Bud Brewster
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 Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2022 12:02 pm Post subject: FEATURED THREADS for 2-21-22 |
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Here's three of my own posts for your consideration, gentlemen, just to prove that a monster scorpion, and a comical secret agent, and a goofy alien can live in harmony on All Sci-Fi.
And just to get your complete attention, here's a completely unrelated picture of Joey Heatherton!
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The Black Scorpion (1957)
| Bill Warren wrote: | | In the otherwise excellent scene of the attack of the truck and the man on the pole, the film is printed so darkly as to make all the action almost invisible, especially on television. |
| Krel wrote: | | The overly dark scenes could be a result of a later generation print. |
I think you're probably right, David. The scenes of the attack on telephone repair men aren't as dark on the DVD as Bill describes.
If Bill watched a TV airing of a print that made the telephone repairmen scene that dark, then the scenes in Mexico City with the black silhouettes of the scorpion (which were deliberately darkened to hide the unfinished FX) must have been unwatchable, too! 
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The Ambushers (1967)
IMDB has one interesting trivia item for this production. 
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~ To keep their budget low, the producers of this film used items already on the lot. The 'flying saucer" was used in the Star Trek episode "The Alternative Factor" as Lazarus' time jumping ship, and the central control console at the ICE headquarters in the early scene was used as the control console for the Romulan spaceship in the episode "Balance of Terror."
Note from me: The claim about the saucer is dead wrong, of course. The prop from TOS bears no resemblance in size or shape to the saucer in the Matt Helm movie — which looks like a VW version of Supercar. 
Compare it to the third picture below, which is the saucer from The Ambushers. How could anybody mistaken these two as the same prop? 
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Visit to a Small Planet (1960)
IMDB has several interesting trivia items for this production.
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~ Gore Vidal, who wrote the original play, was extremely upset with the choice of Jerry Lewis as the lead in the movie version. On Broadway Vidal's play ran for 388 performances between Feb 7, 1957-Jan 11, 1958 and won Cyril Ritchard, originator of the Kreton character, a 1957 Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in Play.
However, Lewis was a star, 12 times named to the Top Ten list of Box Office Stars, six times with partner Dean Martin (with whom he was the top star of 1952), and six times solo (ranking as high as #3 in 1958). He got the part.
Note from me: I'm not a fan of any Jerry Lewis movie . . . except this one.
~ Producer Hal B. Wallis considered either Lewis, Alec Guinness or Danny Kaye for the lead role.
Note from me: I can't imagine either of those two fine actors in this wacky role instead of Jerry — unless the script was completely rewritten in some manner which I can't really visualize.
~ Prior to its successful Broadway run, "Visit To A Small Planet" was first aired as a television play on May 8, 1955. The stage play opened on Broadway February 7, 1957 at the Booth Theater, where it ran for 388 performances.
Note from me: I couldn't find a YouTube copy of the play, but they do have the movie itself.
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~ Gore Vidal claimed that producer Hal Wallis had assured him that the film would star David Niven as the extra-terrestrial visitor, but it was Jerry Lewis who played the part.
Note from me: David Niven . . . as Kreton? Seriously?
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958) |
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