I guess you can mention the legitimately good ones too, but as the man himself would admit he appeared in A LOT of crap. My favorite John Carradine quote is this one:
Quote"This is the worst piece of s**t I've ever worked on...and I've worked on a lot of pieces of s**t."
-John Carradine on the set of Monstroid
Speaking of which Monstroid is a pretty fun so bad it's good type of movie. Another one I really liked was Astro-Zombies though the plot of that one gets a little convoluted. Monstroid is more just stupid fun. I particularly love the scene where locals are burning a woman to death and Carradine as a priest tries to argue with them for about 5 seconds. He then casually says some variation of, "Father forgive them, they know not what they do" in an, "Oh well I tried" sort of way.
My favorite Carradine role has to be not in a movie though, but in my favorite episode of The Twilight Zone, The Howling Man. I first saw that when I was very young and I imagined Carradine wasn't that different from Brother Jerome in real life. Like maybe he was some kind of priest in real life and they got him to act in that episode to give it some authenticity. I had no idea at the time he was so prolific and very different from that character.
He pretty much only has a cameo role in it, but I've always liked him in The Howling. This aging lycanthrope struggling to adapt to the current world and wanting to die rather than stick to the new rules the doctor is trying to establish.
Woody Allen's everything you always wanted to know about sex.
The Grapes of Wrath and The Ten Commandments
Bluebeard(1944)
Revenge Of the Zombies(1943)
Captive Wild Woman(1943)
The Mummy's Ghost(1944)
House Of Dracula(1945)
The Unearthly(1957)
House of The Long Shadows: the first film I saw him in.
The Egyptian.
ASTRO ZOMBIES and HORROR OF THE BLOOD MONSTERS.
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ASTRO ZOMBIES and HORROR OF THE BLOOD MONSTERS.
Yeah, I loved that scene in astro zombies where Carradine was standing next to tura Santana and she turned suddenly, one of her b3Wbz accidentally brushed him and knocked him across the room. :tongueout:
Frankenstein Island. He's in the movie for all of 5 minutes...4 of which he's this huge ghost like image floating over the island. I love it
Blood of Ghastly Horror (AKA Pshycho a Go-Go.. among its other re edited incarnations)
And he has the only bit worth watching in Myra Breckinridge.. thankfully, its the first 5 minutes. After that, you can turn it off.
Quote from: kornula on July 04, 2019, 02:31:59 AM
Frankenstein Island. He's in the movie for all of 5 minutes...4 of which he's this huge ghost like image floating over the island. I love it
Blood of Ghastly Horror (AKA Pshycho a Go-Go.. among its other re edited incarnations)
And he has the only bit worth watching in Myra Breckinridge.. thankfully, its the first 5 minutes. After that, you can turn it off.
You should watch "wizard of mars". Carradine appears onlk as a floating head transparently superimposed on some atrsonomical photos.
Anything which has him talking long sentences explaining some kinda quasi-science gobbooly gook s**t.
Anything with Long John is Bacon! ( and usually cheese!) :thumbup:
Plus the man was in the INVISIBLE MAN (1933), the BLACK CAT (1934) and the BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935). Of course the GRAPES OF WRATH and STAGE COACH. And gave us David Carradine! And Robert Carradine- if yer a REVENGE OF THE NERDS fan! And Keith Carradine! And played Dracula the most only 2nd to Christopher Lee!
John Carradine is a treasure! :thumbup:
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I own a few movies with Carradine in it:
The Howling (1981)
The Sentinel (1977)
Evils of the Night (1985)
Shock Waves (1977)
The Boogey Man (1980)
Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969)
The Nesting (1981)
Vampire Hookers (1978)
Superchick (1973)
Honey Britches (1971)
Revenge (1986)
from those, he's most memorable in The Howling and The Sentinel. My favorite Carradine movies would be Shock Waves and Evils of the Night.
