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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 13, 2016 19:35:33 GMT
Just started watching BK's Thriller on Youtube. "The Grim Reaper" with William Shatner is quite good! Natalie Shafer (Mrs. Thurston Howell the III" from Gilligan's Island) is also in it. I've started binge watching and hope to finish the ones I like by the end of tomorrow, including Lady Celia Asquith's "God Grant That She Lye Stille". Curt Evans talks about his favourite episodes here on his Passing Tramp blog.
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Post by bobby on Dec 14, 2016 0:22:27 GMT
Just started watching BK's Thriller on Youtube. "The Grim Reaper" with William Shatner is quite good! Natalie Shafer (Mrs. Thurston Howell the III" from Gilligan's Island) is also in it. I've started binge watching and hope to finish the ones I like by the end of tomorrow, including Lady Celia Asquith's "God Grant That She Lye Stille". Be sure to watch "Masquerade", adapted from a Henry Kuttner story from Weird Tales. It stars Elizabeth Montgomery and used the Bates house from Psycho as a set.
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Post by bobby on Dec 14, 2016 0:35:45 GMT
I don't think anyone else has mentioned The Walking Dead, a Warner Brothers production from 1936 directed by Michael Curtiz, who had previously directed Mystery of the Wax Museum and Doctor X, and would go on to direct Casablanca. Karloff plays an innocent man framed for murder and executed. A scientist (played by Edmund Gwenn, "Kris Kringle" in the original Miracle on 34th Street) brings him back to life and he gets revenge on those who framed him. I couldn't find a trailer posted online, so here's a clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLdH6watmqQ
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 14, 2016 0:45:03 GMT
Be sure to watch "Masquerade", adapted from a Henry Kuttner story from Weird Tales. It stars Elizabeth Montgomery and used the Bates house from Psycho as a set. I'll do my best, one of these days. Am a little tired of them at the moment, having watch about 15 or so in 2 days. Today I only watched "Papa Benjamin" and "The Purple Room".
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Post by ripper on Dec 14, 2016 10:18:25 GMT
Be sure to watch "Masquerade", adapted from a Henry Kuttner story from Weird Tales. It stars Elizabeth Montgomery and used the Bates house from Psycho as a set. I'll do my best, one of these days. Am a little tired of them at the moment, having watch about 15 or so in 2 days. Today I only watched "Papa Benjamin" and "The Purple Room". I know exactly what you mean, Miss Scarlet. With our digital world providing content at the click of a button, it is so easy to incur a fatigue from watching too much of a particular series or type of film. I also often get the same effect from reading too many similar books on the trot. I try to vary genres to mitigate fatigue but the temptation for just one more is strong.
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Post by helrunar on Dec 14, 2016 14:54:10 GMT
My favorite episodes of BORIS KARLOFF'S THRILLER (I always write the title that way to avoid confusion with the 1970s Brian Clemens series, which I also quite enjoy) are "A Wig for Miss Devore" and "The Remarkable Mrs. Hawk." I do quite like "The Grim Reaper" and some of the other ones that are usually mentioned as the best, such as "Pigeons from Hell," "The Incredible Dr. Markesan," and "Cheaters." One of the best things they did IMO was a half hour segment in which Karloff played a morgue attendant who talked to the corpses in the drawers. It was poignant and understated. It was part of a show where the second half was a story done in the southern Grand Guignol manner, also with Karloff.
It was very difficult to see this series when I was growing up. It was syndicated but aired off and on and often at odd timeslots. It was quite a thrill (so to speak) a few years ago when I acquired a complete set of this series. I still have some episodes to watch.
Another one I particularly enjoy is "Worse than murder," one of the first shows aired in the series. It was a showcase for the talents of Constance Ford who became stuck acting in soap operas, but was an actress of enormous energy and presence. She's best remembered now as the scheming, frigid mother of Sandra Dee in the late 1950s film, The Summer Place.
Best, H.
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 14, 2016 23:33:51 GMT
My favorite episodes of BORIS KARLOFF'S THRILLER (I always write the title that way to avoid confusion with the 1970s Brian Clemens series, which I also quite enjoy) are "A Wig for Miss Devore" and "The Remarkable Mrs. Hawk." I do quite like "The Grim Reaper" and some of the other ones that are usually mentioned as the best, such as "Pigeons from Hell," "The Incredible Dr. Markesan," and "Cheaters." One of the best things they did IMO was a half hour segment in which Karloff played a morgue attendant who talked to the corpses in the drawers. It was poignant and understated. It was part of a show where the second half was a story done in the southern Grand Guignol manner, also with Karloff. It was very difficult to see this series when I was growing up. It was syndicated but aired off and on and often at odd timeslots. It was quite a thrill (so to speak) a few years ago when I acquired a complete set of this series. I still have some episodes to watch. Another one I particularly enjoy is "Worse than murder," one of the first shows aired in the series. It was a showcase for the talents of Constance Ford who became stuck acting in soap operas, but was an actress of enormous energy and presence. She's best remembered now as the scheming, frigid mother of Sandra Dee in the late 1950s film, The Summer Place. Best, H. "Cheaters" and "A Wig For Miss Devore" were some of my favorites too. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed "The Purple Room" yesterday.
