Thanks for the correction, BklynJim, and for the link. Zacherle even said the character’s name out loud, when he hosted the film. “Uncredited” explains why he didn’t show up in the credits on the IMDb.
I regularly check the “I Have Often Walked” feature of the Queens Chronicle, and have never before seen them make such a mistake. Thanks, Warren, for pointing this out. Thanks, Bway, for posting the link. I wonder what it IS a picture of ?
Thanks, NLK, I used to live at 1668 Cornelia between Wyckoff and Cypress, from 1955 to 1991, sold it in May 1999. I remember either the “Apes” marathon, or the first “Apes” movie, re-released, summer 1973. Saw the first “Apes” movie at the Ridgewood with my dad, spring 1968 when it first came out. Graduated St. Brigid’s, June 1969. The marquee collapsed under the blizzard of Beatles Day, Sunday, February 9, 1969. “April W”, who has posted above on this page, lived across the street from the Ridgewood Theater at the time, and heard the creaking of metal cables and chains at night before the marquee fell.
I also recall a scene in “The Indestructible Man” in which Chaney grabs a guy named Hymie, who walked on crutches, and threw him down some steep street in Frisco.
Ah, yes, the ubiquitous Morris Ankrum. Up there with Maxie “Slapsy” Rosenbloom …
I saw “How To Make a Monster” on either the ABC or WOR 4:30 movie in the spring or summer of 1965. Here’s how “Famous Monsters Of Filmland” magazine put it :
“What’s up, ugly ?” (Teenage Frankenstein)
“Your life, Wolfie !” (Teenage Werewolf)
Typical teenage conversation.
Michael Landon once sang this on the Tonight Show :
“My girl’s real neat, she eats raw meat
"She’s got big claws on the end of her feet
"She’s my baby, whoo, she’s my werewolf baby …”
What impressed me most about “The Giant Claw” when I first saw it at age eight was its size. The legend of the Roc taken to the extreme of a huge extraterrestrial plucked turkey.
Thanks for the info on Robert Shayne.
I remember Lon Chaney Jr. as “The Indestructible Man” (1956) and how
Robert Shayne was the scientist who brought him back to “life”. Chaney played a similar role in “The Electric Man” (not the Con Ed guy who reads your meter !)
You’ve heard the shaggy dog story, the punch line of which is :
Abscess make the fart go Honda ?
Ever see the original Japanese release of “Godzilla” (Gojira) ?
“The Incredible Shrinking Man” is one of my favorite all-time films, and Richard Matheson, one of my favorite authors.
I think “The Black Sleep” had John Carradine as a resurrected Crusader fanatic, shouting something about “The Holy Land” and “Kill !”
For me, the scariest part of “The Neanderthal Man” were those photos of the Neanderthal WOMAN happened on in the dark room. I think the film also contained a rape, expressed in carefully chosen words due to censorship.
I remember Robert Shayne well. He also played a scientist in the 1953 cult classic “Invaders From Mars”, ducking in his lab to avoid a gunshot from a Martian-possessed assassin.
No, BklynJim, I have NEVER … repeat, NEVER … heard of “Invasion of the Blood Farmers”. The closest I have come to it is the original and vastly superior “Not Of This Earth”, directed by Roger Corman, and starring Paul Birch as the primo interstellar vampire from the planet Davanna.
But, now that you’ve mentioned “Blood Farmers”, I must go check it out on the IMDb and post about it on my beloved Angelique board.
Thanks, BklynJim. What was special about Hollywood Bitchslap and Rotten Tomatoes, that you used them ? Have your son’s movie reviews been published in a book, or on-line ? I’d like to read them.
I’m no big fan of imdb as a place to post, but I thought, if nothing else, it would be a place to start, and better than nothing.
Bklyn Jim, EdSolero, anyone else that’s interested, here is a link to the board I hang out on to discuss monster and other type movies.
