From: mark_steese@yahoo.com   
      
   nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote in   
   news:nebusj.1222314231@vcmr-86.server.rpi.edu:   
      
   > "Tom Carberry"  writes:   
   >   
   >>This Friday/Saturday (depending on your time zone), Turner Classic   
   >>Movies will be running two movies (of interest?):   
   >   
   >>11 p.m. (PDT) Night of the Lepus (1972), as I recall this was Mike's   
   >>training film when he was still a newbie in Season 5.  Plus, it has   
   >>Dr. McCoy not saying "he's dead Jim".   
   >   
   >      Ooh.  You know, in the Eastern time zone that means the movie   
   > is playing on the International Rabbit Day.   
   >   
   >   
   >>12:30 a.m. (PDT) The Giant Claw (1957) with Jeff Morrow (Exeter from   
   >>This Island Earth) and Mara Corday (from The Black Scorpion from   
   >>Season 1), and Morris Ankrum from a couple of episodes, including   
   >>Rocketship X-M.  This is a good candidate for Joel and the CT crew.   
   >   
   >      Well, this looks promising.  Per Wikipedia:   
   >   
   >           Morrow later confessed in an interview that no one in   
   >      the film knew what the titular monster looked like until the   
   >      film's premiere. Morrow himself first saw the film in his   
   >      hometown and, hearing the audience laugh every time the monster   
   >      appeared on screen, left the theater early, embarrassed that   
   >      anyone there might recognize him.   
   >   
   >   
   >>Tom Carberry (#45505, and The Giant Claw will make you hurt!)   
   >   
   >      Not the Claw.  The *Claw*.   
      
   Before the monster shows up, the movie's just another cheesy '50s   
   monster movie. But after the monster shows up...oh, man. In order to cut   
   costs, the producers farmed out the special effects work to a Mexican FX   
   company. Remember the special effects from the Mexican "Santa Claus"?   
   Now imagine effects of that caliber used to create a monster that was   
   ostensibly supposed to scare adults.   
      
   It is *awesome*. It's right up there with Ro-Man and Guilala in the Hall   
   of Bad Monster Fame.   
   --   
   Mark Steese a/k/a Corvus Marinus   
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