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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Sept 6, 2018 4:52:32 GMT
The 1977 horror flick cheapie Meatcleaver Massacre has a scene where a character is a projectionist for a movie theater and they are running a black and white sound film which looks to be from the 1930s.
In a mansion's den there are four characters, a man and woman in the corner by the door and a couple of other "detective type" characters. They talk about something before the man pulls a gun and leaves with the woman. They run outside to an airstrip and get into a plane. They are shot at by the chasing characters. The woman screams. The man is dying and he says to her: "Don't worry, I have insurance." Then he dies. THE END.
No mention of the film in the Connections of Meatcleaver Massacre. I could have sworn the studio name at the end was Allied Artists--but it says they didn't start making films with that name until 1947 and this was most definitely a 1930s film.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 6, 2018 4:57:52 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 6, 2018 5:16:57 GMT
while awaiting the solution of the mystery clip … some trivia about the MAIN MOVIE Actor 'Christopher Lee has said that he had no idea he was appearing in this film. He said that he was hired by a different producer to narrate an entirely different film, and that the producer apparently sold Lee's footage, without his permission, to the producers of this film, who then advertised it as "starring Christopher Lee". He initiated legal action against this film's producers, but withdrew it when he was advised that it would be a long, drawn-out and expensive procedure.  |
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 6, 2018 5:19:37 GMT
"Don't worry, I have insurance" is a great closing line. I love it. Sadly, I don't know the movie but will wait with baited breath (a mouthful of worms?) to get the answer.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 6, 2018 5:22:10 GMT
"Don't worry, I have insurance" is a great closing line. I love it. Sadly, I don't know the movie but will wait with baited breath (a mouthful of worms?) to get the answer. and we can hold our breaths while we wait for the pun (which is sure to come) concerning the bait |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Sept 6, 2018 5:41:27 GMT
The film Meatcleaver Massacre is full of amateurs (although the porn actress who suddenly appears in a sex scene with the projectionist is a professional judging from her IMDB credits).
I do not consider this Lee's worst movie though. It shows imagination.
That distinction belongs to THE KEEPER starring Lee and Liev Schreiber's father Tell.
The IMDB for his page said he "had a role" in the film. He IS the star of it!
It is truly terrible beyond all words and unlike Meatcleaver did not score a distribution deal given how bad it was.
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 6, 2018 12:44:55 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 6, 2018 12:49:01 GMT
Whole movie (Meatcleaver Massacre, that is, not our mystery movie) in on YouTube. Mystery movie is in this clip from 59:11 to 1:00:15. It’s “an Alliance picture”—probably British. The accents are British.
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 6, 2018 13:04:55 GMT
Got it, thanks to that closing line. It’s The Scotland Yard Mystery (’34), also known under the much more evocative but less accurate-to-plot title The Living Dead. Gerald du Maurier, whom I knew I’d recognized from somewhere when I watched that clip, plays the hero. Kim Newman, who wrote the one book I found online with a reference to the movie, praises that final line (precisely “cheer up, darling. I’m heavily insured”) as well. The IMDb entry here: www.imdb.com/title/tt0024532/ |
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 6, 2018 14:26:23 GMT
Got it, thanks to that closing line. It’s The Scotland Yard Mystery (’34), also known under the much more evocative but less accurate-to-plot title The Living Dead. Gerald du Maurier, whom I knew I’d recognized from somewhere when I watched that clip, plays the hero. Kim Newman, who wrote the one book I found online with a reference to the movie, praises that final line (precisely “cheer up, darling. I’m heavily insured”) as well. The IMDb entry here: www.imdb.com/title/tt0024532/Brilliant detective work! That's amazing, Holmes. How do you do it? |
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 6, 2018 14:33:52 GMT
Got it, thanks to that closing line. It’s The Scotland Yard Mystery (’34), also known under the much more evocative but less accurate-to-plot title The Living Dead. Gerald du Maurier, whom I knew I’d recognized from somewhere when I watched that clip, plays the hero. Kim Newman, who wrote the one book I found online with a reference to the movie, praises that final line (precisely “cheer up, darling. I’m heavily insured”) as well. The IMDb entry here: www.imdb.com/title/tt0024532/Brilliant detective work! That's amazing, Holmes. How do you do it? My dear fellow, the whole thing was rather elementary.  No, seriously, as I told Bat elsewhere once I found the clip it wasn’t hard at all. I put the exact quotation in to Google, and the Newman book came up, with year, title, and everything. The only real difficulty was “Allied Pictures,” about which I could hardly find a scrap of information. |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Sept 6, 2018 15:00:16 GMT
Got it, thanks to that closing line. It’s The Scotland Yard Mystery (’34), also known under the much more evocative but less accurate-to-plot title The Living Dead. Gerald du Maurier, whom I knew I’d recognized from somewhere when I watched that clip, plays the hero. Kim Newman, who wrote the one book I found online with a reference to the movie, praises that final line (precisely “cheer up, darling. I’m heavily insured”) as well. The IMDb entry here: www.imdb.com/title/tt0024532/Thanks!
It's a quota quickie! I have wanted to watch one of those.
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 6, 2018 15:59:13 GMT
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Sept 6, 2018 16:41:46 GMT
IMDB user trivia: "The star of the film is Gerald du Maurier, who plays Commissioner Stanton of the Yard. Du Maurier was the son of George du Maurier, who wrote the famous novel TRILBY and introduced the world to his sinister character Svengali. (That novel has been filmed many times under various titles.) Gerald was also the father of Daphne du Maurier, who wrote REBECCA and many other famous novels, which have been made into many films over the years and are too well known to require mentioning."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 6, 2018 16:44:58 GMT
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Sept 6, 2018 17:23:08 GMT
The biggest mystery I had (ten years searching) was a movie about people around a dinner table who imagine being stranded at sea. I saw the main character as a David Niven or Barry Sullivan type...finally someone solved it. SURVIVAL-and Barry Sullivan is in it.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 6, 2018 17:27:01 GMT
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Sept 6, 2018 17:28:03 GMT
TEN YEARS ! Patience can pay off.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 6, 2018 17:32:07 GMT
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