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Ah, what do we have here? Movies to talk about? Excellent! Cool

Let's start a time travel story with a fighter jet that travels into the future, where the girls where short dresses and high heels. I'm still waiting for that future.

Then let's see if we can find anything good to say about a lunar mission which finds girls on the Moon in leggy outfirts. (Eat your heart out, Neil Armstrong! Laughing)

And we finish u up with a very clever 1943 spy adventure in which Robert Donat out-Bonds 007 and out-Cary Grants you-know-who! A wonderful movie with special effects like these shots.






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Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)
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I'm extremely impressed with the write-up in the Wikipedia article for Beyond the Time Barrier. The author did a fine job of research, and the article in the "production" section is well written.
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Production

Producer Robert Clarke was exhausted from directing and acting in his production, The Hideous Sun Demon, and sought a director for this film. He had previously worked with Edgar G. Ulmer on The Man from Planet X and respected him.






Clarke's funds originated in Texas, and the backers stipulated that the film be shot there, where motion picture unions had no influence. Clarke filmed in the Texas Centennial Exhibition Fair Park buildings. He secured cooperation from the US Air Force and Texas Air National Guard allowing him to film at Fort Worth's Carswell Air Force Base and the abandoned Marine Corps Air Station Eagle Mountain Lake.

He obtained and used film footage of an F-102 Delta Dagger standing in for the test plane.






The film's action sequences used Air Force weapons, M1 carbines and M1911A1 pistols, with the actors taking care not to fire the weapons directly at one another.





The film's working title was The Last Barrier.

Production designer Ernst Fegté employed a triangular motif for the futuristic sets that were filmed in the vacant showground buildings. Surplus parachutes were hung in the background to muffle echoes.

Clarke chose Darlene Tompkins over several contenders for the mute and psychic Trirene, including Yvette Mimieux (who appeared in The Time Machine) and Leslie Parrish.






Ulmer selected his daughter Arianne for the role of Captain Alicia Markova, whose name came from the ballerina of the same name. Ulmer choreographed the daughter's movements similar to a ballet dance as she loosened her flight suit.

When giving her speech inciting the mutants to revolt in a Soviet uprising, Arianne deliberately used voice inflections similar to Laurence Olivier reciting the St. Crispin's Day Speech from Henry V. American International Pictures (AIP) added footage to the mutant uprising sequence from their film Journey to the Lost City. One mutant was played by the screenwriter Arthur C. Pierce. Pierce was involved in the production and worked as an assistant editor.

Tompkins recalled that the actors portraying the mutants, whose makeup was created by Jack Pierce, taught her how to play cribbage on the set while in costume. Tompkins was asked to do a nude swimming scene for overseas release. She refused and swimming scenes were done by a body double.

When filming her swimming in a flesh colored bathing suit, the crew used the motel swimming pool where they were staying; their night filming was disrupted by a fire that broke out at the motel.

Former football player Boyd Morgan performed stunts and played the Captain of the Guard. Darrell Calker, the music chief of Walter Lantz's cartoons, composed an effective film score.

AIP's James H. Nicholson was keen on releasing the film based on his teenage daughters' recommendation after screening the film. AIP partner Samuel Z. Arkoff, asked Clarke what he wanted to do with the film. Clarke said he wanted to produce several films for AIP, but Arkoff said AIP didn't use contract producers.

Clarke found a similar, but newer and inexperienced film company called Pacific International Pictures (PIP) or Miller-Consolidated Pictures who were keen on working with Clarke and releasing his films. However, PIP went bankrupt and AIP was able to purchase two of Clarke's films held by PIP for no more than the laboratory costs. The films were released under the AIP banner.

AIP exploited MGM's publicity for The Time Machine by releasing their film a month before MGMs. Clarke was paid only his acting salary.

American International Pictures (AIP) released the film in September, 1960 on a double bill with The Angry Red Planet It was theatrically released in some areas on a double bill with The Amazing Transparent Man, another Ulmer-directed film.


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Missile to the Moon (1958)
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Thinking Outside the "Plot"!

The wacky all-women society in this movie obviously coincides with the subterranean colonies inside lunar lava tubes we've discussed in the thread called Gigantic Lava Tube Could Be Home for Moon Colonists.

Gord Green thought WAY outside the box when he suggested that the Moon was actually a living being! Shocked

In this low-buget movie we see "rock creatures" detach themselves from the lunar terrain and attack the astronauts — creatures which seem to have both eyes and noses on their stony "faces"!








~ A Question for the Members: Is it possible that this "living Moon" which Gord envisioned has white blood cells which attack invaders? Shocked

And just how do the luscious "lunar ladies" fit into this strange cosmological organism? Confused






Enjoy this crazy little movie, compliments of YouTube. Very Happy

______ Missile to the Moon 1958 FULL MOVIE HD


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The Adventures of Tartu (1943)



I saw this movie many years ago on TNT (Turner Network Television) when it first went on the air, showing old movies the way TCM does today.

Robert Donat is amazing as a James Bond / Derek Flint super-spy, but his method includes the ability to take on the speech and characteristics of a foppish dandy, similar to Don Diego in Zorro — except that in this case he pretends to be brilliant Romanian chemist with skills the Nazis need.

The movie introduces Donat in a scene right after a bombing in London, and Donat calmly defuses an unexplored bomb while chatting with a injured child nearby in a hospital bed and the nurse who says the child can't be move.

You fall in love with this brave man right then and there. Cool

The uniquely beautiful Miss Glynis Johns (just 20 years old) has a heart-rending scene as one of the all-female group of forced-labor workers in a defense plant, under the strict supervision of the cruel Nazi guards who shoot anyone suspected of sabotage. (And that's where the heart-rending part comes in . . . Sad)

The British Intelligence's efforts to support Donat's mission into Germany are worthy of the Mission: Impossible folks. I was impressed by the clever scenes which showed us just how well Donat's important mission was planned. Very Happy

But the climax of this amazing movie is pure "James Bond" at his best. Donat poses as a scientist and infiltrates a huge underground Nazi complex which is developing poison gas bombs.

The underground complex is amazing, a combination of stunning sets and impressive matte paintings.


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In true James Bond fashion, Donat uses several small explosive devices which he strategically places to blow up the entire complex while fleeing from the Nazis guards. He skillfully slugs anyone who gets in his way, and he frequently demonstrates his flawless marksmanship on the bad guys.

His mad dash through the concrete corridors to reach the massive steel doors before they slam closed while the underground complex explodes behind him is the kind of scene that became famous in Bond movies like Dr. No and You Only Live Twice

Watching Robert Donat fool all the folks with his slick impersonation of a comical Romanian chemist is a delight, and whenever he drops the act and swings into action, he's a very dashing hero!

The screen shots above are from this YouTube video.


_____________ The Adventures Of Tartu (1943)

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However, the YouTube member who uploaded the video — The Film Detective — offers a reasonably priced DVD on Amazon.

The Adventures of Tartu (The Film Detective Restored Version)



Oh, what the heck, I went ahead and ordered it! It has a Five Star rating and glowing customer reviews. Wink
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