TCM has been running a grouping of “nuclear radiation messsing with the environment” movies. Earlier it showed “Them” (giant ants); the original 1954 Japanese “Godzilla” (with English subtitles); and now the beautiful Allison Hayes is going to stomp around Southern California in the best movie of her less than stellar career.
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"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain
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January 03, 2018, 01:45 PM
sigspecops
Why are those men running away on the highway? Just stand in that shade and enjoy the overhead view.
No one's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.- Mark Twain
January 03, 2018, 04:09 PM
joel9507
Hope they'll have room for "What, behind the rabbit?"
January 04, 2018, 10:15 AM
SBrooks
I checked out Forbidden Planet for the first time when it was on recently. Half decent and funny even when it was trying to be serious...
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January 04, 2018, 10:37 AM
parabellum
Forbidden Planet is most certainly not a B-grade film. It's a big-budget MGM production and it is significant film in the SciFi canon. The first all-electronic musical score, courtesy of the Barrons, and it has Robby the Robot and great set design as well.
January 04, 2018, 06:21 PM
egregore
quote:
Originally posted by SBrooks: I checked out Forbidden Planet for the first time when it was on recently. Half decent and funny even when it was trying to be serious...
Is this serious?
January 04, 2018, 07:45 PM
sigspecops
Forbidden Planet is one of my favorite sci fi films. It’s definitely not B grade.
No one's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.- Mark Twain
January 04, 2018, 09:22 PM
egregore
Although the ants look slightly cheesy, I don't personally consider Them! to be a B-grade movie.
January 04, 2018, 10:56 PM
mr kablammo
Well, I am in pursuit of Vincent Price filmography. After watching House of Terrors I am on the scout for Champagne for Ceaser, and Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine. Sex Kittens go to College is on the list too. Cain't ILL that one I'm sure.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre.
January 05, 2018, 11:48 AM
SBrooks
I wasn't calling forbidden planet a B-grade flick. Just happened to watch it on the TCM channel as mentioned in the OP.
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January 05, 2018, 12:12 PM
recoatlift
I was 8 yrs old when I saw it in '56, scared to death. I watched the ID monster through the holes in my baseball cap. [FLASH_VIDEO]
