Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Welcome to In The Balcony. We hope you enjoy your visit.

You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free. Plus, you'll be eligible for the monthly $1 million prize. (Not really.)

Join our community!

If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
Watching Any Good Serials?
Topic Started: Apr 12 2006, 09:28 AM (88,389 Views)
Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
Member Avatar
Sapient Balconeer
[ *  *  * ]
Since I'm pullin' double duty on Saturdays with my 2 Belas, I thought I'd make Sundays: R U Serialized Sundays. The R U is Republic and Universal. No, I didn't plan it that way, it just sorta happened!

1st up is chapter 3 of Flash Gordon: Captured By Shark Men. Flash saves Dale but still finds a way to find one of Ming's perilous trap doors (I tell ya, this place has more trap doors than a Magician's Convention.) Flash meets and eventually tells the leader of the Sharks (...and no, it isn't Chino. *2 drumbeats and a cymbal crash*) "if I could be killed by a weakling like you, I should welcome death!"
On Mongo, an octopus is called an octosac. I can't help but to think there was a writer who thought he was being cute with that.
To me, Flash's greatest quandary is Dale or Princess Aura. I'm a sucker for dark-haired chicks, so I know which way I'd lean. But Dale is blond, and I can't help but wonder, do the drapes match the carpet? I debated on that last one and ya see how the debate worked out. I'm sure if I debate Large Marge, there'll be no debate!
As much as I jest, I love this serial!

The Republic serial, was chosen at random fron a PD box of 12 serials. Undersea Kingdom. Who is this Ray "Crash" Corrigan cat? He is bad-assed! He runs,jumps, shot puts, wrassels, scales walls AND saves a kid, all in the first couple of minutes! I liked the first episode of this better than Flash's first! As far as I can figure by the years on these 2 serials, they were both in the theaters somewhere close. I bet it was great seein' both of these on the big screen.I think it helps having Billy in this to relate to the youngsters back in the day.
Both these and SOS Coast Guard have some well built models for the water scenes.
I plan on seein' some great stuff the next 12 Sundays!
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Mantan
Unregistered

Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
Jan 27 2008, 12:48 PM

...To me, Flash's greatest quandary is Dale or Princess Aura. I'm a sucker for dark-haired chicks, so I know which way I'd lean. But Dale is blond, and I can't help but wonder, do the drapes match the carpet?...

I don't much care if the drapes match the carpet as I have never been moved by Dale/Jean Rogers - she's just not dirty enough to suit my taste.

But Princess Aura ... well, Priscilla Lawson wasn't crowned Miss Miami Beach because of her work with underpriviliged children. She was a working professional model when she was discovered.

I was checking out Priscilla Lawson's mini-bio on IMDB and was startled to discover that she joined the armed forces during World War II and "...it is believed that she lost a leg in a war accident and managed a stationary shop in Los Angeles after leaving active service."
She died in 1958 after being admitted to the Veterans' Administration hospital in Los Angeles for treatment for "upper gastrointestinal bleeding from a duodenal ulcer." She was 44 years old.

There is also this bothersome bit of info: she appeared in an additional 19 films after FLASH GORDON - never credited.
She never made it to Hollywood stardom. Instead, she married actor Alan Curtis, joined the Army, lost a leg, divorced Curtis, and died tragically.
Fifty years after her death, her one great role as Ming's daughter Aura lives on and continues to drive many men beyond the point of distraction.

Now I'm going downstairs to watch Chapter 9 of of FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE.
As Dale Arden, I prefer Carol Hughes' looks to those of the virginal Jean Rogers. Princess Aura is played by Shirley Deane in this the 3rd Flash Gordon serial (not quite as memorable a perfomance as that of Priscilla Lawson in FLASH GORDON) but it seems like the shovel-jawed Anne Gwynne (former Miss San Antonio) gets the most camera time of the 3 actresses in this serial.
Quote Post Goto Top
 
Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
Member Avatar
Sapient Balconeer
[ *  *  * ]
I watched 2 more 1st chapters today. Is there a patch for serial addiction?

The New Adventures of Tarzan. Kinda ho hum to me but with a LOL scene. The female lead is dangling by a rope over a pit of 2 tigers or leopards as a bunch of natives are around the pit watching. The chick falls in the pit and Tarzan jumps in to save her. He kills one cat then fights with the other, grabs it then throws it out where the natives are. I had to back the disc up and watch it again.

The other is The Secret Code. I liked this one. The hero will ball up his fist and knock the shit out of somone, I like that much better than some of the wrasslin' I've seen in some serials. Attack enemy at once. Remember "e" is the most commonly used letter. In German also? Probably!
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Laughing Gravy
Member Avatar
Look for In The Balcony on Facebook!
[ *  *  * ]
Prof. Van Dorn, in ch. 4 of The Vanishing Shadow: "There's nothing in the world I fear as much as women. All women are dangerous."

There's a man with some SERIOUS issues, folks.

Hey, this chapter features one of those wild, way-out science fiction ideas that 'cause you to scratch your head and say, "who thought THAT up?" It's -- now get this -- an "electronic key". You just POINT it at your GARAGE DOOR and it OPENS the door for you. No, REALLY. What a silly concept, eh?
"I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
mort bakaprevski
Member Avatar
Balcony Gang, Foist Class
[ *  *  * ]
Quote:
 
All women are dangerous.

Or as Barry Fitzgerald said in AND THEN THERE WERE NONE, "Never trust a woman."

Sound advice!!! ;)
"Nov Shmoz Ka Pop."
Online Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Black Tiger
Member Avatar
Charter Member
[ *  *  * ]
Any man who thinks women are not dangerous has made his first (and possibly last!) mistake
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
John Doe
Charter Member
[ *  *  * ]
Is this the film noir board?
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
riddlerider
Member Avatar
Balcony Gang, Foist Class
[ *  *  * ]
There's a great moment in Chapter Nine of PERILS OF PAULINE -- maybe not up to the level of the "million-dollar dialogue" Gravy likes to quote, but pretty funny nonetheless.

Dr. Bashan (John Davidson) and his scar-faced, evil-looking henchman Fang (Frank Lackteen) are boarding a transcontinental flight. A stewardess stands outside, assigning seat numbers to passengers as they give her their names. Up troops Davidson, who says: "Dr. Bashan." She glances down at the list on her clipboard and replies: "Number thirteen." He steps into the plane and Lackteen moves forward. "Fang," he says casually to the stewardess. Without missing a beat or batting an eye, she replies: "Number fourteen."

You'd think that either a name like "Fang" -- not "Mister Fang," just "Fang" -- or Lackteen's frightening countenance would get a rise out of a young stewardess, wouldn't you? Well, not this one. I had to chuckle.

PERILS OF PAULINE is a helluva lot fun. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise.


Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Laughing Gravy
Member Avatar
Look for In The Balcony on Facebook!
[ *  *  * ]
Hey, finished Tex Granger over breakfast today. It was actually the best chapter; it's nice they saved for the best for last. The whole thing is pretty much a colossal shoot out with everybody in town, even the old ladies, blazing away with rifles. (At one point, an old duffer's hat flies off -- apparently from a bullet -- and he yells, "Take it easy there! You're liable to HURT somebody!") Although the serial is pedestrian, the final episode will leave me with happy memories of it. Well, that and the fact that it was better than Jack Armstrong or Hop Harrigan, two other postwar Columbias I've seen.

I'm up to chapter six of Radio Patrol, chapter eight of Battling with Buffalo Bill, chapter four of Blackhawk, and chapter five of The Vanishing Shadow. Blogging-wise, last night I watched the third episode of Young Eagles. FNF-wise, we've seen the first three chapters of Flash Gordon.
"I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Grampy
Member Avatar
Agent of SHIELD
[ *  *  * ]
Is anyone familiar with the Tex Granger comics stories? I'm curious as to whether he was a masked rider in the original comics or if they were straight-up western stories.
Still Alive and Well
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Greypilgrim
Member Avatar
"Zarkov to Flash Gordon....Come in Flash!"
[ *  *  * ]
Grampy
Jan 30 2008, 10:30 AM
Is anyone familiar with the Tex Granger comics stories? I'm curious as to whether he was a masked rider in the original comics or if they were straight-up western stories.

From what my sources tell me, Tex had no mask and the stories were good two-fisted action adventures.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
rodney
Member Avatar
Charter Member
[ *  *  * ]
I'm finishing up Tiger Woman tonight, which I love and I'm sad to see go. Will be starting VCI's Battling With Buffalo Bill on Saturday.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Pa Stark
Charter Member
[ *  *  * ]
I just finished KING OF THE WILD, which I got from Sinister Cinema. It is from a really nice print, one of the best I have seen of a Mascot. There are a lot of places where you can see some wear, but the picture is very sharp. In chapter one the hero meets the Raja who is an exact double, and for some strange reason twice the Raja's are lines dubbed by Boris Karloff.
Honest and Lovable Pa Stark
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
Member Avatar
Sapient Balconeer
[ *  *  * ]
Today I watched Tunnel Of Death, the 2nd chapter of The Lost City. The chapter that asks the question: How often does the bad guy stand over his own trap door?
I had a thought as 2 of the good guys travel thru the tunnels amongst the "Giants", what would happen if Sweet Georgia Brown was piped thru the joint?
Somebody call a vet, I'm a sick puppy!
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Grampy
Member Avatar
Agent of SHIELD
[ *  *  * ]
Finishing Vanishing Legion today, then will start Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc..

Legion is an excellent early Mascot with Harry Carey drilling for oil, helping a boy clear his father's name and unmasking a mystery villain who has invented pocket sized radios-"Impossible" according to the sheriff.
Still Alive and Well
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
ZetaBoards - Free Forum Hosting
Free Forums with no limits on posts or members.
Go to Next Page
« Previous Topic · Continued Next Week · Next Topic »
Add Reply