From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   The Great Rupert (1950)   
   tom thumb (1958)   
   The Time Machine (1960)   
   The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)   
   7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)   
   Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975)   
   Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1960)   
      
   You know his story:   
   His Puppetoons released by Paramount along side Fleischer Studio's cartoons.   
   Went to an independent studio for two feature films, "The Great Rupert" and   
   "Destination Moon".  Paramount brought him on for "When Worlds Collide" (I've   
   heard optioned closer to publication as a possible C. B. DeMille-type epic) to   
   great acclaim.  Then "   
   The War of the Worlds" (again, previously optioned for an epic) to even   
   greater acclaim.  Two films that might be sidestreamed into sf, "Houdini" and   
   "The Naked Jungle", then "Conquest of Space" was released to... well, I don't   
   know what, but, after    
   producing five films over five years for Paramount, he never worked there   
   again.  Three years later, he used his familiarity with puppetoons to produce   
   and direct "tom thumb," distributed by MGM.  MGM liked what they had; for them   
   he produced and    
   directed "Time Machine," "Atlantis," "Brothers Grimm," and "Dr. Lao." over the   
   following six years.  Then slowing down and only producing "The Power" four   
   years after that, and "Doc Savage" seven years later, and not getting any of   
   his other plans off    
   the ground.   
      
   Well, they're all up here except "Moon," "Power," and the Paramount films,   
   making me suspect TCM doesn't have a deal with Paramount.  In order, too,   
   except "Atlantis" is moved to last.  I could understand if this were into the   
   night, I consider "Atlantis"   
    the weakest of Pal's, and would put it latest if we were still limited by how   
   late we could stay awake, or by the six hours of a SLP videotape.  But this   
   showing is through the morning and afternoon of local time, with "Atlantis"   
   leading right into    
   prime time.  Or do the two hours before prime time still show viewers going to   
   local news, sports, and weather?   
      
   --    
   -Jack   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)