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Tim Tyler's Luck (ITB chapter a week discussion)
Topic Started: Jul 11 2011, 04:30 AM (11,539 Views)
andarius
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Don Diego
Jul 27 2011, 09:20 AM
I want to know what is going on with the guy at the start of the chapter - he gets his spear and looks like he is heading off for a morning commute.
:D Off to the Masonic Lodge!
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panzer the great & terrible
Jul 25 2011, 07:59 AM
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croc/gator (I can't tell the damn things apart)


I always use the generic term crocogator.
I just crib a line from the shark jumping episode of Happy Days and refer to them all as Chomp Chomp Chomp.
Todd Gault..........Serial Buff
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Chapter Four and a lion chases Tim up a tree; he nearly has Tim's trousers off, lol!
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I am only up to chapter 2; I wanted to take the ol' Balcony Time Machine to the summer of 1938 and see the first episode on the big screen. It went well, and the audience liked it. For those of you you may not read my "100 Years" section (and you should be, you crazy you!):

Well, pardners, next up we’ve got “Jungle Pirates”, the first thrilling episode of our exciting cliffhanger serial Tim Tyler’s Luck starring Frankie Thomas as the comic-strip kid who hitches a ride with a pretty young Big Game Hunter who’s heading off into Darkest Africa in search of lions. Tim is in search of his dad, whom he calls “Professor Tyler”, the world’s foremost expert in the field of gorillas, a title for which I’m quite certain there was a lot of competition. Tim and his lady friend discover a strange tank being used to transport stolen goods, and young Mr. Tyler recognizes it as the Jungle Cruiser, which his dad designed and used to study the big apes, and frankly, one wonders how the “world’s foremost expert in the field of gorillas” thought he was gonna sneak up on them in a colossal noisy tank. In any case, the tank is now the property of a certain Spider Webb, who is using it to haul stolen grenades and ammunition around, which seems a much more likely use for a tank than the observation of wildlife if you want my opinion, which you doubtlessly don’t. Oh, yeah, and Mr. Webb discovers that fully armed tanks are also quite handy for running down pesky boys and their lion-hunting girlfriends. Next week, episode two, “Dead Man’s Pass!”

I watched episode 2 today (gonna have to watch an episode every 4 or 5 days until I catch up, huh?

Yes, young Mr. Tyler said that his dad figured that the tank "would keep him safe from wild animals while he was doing his work." Uh-huh. One wonders how often Professor Tyler had to scrub rhinocerous sperm off the rear bumper.

Jungle Survival Tip #1: Just stay away from wounded leopards, yes?

Memorable dialog: "Look out, fella! You haven't got a CHANCE with that lame leg!" (Even more memorable because earnest young Tim was telling the LEOPARD that!)

Like all of you, I loved the rock-tossing apes. I appreciated very much that the natives just stood there and didn't flinch as boulders cascaded around them until their safari leader barked "Da mummy! Mia mya!", which in their tongue apparently means, "Hey! HEY!!!! RUN FOR COVER, YOU STUPIDS!"

Next: "Into the Lion's Den!"


"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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Chapter Four contains one of my favorite shots in serialdom--I mean the extreme close-up of Tim mouthing the words "Spider Webb" when he finally gets into the villain's presence. Sam Katzman would never have okayed a shot like that, he would've just told the director to save five dollars instead.

And then there's the elephant graveyard. This has got to be the nuttiest urban legend (uh, jungle legend) of all time. Hundreds of elephants must die every year. And all of them, when they're feeling really, really sick start heading for the elephant graveyard. And nobody knows where it is? Hey, they're ELEPHANTS, they're not feeling too good. They're not going to be racing down the road. Just follow one, OK?

P.S. So many people are climbing into and out of that jungle cruiser it's getting to look like a clown car in the circus.
"For life is short, but death is long."
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Nonono - the Elephant's Graveyard really exists - it was mentioned in another fillum! B)
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Maybe the Elephants's graveyard is connected to Republicans and healthcare.
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This serial is gettin along pretty good for me. Whar are the other posters? Panzer? Rodney? Car 54?

Yeah, that mouthed "Spider Webb" was weird. I enjoyed Timmy and the lady up the tree with the lion below. I just had to double check that I didn't type "Loin below"... anyways, the 2 are up the tree and in the distant shot, Timmy is lower (closer to the ground) than the lady, and he's a-goadin' that lion with his leg (Watch your loin, Timmy!), but in the close-up shots Timmy and the lady are the same distance from the ground (and a lot closer to each other too).

There was something that cracked me up, but I've waited since Saturday to post, so I can't recall it.
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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panzer the great & terrible
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I'm in Vancouver so can't keep up with Tim. No heat wave here. Back home next week.
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I wonder if Tim got the hots for the lady and was pleased to see her up the tree, lol! The lion might pick up on that and get even more excited!

I think I should lie down in a cool room! :$
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andarius
Jul 31 2011, 10:33 PM
Nonono - the Elephant's Graveyard really exists - it was mentioned in another fillum! B)
Johnny W. visits it in one of the Tarzan movies. (Which actually uses the shoot-one-and-follow-him method of locating it.) I think it appears in at least one other that I can't remember off hand.

Even ERB drew the line at putting in in any of the Tarzan books.
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The Elephant Graveyard was a popular myth during my childhood and I even believed it, but I was pretty gullible. I can recall it being bandied about quite frequently, but it may have been more on the radio shows I listened to, rather than being depicted in films. Clyde Beatty would've been a probable candidate for such bandying about.
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Speaking of serials, back in the 60s I described a scene from Captain Africa to my pal Nige where John Hart fights a gorilla; Nige said...

Did he have to take a medallion from round his neck?

and I laughed and said he did; I wish I'd asked him how he knew, now!

Why do gorillas wear medalions? :D
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Don Diego
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The serial is based on a comic strip - has anyone seen the strip? How faithful is the adaptation??
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I've seen it. oNe of the lesser KIng FEatures strips, not especially well drawn. tim wore his hat AUssie style and Spider WEbb was the bad guy. Don't remember the jungle cruiser.
Life is just a bowl of cherries, it's too mysterious, don't take it serious...
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