-explanatory from then on, I think. Just check the appropriate box.

[–] hobnob53 15 years ago

In the words of Chief Naga, "Gracias!"

[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 15 years ago

Now Mr. Hob, you can read my new one on PM. Go there and be thrilled.

Sacred cows make delicious hamburgers.

[–] EtaoinShrdlu001 10 years ago

When they first came down the "Rockies", into the scrub, and took in the sites,
I would have sworn I heard the "Theme from M*A*S*H" playing softly in the background and some helicopters landing.

Korean war - ahhhh, - good times.

You Fill Me with Inertia