Poll: Bela Lugosi's 40's, Poverty Row Films

[Absinthe_1900]

Zombies on Broadway didn't make the poll?

 

[jamespowers]

:bump: Ok, where are the rest of the Lugosi fans at?

Uh, working on Plan 9.[huh]
As an aside, I noticed The Night of the Creeps has a Plan 9 feel to it.[huh]

 

[Widebrim]

Uh, working on Plan 9.[huh]
As an aside, I noticed The Night of the Creeps has a Plan 9 feel to it.[huh]

The Night of the Creeps? Who's in the that?

 

[jamespowers]

The Night of the Creeps? Who's in the that?

Geez, it was so long ago that I don't remember anyone worth mentioning.
I found a good synopsis here though:
http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/nightofthecreeps.htm
I liked the ending.

 

[Widebrim]

Zombies on Broadway didn't make the poll?

Well, that film was made by RKO-Radio, which wasn't a poverty row studio. Maybe someday we'll do a thread on the other movies...

 

[Widebrim]

Geez, it was so long ago that I don't remember anyone worth mentioning.
I found a good synopsis here though:
http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/nightofthecreeps.htm
I liked the ending.

Bizarre plot...If it had been made in the '50s, I think that Bela would have been in it...

 

[jamespowers]

Bizarre plot...If it had been made in the '50s, I think that Bela would have been in it...

No doubt. He could have been the inspector.

 

[Widebrim]

And Ed Wood certainly would have been at the helm...

 

[jamespowers]

And Ed Wood certainly would have been at the helm...

hahahahahhaah! Probably.

 

[Widebrim]

^^Bump (in the dark). Okay, there have got to be more Bela Lugosi fans...

 

[martinsantos]

I'm sure that exist a lot of Lugosi fans. The problem is these films had the worst distribuition. Most of them are just impossible to see. After this thread i tried to find some in DVDs stores, but no success. So it's a little difficult to talk about movies impossible to see...

(not only a Lugosi trouble. I tried too to find a "class A" musical from 1946, "A Song is Born", with Danny Kaye, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong and so on. Never launched in VHS or DVD - in 50s/60s it was in 16mm, but a impossible to find copy).

^^Bump (in the dark). Okay, there have got to be more Bela Lugosi fans...

 

[John in Covina]

Fry's may have some in the cheapo old movies bin.

 

[Widebrim]

Fry's may have some in the cheapo old movies bin.

I don't think that they have Fry's in Brazil, John...

 

[jamespowers]

I don't think that they have Fry's in Brazil, John...

I was wondering about that.

 

[martinsantos]

John, here there isn't this store. And anyway, probably they wouldn't import such films. First they would have to make the subtitles, etc (no one would buy without them - OK, maybe me, but it's hard to understand at first run what the actors are saying!). A lot of costs to try to sell films that don't have such a public to pay all the work done.

 

[John in Covina]

I am sure you can get a flight to Los Angeles and visit one of the many Fry's in the Southern California area. As to subtitles or SAP second audio program most old films don't get those often it is true. I am always intrigued by the different languages some of the new movies are in such as Spanish or French but I recall seeing one of the Chinese dialects as a selection .

 

[martinsantos]

Be sure this is a travel that I'm dreaming about for a long time!! Not so easy to me - but I'm sure I'll do this, someday.

Meanwhile, my passion for old films is asking me to learn to listen English better...

 

[Widebrim]

Hey, Devil Bat has two votes now!

 

[Widebrim]

Okay, any new Lugosi fans among us?

 

[Blackjack]

Ok, they're all so bad I voted for Spooks, but out side of the great Universal horror flics of the 30's I like You'll Find Out w/ Kay Kyser's band.