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weirdlookindog · 7 months

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Evelyn Ankers and Alan Curtis in The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944).

#the invisible man's revenge #evelyn ankers #alan curtis #1944 #1940s movies #ford beebe #universal monsters #universal horror

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haveyouseenthismovie-poll · 8 months

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#movies #polls #requested #fantasia #40s movies #disney #david hand #james algar #samuel armstrong #ben sharpsteen #bill roberts #paul satterfield #hamilton luske #jim handley #ford beebe #t. hee #wilfred jackson #norman ferguson #have you seen this movie poll

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gatutor · 6 months

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Ella Raines-Charles Korvin "Vuelve Arsenio Lupin" (Enter Arsene Lupin) 1944, de Ford Beebe.

#Ella Raines #Charles Korvin #Ford Beebe

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schlock-luster-video · 2 years

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On September 30, 1939 The Phantom Creeps debuted in the United States.

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dynamofilms · 2 months

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Fantasia (1940)

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#1940 #samuel armstrong #James Algar #bill roberts #paul satterfield #ben sharpsteen #David D. Hand #hamilton luske #Jim Handley #Ford Beebe #T. Hee #Norman Ferguson #wilfred jackson #disney #8

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sesiondemadrugada · 2 months

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Fantasia (1940).

#fantasia #fantasia (1940)#james algar #samuel armstrong #ford beebe jr.#norman ferguson #david hand #jim handley #t. hee #wilfred jackson #hamilton luske #bill roberts #paul satterfield #ben sharpsteen #James Wong Howe

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automotiveamerican · 1 year

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What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Ford v. Ferrari - Matthew Phelan @Slate

The racing movie plays fast and loose with the facts, but some of its most unbelievable details are straight from the record books. Christian Bale and Matt Damon in Ford v Ferrari and Ken Miles with Carroll Shelby. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Merrick Morton/20th Century Fox and Bernard Cahier/Getty Images. To say that Ford v. Ferrari plays fast and loose with the facts is arguably to…

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#Carroll Shelby #Ford v Ferrari #GT40 #Henry Ford II #Ken Miles #LeMans #Leo Beebe #Matthew Phelan #Shelby American #Slate #What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Ford v. Ferrari

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johnny-dynamo · 1 year

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“FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE” (1940) Dirs.: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor - Turkish poster / Póster turco

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rawyld · 9 months

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Whovian and Disney Week

So after having bad marks for Biochemistry marks from uni, Doctor Who and Disney came to my rescue thank you Lord.

First Doctor Who season 9 (Jon Pertwee) finally I could preorder in Australia

Doctor Who season 20 of Peter Davison with a scary intro

Bob Iger CEO of the Walt Disney company contract has beeb extended

Finally watching Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Harrison Ford birthday.

#doctor who #star wars #harrison ford #classic who #Jon pertwee #peter davison #fifth doctor #third doctor #disney #indiana jones #Star wars

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weirdlookindog · 5 months

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Bela Lugosi in The Phantom Creeps (1939).

#the phantom creeps #bela lugosi #1939 #1930s movies #ford beebe #saul a. goodkind #action #sci fi #horror #serials

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motivationalvamp · 2 years

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House Of Dracula - 1945

Svengoolie will be showing this movie tonight !

House of Dracula a Universal Horror film from the year 1945.

After the events of House of Frankenstein, the yet again revived Wolf Man Larry Talbot is still seeking release from his condition. He ends up in Dr. Edelmann's place for treatment and accidentally finds Frankenstein's Monster in the caves under the house. Count Dracula is also there to find a cure for vampirism, but it is only a ruse to get near the nurse Morelle, upon whom he has set his sights.

This film is also notable for having a female hunchback assistant, though she is treated as a sympathetic and kind character (and is quite pretty to boot).

The film was the last serious Monster Mash film for Universal. Next up, the comedy duo Abbott and Costello would stumble upon the horrors of the studio.

The film was developed initially with the title Wolf Man vs. Dracula to be directed by Ford Beebe with Bela Lugosi reprising his role of Count Dracula. After actor Boris Karloff returned for a two-film deal with Universal and several requests from the censorship board, the film was put on hold for nearly six months. House of Dracula went into production directed by Kenton with a screenplay by Edward T. Lowe, who took elements from the Wolf Man vs. Dracula script while adding in Frankenstein's monster to the plot. Many cast and crew members returned from House of Frankenstein, including John Carradine in the role of Count Dracula, Glenn Strange as the monster, and Lon Chaney Jr. as both the Wolf Man and Larry Talbot. The film went into production on September 17, 1945, and finished on October 24. The film uses large sections of music from previous Universal feature films and footage, sets and props from other early Universal horror films. The film was released on December 7, 1945. Historian Gregory Mank described it as "the final serious entry of Universal's Frankenstein saga". It received predominantly negative reviews in its early New York screenings, while retrospective reviews have been predominantly lukewarm.

