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Series & Sequels
Topic Started: Sep 19 2009, 07:14 AM (323 Views)
andarius	Sep 22 2009, 12:30 PM Post #16
Charter Member Posts: 3,406 Group: Members Member #55 Joined: September 19, 2005	Laughing Gravy Sep 19 2009, 03:24 PM Isn't that enough of a connection? Yep, but Ray Harryhausen deserves a mention.



rodney	Sep 22 2009, 12:31 PM Post #17
Charter Member Posts: 1,304 Group: Members Member #3 Joined: September 2, 2005	Of course. Next question?
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CliffClaven	Sep 22 2009, 12:39 PM Post #18
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 232 Group: Members Member #712 Joined: March 30, 2009	Haven't seen either -- I intend to pick up the set with Zombies on Broadway (insert you own joke about ancient revivals here). What about "illegitimate" sequels/series? -- After Disney's Treasure Island, Robert Newton and the director reteamed for an Australian film continuing the adventures of Long John Silver (and I think the old TV series was a direct sequel to that movie). A few decades later, the Disney Channel did a surprisingly lush miniseries that reunited an adult Jim Hawkins with Silver (the formidable Brian Blessed). While it didn't reference the movie per se, it was easy to take it as a continuation. -- On the heels of Richard Lester's Three Musketeers and Four Musketeers, there was The Fifth Musketeer -- a middling remake of Man in the Iron Mask, imitating Lester's all-star cast with slightly cheaper names. Then the producers of the Lester films produced Crossed Swords, an adaptation of Prince and the Pauper with the same screenwriter and several of the same stars. -- Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea certainly helped move the equally big Journey to the Center of the Earth (with James Mason as a more benign Verne character). Mysterious Island, while not marketed as a Captain Nemo adventure, did assume audiences would know who he was when he appeared. -- Casino Royale (first movie version) and Never Say Never Again were not "real" James Bond films, but both jokingly placed themselves in the official films' universe. And then there's the infamous Operation Kid Brother, which surrounded Connery's real-life brother with Bond veterans. -- Almost any movie with "Son of" in the title, especially if made by a different studio (bonus points if it stars a second-generation name like Sean Flynn)



panzer the great & terrible	Oct 4 2009, 08:01 PM Post #19
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,356 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	OK, I'll play. Is Daughter of Dr. Jeckyl a series film? She does find out after about an hour that she's the daughter of Dr. J, but that's about the only reference to the Paramount or the MGM feature, or the silent with Jack Barrymore for that matter, except that there is a wolf-man-type monster, sort of, for a few minutes. The thing was released by PRC. If you haven't seen it you ought to, because the hero actually wears an uglier sports coat than Lance Riordan. I know it's hard to believe, but just trust me: it has prison stripes. The only reason anybody remembers the movie is that Edgar G. Ulmer directed, and it does have a few cool directoral touches...but God, what an awful scenario.
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panzer the great & terrible	Oct 4 2009, 08:03 PM Post #20
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,356 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	OK, I'll play. Is Daughter of Dr. Jeckyll a series film? She does find out after about an hour that she's the daughter of Dr. J, but that's about the only reference to the Paramount or the MGM feature, or the silent with Jack Barrymore for that matter, except that there is a wolf-man-type monster, sort of, for a few minutes (I forget who he is, but it ain't her). The thing was released by PRC. If you haven't seen it you ought to, because the hero actually wears an uglier sports coat than Lance Riordan. I know it's hard to believe, but just trust me: it has prison stripes. The only reason anybody remembers the movie is that Edgar G. Ulmer directed, and it does have a few cool directoral touches...but God, what an a scenario!
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Laughing Gravy	Oct 5 2009, 05:16 AM Post #21
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,073 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	No, it's not a series film. Somebody invent some other category that it goes in. The late '70s version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a remake of the 1956 original... but it's also a sequel, because there's Kevin McCarthy, still running around screaming, "You're NEXT!" I wonder, oh, knowledgeable film fans, are there any other movies that are both sequels and remakes? Anybody? (Never Say Never Again, maybe?)



CliffClaven	Oct 5 2009, 12:05 PM Post #22
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 232 Group: Members Member #712 Joined: March 30, 2009	How about: Illegitimate Sons (or, depending on how you feel about them, the B-word) Films that try to imply they're sequels or continuations of unrelated movies: Cheapies that cast Bela Lugosi or John Carradine as vampires; "returns" of "sons of" public domain or low-royalty fictional characters; 60s beach movies not from American International; anything advertised as "in the tradition of" or "by the creator of" Boxes Films that would fit nicely in a DVD box even though their stories and characters are not related: Maria Montez costume epics, Ray Harryhausen films, Edward G. Robinson lovable gangster comedies; Hitchcock's early thrillers; Italian westerns without Clint Eastwood.



panzer the great & terrible	Oct 5 2009, 05:21 PM Post #23
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,356 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	As I see it, the Maria Montez movies are one long movie about her skin by a cameraman in love with it: except of course for her best movie, The Exile, which was in black and white. And boy, could she act! Wrestling with her identical twin at The Cobra Woman's, er, climax, she lustily shouts "Geef me dat cobra jool!" I cheered the first time I heard it, and woke my wife up. I'd lap up a box of the Montez Universals, and I already have two of the pictures that would be in it. I never caught up with Sudan, so for that reason alone I'd buy the set. So hear me, o tribe: despite the fact that I have three Montez pictures on DVD and the other three on VHS. I would gladly buy a set of all six Universals, and if they included The Exile as an extra, I'd buy ten and send 'em to my whole family, including godchildren. Those movies were matinee heaven. Edited by panzer the great & terrible, Oct 6 2009, 06:26 PM.
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CliffClaven	Oct 6 2009, 02:41 PM Post #24
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 232 Group: Members Member #712 Joined: March 30, 2009	The series debate is overflowing to the whodunit board on the Falcon. Next up: Are the Roger Moore Bond films thrillers, adventures or comedies?



Zodiac	Oct 6 2009, 03:50 PM Post #25
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 176 Group: Members Member #334 Joined: January 17, 2008	Comedic adventures - he always had the wink and grin look-



panzer the great & terrible	Oct 6 2009, 06:27 PM Post #26
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,356 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	Tell ya what -- they weren't for me.
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