50's B Movies with Barbara Rush & Faith Domergue by Jongsstraw

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50's B Movies with Barbara Rush & Faith Domergue

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UPDATED: Saturday, July 14, 2007 13:08
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Sunday, July 1, 2007 1:39 PM

Those lovely gals are my favorites, along with Anne Francis, Margaret Sheridan, and Nora Hayden rounding out my top five. I just watched 2 of Rush's movies back to back; When Worlds Collide and It Came From Outer Space, from 1951 & 1953, and as always, I just stared in frozen awe over how beautiful and amazing that girl was. It's puppy love, about 56 years too late. I only recently found out that she was married for six years to Jeffery Hunter, aka Capt. Christopher Pike. Who are some of your favorites from that era?

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Tuesday, July 3, 2007 12:44 PM

TRAVELER

Curse you Jongsstraw. You are going to make me give away my age.

I got a crush on Priscilla Lawson who played Princess Aura in the first Flash Gordon serial when the serials were released on TV back in the fifties. I was six years old, but I will never forget her dark hair and the sparkle in her eyes.

So if anybody tells you a six year old can't have a crush, I'm proof their wrong. If there was anyone or thing about those serials I can remember it is Princess Aura and her cunning attempts to get rid of Dale and get Flash to fall in love her.

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Tuesday, July 3, 2007 9:17 PM

JONGSSTRAW

Wow.... a real honest 'ta goodness response to this post...only took a week to get one response, and I thank you for answering.

I thought this topic would generate a lot of interesting stories about the golden age of sci-fi, but alas, not to be. I never saw the gal or the series you loved, but I remain still quite engrossed in all things 50's cult. I was born in '53. Have a great 4th of July.

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Wednesday, July 4, 2007 2:47 PM

TRAVELER

Hello Jongsstraw:

Your list just about captures the best of the Fifties and Sixties science fiction. Not much to add. I have not seen some these films in years. "Forbidden Planet" was a real breakthrough for science fiction. Hollywood did not take science fiction to seriously in the fifties and sixties and this one broke the mold.

You may have seen this one already, but I will recomend it. "The day the Earth Stood Still" is a fine example of classic science fiction.

One that is not so much science fiction as social commentary is the original "1984".

Of course in the sixties we had a couple of H.G. Wells classics. "The Time Machine" and "War of The Worlds".

I found the recent remakes of both these films very good. So I would recomend both the early versions and the recent ones. You may want to compare them and see how they stand up to each other.

I sometimes think people believe science fiction started with Star Trek and Star Wars and here you come up with some of the best ever produced.

Thank You;
Traveler

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Wednesday, July 4, 2007 3:30 PM

JONGSSTRAW

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Originally posted by traveler:
Hello Jongsstraw:

Your list just about captures the best of the Fifties and Sixties science fiction. Not much to add. I have not seen some these films in years. "Forbidden Planet" was a real breakthrough for science fiction. Hollywood did not take science fiction to seriously in the fifties and sixties and this one broke the mold.

You may have seen this one already, but I will recomend it. "The day the Earth Stood Still" is a fine example of classic science fiction.

One that is not so much science fiction as social commentary is the original "1984".

Of course in the sixties we had a couple of H.G. Wells classics. "The Time Machine" and "War of The Worlds".

I found the recent remakes of both these films very good. So I would recomend both the early versions and the recent ones. You may want to compare them and see how they stand up to each other.

I sometimes think people believe science fiction started with Star Trek and Star Wars and here you come up with some of the best ever produced.

Thank You;
Traveler

I couldn't agree more. there was a lot of great sci-fi in the 50's & 60's, and kids today know virtually nothing of them. It's kinda like the Beatles coming to America in 1964 with their brand of rock & roll....they didn't invent it, they just brought it back to an America that had almost forgotten it after the trifecta of tragedy in 1959...Buddy Holly, Big Bopper Ritchie Valens's plane crash, Jerry Lee Lewis's scandals, then Elvis off to the Army...rock was dead. Music moguls gave us Frankie & Annette, & Fabian, & all the other pretty boys for a few years, but the Beatles, like Star Wars, re-energized and improved the genre, and ""changed the world".

