Post by anim8rfskPost by Arthur LipscombPost by anim8rfskPost by UbiquitousPost by anim8rfskPost by A FriendMy wonderful cable provider Xfinity has just moved TCM from the regular
tier to something called the Sports Entertainment Package, which would
cost me an extra $10/mo. There is nothing else in the package worth
watching. Goodbye, TCM. I'll really miss you. Xfinity, you suck.
And TCM is running all kinds of great Halloweeny movies this month!
Boo! Hiss!
I checked the OnDemand menu to see if I could watch any but it requires
me to pay for them. Dammit.
I saw a Vincent Price/Peter Cushing movie I'd never even *heard* of yesterday
- MADHOUSE!
I did my bi weekly DVR guide check and programmed it to record a bunch
of movies. I didn't notice many Halloween/horror movies that caught my
interest. But I did program it to record a couple of Sinbad movies. I
already knew about "Eye of the Tiger," which I haven't seen in forever.
But one of the Sinbad movies I had no idea existed.
Captain Sindbad maybe?
Yes. Staring Guy Williams. I don't think I've ever seen him in
anything outside of "Lost in Space."
No "Zorro" for you!?
I already have "7th Voyage" on
blu-ray which I also haven't seen in probably a decade or more. I'll
figure out the proper watching order and marathon them some weekend. I
The three Harryhausen Dynamation classics are:
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958, Kerwin Mathews & Torin Thatcher, which was
unabashedly remade as Jack the Giant Killer ( 1962, same story and cast!)
which was in turn then recut and dubbed into a musical!)
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973, John Phillip Law & Caroline Munro)
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977, Patrick Wayne, Taryn Power, Jane
Seymour)
Before that you have Sinbad the Sailor (1947, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maureen
O'Hara, Anthony Quinn, Abner Kravitz, Alfred Pennyworth), and
Son of Sinbad (1955, Dale Robertson & Vincent Price) - there's a Rifftrax of
that one
There are a lot of Japanese versions, live and animated, and a ton of
episodes of TV series, again, lived and animated.
And metric live action versions starring Americans. I haven't paid much
attention to those from the 21st Century.
haven't seen "Eye of the Tiger" in I'm guessing well over 30 years. But
I *still* remember it very well. At least I *think* I do. It's the one
with the witch who turns into a bird but doesn't have enough potion to
turn back so her foot gets stuck.
Yeah, that's TIGER
And I think a stop motion robot(?)
Peter Mayhew, whom you may remember from another movie that year
turning the oars of their ship? OK, that's the extent of my memory.
But the more I think about it, the more I'm looking forward to watching
them again. :-)
Are they actually sequels or just disconnected movies with the same
public domain character?
AFAIK there's no continuity between any two Sindbad/Sinbad movies.
TCM has a lot of fun stuff on 10/24
Captain Sindbad
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
Jason and the Argonauts
Atlantis, the Lost Continent
Hercules, Samson & Ulysses
Clash of the Titans
and as we head into the evening
Horror of Dracula (Lee/Cushing '58)
The Gorgon
Plague of the Zombies
Night of the Living Dead
The Hunger
Noserfatu (1022)
all in a row!
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