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Bring Out Your Dead (Part Whatever v2.0)

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'Gunsmoke' star James Arness dies at 88
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"A man by the name of Noah once saved our world with an ark of wood. Here, a few men performed a similar service with an arc of electricity."

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Kepler said:
"A man by the name of Noah once saved our world with an ark of wood. Here, a few men performed a similar service with an arc of electricity."

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That movie scared the heck out of me back as a child in the 50's. Saw it recently on TCM and 55 years later still scared the heck out of me. A classic horror movie. My memories of James Arness as a child were not from Gunsmoke-they were from the Thing and the movie Them. Two really well made movies that stand the test of time.
 
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Dave Barry has a great piece on Them and James Arness. I might have to dig that up again.
 
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I was never a particularly big fan of Gun Smoke. But one episode made a big impression. Matt and Chester were tracking down a gang of murdering rapists who dressed up like half breeds. When they caught up with those guys, Matt and Chester treated 'em the way the SEALs treated OBL. No rights read, no lawyers, no shooting in the hand. Our boys just chopped these very bad dudes to pieces. It was especially interesting to see Chester, who was always comic relief, very seriously blow those dudes away.

Of the 50's "radiation made 'em big and bad" movies "Them" has to rank right up there at the top. Edmund Gwenn, James Whitmore and Arness? Top flight cast. Good script. Well produced. Made most of the similar films of the era look like bad film school projects. Fess Parker with an important bit part. "Them" still holds up well. "Make me a sergeant in charge of the booze."
 
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Old Pio said:
I was never a particularly big fan of Gun Smoke. But one episode made a big impression. Matt and Chester were tracking down a gang of murdering rapists who dressed up like half breeds. When they caught up with those guys, Matt and Chester treated 'em the way the SEALs treated OBL. No rights read, no lawyers, no shooting in the hand. Our boys just chopped these very bad dudes to pieces. It was especially interesting to see Chester, who was always comic relief, very seriously blow those dudes away.

Of the 50's "radiation made 'em big and bad" movies "Them" has to rank right up there at the top. Edmund Gwenn, James Whitmore and Arness? Top flight cast. Good script. Well produced. Made most of the similar films of the era look like bad film school projects. Fess Parker with an important bit part. "Them" still holds up well. "Make me a sergeant in charge of the booze."
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Speaking of bit parts in Them-look carefully for a young Leonard Nimoy in a very brief shot. Them was supposed to be filmed in color but a late decision to save money on a movie they never thought would be a hit-they switched to black and white. However the opening credit-the first shot of the titile THEM is in color.:)
 
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Speaking of bit parts in Them-look carefully for a young Leonard Nimoy in a very brief shot. Them was supposed to be filmed in color but a late decision to save money on a movie they never thought would be a hit-they switched to black and white. However the opening credit-the first shot of the titile THEM is in color.:)
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Where was Nimoy? As to color, I think those A-bomb mutant flicks look better in monochrome anyway. On the other hand, the one flick that actually scared me as a kid was in color: "War of the Worlds" with Gene Barry. Scared the bejeezus out of me.
 
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My modem. :(

You won't see much of me for several days (but Starbucks might). :D
 
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Where was Nimoy? As to color, I think those A-bomb mutant flicks look better in monochrome anyway. On the other hand, the one flick that actually scared me as a kid was in color: "War of the Worlds" with Gene Barry. Scared the bejeezus out of me.
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Nimoy played an Air Force sereant in a scene at a command center. He had a brief speaking role. Jenny recognized him before i did-but that is one of her fortes-she can pick out people in movies in small roles that i often miss. BTW-I had such a crush on the female scientist in that flick.
 
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Old Pio said:
Where was Nimoy? As to color, I think those A-bomb mutant flicks look better in monochrome anyway. On the other hand, the one flick that actually scared me as a kid was in color: "War of the Worlds" with Gene Barry. Scared the bejeezus out of me.
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That older version of War of the Worlds-far better than the remake (which was truer to the book). Still love that flick-supposedly at the very beginning when the cylinders are shown in the sky streaking towards earth-you should be able to see a quick shot of woody woodpecker in a tree as a tribute to Walter Lantz. I have seen the move hundreds of times-slowed down the projection to frame by frame and still cannot find the little guy-but we never stop looking.
 
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DrDemento said:
Nimoy played an Air Force sereant in a scene at a command center. He had a brief speaking role. Jenny recognized him before i did-but that is one of her fortes-she can pick out people in movies in small roles that i often miss. BTW-I had such a crush on the female scientist in that flick.
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I had no idea about this.

Anybody who's never seen Them should see it, and I mean drop what you're doing and go stream it on Netflix right this minute. It's an amazing example of a true Suspense movie, with methodical pacing and perfect atmosphere. Gordon Douglas, who directed it, is a legend, doing almost a hundred movies and everything from war movies to the little rascals to In Like Flint.
 
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Kepler said:
I had no idea about this.

Anybody who's never seen Them should see it, and I mean drop what you're doing and go stream it on Netflix right this minute. It's an amazing example of a true Suspense movie, with methodical pacing and perfect atmosphere. Gordon Douglas, who directed it, is a legend, doing almost a hundred movies and everything from war movies to the little rascals to In Like Flint.
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We had an air conditioning system where I used to work that would put out a sound much like the ants. Everytime it turned on, my coworker and I would look @ each other and go "THEM!"

Does anyone remember "Attack of the Crab Monsters"??
 
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DrDemento said:
you should be able to see a quick shot of woody woodpecker in a tree as a tribute to Walter Lantz. I have seen the move hundreds of times-slowed down the projection to frame by frame and still cannot find the little guy-but we never stop looking.
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I had no idea about this, either.

The original WotW, even though it departs from the book significantly, is a great movie (the remake is a POS). It's also the source of the character Dr. Clayton Forrester, later made famous on MST3K. The voice over at the beginning is one of the most literate, compelling lead-ins to any movie. This is the Wells text, which is slightly different but the same in tone:

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
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We had an air conditioning system where I used to work that would put out a sound much like the ants. Everytime it turned on, my coworker and I would look @ each other and go "THEM!"
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The timing chain on a 1972 Dodge Dart makes this noise five seconds before it snaps. This is known in my house as the "oh shit!" noise.
 
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Kepler said:
I had no idea about this, either.

The original WotW, even though it departs from the book significantly, is a great movie (the remake is a POS). It's also the source of the character Dr. Clayton Forrester, later made famous on MST3K. The voice over at the beginning is one of the most literate, compelling lead-ins to any movie. This is the Wells text, which is slightly different but the same in tone:
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For those old enough to remember-that lead in narration was the distinctive voice of the great actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke(Sethi in the 10 Commandments and the villain in the Charles Laughton version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame). If I'm not mistaken, in the lead in to the original War of the Worlds they show the solar system and all the planets-but they leave one planet out.
 
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