JackFavell wrote:I know it's silly to like Carroll, the B actor's B actor, but he seems pretty harmless, all in all. And this movie is ridiculous, but I enjoyed it immensely last time it was on. Sometimes you just want that hamburger, you know? Or in this case, a corndog.
I understand your John Carroll interest completely--after all, that Gilbert Roland thread that keeps getting longer doesn't make much sense either, does it? Here's hoping that you'll soon stumble on that time machine I sent you and will be watching John Carroll shoveling horse manure on the ranch instead of on the screen.
I am enjoying the George Seitz movies this morning on TCM. Thanks for the heads up about these movies the other day. The murder mystery,
The Thirteenth Chair (1937), which is being broadcast now, even features Henry Daniell and a raft of character actors. So far I've spotted a very young Robert Coote, Dame May Whitty as a medium, Heather Thatcher as a brittle society dame, and is that
Mr. Ruth Chatterton Ralph Forbes?? Madge Evans is languidly lovely here too and Lewis Stone, as usual, is around to represent benign authority in the shape of a logical Scotland Yard inspector (though Stone doesn't even try to fake an English accent).
Above: A herd of actors off the unemployment line thanks to The Thirteenth Chair (1937).
I don't know if Tod Browning's 1929 early talkie version of this divinely creaky play was better, though I am sure it was probably creepier, even though one of its stars, Bela Lugosi, hadn't even played Dracula on film yet.