As far as 50's cult movies I have a decent collection of DVDs...most are produced DVD's, some are bootlegs from Laserdiscs I bought at sci-fi conventions :

1) Destination Moon
2) Conquest Of Space
3) Invaders From Mars
4) When Worlds Collide
5) The Day The Earth Stood Still
6) The Thing
7) This Island Earth
8) Them
9) World Without End
10)Battle of The Planets
11) Project Moonbase
12) Killers From Space
13) The Crawling Eye
14) Kronos
15) It, The Terror From Beyond Space
16) Creation Of The Humanoids
17) Fiend Without A Face
18) Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
19) Attack Of The Crab Monsters
20) It Came From Outer Space
21) Forbidden Planet
22) War Of The Worlds
23) War Of The Planets
24) Earth Versus The Flying Saucers
25) Red Planet Mars

From the 20's I like Metropolis.
From the 30's I like Things To Come

And from the 60's I have:

The Time Machine
Robinson Crusoe On Mars
First Men In The Moon
Fahrenheit 451
Angry Red Planet
The Lost World

That's all I can think of out of memory....I watch these films a lot... I think for a long while now...maybe only the aboved mentioned movies...and Firefly, Serenity, and Dodgeball (I know it's stupid but I love it...especially that great kid Justin Long...he was also in Galaxy Quest ...he is always hysterical as the nerdy guy, and Tudyk is in it too!)....All else for me is go se, especially Television ( sorry for the dirty word).

Thanks for the tips and the communication.

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Wednesday, July 4, 2007 5:48 PM

TRAVELER

Wow Jongsstraw:

It has been so long since I have seen some of these movies I had to look them up. I bet it has been over forty years or more. Some of these films are not on DVD or only a few copies are available.

But in searching Internet Movie Database "imdb" my memory came alive and I started searching and found a few others I have nearly forgotten.

I suspect you may already have these. Your collection is really extensive and you may have these buried under all the others you have listed.

But just in case you don't, here are a few I dug out dustbin of my mind.

Quartermass and the Pit
Actually there are a series of Quartermass
films, but this the one I have seen.

Village of the Damned
Both this one and Quartermass are from the United Kingdom.

Battle of the Worlds
This is no classic. It is actually Italian, but
to seeing Claude Rains, yes Claude Rains,
chewing on old cigars and spouting out the
marvels of calculus is a hoot.

This has been a blast looking up these old films.

So, thanks for the giving me am enjoyable evening of exploring.
Traveler

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Friday, July 6, 2007 9:56 PM

MISSTRESSAHARA

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Robinson Crusoe On Mars

I LOVE that movie, I didn't think many people knew about it. I have it somewhere on video, old ragged picture and gaps, but I'd never get rid of it.

Don't you think the guy who plays alien Friday looks a weeeeeee bit like Elvis? I always have to remind myself it isn't him, especially on full profile.

Nice to trip down memory lane with you guys. I've seen many of those films (Time Machine and War of the Worlds AND Day the Earth Stood Still, how could they not be classics?)

Oh Traveller I have that Kim Novak movie on video, my mom loved to buy tons of video's back in the 80's. Stewart played the desperate bespelled man quite well, and I love Novak's brother lighting the street lamps (damn I can't remember his name, memory fault) What was the strange name of her cat? Pagmatagata..... do you know?

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Saturday, July 7, 2007 2:53 AM

JONGSSTRAW

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Originally posted by Misstressahara:

Robinson Crusoe On Mars

I LOVE that movie, I didn't think many people knew about it. I have it somewhere on video, old ragged picture and gaps, but I'd never get rid of it.

Don't you think the guy who plays alien Friday looks a weeeeeee bit like Elvis? I always have to remind myself it isn't him, especially on full profile.

