Comments on: Bride and the Beast, The (1958)

By: Nathan Shumate

Nathan Shumate — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:50:08 +0000

Neither had Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of all 25 original Tarzan novels.

By: serengeti safari

serengeti safari — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:15:57 +0000

Its amazing how producers of hollywwod films know little or nothing about African and its wildlife. Did you know that the producers of Tazan had never been to Africa?

By: Matthew H. Davidson

Matthew H. Davidson — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:10:28 +0000

Saw this early ’58 downtown L.A. [RKO Hill Street ?].
On a *big* screen, this had a *very* strange atmosphere.
I was a kid, I didn’t/couldn’t pick up on all the “subtext” as those “cineaste” fairies call it, but I *knew* something weird was going on that did *not* usually happen in “regular” movies.

The jury is in: Black & white films on a *big* screen [seats 800+ minimum] can do things in the *atmosphere* department that color simply can’t. Compare Val Lewton RKO 1940s classics with the recent color remakes: Starting to get it yet ?

These films do not have the same impact on a small home screen and quite right too—these vintage b&w films were *made with a big screen in mind*.

NOTE: Charlotte Austen was noticeably good in Columbia’s MAN WHO TURNED TO STONE [1956]. Mad doctor at large in a girls school—combining several ’50s B-picture obsessions with that straight-on ’50s technique, *most* satisfying for aficionados.

Cheers !

By: Felicity

Felicity — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:06:09 +0000

“Stock mileage”–that’s a good one. :-)

By: Nathan Shumate

Nathan Shumate — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:29:13 +0000

Two Mormon B-movie reviewers agree, so it must be true!

By: Steve Van Kooten

Steve Van Kooten — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:13:20 +0000

You got it right. What makes this movie several times more fun than the gorilla movies of the 30s, 40s, and 50s is that, underneath the fairly benign surface, the movie is plain batty. Truly deserves to be in Ed Wood’s canon despite his absence from the director’s chair.

By: fish eye no miko

fish eye no miko — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:01:20 +0000

That means stock footage plane rights, stock footage boat rides…

As Tom Servo said while watching Leech Woman “It’s more like stock mileage at this point…”

Yes, there was a shipment of tigers that crashed in Africa and two escape into the African jungle

Hey, at least they actually tried to come up with a good reason, as opposed to just letting people think tigers were native to Africa…

Wow. Just, wow. I’m not sure what surprises me more; that this got made, or that it was actually released… I mean, I know there’s the whole about people being “more innocent” about sexual topics like homosexuality and bestiality back then (though I sometimes wonder how true that really is), but this movie doesn’t exactly leave anything to the imagination, does it? I don’t think we’re supposed to think Laura went off to live with the apes as a pure, innocent “Tarzan”-like thing…
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