Hey,
If you're a fan of The Day The Earth Stood Still you might want to check out this low-budget remake from the UK and also starring Patricia Neal. Very chatty and almost actionless, it's another take on the moralistic and creaky original.
On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 17:51:27 -0800 (PST), "wlah...gmail.com" <wlah...gmail.com> wrote:
Hey,
If you're a fan of The Day The Earth Stood Still you might want to check out this low-budget remake from the UK and also starring Patricia Neal. Very chatty and almost actionless, it's another take on the moralistic and creaky original."You misunderstand," the mighty robot had said. "I am the master."
On Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 3:47:02 PM UTC, Mack A. Damia wrote:
On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 17:51:27 -0800 (PST), "wlah...gmail.com"
<wlah...gmail.com> wrote:
Hey,
If you're a fan of The Day The Earth Stood Still you might want to check out this low-budget remake from the UK and also starring Patricia Neal. Very chatty and almost actionless, it's another take on the moralistic and creaky original.
"You misunderstand," the mighty robot had said. "I am the master."
You forgot to supply the YouTube link ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm1qpdZ8lu8
... and the Wiki link too ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_from_Venus
You forgot to supply the YouTube link ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm1qpdZ8lu8
... and the Wiki link too ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_from_Venus
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 08:49:45 -0800 (PST), Kerrison Spartan <kerrison1...yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
On Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 3:47:02 PM UTC, Mack A. Damia wrote:
On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 17:51:27 -0800 (PST), "wlah...gmail.com"
<wlah...gmail.com> wrote:
Hey,
If you're a fan of The Day The Earth Stood Still you might want to check out this low-budget remake from the UK and also starring Patricia Neal. Very chatty and almost actionless, it's another take on the moralistic and creaky original.
"You misunderstand," the mighty robot had said. "I am the master."
You forgot to supply the YouTube link ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm1qpdZ8lu8
... and the Wiki link too ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_from_Venus"You misunderstand," the mighty robot had said. "I am the master." is
a quote, the last sentence of a short story by Harry Bates, "Farewell
to the Master".
It is the short story upon which "The Day The Earth Stood Still" is
based. The ending is slightly different. In the film, you don't get
much of an awareness that the robot is the master, although Klaatu
alludes to it.
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 13:56:42 -0800 (PST), Kerrison Spartan ><kerrison126-spartan@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:Donlevy, who'd had a successful movie career in the 1930s and '40s but by the 1950s was being referred to as "a former Hollywood heavy whose career had gone into decline." Still, the British makers of the movie wanted an American movie star to help sell
On Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 5:46:06 PM UTC, Mack A. Damia wrote:
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 08:49:45 -0800 (PST), Kerrison Spartan
<kerrison1...yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
On Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 3:47:02 PM UTC, Mack A. Damia wrote:"You misunderstand," the mighty robot had said. "I am the master." is
On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 17:51:27 -0800 (PST), "wlah...gmail.com"
<wlah...gmail.com> wrote:
Hey,
If you're a fan of The Day The Earth Stood Still you might want to check out this low-budget remake from the UK and also starring Patricia Neal. Very chatty and almost actionless, it's another take on the moralistic and creaky original.
"You misunderstand," the mighty robot had said. "I am the master."
You forgot to supply the YouTube link ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm1qpdZ8lu8
... and the Wiki link too ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_from_Venus
a quote, the last sentence of a short story by Harry Bates, "Farewell
to the Master".
It is the short story upon which "The Day The Earth Stood Still" is
based. The ending is slightly different. In the film, you don't get
much of an awareness that the robot is the master, although Klaatu
alludes to it.
Apropos 1950s British sci-fi movies, one of the scariest - at least for the audiences of the time - was "The Quatermass Experiment." Like "Stranger from Venus" with Patricia Neal, an American actor took the lead as Professor Quatermass. He was Brian
stupor and begins to transmute into something nasty, having been taken over by an alien in outer space. He escapes from the observation hospital and hides away by day, only coming out at night to live on the blood of animals in London Zoo. By the end of
It was Quatermass who had launched a rocket ship into space with three astronauts on board but when it crash landed back to earth, only one of them staggered out, the other two having been melted inside their spacesuits. The survivor is in a catatonic
It's on YouTube but unfortunately was uploaded there in the wrong screen ratio - wide screen instead of the proper format - so that circles come out as ovals. Still, if you can live with that, here's the link ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swoq1pbpb3k&t=1028s
Great music score by the way, from James Bernard.
Brother, I lived in Farnborough, England in 1955, and "The Quatermass >Experiment" on BBC gave me nightmares. I was eight years old, and I
would beg my parents to let me watch next week's episode.
"Winnerton Flats".
I have all the BBC Quatermass series on DVDs
On Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 5:46:06 PM UTC, Mack A. Damia wrote:
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 08:49:45 -0800 (PST), Kerrison Spartan
<kerrison1...yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
On Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 3:47:02 PM UTC, Mack A. Damia wrote:"You misunderstand," the mighty robot had said. "I am the master." is
On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 17:51:27 -0800 (PST), "wlah...gmail.com"
<wlah...gmail.com> wrote:
Hey,
If you're a fan of The Day The Earth Stood Still you might want to check out this low-budget remake from the UK and also starring Patricia Neal. Very chatty and almost actionless, it's another take on the moralistic and creaky original.
