How Bad Can a Good Girl Get? Reefer Rehash! (September, 1975)

 

 

 

 
She Should Have Said No (1949) Roadshow Attractions :: Hallmark Productions :: Modern Film Distributors / P: Richard Kay / D: Sam Newfield / W: Richard H. Landau, Arthur Hoerl / C: Jack Greenhalgh / E: Richard C. Currier, Seth B. Larsen / M: Raoul Kraushaar / S: Lila Leeds, Alan Baxter, Lyle Talbot, Michael Whalen, Jack Elam

Reefer Madness (1936) G&H Productions :: Motion Picture Ventures / P: George A. Hirliman, Dwain Esper / AP: Samuel Diege / D: Louis J. Gasnier / W: Lawrence Meade, Arthur Hoerl, Paul Franklin / C: Jack Greenhalgh / E: Carl Pierson / M: Abe Meyer / S: Dorothy Short, Kenneth Craig, Lillian Miles, Dave O’Brien, Thelma White

This Coming Weekend! Boiled Shrimp! (June, 1977)

 

 

Thief Proof ! (June, 1977)

 

 

Remembering Ray :: Where Were You in ’78? (June, 1978)

 

 

 

 

 

 
And we’ll wrap up this week long tribute to Ray Harryhausen where it began for me. E’yup. It was here, in a similar matinee setting back in the 1970′s, that I saw my first Harryhausen film, Jason and the Argonauts, and got my first taste of Dynamic Dynamation. Already enchanted and mesmerized by what I had seen, I clearly remember the climax, when the Children of the Hydra (the skeleton army) first broke out of the ground and assembled, I had edged so far forward in my seat, pulled along as gravity asserted itself on my lower jaw, I almost toppled over into the row ahead of us. And though my dream of being a stop-motion monster animator this encounter inspired never came to pass, I have been living vicariously through Harryhausen’s films ever since and enjoying the hell out of every minute of them. And for that I would like to say, thanks.

Ray Harryhausen
(1920-2013)

Remembering Ray :: Baby Gorilla Reared by Girl Becomes Powder-Keg Pet of Society! (October, 1949)

 

 

 

 

 
“I’m another snowball. Willis H. O’Brien started the snowball, then I picked it up, then ILM picked it up and now the computer generation is picking it up. Where it will end, I don’t know.”

Ray Harryhausen
(1920-2013)

Mighty Joe Young (1949) Argosy Pictures :: RKO Radio Pictures / EP: John Ford / P: Merian C. Cooper / D: Ernest B. Schoedsack / W: Ruth Rose, Merian C. Cooper / C: J. Roy Hunt / E: Ted Cheesman / M: Roy Webb / S: Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Frank McHugh, Douglas Fowley

Close-Up (1948) Harry Brandt Productions :: Eagle-Lion Films / P: Frank Satenstein / AP: Robert L. Joseph / D: Jack Donohue / W: John Bright, James Poe, Martin Rackin, Max Wilk / C: William Miller / E: Robert Klager / M: Jerome Moross / S: Alan Baxter, Virginia Gilmore, Richard Kollmar, Loring Smith, Phillip Huston

Remembering Ray :: Excitement High as the Sky! Mystery Deep as the Sea! (January, 1962)

 

 

 

 

 
“They were considered B pictures because they were made on a tight budget. But we outlived many of the A pictures made at the same time.”
 

Ray Harryhausen
(1920-2013)

Mysterious Island (1961) Ameran Films :: Columbia Pictures / P: Charles H. Schneer / D: Cy Endfield / W: John Prebble, Daniel B. Ullman, Crane Wilbur, Jules Verne (novel) / C: Wilkie Cooper / E: Frederick Wilson / M: Bernard Herrmann / S: Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Beth Rogan, Percy Herbert, Dan Jackson, Herbert Lom

The Long Rope (1961) Associated Producers (API) 20th Century Fox Film Corporation / P: Margia Dean, Robert Hamner / D: William Witney / W: Robert Hamner / C: Kay Norton / E: Peter Rolfe Johnson / M: Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter / S: Hugh Marlowe, Alan Hale Jr., Robert J. Wilke, Lisa Montell, William Kerwin, Chris Robinson

Remembering Ray :: Out of the Age of Wonders — One of the Most Wonderful Motion Pictures of Our Time! (December, 1958)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
“I think it’s the thought of trying to bring something to life, an inanimate object to life. Maybe it’s a Frankenstein complex.”

Ray Harryhausen
(1920-2013)

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) Morningside Productions :: Columbia Pictures / P: Charles H. Schneer / AP: Ray Harryhausen / D: Nathan Juran / W: Ken Kolb / C: Wilkie Cooper / E: Edwin H. Bryant, Jerome Thoms / M: Bernard Herrmann / S: Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, Torin Thatcher, Nana DeHerrera