Holiday Special: “Vincent Price's Christmas Carol”
Dec 19, 2011
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In 1949 Vincent Price hosted a half-hour compressed adaptation of the Dickens classic for tv syndication. It's pretty cheap and isn't going to erase any memories of the superlative 1951 Alastair Sim version (or even the 1954 tv special with music by Bernard Herrmann), but it's a seldom-seen curiosity and this is the season for it. Price looks like he's in makeup for The Baron of Arizona. Look for Jill St. John as one of the Cratchet children under the name Jill Oppenheim. Coproducer Mike Stokey later created the popular tv shows Pantomime Quiz and Stump the Stars.
Kirdog on She Gods of Shark Reef
02/22/2012
I swear to she-god, one of your all time greatest! This trailer is ALMOST as awesome as the iconic poster! Love that pan of chanting 'island beauties' and Mr. Corman's commentary is as relaxing as a Hawaiian vacation...
Brian Trenchard-Smith on White Line Fever
02/21/2012
I was in LA at the time doing promotional work for the Fox release of my MFHK. I remember going to WLF on Hollywood Boulevard and having a pulse pounding ride that purged the stresses of the day...
JohnH on White Line Fever
02/21/2012
I remember this from years ago and it's really good. And the commentary is full of the stuff I need to know! I wondered why we did not see much more of JMV, now I know.
Caelum on White Line Fever
02/20/2012
As a Dick Miller completest, I clearly have to see this picture. I can't believe it's passed me by so far.
Kirdog on Diabolique
02/20/2012
Love this one, and love all the cheezy plot within a plot within a plot ripoffs that followed (remember all those gorgeous black and white Hammer second features?).
swac on White Line Fever
02/20/2012
It out-convoys CONVOY! I wonder if this inspired Peckinpah to make his ill-fated trucker movie.
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