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[Bud Brewster]

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Gee, what can I say about today's three movies?

Well, there's a guy who makes monsters, and a girl who gets involved with one, and then there's . . . somebody who figures out how to kill people who watch television!

Scary thought, eh?



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The Monster and the Girl (1941)

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Not your typical 1940s horror movie.

A man (Philip Terry) is executed for a crime he didn't commit after his sister is sold into prostitution. A doctor (George Zucco) acquires the dead man's brain and transplants it into a gorilla. The gorilla-man seeks revenge against the men responsible for his sister's fate.

Listen for the voice of Jiminy Cricket — Cliff Edwards in a small role. Directed by Stuart Heisler.

I'm not sure that poster sends the right message concerning what this movie is about. This is the first thing I thought of when I saw it.

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The Monster Maker (1944)

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Carrol Naish plays a demented doctor who becomes obsessed with a pretty pianist (Wanda McKay). She rejects his romantic advances, so he plots a hideous revenge; he injects her father (Ralph Morgan) with acromegaly, causing him to become hideously deformed.

Glenn Strange is Naish's assistant.

Both the basic concept and the way it is presented are so unpleasant that audiences reacted badly to the film, and Naish's career suffered because of it.

Directed by horror/sci-fi veteran Sam Newfield. ____________________________________________________________________

Murder By Television (1935)

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Couch Potatoes, heed this warning: TV can kill!

Ironically the victim in this obscure murder mystery is the inventor of the first television. The prime suspect is his assistant, Bela Lugosi. Lugosi plays two roles twin brothers — but the rest of the cast is composed of relative unknowns, and the plot is too uneventful to generate much enthusiasm. Directed by Clifford Sandford.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)