BS: Lovable B movies

Subject: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Aug 16 - 09:29 PM

I love comedy relief, besides most threads right now are all pretty heavy lifts.


Danny Deckchair

The Man Who Sued God

Dark Star

The Nugget



if you haven't seen these, do.

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Aug 16 - 09:00 AM

I remember when our cinemas had doublle- feature movies. And continuous programmes, so you could watch them through a gain if you wanted.

Never saw those ones - in England the B-movie was typically some cheaply made English film.

Or there were "oaters", which also cropped up on TV. Renfrew of the Mounties, the Cisco Kid...

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Aug 16 - 09:10 AM

3 of the 4 listed so far are Australian.

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 27 Aug 16 - 09:24 AM

Hammer films - Island of Terror!!

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 27 Aug 16 - 05:03 PM

This thread reminded me of the (late 50's) days of Saturday morning pictures at the local Odeon. Some were in serial form, and I particularly remember that several of the Westerns starred Alana Ladd, who bore a strong resemblance to her father Alan. However, none of these movies seem to be listed in her IMDB entry. I think that's a shame - and I wonder if any prints survive.

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Aug 16 - 07:03 PM

The Iron Maidens
It's an old English color film about steam tractors not virginity belts

Also English is :No Blade of Grass
a movie from the sixties about a Monsanto like corporate mistake.

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: robomatic
Date: 28 Aug 16 - 12:49 PM

Killer Klownz From Outer Space

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Aug 16 - 05:25 PM

Day of the Triffids

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: mkebenn
Date: 29 Aug 16 - 08:46 AM

The Heretic

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Aug 16 - 11:30 AM

Tyler Perry's Gandhi with the Win ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Padre
Date: 29 Aug 16 - 01:11 PM

The old "Bowery Boys" movies were silly, but fun. Since I lived in West Virginia, I never completely understood some of the references, and the accents were strange, but the patter between Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) and Sach Jones (Huntz Hall)was always amusing.

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Aug 16 - 09:59 AM

Donuel, did you see the remake? It looked great. What a book! I'd love to see a movie made from The Trouble With Lichen, too. I think they did make Village of the Damned, that was fun too.

Meanwhile, I love all monster-insect movies and world-ending natural disaster movies - there's a great one about cockroaches growing to look like humans and only the autistic kid figuring it out, there is that Pierce Brosnan one with the hot springs that boil the young couple, there is a Tommy Lee Jones one with lava flows, love'm all. Them. Arachnophobia. 2012, which I have only seen parts of but it looked like a ton of fun. Giant asteroids. But the best is always the giant insects.

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Aug 16 - 10:02 AM

Song of Old Wyoming
King of the Bullwhip
I Married a Space Alien

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Aug 16 - 10:03 AM

My old (and late) friend Roy Brocksmith was in "Arachnophobia."

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Aug 16 - 04:22 PM

Remake of Village of the damned with Christopher Reeves?
Revenge and plants is a good theme.

Guess whose coming to Dinner s no B movie but if it has been decades look at it with fresh eyes. It is remarkably prophetic!!!!!
Arrival and Arrivl 2 have a different take on Global warming.


Song of old Wyoming, Ill look it up.

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 03:47 PM

Late 50's?

Topper reruns
Tom Corbin Space Cadet

70's
The Late Great Planet Earth

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Padre
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 09:38 AM

The "Durango Kid" westerns (there were almost 60 made between 1945-1953) were a hoot. Charles Starrett played the lead, with a number of 'sidekicks' throughout the series. They were very popular at the Saturday matinees at the Best Theater in Kanawha City. One notable feature was, of course, a chase scene, which always showed the hero riding after the villain. No matter where in the West the story was set, at one point in the chase the riders would gallop around THE SAME BIG ROCK while blazing away with their 'six-guns,' which seemed to hold an unlimited amount of ammunition!

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 11:02 AM

Not to mention that shooting accurately from the back of a galloping horse is iffy at best.

I want to know where they got rocks with which, when struck by a bullet, the spatter of rock chips and the ricochet never hurt anyone. And shooting a gun out of the baddy's hand is a great trick -- I'm aware of it happening exactly twice in real life and then by accident.

Destination Moon.

The Brain Eaters.

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: frogprince
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 11:09 AM

A question just occurred to me. It may be analogous to "What is folk?", but I'm gonna throw it out just for the halibut.

How do you distinguish (or, it there a distinction) between a "b" movie and any of the low budget, no production value opuses out there that really range down through the c-minuses to stuff that it would we generous to grade at d-minus?

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Padre
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 10:19 PM

There's a good article about B movies on Google - goes into detail about the "Poverty Row" studios who made so many of them.

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Padre
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 10:19 PM

There's a good article about B movies on Google - goes into detail about the "Poverty Row" studios who made so many of them.

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: mkebenn
Date: 02 Sep 16 - 08:51 AM

Brandon Lee's "The Crow", "The Fiend without a Face" Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Thompson
Date: 03 Sep 16 - 08:38 AM

Night of the Demon
All the spaghetti westerns

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Sep 16 - 09:44 AM

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Anything I saw as a training film in the US Army, including the classic "Below Knee Amputations."

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Padre
Date: 03 Sep 16 - 12:42 PM

My favorite training film was "The Return of Count Spirochete" - a heartwarming animated short about the microbe that causes syphilis. The 1973 remake is almost as good as the original from 1959.

Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies
From: Padre
Date: 03 Sep 16 - 12:42 PM

My favorite training film was "The Return of Count Spirochete" - a heartwarming animated short about the microbe that causes syphilis. The 1973 remake is almost as good as the original from 1959.