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[Bud Brewster]

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A Jules Verne adventure . . . with The Three Stooges, a movie made in Mexico that pissed off the authorities, and a very large simian who crashes Broadway. Literally.



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King Kong (1933)

Opening Statement:

Pow wrote:

The film originally came in at 13 reels. Merian C.Cooper was extremely superstitious about the number 13, he insisted another scene had to be shot in order to bring the movie at 14 reels. That scene was the elevated train sequence in NYC.

Wow, that elevated train sequence turned out to be more than just "filler" to extend the movie!

The tragedy is portrayed with shocking realism, right down to the way the passenger are shown falling to the low end of the detailed train car and crushing each other.[/size]

Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961)

Opening Statement: IMDB has two interesting trivia items for this production.

~ According to director Allan Dwan, producer Benedict Bogeaus tricked him, the actors and crew members into working for low pay by claiming the project was actually a two-part pilot for a TV series.

Bogeaus was caught by the heads of the Mexican movie unions, who read the script, realized it was for a feature film, and demanded that everyone employed on it be paid the higher feature-film rates. As a result, Dwan had to shoot the film in one week instead of five, and use only already existing sets.

Note from me: Well, he was a con man, but he was pretty resourceful.

The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963)

Opening Statement: That's a good question, Mike!

I guess I tend to put every version of a Jules Verne story into our sci-fi forums, even when they aren't strictly "science fiction".

But since I've placed Around the World in 80 Days (1956) in a sci-fi forum (along with the more recent remake), I'm stuck with the idea that all versions of this Jules Verne tale somehow qualify!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)