tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post2196946239280879509..comments2024-03-05T19:50:31.497-08:00Comments on World O' Crap: Doctor Who IS Mike Nelson in SEA HUNT!Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02798340582589737829noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-26920990390492468342012-03-31T14:17:41.936-07:002012-03-31T14:17:41.936-07:00Lance writes: Pretty much all of Jerry Warren'...Lance writes: <i>Pretty much all of Jerry Warren's film career can be summed up in the phrase, "he didn’t bother".</i><br /><br />We make a lot of fun of Jerry Warren and Ed Wood and similar B-movie schlock mavens for their inattention to detail and verisimilitude, but there's one A-movie offender especially, who, owing to his stature, I don't wanna actually name straight out, so I'll just say that his initials are:<br /><br />Alfred Hitchcock.<br /><br />Editors, screenwriters, actors, and studio heads alike were constantly scratching their heads and pestering him with "wait, what? Why would the character do that?" or "But that doesn't make any sense!" or "people don't act that way!" or "sorry, did I hear that right? A biplane as a murder weapon? Over cornfields? Why is the character there again?" and his reply would always be: <br /><br />"Oh, it's only a movie."<br /><br />So RIP Jerry Warren [laughing], you're in good company.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-69180717226966577742012-03-30T13:11:39.845-07:002012-03-30T13:11:39.845-07:00I suspect he's right, so, no amount of Tequila...<i>I suspect he's right, so, no amount of Tequila can raise the dingus, I'm afraid. Fare thee well Titanic, fare thee well.</i><br /><br />Didn't you read in Alert Diver? Tequila neutralizes OxTox? <br /><br />Or maybe it's tequila neutralizes Oxytocin. Either way, get out my way, I'm going down! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03664920037425489644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-21432489317147363932012-03-29T18:45:55.177-07:002012-03-29T18:45:55.177-07:00Pretty much all of Jerry Warren's film career ...Pretty much all of Jerry Warren's film career can be summed up in the phrase, "he didn’t bother".Lancelot Linknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-16185849602934400652012-03-29T11:30:41.572-07:002012-03-29T11:30:41.572-07:00As a last add on the fate of the bell prop, I cont...As a last add on the fate of the bell prop, I contacted noted Island steward and dive bum <a href="http://www.starthrower.org/" rel="nofollow">Dr William Bushing</a> who has probably put in more hours underwater in Catalina than any man alive, and received this disheartening reply:<br /><br />"Given the year of the film's release (1957) and Catalina's steep offshore slope (at least on the leeward side) I would imagine it settled well below safe diving depths long ago.<br /><br />My maximum depth over my time here has been 200 ft (many times) due to the possibility of oxygen toxicity at greater depths."<br /><br />I suspect he's right, so, no amount of Tequila can raise the dingus, I'm afraid. Fare thee well Titanic, fare thee well.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-81944509874769095332012-03-28T02:58:36.674-07:002012-03-28T02:58:36.674-07:00So I can have even more tequila before I dive down...So I can have even more tequila before I dive down to the "bell"?<br /><br />This is a bad thing...how?Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03664920037425489644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-89757431974195191862012-03-27T13:01:15.013-07:002012-03-27T13:01:15.013-07:00Li'l writes: What I like about that shot of th...Li'l writes: <i>What I like about that shot of the intrepid crew members is their clothes.</i><br /><br />Undersea casual. Standing, and in control. Accessorize with J Crew Geiger Counter, $8000.<br /><br />One of the fun parts about "Project Moonbase" (1952) is the clear influence screenwriter Robert Heinlein had on the dress code. Elsewhere, jumpsuits were de riguer, but a hard-headed hard-science guy like Heinlein had already arrived at the conclusion that there really wasn't any point in this, so he dressed his astronauts in <a href="http://bbbms.blogspot.com/2003_10_04_bbbms_archive.html" rel="nofollow">t-shirts, shorts and skullcaps</a>. <br /><br />As Joel of MST3K observed, it made them look like camp counselors.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-48589075556789191372012-03-27T10:27:27.578-07:002012-03-27T10:27:27.578-07:00O dear. Sorry to be the one to tell you this, Carl...O dear. Sorry to be the one to tell you this, Carl, but, just because the script says "several hundred feet", this doesn't mean the prop bell is.<br /><br />In fact, the script is all over the map, depth-wise: The cable snaps at 1700 feet, the bell plummets to the bottom (with hilarious shot of the "depth gauge" bottoming out), John Carradine (pictured above) at one point describes "miles" of depth, and the inhabitants of the bell suddenly find themselves inexplicably "on a ledge" of significantly less depth than originally thought, resulting in the decision to leave the bell, and this ridiculous dialog:<br /><br />Paul: “How could we move upward?”<br /><br />Craig: “I don't know. And at this point, I couldn't care less.”<br /><br />So there. Not even Ed Wood was this lazy about tying up loose plot points, and it's at this point the crew suit up and discover the undersea caverns with lost civilizations which, as you know, honeycomb our world.<br /><br />Incidentally, that's Phyllis Coates, Lois Lane V1.0, second from left, who left the "Adventures of Superman" TV show to concentrate on more serious acting roles. I'll let Tom Weaver take it from here:<br /><br />"She accepted the role in 1957's The Incredible Petrified World (1957) as a favor to its director, Jerry Warren, who was a former boyfriend. He persuaded Coates to do it by telling her that the film would not be shown in California. However, after it was completed, she found out that Warren did indeed release the film in California, and she was told by at least one studio executive at Columbia that the film was so inferior and shoddy that the studio would not be hiring her again. On top of that, Warren never paid her."Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-75131696449381120582012-03-27T02:30:46.949-07:002012-03-27T02:30:46.949-07:00Several hundreds of feet?
Gonna be a while before...Several hundreds of feet?<br /><br />Gonna be a while before anyone scubas down to find the bell...unless I get drunk enough.<br /><br />Lemme ring up my buddy, Jason. He lives down round those parts, and has a bottle of tequila with my name on it.<br /><br />Most do.Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03664920037425489644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-12855833903396070582012-03-26T16:27:43.361-07:002012-03-26T16:27:43.361-07:00What I like about that shot of the intrepid crew m...What I like about that shot of the intrepid crew members is their clothes. Things were more down-to-earth, or down-to-seabottom, in those days. You didn't have to gussy yourself up in some variety of fake-o catsuit with a blinking fake-o headset to pursue adventure in a 50s-vintage fake diving apparatus, the way the hapless starlets (or hapless animated popsys) do in this degenerate age. You could wear the same stuff you'd wear to the supermarket, grab your Geiger counter, and GO. You didn't even have to wear a padded bra. <br /><br />And if you were a guy starlet, you'd just throw on the khaki twills you wore to audition for the Service-with-a-Smile Gas Station Attendant part, minus the visor cap.Li'l Innocenthttp://ladysmantle.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com