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

Remembering Ray :: Travel Back Through Time and Space to the Edge of Man’s Beginnings … Discover a Savage World Whose Only Law Was Lust! (July, 1967)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
“I’m very happy that so many young fans have told me that my films have changed their lives. That’s a great compliment. It means I did more than just make entertaining films. I actually touched people’s lives — and, I hope, changed them for the better.”

Ray Harryhausen
(1920-2013)

Other Points of Interest:

More ads for Harryhausen’s films.

One Million Years B.C. (1966) Associated British-Pathé :: Hammer Films :: Seven Arts Productions :: 20th Century Fox / P: Michael Carreras / AP: Aida Young / D: Don Chaffey / W: Michael Carreras / C: Wilkie Cooper / E: Tom Simpson / M: Mario Nascimbene / S: Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert, Robert Brown, Martine Beswick, Lisa Thomas

The Devil’s Own a/k/a The Witches (1966) Hammer Films :: 20th Century Fox / P: Anthony Nelson Keys / D: Cyril Frankel / W: Nigel Kneale, Norah Lofts (novel) / C: Arthur Grant / E: Chris Barnes, James Needs / M: Richard Rodney Bennett / S: Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen, Ann Bell, Ingrid Boulting

Humanoids Invade the Earth Armed with Three Drops of Deadly Wolf-Serum! (November, 1956)

 

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Poster campaign for Earth vs the Flying Saucers at the Archive.

Poster campaign for The Werewolf at the Archive.

Earth vs the Flying Saucers (1956) Clover Productions :: Columbia Pictures / EP: Sam Katzman / P: Charles H. Schneer / D: Fred F. Sears / W: Curt Siodmak, George Worthing Yates, Bernard Gordon, Donald E. Keyhoe (novel) / C: Fred Jackman Jr. / E: Danny B. Landres / M: Mischa Bakaleinikoff / S: Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis, Morris Ankrum, John Zaremba, Thomas Browne Henry

The Werewolf (1956) Clover Productions :: Columbia Pictures / P: Sam Katzman / D: Fred F. Sears / W: James B. Gordon, Robert E. Kent / C: Edward Linden / E: Harold White / M: Mischa Bakaleinikoff / S: Steven Ritch, Don Megowan, Joyce Holden, Eleanore Tanin, Kim Charney, Harry Lauter, Ken Christy, S. John Launer

Random Drive-In Mash-Up :: July, 1956

 

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Full film review of It Came from Beneath the Sea at 3B Theater.

Poster campaign for It Came from Beneath the Sea at the Archive.

The Good, the Bad, and the Allosaurus (Decemeber, 1969)

 

 

 

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Full film review of The Valley of Gwangi at 3B Theater.

Poster campaign for The Valley of Gwangi at the Archive.

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969) Robert Goldstein Productions :: Ronden :: Warner Brothers/Seven Arts / EP: Robert Goldstein / P: Ronald M. Cohen, Dennis Shryack / AP: Stan Jolley / D: Burt Kennedy / W: Ronald M. Cohen, Dennis Shryack / C: Harry Stradling Jr. / E: Howard Deane / M: William Lava / S: Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, Martin Balsam, David Carradine, Tina Louise

The Valley of Gwangi (1969) Morningside Productions :: Warner Brothers/Seven Arts / P: Charles H. Schneer / AP: Ray Harryhausen / D: James O’Connolly / W: William Bast / C: Erwin Hillier / E: Henry Richardson / M: Jerome Moross / S: James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, Laurence Naismith, Gustavo Rojo, Freda Jackson, Dennis Kilbane, Mario De Barros, Curtis Arden

It’s Here! A Story to Stun the Senses! A Prehistoric Sea-Giant on a Raging Tidal Wave of Terror! (July, 1953)

 

 

 

 

“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”

Ray Bradbury
(1920-2012)

Other Points of Interest:

Full review of The Beast from 20000 Fathoms at 3B Theater.

Poster campaign for The Beast from 20000 Fathoms at the Archive.

The Beast from 20000 Fathoms (1953) Jack Dietz Productions :: Warner Bros. / P: Jack Dietz / AP: Hal E. Chester, Bernard W. Burton / D: Eugène Lourié / W: Fred Freiberger, Robert Smith, Ray Bradbury (story) / C: Jack Russell / E: Bernard W. Burton / M: David Buttolph / S: Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Ken Tobey, Cecil Kellaway, Lee Van Cleef

Sword of Venus (1953) American Pictures :: RKO Radio Pictures / P: Jack Pollexfen, Aubrey Wisberg / AP: Albert Zugsmith / D: Harold Daniels / W: Jack Pollexfen, Aubrey Wisberg / C: John L. Russell / M: Charles Koff / S: Robert Clarke, Catherine McLeod, Dan O’Herlihy, William Schallert

Nothing Less Than a Miracle in Motion Pictures! (December, 1960)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) Morningside Productions :: Columbia Pictures / P: Charles H. Schneer / D: Jack Sher / W: Arthur Ross, Jack Sher, Jonathan Swift (novel) / C: Wilkie Cooper / E: Raymond Poulton / M: Bernard Herrmann / S: Kerwin Mathews, Jo Morrow, Lee Patterson, June Thorburn, Basil Sydney