This week on SVENGOOLIE...

[laffite]

sorry for the double post. I got so excited about RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE, lol. It's exactly the type of movie I want to see on this show.

No need to apologize. The more we get from you the better. Even it it's a rerun.

[Bronxgirl48]

You are a sweetheart, laffite. Thank you my dear friend.

[Swithin]

I enjoy Frieda's WWII British dialogue: "The Gerries seem to have rather taken things out of your hands"

I always enjoy Frieda Inescort's performances. She played the snobby Caroline Bingley in Pride and Prejudice. Favorite line: "Shall we take a turn about the room?"

She created the role of Mary Howard on Broadway, in When Ladies Meet. The role was played by Myrna Loy (1933) and Joan Crawford (1941) in the film versions.

[jamesjazzguitar]

Swithin, I love RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE! Andreas scares me! He has some creepy snickering moments in his banter with Bela -- "As if they could tell what happened...."

I enjoy Frieda's WWII British dialogue: "The Gerries seem to have rather taken things out of your hands"

Nina Foch's walk through the graveyard with Lugosi intoning: "Only a little further! Further! Further!"

Childhood favorite!

The Return of the Vampire is a fun film to watch. Young Nina Foch and always interesting Frieda Inescort, with the best Bela as Vampire performance since the original Universal Dragula film in 1931 (since Mark of the Vampire is fake).

[Bronxgirl48]

i always enjoy Frieda too -- what is that other line in P&P "Look at the rustics at play..."

She brings class to THE ALLIGATOR PEOPLE and I think is in a few other '50's horror movies whose titles escape me at the moment, although THE SHE-CREATURE with either Tom Conway and/or Chester Morris is coming to my mind.

Oy, don't mention MARK OF THE VAMPIRE, lol. "Luna" is cool but the rest....and poor Bela, used and abused!

[LiamCasey]

This month on Svengoolie...

We've got double features!

10/7:

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) w/ John Vernon, Royal Dano and Christopher Titus.

The Crawling Eye (1958) w/ Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne and Jennifer Jayne. Screenplay by Jimmy Sangster. And directed by Quentin Lawrence.

10/14:

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) w/ Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange, Lenore Aubert and Jane Randolph. Plus Vincent Price. And directed by Charles Barton.

Invaders From Mars (1986) w/ Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Laraine Newman, James Karen, Bud Cort and Louise Fletcher. Screenplay by Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby. And directed by Tobe Hooper.

10/21:

The Night Stalker (1972) w/ Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland, Ralph Meeker, Claude Akins, Charles McGraw, Kent Smith, Elisha Cook Jr., Stanley Adams, Larry Linville and Barry Atwater. Screenplay by Richard Matheson. And directed by John Llewellyn Moxey.

Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) w/ Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kôchi, Akira Takarada and Akihiko Hirata. And directed by Ishirō Honda and "Americanized" by Terry O. Morse.

10/28:

The Night Strangler (1973) w/ Darren McGavin, Jo Ann Pflug, Simon Oakland, Scott Brady, Wally Cox, Margaret Hamilton, Richard Anderson, John Carradine and Al Lewis. Screenplay by Richard Matheson. And directed by Dan Curtis.

Trilogy of Terror (1975) w/ Karen Black. Written by Richard Matheson and William F. Nolan. And directed by Dan Curtis.

[Swithin]

[Allhallowsday]

Her mother is invited to dinner...

[Allhallowsday]

I've seen a lot of Vampire movies, but THE NIGHT STALKER (1972) is the best of them all. It's on Saturday night. Next week it will be the worthy successor THE NIGHT STRANGLER (1973). The TV show was meh at best.

[TikiSoo]

I snoozed through it. I think Svengoolie's longer time slot is just to add more commercials. I just can't get involved in the story with so many breaks.

[Detective Jim McLeod]

I saw The Night Stalker (1972) last night and I think it still holds up. I like it more than the TV series which relied too much on comedy rather than horror. The original movie is short on comedy but has great suspense and shocks and the vampire is actually scary. It has the usual things like the cross and the stake, but adds superhuman strength to the vampire. There are a couple of great fight/action scenes with hospital orderlies and police.

