Showing posts with label Mexican films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mexican films. Show all posts

Saturday, December 24, 2016

CHRISTMAS MOVIE CONNECTIONS TO HORROR MOVIES


In an earlier post, I listed how many of our favorite Christmas movies were connected. Since I love to watch horror films at Halloween, I decided to show how many of the Christmas films have a connection to some famous horror films watched at Halloween.

Henry Travers, who played Clarence in It's a Wonderful Life and Horace Bogardus in Bells of St. Mary, also played Dr. Cranley in The Invisible Man.

Lionel Barrymore, who played Old Man Potter in It's a Wonderful Life, was in the Mark of the Vampire and The Devil Doll, which takes place at Christmas time.

Una O'Conner, who played Mrs. Breen in Bells of St. Mary and Norah in Christmas In Connecticut, in most famous for her roles in The Invisible Man and Bride of Frankenstein.

Ernest Thesiger, best known at Dr. Pretorius in Bride of Frankenstein, Horace Femm in Old Dark House and Laing in The Ghoul, plays the undertaker in the future sequence in the 1951 movie Scrooge.


Edmund Gwenn, who played Kris Kringle in Miracle of 34th Street, was in the horror films The Walking Dead (1936) with Boris Karloff and Them! (1954), which also starred James Whitmore (above with Gwenn), James Arness, Fess Parker and Leonard Nimoy.

Ramsey Mostoller designed the costumes for Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. He designed the costumers for Dark Shadows, as well as the movies House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows.


Jose Elias Moreno, who played Santa Claus in the 1959 Mexican film by the same title, played Dr. Krallman in Night of the Bloody Apes.



Bob Clark, who directed The Christmas Story, also directed Black Christmas and Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things.


And last but not least, Roberts Blossom (that's how he spelled it), who played spooky Old Man Marley in Home Alone, played the Ed Gein-like Ezra Cobb (above) in the 1974 horror classic Deranged. Maybe that is why Kevin was afraid of him.

Friday, January 30, 2015

THE ODD FOREIGN SUPERHERO BOWL

As you know from reading this blog, I love just about anything having to do with superheroes, which has never set will with folks here in the Ozarks. I've been told I should like "real heroes" (Is there such a thing?).

Since we are coming up on Super Sunday and the Super Bowl, I thought it would be cool to give a shout out to those odd foreign superheroes of the movies.They turned up on Saturday matinees and Saturday afternoon movies from the late 60s until the advent of home video, where they would soon make their home.

From Japan:
ULTRAMAN
STARMAN


SPACE CHIEF

PLANT PRINCE or PRINCE OF SPACE

Mexico:

SANTO or SAMPSON

BLUE DEMON

BATWOMAN

Italy:

FANTASTIC ARGOMAN

SUPERARGO (No relation to Fantastic Argoman)

3 FANTASTIC SUPERMEN
FLASHMAN

Look for these superheroes on YouTube and enjoy the unique way foreign countries create superhero movies. Especially the Italians. The incidental music in both Flashman and The Fantastic Argoman sounds very much like the incidental music from The Beverly Hillbillies.  The Fantastic Argoman's super power is he induces suicide!



Now if we only had action figures of these guys (actually I bought a Ultraman action figure. My five year old great-nephew plays with it, but calls him Silver Man).

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

K Gordon Murray Presents SANTA CLAUS in EASTMAN COLORSCOPE


I remember Aunt Norma on Children's Hour promoting that you could take a canned food item to the Tower Theater, here in Springfield, to see this movie for free. It is more fun to watch it with the MST3K gang.
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