#House Of Dracula #Svengoolie #1945 #Dracula #Count Dracula #Vampire #Frankenstein #Werewolf #Universal #Wolf Man #monsters #Halloween #Horror #MeTV

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gatutor · 2 months

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Kay Hughes-Grant Withers-William Royle "Radio patrol" 1937, de Ford Beebe, Clifford Smith.

#Kay Hughes #Grant Withers #William Royle #Ford Beebe #Clifford Smith

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pandoramsbox · 2 months

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Sci-Fi Saturday: Just Imagine

Week 6:

Film(s): Just Imagine (Dir. David Butler, 1930, USA)

Viewing Format: YouTube

Date Watched: June 19, 2021

Rationale for Inclusion:

In looking into science fiction films of the 1930s, the first one I ran across that was new to me was also the first of its genre to receive an Academy Award nomination, Just Imagine (Dir. David Butler, 1930, USA). Not surprisingly if you're up on your Oscar history, this nomination came in an aesthetic category: Art Direction. Subsequently, designers Stephen Goosson and Ralph Hammeras lost to Max Rée for the Western Cimarron (Dir. Wesley Ruggles, 1931, USA).

Other than being a piece of Academy Award trivia, including Just Imagine in our survey made sense because it was intermixed with genres we had not seen combined with sci-fi yet: comedy and the musical. The former was rarely seen combined with science fiction in the silent era, and the latter required the innovation of synchronized sound motion pictures.

Just Imagine is the first talking picture we watched, but it was not the first sound science fiction film produced. That distinction seems to belong to the 1929 adaptation of Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island (Dir. Lucien Hubbard, USA), which was produced as a silent film with a sound sequence and synchronized music track later added. I do not recall why we opted to skip this film in our survey: whether it was an issue of outright missing its existence and availability on DVD or through Archive.org, or intentionally skipping it because we had recently watched 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Dir. Stuart Patton, 1916, USA), which included narrative elements adapted from that novel.

At any rate, for its cross-genre whimsy and Oscar nomination, I decided Just Imagine needed to be included on our survey despite viewing access being inconvenient. Despite its historic status, no mainstream media or art house distribution service has made the film available on physical media or streaming. Various DVD-R versions circulate, and it can be found in unofficial versions on YouTube (as we watched it) or Archive.org.

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The lack of mainstream release for Just Imagine makes sense for two reasons: due to copyright issues and only being of relative niche interest, late 1920s and early 1930s films aren't as widely available on contemporary home formats in general, and the film overall is not very good.

The main weaknesses of Just Imagine come down to its plot being a weak, rote triangulated romance, mediocre songs, and emphasis on Elmer "El" Brendel's comedy. Unlike his vaudevillian and cinematic contemporaries the Marx Brothers, Brendel's Swedish immigrant archetype has not retained his appeal or cultural relevance with later generations. However, his character's fish out of water immigrant schtick works well within the character's Rip Van Winkle inspired subplot.

The Academy wasn't wrong in nominating Just Imagine for its art direction though. The futuristic art deco city of 1980 is beautiful looking, and clearly indebted to the aesthetics of Metropolis (Dir. Fritz Lang, 1927, Germany), including video phones and personal airplanes instead of automobiles traveling between skyscrapers. The laboratory equipment that brings the fifty years dead Single O (Brendel) back to life was apparently too expensive a build for just one use because it was reused to more iconic effect the following year in Frankenstein (Dir. James Whale, 1931, USA).

Single O's man from present day in the future storyline would be repeated in later sci-fi works, like the serial Buck Rogers (Dir. Ford Beebe and Saul A. Goodkind, 1939, USA), movie Judge Dredd (Dir. Danny Cannon, 1995, USA), and television series Futurama (1999-2003, USA). Other genre tropes that come into play throughout the film include food in pill form, people receiving number designations, marriages being bureaucratically arranged, reproduction without the sex or body horror, and a trip to a Mars populated by Martians. None of these aspects originate with Just Imagine, just cement its genre status.

For sci-fi fans, the set pieces and tropes in play make Just Imagine worth watching at least once, if only to appreciate later, better iterations of its elements. For classic film and pre-code cinema fans, it's an interesting cultural artifact for no other reason but its cast featuring Brendel, Maureen O'Sullivan, and Joyzelle, she of the infamous "naked moon dance" in The Sign of the Cross (Dir. Cecil B. DeMille, 1932, USA).

#sci-fi saturdays #musicals #pre-code cinema

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schlock-luster-video · 6 months

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On October 20, 1942, Night Monster debuted in the United States.