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   Jack Bohn to All   
   Fantastic Classics - Day of the Double F   
   19 Mar 17 22:13:41   
   
   From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   A feast of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, arranged into two by two   
   according to matching themes.   
      
   It begins very early Tuesday morning with "Westworld" and "2001" -- apparently   
   chosen for its robots in revolt segment.   
      
   Then follows mad scientists experimenting on themselves with "Dr. Jekyll and   
   Mr. Hyde" (1932) and "The Invisible Man" (1933).  J&H is interesting in being   
   one of the "classic" monsters Universal didn't make a straight horror film of,   
   though Abbott and    
   Costello met them.  Universal might have gotten the rights to this movie when   
   they acquired what IMDb calls "over 700," (including "The Island of Lost   
   Souls" and "Death Takes a Holiday", and generally the Marx Brothers) but   
   Paramount had already sold it    
   to MGM in 1941 when they made their Jekyll and Hyde film.   
      
   The schedule drifts into other subjects, coming back to "The Little Shop of   
   Horrors" and "The Birds", and I always wonder if the petshop bird is a clue,   
   but I can't work it out.   
      
   Then it's the motherlode Thursday and Friday.  Primetime begins with "Gojira"   
   -- the name applied to the original Godzilla movie when it's the Japanese and   
   not the American version with Raymond Burr -- and the original "King Kong".   
      
   Then "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"/"The Thing from Another World"   
   "The X from Outer Space"/"20 Million Miles to Earth"   
   "Nosferatu"/"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" for German Expressionism.   
   "The Wolf Man"/"The Cat People" revival of Universal horror and RKO's response.   
   Then Universal's first cycle of horror and Hammer's first period with:   
   "Horror of Dracula" (1958), "Frankenstein" (1931), "The Mummy" (1932), and   
   "The Gorgon" (1964).   
   "The Wizard of Oz"/"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"   
   and   
   "A Clockwork Orange"/"Soylent Green"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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