It’s troll and flame-free, and there’s lots of great people there :
BrooklynJim, EdSolero, and any others interested in a discussion of monster movies and movies in general. This is the board I hang out on. It’s troll and flame-free, and has lots of great people managing and contributing. I invite you to join there if you want to talk old movies :
Yes, EdSolero, that’s exactly it !!! I first saw it on “Supernatural Theater”, Saturday 8:30-10 PM WOR Channel 9 in the spring of 1965. Yes, it WAS Japanese, but the guy who had “The Manster” growing out of him was white, and played by an actor with an uncanny resemblance to William H. Macy.
Tell me more about The Creep from Creature Features !
Good, good ! Thanks for the tip on “Half Human”. I remember a apanese sci fi flick in which a man told a woman to take off her clothes, and people turned into pools of green liquid. Was that it ?
Good for you, holding that Harryhausen-created saucer in your hands. Any idea why so heavy ? Metal, with motors inside to create the spin and the moving parts, with a certain finish that would photograph well ?
“D-O-O-O-CTOR MA-AR-ARVIN !”
Glad you got to meet both Rays that day. A friend of mine from work got Bradbury’s autograph ten years ago at Barnes and Noble, Astor Place, NYC, and told him, “Mr. Bradbury, I think you’re the greatest living American writer !” To whidh Bradbury replied, “Well, thank you ! I’m glad to be alive !”
Thanks for the compliment, and for calling me young !
“THEM !”, eh ? I know what you mean about that squeaky fan belt sound, growing ever louder.
“Enough formic acid pumped into him to kill an elephant !”
“Saturate the nest ? If I can still lift an arm when we get out of here, I’m gonna see how saturated I can get !”
Did you notice Leonard Nimoy’s bit part ?
“The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” :
“It’s exactly as I pictured it, except that the dorsal fin is singular, not bilateral ! But he’s enormous ! And the clavicular suspension is … cantileveric ! But the most astonishing thing about it is that …”
The scariest part for me was when the rhedosaurus ate the NYC policeman.
“Monster at Nassau and Pine !”
The scene of the monster coming ashore at the Fulton Fish Market was later copied in the 1998 film “Godzilla” with Matthew Broderick.
The original “Godzilla” was inspired by the success in Japan of “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms”.
Whit Bissell, Tor Johnson, Ned Glass, Stanley Adams, William Schallert, Robert Shayne, Richard Deacon, Raymond Bailey, John Hoyt, John Agar, Morris Ankrum ….
“Catwomen of the Moon” : The TV Guide ad for this when Chiller Theater rain it was only one word :
BOO !
Film Forum first showed the 3-D version (glasses provided, of course) then a somewhat longer 2-D version, remarking on their program : “Well, you ASKED for it !”
One line I remember was, “Hey, these space shoes are HEAVY !”
I’ll look forward to the Parthenon Theater pix. I’ve seen a few already, perhaps with links to them on this page, dahlinkala. Thanks in advance.
My first memory of the Parthenon was as a bowling alley, Parthenon Lanes, in the fall of 1961.
Either that, BklynJim, or it was to achieve consistency with the Liberty El (Lefferts A Train) 104th Street station, which, as you probably know, used to be the eastern end of the old BMT Fulton St. el.
It IS odd, because 102nd Street is a two-way street, and becomes Freedom Drive in Forest Park, and 104th Street (the former Oxford Avenue) does neither.
I leave it to el expert Bway to elaborate further.
I first saw “The Giant Behemoth” on TV WOR Channel 9 in fall 1961 at age six, then for the first time on a movie screen at Film Forum in summer 1987 or 1988. I now have it, and the other two Eugene Lourie-directed dinosaur movies, “Gorgo” and “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” on VHS, taped off AMC.
“Black Museum” : I remember those binoculars spring-loaded with six-inch prongs, so when the victim put them to her eyes and adjusted the focus ….
Thanks, BklynJim, for this info.
Thanks for the correction, BklynJim, and for the link. Zacherle even said the character’s name out loud, when he hosted the film. “Uncredited” explains why he didn’t show up in the credits on the IMDb.
Thanks for the link.
NLK, I do not know if I graduated SBS with a Debbie Schuler. I might have. The name is not familiar to me.
I regularly check the “I Have Often Walked” feature of the Queens Chronicle, and have never before seen them make such a mistake. Thanks, Warren, for pointing this out. Thanks, Bway, for posting the link. I wonder what it IS a picture of ?