Thanks for joining the discussion...I'm sitting here at home holding the DVD. It's a bootleg I bought a while back at a sci-fi convention in Florida...made from a Laserdisc, with a studio quality cover jacket, outstanding color, and excellent overall quality. Probably paid $10 for it. Get rid of your old VHS, and get to a show and look through the display tables for the DVD. It may be commercially available by now as well.

Vic Lundin plays Friday. I always thought he looked quite alien, and that goes well with your theory that he was actually Elvis. I also loved Mona the monkey & Adam West's brief appearance. Paul Mantee played the title role with sincerity and believability. There are some great effects in this 43 year-old movie, many intense and dramatic scenes, and redeeming messages of hope and courage.

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Saturday, July 7, 2007 10:57 AM

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Hello Misstressahara:

Jack Lemmon played Kim Novak's brother. He would go on to star in countless other films. "The Days of Wine and Roses" being one of his best.

As for the cat, I will guess at the spelling of the name, Piewacket. I'm sure I spelled it wrong, phonetically that is how is pronouced.

There are to many movies and not enough time to see them all. And many of my favorites are not available on DVD as yet. That is probably for the best as it would cost me a small fortune to buy them all. So I will keep watching them in good old recorded VHS. Oh for the old days of recording them off of TV broadcasts.

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Saturday, July 7, 2007 2:31 PM

MISSTRESSAHARA

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Vic Lundin plays Friday. I always thought he looked quite alien, and that goes well with your theory that he was actually Elvis.

Hahahahahahaha.

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I also loved Mona the monkey & Adam West's brief appearance.

Love that monkey, I wanted one the first time I saw her, then I saw the movie about a virus being carried by one of those things and thought... maybe not. And hey, can't get better than Adam West.

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Paul Mantee played the title role with sincerity and believability.

Especially when the isolation and loneliness got to him and he hallucinated West coming into his cave and he started to lose it demanding West talk to him, and when he opened his eyes and saw he wasn't really there he makes a log entry explaining to NASA what lonliness really does to a person. Really great scene.

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There are some great effects in this 43 year-old movie, many intense and dramatic scenes, and redeeming messages of hope and courage.

I think to this day the explosion and melting of the ice caps is one of the best effects. I think it hold up even to this day. I wish I could find a DVD, even a bootleg, but until then I'll make do with my video.

Can you tell I watched the hell out of my video?

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Traveler
Jack Lemmon played Kim Novak's brother. He would go on to star in countless other films.

Ya I know, I just had a mental brain block when I typed that. Star of The Apartment (which I've yet to see) The Odd Couple (when he's clearing his sineces, funniest moment in the movie) And oh my GOD, Some Like it Hot. The whole scene when he's telling Tony Curtis he's engaged while shaking those rattles. Bwahahahahaha. Grumpy Old Men and so many others. Sorry Jack, I didn't do you justice forgetting your name.

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As for the cat, I will guess at the spelling of the name, Piewacket. I'm sure I spelled it wrong, phonetically that is how is pronouced.

Piewacket, thank you, it's an odd name and quite the tongue tier. I wonder if Kim had trouble pronouncing it at times.

You know I never liked the Fiance', but then I don't think we were supposed to. Such a bitch (to me anyway) The thing I hated most is her losing her powers because she fell in real love with Stewarts character, she was by far one of the strongest female roles created, but the studio in a way emasculated her as the ONLY way she could ever be with Stewart. I don't know, sent a wrong message to me, but I like to think (in my mind) that afterwards when those two got together she slowly started to get her powers back, and he became alright with it.

K, talked too much about it. But nice to see I'm not the only person who knows about these gems.

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Saturday, July 14, 2007 1:08 PM

DEL

I was lucky enough to do a course on sci-fi at uni. Introduced me to Metropolis and Things to come. But was brought up on The Day the Earth Caught Fire, and The day the Earth Stood Stil, etc. THEM! was a particular favourite as well as The Blob. Remember Run don't walk!!!

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