Peeping-Tom cowboy...
I love the way the creepy ~evil~ cowboy lurks outside Jessica's window as she is primping, and then LEAVES just as she starts to take off her dress....not bloody likely!!
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Absolutely right, and then he tricks his goon into trying to open the chest but leaves to BACK to the girl as soon as the goon gets started.
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He specialized in playing scummy characters. He was the racist guy who spit in Atticus face in "To Kill A Mockingbird".
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Funny, I was thinking the exact same thing
shareWhat I found even more unlikely, is that Linda and her fiancé are at this ranch on vacation, and not only are they NOT sharing a room, but she's sharing a room ( AND BED ) with JESSICA ! I can't believe Svengoolie didn't make a wisecrack
about this !
In the 1950s, an unmarried couple sharing a room would be a tad outrageous.
Also, Linda is only sharing a bed with Jessica because Jessica moved out of the house when the box was brought in & she didn't want to be near it. Since the cabin was for one, it would logically only have one bed.
Jolene ?? Do you know who Svengoolie is ? He's a horror movie Host on METV, similar to Elvira, who shows all the old silly low-budget films and takes advantage of every opportunity to make a wisecrack to imply something decadent....
sharesmurky, I actually watched the movie that way.
Just saying it is not "unlikely" an unmarried couple didn't room together in the 1950s etc. As to him making a wisecrack, sure ... did he make gay humor in the past?
I know all that, Jolene, I was just making like Svengoolie for laughs, just joining in the conversation, which is what Message Boards are all about....so tell me, did you like the movie ? It's one of my favorites from that era!
I'm also a Fan of William Reynolds, who I've seen in a lot of the old Westerns, like Maverick. The actor who was the Devil Worshipper ( the disembodied head ), was in one of my favorite episodes of The Twilight Zone, "The Howling Man ", and he was the actual Devil in that !
Robin Hughes was good as the devil or as a diabolical character, starred in only one movie that I know of (Manhunt In the Jungle) and he was quite goof in it playing a normal person for a change.
As to The Thing That Couldn't Die, it moved too slowly for me, spent too much time with scenes of people just moving from one place to another. Supreme irony: the best actor in the movie is seen mostly as a severed head, has little to actually do but look evil and put people in trances.
Uh huh. I liked the movie -- it was a bit silly but prime 1950s B-horror. And, the fact the ranch hand killed was from "To Kill A Mockingbird" was a kewl "hey, I know him!" moment.
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