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Post by Pangolin on Mar 7, 2024 22:00:23 GMT
Vernon God Little
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 8, 2024 6:23:07 GMT
I had read there was a proposed sequel to Dracula meant to be similar to Bride of Frankenstein with Karloff as the monster and Lugosi as Dracula. I think the Devil's Brood was the name proposed--and that ended up being used on the poster for House of Frankenstein. This seems the closet to an actual Dracula - Frankenstein encounter (narrated by Joseph Cotten?) The clip is from a 1934 promotional short for a Screen Actors Guild (of which Karloff was a founding member and officer) fundraising event. The Joseph Cotten narration was added when the clip was featured in a 1964 episode of Hollywood and the Stars, a weekly series from David Wolper concentrating on a different aspect of classic films in each installment (all of which were narrated by Cotten). This one was Monsters We've Known and Loved.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 8, 2024 10:32:42 GMT
Hollywood and the Stars, a weekly series from David Wolper concentrating on a different aspect of classic films in each installment (all of which were narrated by Cotten). This one was Monsters We've Known and Loved. This episode is fondly remembered by a number of directors (children of Famous Monsters of Filmland & the Universal horror classics being sold to TV in the late '50s) who saw it on their youth.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 8, 2024 10:36:43 GMT
Lonesome Dove (c. 1974)
Original screenplay by Larry McMurtry, to have starred John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, & Henry Fonda.
But Wayne had problems with the script, & the project fell through. McMurtry would return to the material ten years later.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 9, 2024 2:06:49 GMT
Hollywood and the Stars, a weekly series from David Wolper concentrating on a different aspect of classic films in each installment (all of which were narrated by Cotten). This one was Monsters We've Known and Loved. This episode is fondly remembered by a number of directors (children of Famous Monsters of Filmland & the Universal horror classics being sold to TV in the late '50s) who saw it on their youth. While never anything like a director, I was among those "monster kids" (the operative terminology on The Classic Horror Film Board) who grew up on Forry's FMoF, Shock Theater and the like. With its 30-min format, the Wolper series could never do more than the most cursory examination of its chosen topics. Nevertheless, it was my introduction to any number of classic films and the people who made them, and I gobbled up every episode, often dashing to the local public library in the days following to learn more about what I'd seen on the show.
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 9, 2024 5:39:32 GMT
Further veering away from the thread’s original topic (Sorry, Dr. Kimble), I have a CD of great Elmer Bernstein film compositions and the theme song for “Hollywood And The Stars” is on it. It’s really a lovely and uplifting piece of music and it evokes (at least, in me) a true feeling of classic Hollywood.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 9, 2024 13:29:59 GMT
Further veering away from the thread’s original topic (Sorry, Dr. Kimble), I have a CD of great Elmer Bernstein film compositions and the theme song for “Hollywood And The Stars” is on it. It’s really a lovely and uplifting piece of music and it evokes (at least, in me) a true feeling of classic Hollywood. That's the most robust arrangement and recording I've heard of that piece. Thanks for posting it (I, too, am hoping the good Doctor won't mind). Looking over Bernstein's credits to refresh my memory, I found myself quite impressed by his prolific contributions to both film and TV.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 14, 2024 8:58:46 GMT
Peter Lorre in a costume test for a film about Napoleon that was never made.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 15, 2024 0:27:11 GMT
TVoG obviously got made. However it was originally conceived decades earlier by Willis O'Brien (d. 1962) as a followup to King Kong. Some sources claim it dates back to 1934; per Wiki the earliest print mention of the project was in 1941. I heard that Merian Cooper wanted to do a King Kong meets Tarzan film (around 1935) and was told he didn't have the copyright ownership of Kong which led to the 1970s court case.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 15, 2024 10:32:12 GMT
Dime Box (1981)
Western by Burt Kennedy, to star William Holden & Glenn Ford. Clips from Texas (1941) would show their characters as young men
Cancelled upon Holden's death.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 19, 2024 20:15:45 GMT
3 horror movies set to film by RKO in 1943-44 but never made, including a Val Lewton production, THE. AMOROUS GHOST.
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