"You misunderstand," the mighty robot had said. "I am the master."
You forgot to supply the YouTube link ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm1qpdZ8lu8
... and the Wiki link too ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_from_Venus
a quote, the last sentence of a short story by Harry Bates, "Farewell
to the Master".
It is the short story upon which "The Day The Earth Stood Still" is
based. The ending is slightly different. In the film, you don't get
much of an awareness that the robot is the master, although Klaatu
alludes to it.
Apropos 1950s British sci-fi movies, one of the scariest - at least for the audiences of the time - was "The Quatermass Experiment." Like "Stranger from Venus" with Patricia Neal, an American actor took the lead as Professor Quatermass. He was BrianDonlevy, who'd had a successful movie career in the 1930s and '40s but by the 1950s was being referred to as "a former Hollywood heavy whose career had gone into decline." Still, the British makers of the movie wanted an American movie star to help sell
It was Quatermass who had launched a rocket ship into space with three astronauts on board but when it crash landed back to earth, only one of them staggered out, the other two having been melted inside their spacesuits. The survivor is in a catatonicstupor and begins to transmute into something nasty, having been taken over by an alien in outer space. He escapes from the observation hospital and hides away by day, only coming out at night to live on the blood of animals in London Zoo. By the end of
It's on YouTube but unfortunately was uploaded there in the wrong screen ratio - wide screen instead of the proper format - so that circles come out as ovals. Still, if you can live with that, here's the link ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swoq1pbpb3k&t=1028s
Great music score by the way, from James Bernard.
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 14:25:44 -0800, Mack A. DamiaDonlevy, who'd had a successful movie career in the 1930s and '40s but by the 1950s was being referred to as "a former Hollywood heavy whose career had gone into decline." Still, the British makers of the movie wanted an American movie star to help sell
<drstee...yahoo.com> wrote:
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 13:56:42 -0800 (PST), Kerrison Spartan ><kerrison1...yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
On Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 5:46:06 PM UTC, Mack A. Damia wrote:
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 08:49:45 -0800 (PST), Kerrison Spartan
<kerrison1...yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
On Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 3:47:02 PM UTC, Mack A. Damia wrote: >>> >> On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 17:51:27 -0800 (PST), "wlah...gmail.com""You misunderstand," the mighty robot had said. "I am the master." is >>> a quote, the last sentence of a short story by Harry Bates, "Farewell >>> to the Master".
<wlah...gmail.com> wrote:
Hey,
If you're a fan of The Day The Earth Stood Still you might want to check out this low-budget remake from the UK and also starring Patricia Neal. Very chatty and almost actionless, it's another take on the moralistic and creaky original.
"You misunderstand," the mighty robot had said. "I am the master." >>> >
You forgot to supply the YouTube link ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm1qpdZ8lu8
... and the Wiki link too ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_from_Venus
It is the short story upon which "The Day The Earth Stood Still" is
based. The ending is slightly different. In the film, you don't get
much of an awareness that the robot is the master, although Klaatu
alludes to it.
Apropos 1950s British sci-fi movies, one of the scariest - at least for the audiences of the time - was "The Quatermass Experiment." Like "Stranger from Venus" with Patricia Neal, an American actor took the lead as Professor Quatermass. He was Brian
catatonic stupor and begins to transmute into something nasty, having been taken over by an alien in outer space. He escapes from the observation hospital and hides away by day, only coming out at night to live on the blood of animals in London Zoo. By
It was Quatermass who had launched a rocket ship into space with three astronauts on board but when it crash landed back to earth, only one of them staggered out, the other two having been melted inside their spacesuits. The survivor is in a
It's on YouTube but unfortunately was uploaded there in the wrong screen ratio - wide screen instead of the proper format - so that circles come out as ovals. Still, if you can live with that, here's the link ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swoq1pbpb3k&t=1028s
Great music score by the way, from James Bernard.
Brother, I lived in Farnborough, England in 1955, and "The Quatermass >Experiment" on BBC gave me nightmares. I was eight years old, and II am thinking of Quatermass II, broadcast in the autumn of 1955.** >"Winnerton Flats".
would beg my parents to let me watch next week's episode.
I have all the BBC Quatermass series on DVDs** Remade by Hammer as "The Enemy from Space" (1957) starring Brian
Donlevy as Professor Quatermass. I always think it looks as if he
never takes off his overcoat.
Another of these 1950s British sci-fi films requiring an American actor to help sell the movie in the States was "X the Unknown." Dean Jagger was brought over and according to Wiki, his fee of $30,000 accounted for half the film's budget. The film wasset in Scotland and Jagger played the head of a nearby Atomic Energy Laboratory. It was there that an enormous radioactive creature resembling moving sludge, which had laid dormant since pre-history, crawled out of the ground in search of food and most
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krz8ym_TdSs
| Sysop: | Keyop |
|---|---|
| Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
| Users: | 297 |
| Nodes: | 16 (1 / 15) |
| Uptime: | 03:03:15 |
| Calls: | 6,670 |
| Calls today: | 2 |
| Files: | 12,217 |
| Messages: | 5,338,640 |