We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
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We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
John Carradine was an American actor, one of the most prolific and famed character actors in Hollywood history. A member of Cecil B. DeMille’s stock company and later John Ford’s company, best known for his roles in horror films, Westerns, and Shakespearean theatre. [Wikipedia]
20 BEST POSTERS IN CARRADINE VIDEO [in my view]
1/Billy v Alucard
2/two for Black Sleep
3/two for Captive Wild Woman
4/first one for Monster Club
5/Capt Kidd
6/1st one Brigham Young
7/Of Human Hearts
8/Mary of Manchester
9/The Last Gangster
10/FL for Return of Frank James
11/Fallen Angel – risqué!
12/Western Union
13/The Howling
14.The Hurricane
15/Man Hunt
16/first one for Jesse James – splendid!
17/Court Jester
18/10 Commandments
19/FL for Liberty Valance
20/FL for Stagecoach
Just added Steve’s latest massive video…this time on Roger Corman. Our thoughts found on his You Tube channel.
Epic video. Unlike some of your other epic videos, in which I had seen most of the movies…I have not seen many of these movies. None in the 70s, only two in the 60s The Terror and Not Of This Earth. Only one from the 50s Eat My Dust and three from the 40s Death Race with Statham, Caged Heat (saw that one in theaters) and Bloody Deniro. Back down to two in the 30s Battle Beyond The Stars (which I enjoyed) and The Trip. Only one in the 20s…Big Bad Momma…fun movie. Top 20….seen Tales of Terror, Death Race 2000 (the movie that introduced him to me). The Shooting, Targets and at least two of the Price movies…but they seem to blend in when thinking about which ones I have seen. So that is a total of 14. Probably more as a few seemed very familiar. Voted up and shared
I am not really a horror/sci-fi movie fan. The standard slasher movies like Friday 13th; Michael Myers; and Freddy Kruger all bore me. Psycho; 1956’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers; and Willis’ ghost story 6th Sense were especially classy ones in my view. I never particularly liked The Exorcist.
However, I have enjoyed many Roger Corman films, particularly the Vincent price ones. Roger has a reported net worth of $40 million and IMDB credits him with 30 acting awards and 4 noms.
My favourite Corman horror films are Fall of the House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum and The Premature Burial. As your video shows he didn’t make just horror films of course and I enjoyed for example a run of low budget movies he was involved with in the 1950’s: Cry Baby Killer [featuring Nicholson’s debut and with which movie Roger’s only involvement was as an uncredited acting extra] Machine Gun Kelly; Five Guns West; and Fast and the Furious.
It was John Ireland the star of the latter film who co-directed it as your poster indicates; but Roger produced it and played a couple of uncredited cameos in it as (1) a state trooper (2) a stunt driver.
Your video has given me high personal satisfaction which attracts a 99% rating. Indeed it was REALLY hard to keep my poster selections down to a reasonable number; and the last time that I saw so many scantily clad women in one presentation was probably in Playboy magazine!!
MY TOP 25 POSTERS IN YOUR VIDEO
[FL=foreign language poster]
1/Creature in the Haunted Cave
2/Viking Women
3/Swamp Women
4/Barbarian Queen
5/The Terror
6/Forbidden World
7/FL for Day World Ended
8/Galaxy Terror
9/Queen of Blood
10/A Time for Killing – a late Charlie Bill outing
11/It Conquered the World – one of my 1950s faves.
12/FL one for Tower of Manchester
13/The Dunwich Horror – hail Cthulhu!
14/two for Boxcar Myrna
15/Big Bird Cage
16/the set for Wild Angels
17/The Haunted Palace
18/two for Piranha
19/FL for Death Race 2000
20/first one for The Shooting
21/FL one for The Intruder
22/Tomb of Ligeia and Black Cat double bill**
23/Set for The Pit and the Pendulum
24/Targets
25/I Mobster***
**I saw that very double bill here at a local cinema in the 1960s. Top marks to you for capturing it completel on the one display.
***Steve Cochran the star of I Mobster had a horrible death. He lured a group of young starlets on a far ocean boat trip with just himself, on the pretext of ‘screen testing’ them for film roles; but he contracted some horrible disease, swelled up gigantically and died. The boat was luckily picked up with the swollen corpse and the terrified girls screaming their heads off. Could easily have been the plot of a Corman film. Cochran was just 48. I liked him particulalry in the weepie Come Next Spring, Ann Sheridan’s penultimate prestige film.
STILLS/LOBBY CARDS: There aren’t nearly as many of them as there are posters but these are my pick of what is there – virtually all of them I think – and really entertaining they were.
1/Viking Women
2/Creature in Haunted Cave
3/Wasp Woman
4/It Conquered the World
5/Bloody Myrna
6/Capone
7/Premature Burial
8/Little Shop of Horrors
9/Death Race 2000
10/Man with X ray Eyes
11/Pit and the Pendulum
12/Targets
13/Vincent as the demented Roderick Usher
14/Vincent as Prince Prospero
15/The Raven-
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore;
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget the lost Lenore!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” [Edgar Allan Poe]
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating (ooo), info and Poe(m), always appreciated. Glad you liked the posters, stills and lobby cards.
Roger Corman has over 300 producer credits at IMDB, some of them uncredited. I focused mostly on his early output up to the 1970s and a handful of titles beyond.
Corman’s Poe movies are big favorites of mine, watched them many times over the years, my favorite of those is Masque of the Red Death, which was filmed in England and photographed by future cult director Nicolas Roeg.
I was surprised to find that ‘The Intruder’ is generally regarded as his best film. I haven’t seen it but I knew about it when I produced a William Shatner video a couple of years ago. I will have to watch out for it if it ever pops up on TV.
