Favorite John Carradine Movies

[Allhallowsday]

STAGECOACH (1939)  
It's great when ennobled characters die heroically.  

http://youtu.be/X4jF3xTxKWM 

[mutant stargoat]

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.

[316zombie]

my husband recorded his own version of john's song, it's hilarious!

[RCMerchant]

John Carradine even made BILLY THE KID VS. DRACULA watchable!

Note Drac's double pair of eyebrows!

[RCMerchant]

Kornula mentioned FRANKENSTEIN ISLAND.
Dam, that's so bad it's genius.

[Svengoolie 3]

Never heard of Frankenstein island until now, so I loomed it up. Gotta see it. YouTube don't  fail me now!

[RCMerchant]

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

[pennywise37]

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

[316zombie]

really? i'd like to see that footage too, that movie cracks me up.

[Svengoolie 3]

I like ZTGB too. I suppose yoiu couldn't make it today. 

I wonder if carradine did a ridiculous Spanish accent in it? 

[pennywise37]

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. 

[RCMerchant]

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.

[mutant stargoat]

He was the perfect choice for the Great Owl in The Secret of NIMH.  COME INSIDE OR GO AWAY!

[pennywise37]

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.

[dcj2112]

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.

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.