Favorite John Carradine Movies

[dcj2112]

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:

"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.

[Alex]

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.

[Svengoolie 3]

Woody Allen's  everything you always wanted to know about sex.

[bob]

The Grapes of Wrath and The Ten Commandments

[Ticonderoga 64]

Bluebeard(1944)
Revenge Of the Zombies(1943)
Captive Wild Woman(1943)
The Mummy's Ghost(1944)
House Of Dracula(1945)
The Unearthly(1957)

[Trevor]

House of The Long Shadows: the first film I saw him in.

[Svengoolie 3]

The Egyptian.

[RCMerchant]

ASTRO ZOMBIES and HORROR OF THE BLOOD MONSTERS.

[Svengoolie 3]

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. 

[kornula]

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.

[Svengoolie 3]

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.

[RCMerchant]

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!)
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!  

[claws]

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.

[kornula]

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.

[Svengoolie 3]

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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