Bruce might be able to produce a page on Corman, some of the b movies will be too obscure but there are plenty of films here some of them directed by future greats like Coppola and Scorsese.
There are no 10 out of 10s from my sources, four films scored 9 – Pit and the Pendulum, Masque of the Red Death, House of Usher and Targets.
No.1 at IMDB is The Intruder, tops at Rotten Tomatoes is The Cockfighter.
“The film industry will always exist, but it will no longer be the film industry. It will be digital or possibly virtual reality, or holograms. I think of it as an industry, a business, and an art form. Today, the business end of it has become more powerful than the art form. I think what we need to save it – although it’s making real money and it’s not in real trouble – to reinvigorate it is to remember this is an art form as well as a business. You can’t continually spend $100 or $200 million on a superhero picture. You’ve got to at least let some films come through that are closer to art.”
HI STEVE:
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback and the additional information With your love of Corman/Poe and The Masque of the Red Death [sounds like a Ladd/Wayne type throwback to the Red Scare era, doesn’t it?] you and I have at last found something that we agree on in the horror/sci fi genres. [That’s not surprisin: even The Work Horse agrees with me occasionally!]
I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments in the excellent quote by Roger that you have shared with me. Keep safe.
SUPERMAN 1978: Helicopter plunging to the ground with Lois Lane in it. Certain death! But Kent changes into Superman in a revolving door and the American public and Lois see him in action for the first time as he grabs and saves the plunging Lois.
SUPERMAN: I’ve got you.
LOIS: Who’s got YOU?
MY PICK OF THE 25 BEST STILLS IN YOUR MEGA 140 MOVIES VIDE0
1/Supergirl
2/Atomic Blonde
3/Catwoman
4/Kick Ass 2010
5/Ming the Merciless
6/Judge Dredd
7/Blade 1998
8/Green Lantern 2011
9/Dick Tracy
10/Wanted
11/Batman Returns
12/X Men 2003
13/Batman Forever
14/Iron Man 2008
15/Big Hero
16/Man of Steel
17/Deadpool 2
18/Spidey 2012
19/Wonder Woman 2017
20/Joker Jack!
21Batman v Superman
22/Captain Marvel
23/The Dark Knight
24/Black Panther
25/Superman 1978
And indeed the 50 preferences overall that I have listed are just the tip of the iceberg – I could just as easily mention another 50 that I admired.
Certainly you don’t take your lead from the poet who wrote-
Good people all of every sort
Come listen to my song.
And if you find it wondrous short
It cannot hold you long.
Actually this is one of the most informative and comprehensive ranking surveys that I have ever seen, and I did not find it over-long in the least; and overall, I rated the video 98% for personal satisfaction.
Also it was a good idea to compile a list of the highest grossing movies based on comic books as in doing so you join WH in bringing further variety to the kinds of ranking lists that are on offer: and of course you add the further dimensions of visuals and music. [Pity The Work Horse couldn’t sing along with some of his Archie Leach material or Joel posts!]
Your project is all the more commendable because where comic book-based movies are successful, they usually develop into franchises where normally the original and the successive sequels are so similar that it’s can be hard at times to not confuse each among them with the others, as I do regarding many of the non-comic book franchises – is this Stars Wars 101: Han Solo’s Babyhood [with Bruce Willis as the voice of Baby Han] or Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope from away back in 1977 that I’m looking at? [Just hope in Parts 2 and 3 I have referred to the precise posters/stills that meant to in the comic book movies video].
Anyway good work or as you would say “Vote Up!”
25 POSTERS THAT PLEASED ME MOST IN TOUR VIDEO
1/Hellboy 2009
2/Kick Ass 2
3/Elektra
4/I Frankenstein
5/Priest
6/Rocketeer 2
7/Flash Gordon
8/Ghost Rider 2012
9/Ghost in Shell
10/first one for Sin City 2005
11/X Men – Dark Phoenix
12/Fantastic 4 2007
13/foreign language one for Spiderman 2018
14/two for Edge of Tomorrow
15/Wolverine 2013
16/Batman Begins
17two for 300
18/Foreign Language one for Justice League
19/Captain America 2011
20/Dr Strange
21/first one for Suicide Squad
22/foreign language one for Wonder Woman
23/Venom
24/Joker 2019
25/Two for Iron Man 3.
Hi Bob, thanks for sitting thru my longest video so far, I very much doubt I’ll make a longer one. And thanks for the review, generous rating and quote, much appreciated. Happy you liked the picture gallery.
I’ve wanted to do a comic book movie video chart since I started at youtube nearly a decade ago. At first it was going to be a ‘superhero’ video but that would have limited the choices. I wanted to include graphic novels like Road to Perdition, V for Vendetta, Sin City and I, Frankenstein along with the caped heroes.
The criteria was that the movies should be based however loosely on comic books and graphic novels (really just a fancy name for comic books), which meant dropping movies like The Incredibles and Darkman which had comic book characters created especially for film.
I was wondering how this list would look if I switched to ratings instead of grosses, some of the big hitters might not even make the top 20.
Black Panther was top rated, I think it’s the only superhero movie so far to be Oscar Nominated for Best Picture.
My next video will be out next monday and will be a return to movie people and ratings, but it will be a big one, probably a top 75 or 80. And should feature some eyepopping (and possibly risqué) poster art.
Looking forward to your next video. Thanks for letting us know.
HI STEVE
Thanks for the feedback and additional information and explanations.
I had thought that the video would be virtually exclusivedly comprised of movies featuring superheroes, action heroes and Jace types; so I was pleasantlu surprised at the variety of some of your selections. As I’ve said, well done.
I look forward to your next video. Meanwhile keep safe.