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« on: March 19, 2015, 09:49:27 PM »

THE CYCLOPS (1957)

Just watched it on TCM... starring JAMES CRAIG, LON CHANEY JR., GLORIA TALBOT, and TOM DRAKE...!!!  What a horrible movie!!!  
I loved it... everybody knows that monster, yet, who has sat through this pablum...???   Question  I'd guess most of you.  What crap.  
Truly BAD in a direct way, and...  WONDERFUL!!!

This is why I first joined this site...because of rotten movies like this. 
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« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2015, 10:58:45 AM »

Ha.ha, yeah I enjoy this movie too (have it on DVD). I've read that Gloria Talbot said Lon Chaney and the other actors were so drunk during production that she got a contact high from their breath while shooting the cockpit scenes.
Yeah, they had a mini Bert I Gordon marathon going last night. I caught THE MAGIC SWORD around 2 AM and enjoyed it. It's a kid's movie, but all the actors did a great job. It was a fun watch.
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« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2015, 02:37:44 PM »

I don't care what anyone says.  1957 may have been the greatest year for movies.

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« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2015, 04:49:51 PM »

never even heard of this but it sounds like fun.....I'll keep an eye out for it
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« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2015, 07:10:24 PM »

never even heard of this but it sounds like fun.....I'll keep an eye out for it
Be careful of that eye...

THE CYCLOPS is directed by BERT I. GORDON just like WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST (a sequel to THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN also BERT I. GORDON).  Though not in THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, both THE CYCLOPS and WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST are played by the same actor in practically the same makeup.  Certainly the monster of THE CYCLOPS is practically the same as COLOSSAL BEAST...  

The Cyclops Trailer - 1957 Small | Large
 

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War of the Colossal Beast | Trailer | 1958
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« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2015, 04:39:56 AM »

WAR OF  THE AMAZING  CYCLOPS  is one of my favorites-I like the part where the monster goes "ARRRGH!"  Drink And picks up little people!
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« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2015, 04:58:58 AM »

WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST was a movie I watched when I was 6 ywars old-on Chiller in upstate NY-scared the f**k outta me-I love it to this day.

His face was just so f**ked up-that was enuff too freak me out.

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I reckon this could go for any kid who was a kid in 1966 in the East-cuz it was all the same-

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« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2015, 05:23:17 AM »

The CYCLOPS is one of those movies that give me that old fuzzy Famous Monsters little kid high! I love it too!  Cheers
I LIVE for these kinda movies-EARTH VS HE SPIDER,the ASTOUNDING SHE MONSTER, IT CONQUERED THE WORLD, THE MONSTER OF PIEDRAS BLANCAS (or however the f**k ya spell it)-I could go on forever!

In Lou Costello's only solo project he mocked these films.

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« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2015, 02:09:01 PM »

Blast from the WPIX past: 
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« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2015, 02:51:55 PM »

WPIX brings back fond memories.  I am from Massachusetts and my cousin was the first person I knew who got cable TV.  One of the channels he got was WPIX.  I believe he also got WGN from Chicago.  I remember a contest WPIX had during their afternoon programming for kids.  A contestant would call into the station and they would show a video game on TV.  It was something about spaceships shooting at things.  Whenever the contestant wanted to shoot at a target, he would say "Pix!" and the ship would fire a missile or something.  The contestant would win a prize for hitting a certain number of targets. 
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