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Quote from: kornula on July 04, 2019, 02:31:59 AM
Frankenstein Island. He's in the movie for all of 5 minutes...4 of which he's this huge ghost like image floating over the island. I love it
Blood of Ghastly Horror (AKA Pshycho a Go-Go.. among its other re edited incarnations)
And he has the only bit worth watching in Myra Breckenridge.. thankfully, its the first 5 minutes. After that, you can turn it off.
You should watch "wizard of mars". Carradine appears onlk as a floating head transparently superimposed on some atrsonomical photos.
I thought that was Frankenstein Island where he appears only as a floating, transparent head....
I have seen 800 movies in the past 2 years...so a lot of them blur together.
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Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on July 04, 2019, 03:12:17 AM
Quote from: kornula on July 04, 2019, 02:31:59 AM
Frankenstein Island. He's in the movie for all of 5 minutes...4 of which he's this huge ghost like image floating over the island. I love it
Blood of Ghastly Horror (AKA Pshycho a Go-Go.. among its other re edited incarnations)
And he has the only bit worth watching in Myra Breckenridge.. thankfully, its the first 5 minutes. After that, you can turn it off.
You should watch "wizard of mars". Carradine appears onlk as a floating head transparently superimposed on some atrsonomical photos.
I thought that was Frankenstein Island where he appears only as a floating, transparent head....
I have seen 800 movies in the past 2 years...so a lot of them blur together.
http://youtu.be/2A6aLeZZK-8 (http://youtu.be/2A6aLeZZK-8)
STAGECOACH (1939)
It's great when ennobled characters die heroically.
http://youtu.be/X4jF3xTxKWM (http://youtu.be/X4jF3xTxKWM)
Red Zone Cuba. Granted it's not a good movie but you do get John Carradine singing. Which now that I think about it may not be a good thing, either.
my husband recorded his own version of john's song, it's hilarious!
John Carradine even made BILLY THE KID VS. DRACULA watchable!
Note Drac's double pair of eyebrows!
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Kornula mentioned FRANKENSTEIN ISLAND.
Dam, that's so bad it's genius.
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Never heard of Frankenstein island until now, so I loomed it up. Gotta see it. YouTube don't fail me now!
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on July 09, 2019, 02:17:31 PM
Never heard of Frankenstein island until now, so I loomed it up. Gotta see it. YouTube don't fail me now!
It's on Youtube. I posted it here a week or so ago.
https://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,138973.210.html (https://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,138973.210.html)
i love the man too but wow he's done some bad ones, i don't have a list of my favorite ones of his because i would really need to look at his filmography to think about it. but one i think that is underrated is (1978)'s The Bees i dunno why but i love it it's one of the better Bee movies that came out around this time
and why they had him speak in a german accent is beyond me but he looked like he was having fun. did anyone know that he was actually in Zorro the gay blade? his scenes were cut out for some reason he plays Zorro's father and they had filmed him quite a bit from what i've read i have no idea why it wasn't used at all
but i would love to see that footage if it still even exists put back in
really? i'd like to see that footage too, that movie cracks me up.
I like ZTGB too. I suppose yoiu couldn't make it today. :lookingup:
I wonder if carradine did a ridiculous Spanish accent in it? :teddyr:
i have no idea i have a filmography book about the guy by i think Tom Weaver i want to say it came out 20 years ago and he's got stars from various films talk about Carradine some of them didn't say kind words about the guy and others did say kind words of the guy. i want to say Petrified World which i actually like
if you can believe it without looking it up i think that's the one with Phylis Kirk from Superman, did i spell her name right? anyways she was down in the dumps one day and so Carradine being Carradine went over to her and Flashed her and to quote the book it was reported she laughed and felt better.
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i have no idea i have a filmography book about the guy by i think Tom Weaver i want to say it came out 20 years ago and he's got stars from various films talk about Carradine some of them didn't say kind words about the guy and others did say kind words of the guy. i want to say Petrified World which i actually like
if you can believe it without looking it up i think that's the one with Phylis Kirk from Superman, did i spell her name right? anyways she was down in the dumps one day and so Carradine being Carradine went over to her and Flashed her and to quote the book it was reported she laughed and felt better.