Thanks, NLK, I used to live at 1668 Cornelia between Wyckoff and Cypress, from 1955 to 1991, sold it in May 1999. I remember either the “Apes” marathon, or the first “Apes” movie, re-released, summer 1973. Saw the first “Apes” movie at the Ridgewood with my dad, spring 1968 when it first came out. Graduated St. Brigid’s, June 1969. The marquee collapsed under the blizzard of Beatles Day, Sunday, February 9, 1969. “April W”, who has posted above on this page, lived across the street from the Ridgewood Theater at the time, and heard the creaking of metal cables and chains at night before the marquee fell.
I also recall a scene in “The Indestructible Man” in which Chaney grabs a guy named Hymie, who walked on crutches, and threw him down some steep street in Frisco.
Ah, yes, the ubiquitous Morris Ankrum. Up there with Maxie “Slapsy” Rosenbloom …
I saw “How To Make a Monster” on either the ABC or WOR 4:30 movie in the spring or summer of 1965. Here’s how “Famous Monsters Of Filmland” magazine put it :
“What’s up, ugly ?” (Teenage Frankenstein)
“Your life, Wolfie !” (Teenage Werewolf)
Typical teenage conversation.
Michael Landon once sang this on the Tonight Show :
“My girl’s real neat, she eats raw meat
"She’s got big claws on the end of her feet
"She’s my baby, whoo, she’s my werewolf baby …”
What impressed me most about “The Giant Claw” when I first saw it at age eight was its size. The legend of the Roc taken to the extreme of a huge extraterrestrial plucked turkey.
Thanks for the info on Robert Shayne.
I remember Lon Chaney Jr. as “The Indestructible Man” (1956) and how
Robert Shayne was the scientist who brought him back to “life”. Chaney played a similar role in “The Electric Man” (not the Con Ed guy who reads your meter !)
You’ve heard the shaggy dog story, the punch line of which is :
Abscess make the fart go Honda ?
Ever see the original Japanese release of “Godzilla” (Gojira) ?
“The Incredible Shrinking Man” is one of my favorite all-time films, and Richard Matheson, one of my favorite authors.
I think “The Black Sleep” had John Carradine as a resurrected Crusader fanatic, shouting something about “The Holy Land” and “Kill !”
For me, the scariest part of “The Neanderthal Man” were those photos of the Neanderthal WOMAN happened on in the dark room. I think the film also contained a rape, expressed in carefully chosen words due to censorship.
I remember Robert Shayne well. He also played a scientist in the 1953 cult classic “Invaders From Mars”, ducking in his lab to avoid a gunshot from a Martian-possessed assassin.
“Colonel Fielding ! Colonel Fielding !”
Thanks for your post, KenRoe.
Thanks, BklynJim, for the info on your late son’s film stuff.
I answered you about “Night Of The Blood Farmers” on the Astoria Theater page.
Thanks, EdSolero ! Tell me about them !
No, BklynJim, I have NEVER … repeat, NEVER … heard of “Invasion of the Blood Farmers”. The closest I have come to it is the original and vastly superior “Not Of This Earth”, directed by Roger Corman, and starring Paul Birch as the primo interstellar vampire from the planet Davanna.
But, now that you’ve mentioned “Blood Farmers”, I must go check it out on the IMDb and post about it on my beloved Angelique board.
Thanks, BklynJim. What was special about Hollywood Bitchslap and Rotten Tomatoes, that you used them ? Have your son’s movie reviews been published in a book, or on-line ? I’d like to read them.
I’m no big fan of imdb as a place to post, but I thought, if nothing else, it would be a place to start, and better than nothing.
Thanks, EdSolero !
Bklyn Jim, EdSolero, anyone else that’s interested, here is a link to the board I hang out on to discuss monster and other type movies.
It’s troll and flame-free, and there’s lots of great people there :
View link
BrooklynJim, EdSolero, and any others interested in a discussion of monster movies and movies in general. This is the board I hang out on. It’s troll and flame-free, and has lots of great people managing and contributing. I invite you to join there if you want to talk old movies :
View link
Thanks, KenRoe.
