The Silver Screen Oasis

I’ve never watched Svengoolie. I do enjoy MeTV.
Guess I’m spoiled. Can’t imagine watching a movie with commercials.
The promos make Svengoolie look a little goofy.
I’m am fully spoiled. TCM’s fault.
Then again, I might like Ben Mankiewicz more if I could spell his name without help, black around his eyes and the rubber chicken.

jimimac71 wrote: ↑May 10th, 2023, 5:15 pm
Then again, I might like Ben Mankiewicz more if I could spell his name without help, black around his eyes and the rubber chicken.

Ben's jokes are just as lame as Sven's, Sven has better delivery however.

I did not watch all of The Ghost And Mr. Chicken last night. Since Sven is now on for 2 1/2 hours I figured this would be shown uncut for once.

If anyone watched it last night and knows the movie very well, can you verify this it was shown without cuts?

Detective Jim McLeod wrote: ↑May 14th, 2023, 7:42 am I did not watch all of The Ghost And Mr. Chicken last night. Since Sven is now on for 2 1/2 hours I figured this would be shown uncut for once.

If anyone watched it last night and knows the movie very well, can you verify this it was shown without cuts?

Well I watched but don't really know what cuts you're talking about - it would help if you had mentioned what they entailed.

Seemed to me the celebration went on a little longer after the "shakey man" speech with more townspeople interaction, but that could just be me noticing for the first time.

Looking forward to this week-THING WITH 2 HEADS! I haven't seen this since in the theater as a kid!

TikiSoo wrote: ↑May 16th, 2023, 6:19 am

Well I watched but don't really know what cuts you're talking about - it would help if you had mentioned what they entailed.

I don't know if it was cut or not, I just remember on the old Sven show (2 hours) he would say at the beginning there will be cuts for time constraints.

Can't wait for the Thing With 2 Heads! Bad Movie Nirvana!

Hibi wrote: ↑May 16th, 2023, 3:58 pm Can't wait for the Thing With 2 Heads! Bad Movie Nirvana!

Haha I love the perception of "classic movie fans" where people think we're a bunch of art snobs always discussing "that director/screenplay/cinematographer" ...when we're REALLY more excited about seeing the silliest, craziest monster movie!

TikiSoo wrote: ↑May 17th, 2023, 4:52 am

Hibi wrote: ↑May 16th, 2023, 3:58 pm Can't wait for the Thing With 2 Heads! Bad Movie Nirvana!

Haha I love the perception of "classic movie fans" where people think we're a bunch of art snobs always discussing "that director/screenplay/cinematographer" ...when we're REALLY more excited about seeing the silliest, craziest monster movie!

LOL!!!!

I only saw the first half! Woke up during closing credits. How was it?

TikiSoo wrote: ↑May 21st, 2023, 5:08 am I only saw the first half! Woke up during closing credits. How was it?

You missed the funniest bits. There is a very long dirt bike scene and police chase. The Milland/Grier monster steals a dirt bike along with black doctor Don Marshall, seeing an obvious stunt man with a dummy Ray Milland head zooming around on the bike was hilarious. When they meet up with Grier's girl friend (played by Laugh In regular Chelsea Brown), she asks "Do you have two of anything else?" There is a dinner scene where bigoted Milland doesn't like the soul food being served, he asks "What's for dessert? Watermelon?"
The "Oh Happy Day" scene at the end had me dying!" The song was a bit hit for the Edwin Hawkins Singers in 1970, 2 years before this movie and it was sung by some other singers here.
Sven did a very funny song parody about the "Rosey/Ray" monster as he called them, done to the tune of the "Rosie O'Grady" song.
He was also pretty thorough with the trivia on the cast, though I wish he could have included more on Ray Milland. He does mention his Oscar winning The Lost Weekend and Frogs another ridiculous film he made the same year as Thing With Two Heads., it seems he was taking any role during this time. I wish Sven mentioned the classic ghost story with Milland The Uninvited (1944) as well as X-The Man With The Xray Eyes (1963) which I love.

This month on Svengoolie...

6/3: Man Made Monster (1941) w/ Lionel Atwill, Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Nagel, Frank Albertson and Samuel S. Hinds.

6/10: Night Monster (1942) w/ Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson, Irene Hervey, Ralph Morgan, Don Porter, Nils Asther, Fay Helm and Frank Reicher.

6/17: Curse of the Demon (1957) w/ Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins and Niall MacGinnis. And directed by Jacques Tourneur.

6/24: Fiend Without a Face (1958) w/ Marshall Thompson, Terry Kilburn and Kim Parker.

LiamCasey wrote: ↑June 1st, 2023, 8:28 pm This month on Svengoolie...

6/3: Man Made Monster (1941) w/ Lionel Atwill, Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Nagel, Frank Albertson and Samuel S. Hinds.

6/10: Night Monster (1942) w/ Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson, Irene Hervey, Ralph Morgan, Don Porter, Nils Asther, Fay Helm and Frank Reicher.

6/17: Curse of the Demon (1957) w/ Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins and Niall MacGinnis. And directed by Jacques Tourneur.

6/24: Fiend Without a Face (1958) w/ Marshall Thompson, Terry Kilburn and Kim Parker.

Nice quartet of films. And Terry Kilburn, in Field Without a Face, will be 97 later this year. He may be best known for two of his boyhood roles:

"Goodbye, Mr. Chips!"

I always lose it when Terry says that at the end.

Barbra Streisand's character Doris talks about MAN MADE MONSTER to George Segal's Felix in THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT.