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Watching Any Good Serials?
Topic Started: Apr 12 2006, 09:28 AM (88,366 Views)
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KanSmiley
May 29 2008, 03:57 PM
Again, like Paul, I don't care who is playing what role.  I would say I have watched enough serials and B-westerns by now that I can recognize most all the heores, heorines and villians and many of the henchies, barflys, stagedrivers, judges, city folks , sheriffs and stuntmen.

Kan

That's sorta, kinda the way I feel about it ... aside from the few main characters I don't care who plays who, or who does the stuntwork ... I just watch 'em for the fun of the nostalgia, action and cliffhangers.
At my age and health condition I don't have the time to watch 1 chapter a week ... I usually watch 'em in 2-3 chapter chunks and finish a serial in a week to 10 days.
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Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
May 30 2008, 10:47 AM
I was referring to MY most frequented sites, not yours......but thanks for sharing :P

You're welcome! I love to share. It's my magnanimous nature (dictionary.com??)
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mort bakaprevski
May 30 2008, 02:55 PM
Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
May 30 2008, 10:47 AM
I was referring to MY most frequented sites, not yours......but thanks for sharing :P

You're welcome! I love to share. It's my magnanimous nature (dictionary.com??)
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I know that one. I heard it in a movie a long time ago. It was used in a sentence instead of unanimous....I wanna say Bowery Boys, Leo Gorcey in particular.
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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Stony: Seems like I remember Leo Gorcey using the word "magnitudinous" or something like that on occasion also. Slip was a Norm Crosby type character when it came to language.

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Another Bowery Boys line from Slip was when he said he was going to see an "octopus".
Slip: "You know, an eye doctor!"

Hope someone released the classic Bowery Boys films soon. They used to be on tv every week (I believe Sunday) and I'd never miss them.
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What Gorcey and Crosby did is called a "malapropism" after the character Mrs. Malaprop in Sheridan's play, "The Rivals." Hope no one misconscrews what I said.
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Leo Gorcey?? Didn't he write that book "Thirty Days to a More Powerful Constabulary?"
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You guys probably already know this but in 1967 Leo Gorcey self-published an autobiography with the unforgettable title AN ORIGINAL DEAD END KID PRESENTS DEAD END YELLS, WEDDING BELLS, COCKLE SHELLS, AND DIZZY SPELLS.
It's been re-issued by his son. You can purchase it here:
http://www.anthonyrestorations.com/pages/ar_gorcey.html
Gorcey was an abusive drunk whose wife left him for Groucho Marx.
Hard to get happy after that.

In one of Groucho's several "autobiographies" he mentions his marriage to the ex-Mrs. Gorcey and has a few choice comments regarding Leo's prowess at battering women.
Groucho didn't care much for little Leo. Can't remember which Groucho book this is in - MEMOIRS OF A MANGY LOVER, GROUCHO & ME, or GROUCHO written with Hector Arce.

Speaking of the Gorcey clan - earlier today I finished the 1942 Universal serial JUNIOR G-MEN OF THE AIR (as issued by VCI) featuring the Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys . No Leo Gorcey but his brother David plays a snitch named "Double Face Gordon" helping Japanese agents.
Billy Halop, Huntz Hall (as "Bolts" Larson), Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly are the Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys. Along with Frank Albertson (leader of the Junior G-Men) and Richard Lane (G-man supervisor of the Jr. G's) , they battle Lionel Atwill, Turhan Bey and gang.
Frankie Darro and Whitey Benedict appear in bits in a couple of chapters each.
I love all of the Dead End Kids and East Side Kids/ Bowery Boys movies in general but I enjoyed this serial in particular.
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As I've noted previously, I recently finished King of the Mounties. I noticed that in this serial's credits in each chapter, only Howard Lydecker is given credit for the special effects, while I'm used to seeing both Theodore and Howard's names listed in Republic's credits. Anyone know if there was a particular reason for this, or was it just an accident, or perhaps laziness on someone's part? :unsure: No biggie, just curious. :P
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Trying to get caught up with my watching/reviewing/bitchy comments... Been watching random episodes of VCI's Tailspin Tommy 1 & 2, Dick Tracy Returns, Jungle Queen... Restored Serials upgrade of The Green Archer... The Master Mystery from Kino... and probably one or two others I've forgotten.

General comments so far (I'll try to write more, and will feature frame grabs, on the main site): the gem of the bunch is easy to pick. Dick Tracy Returns, a 2-disc set, is beautiful. A must-have, and a terrific serial, too. I can't quite decide whether it's my fave Dick Tracy serial, but it's in the top three and the best-looking serial I've seen on DVD since, well, since VCI's Phantom Empire. Just gorgeous. Moving down the list, Tailspin Tommy looks pretty good but doesn't seem to be a very good serial; Noah Beery, Jr. steals it from Maurice "The Big Mo" Murphy. Tailspin Tommy and the Great Air Mystery doesn't look nearly as good as the Serial Squadron release of a year or two ago; stick with the SS on this one. Jungle Queen I haven't watched much of, but the natives are dressed with an AWFUL lot of bling and the print is only so-so. The Master Mystery is a fun serial with a great robot and a surprisingly good print. Will report on Green Archer Restored 2.0 soon.
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I started watching Flying GMen, but got sidetracked from it. I'll probably start it again from the beginning.
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Yesterday I saw chapter 6 of Monster And The Ape. Not a lot of fisticuffs in this chapter as opposed to the other 5. I like the beginning of each chapter as the robot easily picks up a what, 2-ton concrete block. I swear he's beaming while doing it.

Yesterday was chapter 8 of The Spider's Web. I like this one so much I picked up this book from Barnes and Noble last Friday.
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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I LOVE the Spider reprints. Very, very well done pulp stories.
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Of the 12 serials I'm watching, most are at chapter 10, so we're winding down to the climaxes. I read somewhere in this part of the balcony about cheats, I think that's what they're called, I think their crappy. 2 examples I've seen lately.... Monster And The Ape, where a boulder is dropped on our hero. At the end of the chapter we clearly see the boulder smash on top of a rag doll of our hero. In the next chapter the hero easily rolls away from the boulder, even though it landed squarely on his noggin......crappy!!!! Next up - Adv Of Captain Marvel, where a lady is unconscience at a steering wheel of a car that is going around in circles down a parking garage and is headed straight for a head-on collision with a building across the street. At the end of the chapter the car smashes into the building....will she be okey next week????? Well, that was just a pigment of my imagination (either, black, white, or grey), the car is saved by the Shazamiam one and never hits the building ....crappie (go fish)!!!!

This is my biggest gripe with the 20 or so serials I've seen so far. Blow up a building one week and show our hero escaping the next is fine with me as long as you're still blowing up the building the next week.

One thing I find amusing but it doesn't get in my craw...Captain Marvel will knock the hell outta someone's jaw but the perp will get up and have more fight in him. Wouldn't a punch from the 'Ol Cap shatter someone's jaw????
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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Since leaving for Las Vegas, what, a month ago? -- I have watched a grand total of TWO serial chapters, the final episodes of Blackhawk and The Scarlet Horseman. I am taking a cliffhanger break, I guess.
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