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| Mysterious Island; Captain Harding's FABULOUS Adventures | |
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| Laughing Gravy | Jan 22 2009, 12:07 PM Post #16 |
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Sadly, I haven't been able to locate a full-sized copy or original of the 1-sheet for this serial to hang in the ol' FNF room... It's a corker...
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| "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 | |
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| Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer | Jan 23 2009, 06:19 AM Post #17 |
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Rodney's jernt is having a sale this month.....3 for 20 bucks on serials. |
| It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong." | |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Jan 24 2009, 03:21 PM Post #18 |
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His print is excellent. Incidentally, when I started collecting serials this one had a lousy rep and was thought lost, which made me sad at the time. Since then at least two prints have surfaced, one excellent, and the serial's reputation keeps improving, especially with people like me who prefer their movies silly. |
| Life is just a bowl of cherries, it's too mysterious, don't take it serious... | |
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| witneyenglish | Jan 25 2009, 08:15 PM Post #19 |
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What is Rodney's address? |
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| KanSmiley | Jan 25 2009, 08:50 PM Post #20 |
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Rodney's website is: http://oldtimeradiotapes.homestead.com/rodneyhome.html It is listed in the "Links Section" of Gravy's fine site. Kan |
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| Vornoff | Jan 26 2009, 08:03 AM Post #21 |
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I just ordered mine from Rodney, along with The Shadow & Mysterious Doctor Satan, both of which I've been wanting to see for a long time. |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Jan 26 2009, 10:26 AM Post #22 |
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That's cool, but don't forget his Thelma Todd set, which I'm ordering today. |
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| Don Diego | Jan 27 2009, 09:16 AM Post #23 |
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I have joined the crowd and ordered Mysterious Island from Rodney |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Jan 28 2009, 11:34 PM Post #24 |
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He has some other good, rare serials: in reverse chronology, Cody of the Pony Express, Ghost of Zorro, Pirate Treasure, Phantom of the Air, Mystery of the Double Cross... |
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| rodney | Jan 29 2009, 10:20 AM Post #25 |
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I gotta say, I kind of like seeing this thread take a turn for the praise of my company! If it weren't for my fellow balconeers, January would've been a very slow month (as they've all been lately). I really appreciate it, and hope to continue to do you right with good stuff at fair prices. |
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| KanSmiley | Jan 30 2009, 05:10 PM Post #26 |
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I started watching Mysterious Island a couple of weeks ago. I am up to chapter 8 by now...going against Gravy's established rule of only one chapter per week. Am I missing something or is this the first serial that does not have a really defined villain? You have the volcano people, the Mercurians and the wild man none of whom seem to be out for world domination, water rights, right of way for the railroad...you get the idea. They all seem to just be on the island. What am I missing? Then you have Captain Harding and his crew that seem to be bumping into each group for no apparent reason. But then in most serials a lot of things happen for no apparent reason. Where is Buster Crabbe? The theme music is from The Sea Hound and Pirates of the High Seas and maybe several more Columbia serials that I don't remember. There are at least half dozen actors in Mysterious Island that are also from the two Buster Crabbe serials. Oh, by the way Rodney you will hearing from tomorrow. I want to get in on the January sale. Kan |
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| Laughing Gravy | Jan 31 2009, 07:20 AM Post #27 |
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We watched the final episode of Cap'n Marvel and then followed that with the first episode of Mysterious Island. The FNF gang thought the latter was quite a hoot, particularly (in order): * The Yankee POWs who are allowed to roam free around the streets of Richmond. * The Yankee captain living in a house that appears to be Beaver Cleaver's home, newly relocated so that it's on the middle of a golf course. * What was quickly nicknamed the "Flying Thimble from Outer Space". * Everything else. |
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| KanSmiley | Jan 31 2009, 07:41 AM Post #28 |
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I have to agree with you Gravy on that house. I didn't think of the Beaver I thought of the Ozzie and Harriett. Isn't that "Flying Thimble" from either Hop Harrigan or Brick Bradford? It seems to me that I have seen it somewhere before. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Jan 31 2009, 10:06 AM Post #29 |
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Single biggest laugh of the episode: a Civil War POW, upon hearing of the plan to escape in a hot-air balloon, says, "That's SWELL!" |
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| Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer | Feb 4 2009, 04:00 AM Post #30 |
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I watched the 1st chapter last night. Along with all the other zaniness, the Yanks riding on horseback are spotted by Confederate soldiers in the hot air balloon, yet the Yanks never see the balloon way up there in the sky. There's a quick glimpse of Gene Roth's pirate flag, and it IS intimidating. Zaniness I tells ya.
Edited by Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer, Feb 4 2009, 04:05 AM.
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