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Post by snsurone on May 6, 2019 16:06:53 GMT
This is the movie that introduced people to Michael Landon, who played the title role.
I confess that I never saw the movie, but I did see a promo on TV where Landon's character slowly morphs into a werewolf during a modern dance recital.
I can remember seeing a young lady, doing a handstand, and screaming when she saw the transformation.
Landon was in a few other theatrical movies, but the only one I remember is THE LEGEND OF TOM DOOLEY.
Then, he appeared in a few TV Westerns such as TRACKDOWN and THE RIFLEMAN, before achieving stardom on BONANZA.
There is a series on MeTV called SVENGHOULI, where horror and sic-fi movies are aired.
I don't know if it ever aired this movie, but I hope it will.
BTW, is modern dance dance still performed publicy?
I think it's great!
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Post by mikef6 on May 7, 2019 1:30:28 GMT
Poor Whit Bissell. A hardworking character actor who was good enough that he was never type cast. He often played small, even bit, parts but were different kinds of roles. He could be a detective, a mealy-mouthed squealer, a western saloon keeper, a U.S. Senator (in “Seven Days In May”) – just about anything. In 1957, though, he seems to have hit bottom even though he got two lead roles. The only thing is, the leads were as a mad scientist in both “I Was A Teenage Werewolf” and “I Was A Teenage Frankenstein” (the latter being truly dismal). But it was even worse for actor Barney Phillips who played the local sheriff but had to speak the last line, “It’s not for man to interfere in the ways of God” – which sounds like a steal from, of all people, Edward D. Wood, Jr. whose last line of “Bride Of The Monster” (1955) was, “He tampered in God’s domain.” From one bad movie writer to another. (But Ed Wood’s was the worst.)
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Post by Prime etc. on May 7, 2019 1:53:29 GMT
Ha Whit Bissel has a great line in the Frankenstein one when he has to explain why his wife disappeared.
"Perfidy thy name is woman!"
I like these AIP quickies.
Too bad they couldn't get Landon back for How To Make A Monster.
He did put on werewolf makeup again for an episode of Highway To Heaven.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 7, 2019 18:56:44 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on May 7, 2019 20:38:45 GMT
But it was even worse for actor Barney Phillips who played the local sheriff but had to speak the last line, “It’s not for man to interfere in the ways of God” – which sounds like a steal from, of all people, Edward D. Wood, Jr. whose last line of “Bride Of The Monster” (1955) was, “He tampered in God’s domain.” From one bad movie writer to another. (But Ed Wood’s was the worst.) Hi mikef6 . Of course, ol' Eddie Wood was already borrowing. In 1936's The Walking Dead, for instance, the resurrected Boris Karloff warns Edmond Gwenn, who brought him back to life to learn the secrets of death, "The lord our God is a jealous God; leave the dead to their maker," and expires again before he can reveal anything. The final fadeout has Gwenn repeating, "The lord our God is a jealous God."
In 1935's Bride Of Frankenstein, when Henry muses that it might have been "part of the divine plan" that he discover the secret of creating life, Elizabeth cautions him, " Don't say those things. Don't think them. It's blasphemous and wicked. We are not meant to know those things."
Claude Rains's dying words at the end of 1933's The Invisible Man are, "I meddled in things man must leave alone."And 1931's Frankenstein begins with Edward Van Sloan's prologue describing Henry as "A man of science who sought to create a man after his own image without reckoning upon God."
I wouldn't be surprised if there are earlier examples, and I'm sure numerous ones since. Admittedly, it had become pretty cliche for sci-fi/horror by the mid-'50s.
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Post by Sulla on May 7, 2019 21:31:01 GMT
Ahh, yes, an old favorite. When I was a kid I would keep an eye out for any werewolf movies on tv. It's not the best werewolf flick, but when you only have three channels, you take what you can get.
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Post by mattgarth on May 9, 2019 0:44:07 GMT
The original trailer's sonorous narrator introduces him to us:
"Michael Landon -- in a POWERFUL PERFORMANCE!"
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Post by snsurone on May 9, 2019 23:07:02 GMT
Uh, nobody answered my question:
Are moder dance recitals still being held??
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Post by Doghouse6 on May 9, 2019 23:28:35 GMT
Uh, nobody answered my question: Are moder dance recitals still being held?? Well, I tell ya, snsurone ; I'm sure they're still being done, although I haven't personally attended one since 1974. But there are a number of videos online of such performances well into this century. As to the film in question, I feel pretty safe in saying there isn't a modern dance recital in it. There's a rock and roll song and dance in a party scene, but the closest thing to what you describe is a girl in a gymnasium, doing an upside-down backbend on some parallel bars, who witnesses Landon approaching her from that position after his transformation. It's at about 47:35 in the video below. He should have spent more time in the gym himself; he's pretty clumsy pursuing his prey.
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Post by snsurone on May 10, 2019 9:13:18 GMT
Well. thank you, Dog.
It's been decades since I've seen that clip, so it was pretty easy to assume it was modern dance.
But I suppose it's now passé---like the "twist".
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