...and a Sunday afternoon showing of the 1923 silent version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney, Sr. at the Orpheum Theatre...
Have a great weekend, and Happy Halloween everybody!
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Showing posts with label LON CHANEY. Show all posts
Friday, October 25, 2019
BUD AND LOU AND BELA AND LON
Happy Friday everybody! It's Halloween week, so my "Friday Flicks" column, online at Phoenix Magazine, concerns a Saturday morning showing of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein at Alamo Drafthouse...
...and a Sunday afternoon showing of the 1923 silent version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney, Sr. at the Orpheum Theatre...
Have a great weekend, and Happy Halloween everybody!
...and a Sunday afternoon showing of the 1923 silent version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney, Sr. at the Orpheum Theatre...
Have a great weekend, and Happy Halloween everybody!
Monday, October 26, 2015
FAKE IT 'TIL YOU MAKE IT
Check out my list, on The Robot’s Voice (formerly Topless
Robot), of 10 of the greatest movie “monsters” in the Scooby-Doo tradition.
Be
forewarned, though: Spoilers galore!
Thursday, October 25, 2012
UNTRUE BLOOD
Happy Halloween next Wednesday! That evening, Turner Classic Movies will be showing their ingenious 45-minute still-photo reconstruction, by restorer Rick Schmidlin, of Tod Browning’s 1927 lost silent London After Midnight, featuring…
Monster-of-the-Week: …this week’s honoree, “The Man in the Beaver Hat,” with buggy eyes and a grin of nasty big pointy teeth...
This iconic vampire visage was created and played by the famed Lon Chaney, Sr., and [spoiler alert!]…
…it turns out that he’s fictitious even within the context of the movie: a policeman in bloodsucker disguise, part of an elaborate charade to get a murderer to crack and confess. It’s somehow more implausible than the idea that vampires are real.
Browning remade the film, entertainingly but with the same hard-to-swallow twist, as Mark of the Vampire in 1935, with Lionel Barrymore, Bela Lugosi and Jean Hersholt.
Monster-of-the-Week: …this week’s honoree, “The Man in the Beaver Hat,” with buggy eyes and a grin of nasty big pointy teeth...
…it turns out that he’s fictitious even within the context of the movie: a policeman in bloodsucker disguise, part of an elaborate charade to get a murderer to crack and confess. It’s somehow more implausible than the idea that vampires are real.
Browning remade the film, entertainingly but with the same hard-to-swallow twist, as Mark of the Vampire in 1935, with Lionel Barrymore, Bela Lugosi and Jean Hersholt.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
BUSHY CHANEY
Once again, the October schedule for Turner Classic Movies provides us with…
Monster-of-the-Week: …another classic selection: Lon Chaney, Jr. in his signature role of the hapless Larry Talbot…
…in 1941’s The Wolf Man, a man who is pure in heart & says his prayers by night, but still turns into a half-lupine maniac when the moon is full. There isn’t much good one can say about last year’s remake The Wolfman, with Benicio del Toro, but it did at least show, by comparison, the excellence of the original, which plays on Monday, October 10, at 6 p.m. (MST).
Monster-of-the-Week: …another classic selection: Lon Chaney, Jr. in his signature role of the hapless Larry Talbot…
…in 1941’s The Wolf Man, a man who is pure in heart & says his prayers by night, but still turns into a half-lupine maniac when the moon is full. There isn’t much good one can say about last year’s remake The Wolfman, with Benicio del Toro, but it did at least show, by comparison, the excellence of the original, which plays on Monday, October 10, at 6 p.m. (MST).
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