I always like to hear Sven's trivia about the cast, though I would like to add some things and correct one.

Darren McGavin never became a top star in theatrical films but in the 1970s was the king of TV movies. He was in my favorite TV movie of all time Tribes (1970) where he played the short tempered Marine DI who has to deal with drafted hippie Jan Michael Vincent. In 1972 alone he was in another horror film Something Evil directed by Steven Spielberg, the pilot film for the The Rookies and co starred with Susan Hayward in her last movie Say Goodbye Maggie Cole.

Carol Lynley has a standard girlfriend role but she looks great. Sven does not mention a good horror film she made in 1967-The Shuttered Room.

Sven talks about Claude Akins playing Aldo in Planet Of The Apes, he did play Aldo but not in the original film. it was in the 5th film in the series Battle For The Planet Of The Apes (1975).

I am glad Sven spoke of Barry Atwater who played the vampire Janos Skorzeny. He mentions his Twilight Zone episode, the classic "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" but does not say that Claude Akins was in that also, Night Stalker was a reunion for them.

And the director John Llewellyn Moxey made one of my favorite horror films City Of The Dead aka Horror Hotel (1960).

[jamesjazzguitar]

I saw The Night Stalker (1972) last night and I think it still holds up. I like it more than the TV series which relied too much on comedy rather than horror. The original movie is short on comedy but has great suspense and shocks and the vampire is actually scary. It has the usual things like the cross and the stake, but adds superhuman strength to the vampire. There are a couple of great fight/action scenes with hospital orderlies and police.

I always like to hear Sven's trivia about the cast, though I would like to add some things and correct one.

Darren McGavin never became a top star in theatrical films but in the 1970s was the king of TV movies. He was in my favorite TV movie of all time Tribes (1970) where he played the short tempered Marine DI who has to deal with drafted hippie Jan Michael Vincent. In 1972 alone he was in another horror film Something Evil directed by Steven Spielberg, the pilot film for the The Rookies and co starred with Susan Hayward in her last movie Say Goodbye Maggie Cole.

Carol Lynley has a standard girlfriend role but she looks great. Sven does not mention a good horror film she made in 1967-The Shuttered Room.

Sven talks about Claude Akins playing Aldo in Planet Of The Apes, he did play Aldo but not in the original film. it was in the 5th film in the series Battle For The Planet Of The Apes (1975).

I am glad Sven spoke of Barry Atwater who played the vampire Janos Skorzeny. He mentions his Twilight Zone episode, the classic "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" but does not say that Claude Akins was in that also, Night Stalker was a reunion for them.

And the director John Llewellyn Moxey made one of my favorite horror films City Of The Dead aka Horror Hotel (1960).

I forgot how many classic movie actors, especially those featured in noir films, there were in The Night Stalker, Kent Smith, Elisha Cook Jr., Charles McGraw, and Ralph Meeker.

[Allhallowsday]

I snoozed through it. I think Svengoolie's longer time slot is just to add more commercials. I just can't get involved in the story with so many breaks.

Agreed. Here it is on YouTube:

[LiamCasey]

This month on Svengoolie...

11/4: Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) w/ William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, Woody Strode and Altovise Davis. Plus Marcy Lafferty. And directed by John 'Bud' Cardos.

11/11: Munster, Go Home! (1966) w/ Fred Gwynne, Yvonne DeCarlo, Al Lewis, Butch Patrick, Debbie Watson, Terry-Thomas and Hermione Gingold. Plus Robert Pine, John Carradine, Bernard Fox and Richard Dawson. And directed by Earl Bellamy.

11/18: Empire of the Ants (1977) w/ Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson, Albert Salmi, Jacqueline Scott, Pamela Susan Shoop, Robert Pine and Edward Power. Plus Brooke Palance and Tom Fadden. And directed by Bert I. Gordon.

11/25: House on Haunted Hill (1959) w/ Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long and Alan Marshal. Plus Carolyn Craig, Elisha Cook Jr. and Julie Mitchum. And directed by William Castle.

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