The chicken take-a-way was a Kennedy Fried Chicken, I think.
“Take-a-way” instead of “take-out” ? You’re a Brit ! More power to you !
God save the Queen !
Come on in, the water and the monsters are fine !
Yes, EdSolero, that’s exactly it !!! I first saw it on “Supernatural Theater”, Saturday 8:30-10 PM WOR Channel 9 in the spring of 1965. Yes, it WAS Japanese, but the guy who had “The Manster” growing out of him was white, and played by an actor with an uncanny resemblance to William H. Macy.
Tell me more about The Creep from Creature Features !
Thanks for the info. Ah, Boris Badinov !
Good, good ! Thanks for the tip on “Half Human”. I remember a apanese sci fi flick in which a man told a woman to take off her clothes, and people turned into pools of green liquid. Was that it ?
Speaking of Japanese, ever see “The Manster” ?
I remember the antenna line from “Them !”
Good for you, holding that Harryhausen-created saucer in your hands. Any idea why so heavy ? Metal, with motors inside to create the spin and the moving parts, with a certain finish that would photograph well ?
“D-O-O-O-CTOR MA-AR-ARVIN !”
Glad you got to meet both Rays that day. A friend of mine from work got Bradbury’s autograph ten years ago at Barnes and Noble, Astor Place, NYC, and told him, “Mr. Bradbury, I think you’re the greatest living American writer !” To whidh Bradbury replied, “Well, thank you ! I’m glad to be alive !”
Thanks for the compliment, and for calling me young !
“THEM !”, eh ? I know what you mean about that squeaky fan belt sound, growing ever louder.
“Enough formic acid pumped into him to kill an elephant !”
“Saturate the nest ? If I can still lift an arm when we get out of here, I’m gonna see how saturated I can get !”
Did you notice Leonard Nimoy’s bit part ?
“The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” :
“It’s exactly as I pictured it, except that the dorsal fin is singular, not bilateral ! But he’s enormous ! And the clavicular suspension is … cantileveric ! But the most astonishing thing about it is that …”
The scariest part for me was when the rhedosaurus ate the NYC policeman.
“Monster at Nassau and Pine !”
The scene of the monster coming ashore at the Fulton Fish Market was later copied in the 1998 film “Godzilla” with Matthew Broderick.
The original “Godzilla” was inspired by the success in Japan of “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms”.
Whit Bissell, Tor Johnson, Ned Glass, Stanley Adams, William Schallert, Robert Shayne, Richard Deacon, Raymond Bailey, John Hoyt, John Agar, Morris Ankrum ….
“Oh, no ! Not HIM again !”
You could be right about the softball !
“Catwomen of the Moon” : The TV Guide ad for this when Chiller Theater rain it was only one word :
BOO !
Film Forum first showed the 3-D version (glasses provided, of course) then a somewhat longer 2-D version, remarking on their program : “Well, you ASKED for it !”
One line I remember was, “Hey, these space shoes are HEAVY !”
I’ll look forward to the Parthenon Theater pix. I’ve seen a few already, perhaps with links to them on this page, dahlinkala. Thanks in advance.
My first memory of the Parthenon was as a bowling alley, Parthenon Lanes, in the fall of 1961.
No, BklynJim, but let me ask you : have you posted your comment and question above on the page for this film on the Internet Movie DataBase ?
www.imdb.com
Either that, BklynJim, or it was to achieve consistency with the Liberty El (Lefferts A Train) 104th Street station, which, as you probably know, used to be the eastern end of the old BMT Fulton St. el.
It IS odd, because 102nd Street is a two-way street, and becomes Freedom Drive in Forest Park, and 104th Street (the former Oxford Avenue) does neither.
I leave it to el expert Bway to elaborate further.
I first saw “The Giant Behemoth” on TV WOR Channel 9 in fall 1961 at age six, then for the first time on a movie screen at Film Forum in summer 1987 or 1988. I now have it, and the other two Eugene Lourie-directed dinosaur movies, “Gorgo” and “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” on VHS, taped off AMC.
“Black Museum” : I remember those binoculars spring-loaded with six-inch prongs, so when the victim put them to her eyes and adjusted the focus ….