John Carradine: the Films by Tom Weaver.
He can be an a***ole talking to on the Classic Horror Film Board forum, but he is a good researcher.
He was the perfect choice for the Great Owl in The Secret of NIMH. COME INSIDE OR GO AWAY!
yeah he was man i love The Secret of Nimh i own that sucker on Blu-ray too.
Billy The Kid Vs Dracula is bad yes but it's actually a lot of fun. Carradine is pretty good in it actually. he claims it's his worst picture what's he smoking it's not at all. have anyone seen the (1980) film Monster i think it's called? WOW that one you need a support group just to get back to normal on how bad that thing is.
one of my favorite Quotes is he told Joe Dante this, Dante goes and this was in the middle of filming the Howling between takes, Dante says you know John this isn't going to be the best movie you have ever done, Carradine says that's okay it won't be the worst either. and Dante thinks of that each time he makes a film,
my source? that John Carradine book i mentioned Joe Dante does the intro to it well one of them anyways. there's also a Corman book that came out i want to say (2011) or (2012) that is really good i just need to find what i did with it to post the title on here.
Haha I think John Carradine said a lot of movies were the worst he was ever in. Offhand I know he also said it about Frankenstein Island and Monstroid.
Speaking of which Monster is actually the same movie Monstroid that I mentioned in the OP. Monstroid is just a different title for it and one I see pop up online a lot. In the print I have it has Monster as the title but I prefer Monstroid since the former is pretty much the definition of generic.
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yeah he was man i love The Secret of Nimh i own that sucker on Blu-ray too.
Billy The Kid Vs Dracula is bad yes but it's actually a lot of fun. Carradine is pretty good in it actually. he claims it's his worst picture what's he smoking it's not at all. have anyone seen the (1980) film Monster i think it's called? WOW that one you need a support group just to get back to normal on how bad that thing is.
one of my favorite Quotes is he told Joe Dante this, Dante goes and this was in the middle of filming the Howling between takes, Dante says you know John this isn't going to be the best movie you have ever done, Carradine says that's okay it won't be the worst either. and Dante thinks of that each time he makes a film,
my source? that John Carradine book i mentioned Joe Dante does the intro to it well one of them anyways. there's also a Corman book that came out i want to say (2011) or (2012) that is really good i just need to find what i did with it to post the title on here.
yeah that i did know actually. there's a lot of his on want to see the #1 one is i think called "Richard' and old one from (1972) hell Mickey Rooney is even in it. it's i think extremely rare to find as no one can seem to find it and i think it is on VHS i think? Bad Charleston Charlie another one from around this time (1973) is one i'm dying to see that i can't find anywhere either
lol, monster/monstroid is a household fave around here. my BIL taped it when it was on elvira ans sent it too us with a bunch of other elvira movies, it's the ONLY one that i actually hunted down and bought on dvd! :cheers:
i'm glad that it has some fans i guess.... i'm just not one of them, have you seen The Prisoner on Shark Island a really old one from (1936) it's the film Carradine got his big break in. it's been said it's best performance and for me i don't think it is, i mean he's not awful by any means i've just seen him give better Performances that's all
Quote from: pennywise37 on July 15, 2019, 04:20:08 PM
i'm glad that it has some fans i guess.... i'm just not one of them, have you seen The Prisoner on Shark Island a really old one from (1936) it's the film Carradine got his big break in. it's been said it's best performance and for me i don't think it is, i mean he's not awful by any means i've just seen him give better Performances that's all
Have you seen Prisoner of Shark Island? Yes. Is it his best performance? Since I don't even remember him being in it, probably not. His best performance? Probably 1944's Bluebeard. Though my favorite performance of his is in 1983's House of Long Shadows. You can't go wrong with him, when he is appearing with Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing.
Carradine was the Guard that hated him for Killing Lincoln and than at the end after it was revealed he was innocent in his own way apologized for treating him so bad by shaking his hand.