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Post by ripper on Dec 15, 2016 17:33:49 GMT
A good way of introducing children to Karloff's work is via the 1967 stop-motion animated film "Mad Monster Party." This used to turn up fairly regularly on TV back in the 70s and 80s. It's very entertaining, with Karloff voicing Baron Boris Von Frankenstein, and many Universal-era monsters are featured. It could be a nice film to show children around Halloween time, but it's fun for adults as well imo. If anyone remembers TISWAS in its early days when Chris Tarrant and co. used to show lots of cartoons and the occasional film, "Mad Monster Party" was one they screened, though I think it was shown in two halves over consecutive Saturday mornings.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2016 19:06:23 GMT
I prefer to remember him in his later years in films like The Sorcerors and Targets, both of which are miles better than those final Mexican ventures. Targets had a huge impact on me. Wonderful chilling movie which I could never forget. TARGETS is a magnificent film. Particularly impressive given that it was made solely because Karloff owed Roger Corman a couple of days shooting from a cancelled project. Bogdanovich's brief from Corman was to make any film he wanted as long as it had Karloff in it. That end result is so coherent is testament to Bogdanovich's Frankenstein-esque skill in patching together various assets (limited time with Karloff, sniper script, clips from older Karloff movies) he had at his disposal.
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Post by bobby on Dec 17, 2016 14:16:19 GMT
One of the best things they did IMO was a half hour segment in which Karloff played a morgue attendant who talked to the corpses in the drawers. It was poignant and understated. It was part of a show where the second half was a story done in the southern Grand Guignol manner, also with Karloff. That's "Dialogues With Death". I like how, with the episodes Karloff acted in as well as hosting, when he introduced the cast at the beginning of the episode, he would introduce himself as "...and this unsavory-looking character", "...and this disreputable-looking fellow", etc.
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Post by ripper on Dec 18, 2016 11:39:12 GMT
One of the best things they did IMO was a half hour segment in which Karloff played a morgue attendant who talked to the corpses in the drawers. It was poignant and understated. It was part of a show where the second half was a story done in the southern Grand Guignol manner, also with Karloff. That's "Dialogues With Death". I like how, with the episodes Karloff acted in as well as hosting, when he introduced the cast at the beginning of the episode, he would introduce himself as "...and this unsavory-looking character", "...and this disreputable-looking fellow", etc. Yes, I remember that from the episodes where Karloff was in the cast. I have also been reminded that I used to have an A4-sized paperback book of the 1931 Frankenstein film with stills from the entire running time with the dialogue shown below the appropriate still. This might have been my first exposure to perhaps Karloff's greatest film. There were others in the series, one of which was Psycho but I only had Frankenstein. I would guess they were published around 1974 or so.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 18, 2016 12:10:44 GMT
I have also been reminded that I used to have an A4-sized paperback book of the 1931 Frankenstein film with stills from the entire running time with the dialogue shown below the appropriate still. This might have been my first exposure to perhaps Karloff's greatest film. There were others in the series, one of which was Psycho but I only had Frankenstein. I would guess they were published around 1974 or so. I had the CASABLANCA one. It remains the only form in which I have seen CASABLANCA.
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Post by ripper on Dec 19, 2016 9:59:41 GMT
I have also been reminded that I used to have an A4-sized paperback book of the 1931 Frankenstein film with stills from the entire running time with the dialogue shown below the appropriate still. This might have been my first exposure to perhaps Karloff's greatest film. There were others in the series, one of which was Psycho but I only had Frankenstein. I would guess they were published around 1974 or so. I had the CASABLANCA one. It remains the only form in which I have seen CASABLANCA. I think I remember seeing the Casablanca one in a list of others available in my copy of Frankenstein now you mention it, Jojo. Sadly, I lost my copy many years ago, though it may be lurking somewhere in a box in our loft, but if it is, then it is well hidden as several searches for it and others have drawn a blank.
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Post by Truegho on May 21, 2017 15:56:04 GMT
I too love The Sorcerors. And it's really cool to own it, at last, on blu ray. Brilliant movie, brilliant actors, and brilliant movie all round. Oh, and wasn't the blonde girl pretty? Alan Toner Horror Author www.alantoner.com
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