Identify This Movie

[teddyleevin]

There was some movie/TV movie on at Trailer Park in NYC (nostalgia-themed bar/restaurant with old TVs). The employees didn't know what it was, and there was no sound I was able to hear, so this is all from visuals.

It looked made for TV but it might have just been cheap. It was B&W, probably from 1957-1963, I'd guess, give or take. The star was this guy who looked like Tony Dow but with really poofy blonde Eddie Munster hair. He was some sort of rock star and plays guitar on TV. He had a romance with a blonde woman who had her own extended dance sequence. The two of them go ice skating and she does a lot of ice skating around him and they kiss. The lead is given a reel-to-reel tape recorder and this woman with black hair comes and dances at him, sending him to the pool and back inside and starts to kiss him. The blonde woman shows up and things don't look to be going so well for our hero. A man beckons him over and there are a number of men, some with bandanas over their mouths threatening him with a shotgun. They capture him and bring him to some seedy basement.

That's as much as I watched before leaving.

[A man stayed-put]

From your description of the lead it could be one of Arch Hall Jr's efforts- Wild Guitar sounds most likely.

[teddyleevin]

From your description of the lead it could be one of Arch Hall Jr's efforts- Wild Guitar sounds most likely.

Bingo, that's the one. Nicely done. Thank you very much!

[colinr0380]

I mostly remember that film from its Exploitica re-editing!

[rohmerin]

I need help and confirmation with the Cinema Paradiso final kissing montage.

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[antnield]

Someone else did something similar a while back. They didn't identify all of the clips, but do plug some of your gaps.

[rohmerin]

Someone else did something similar a while back. They didn't identify all of the clips, but do plug some of your gaps.

Yes I know that page, there are some mistakes (they even count one more film) and I've discovered some new titles they didn't. Has anyone watch The Moon is Blue lately and can confirm that kiss in the Hair dryer?

[domino harvey]

That's not from the Moon is Blue-- no one wears a striped shirt like the male with his back to the camera and Maggie MacNamera's look is different in the film. You can double-check it on YouTube

[stroszeck]

A western probably from 1950s as it was in color from what I recall. I watched it as a child and includes a band of several characters including a younger member who constantly practices his draw and at some point near the end "battle" the young kid gets a gun aimed at him from a gunslinger laying on top of a rock, smug and arrogant. Thinking the kid could never draw on him quick enough the gunslinger rests his piece on the rock as the dialogue continues at which point the boy says something to the effect of "I've killed two men tonight. You will e my third" and in a flash he draws his gun and shoots the arrogant gunslinger. For the life of me that's the only scene I can remember. Any help?

[Thomas Dukenfield]

The other film is about a space station that sends explorers out onto some terrestrial body. One of the explorers gets some slime on his suit. When his space suit goes to decontamination, the decontamination process incubates the foreign material and bingo, a rampaging (well, waddling) alien terrorizes the space craft from deck to deck and corridor to corridor for the remainer of the picture.

Sounds like The Green Slime.

[Koukol]

The other film is about a space station that sends explorers out onto some terrestrial body. One of the explorers gets some slime on his suit. When his space suit goes to decontamination, the decontamination process incubates the foreign material and bingo, a rampaging (well, waddling) alien terrorizes the space craft from deck to deck and corridor to corridor for the remainer of the picture.

Sounds like The Green Slime.

Definitely.

[colinr0380]

Ah, the film with the great theme song! I often can't resist adding words to it in the vein of Shirley Bassey's Goldfinger ("She loves slime! Onlllly slime! She...loves.....sliiiiiiiiiiime!")

[lacritfan]

Had to have been a sci-fi B-movie. Two astronauts are in a space ship and one is unconscious, the other has to go outside for some reason, his tether breaks and he starts floating away. In his head he starts reciting the our father.

[domino harvey]

It's not 2001?

[HypnoHelioStaticStasis]

Phantom Planet, a terribly boring film and a wonderful MST3K episode.

[swo17]

Phantom Planet is plenty of fun for those that value '50s sci-fi films on their own terms. No MST3K skewering is necessary to enjoy it.

[Lowry_Sam]

Well since we're on the subject of cheesy sci-fi, there's one that I've never brought up because I barely remember anything from the movie, just that it's black & white sci-fi (could be Japanese or American, 40s or 50s, print wasn't very good), I don't even remember if they were on a space ship or in a submarine (the monster looked vaguely like a sea creature). What distinguished the movie was that it was the absolute worst use of a rubber suit monster I had ever seen (at the time). When the monster attacked someone on board, the person simply flopped on the ground & the monster walked over him & when he did the rubber gave way so that you could actually see the person who was wearing the rubber suit underneath and then people behind the monster would pull the person who supposedly had been absorbed/eaten by the monster from behind it to remove him from the set. I saw it before MST3K started, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was one of it. I had to go to dinner & couldn't see the rest & have never been able to track down what it was, but it was one of the funniest bad sci fi moments I've ever seen.

[HypnoHelioStaticStasis]

Sounds like "The Creeping Terror," and yes, there's an MST for that.

For the record, I LOVE 50's/60's sci-fi, but "Phantom Planet" just starts off sooooo tediously and never quite recovers. Not enough monster action for my taste.

[Lowry_Sam]

Sounds like "The Creeping Terror," and yes, there's an MST for that.

I looked at clips on Youtube & while it seems very similar in its absurdity, I don't think it was the one I saw. I do remember it taking place mostly indoors, perhaps a space ship or submarine or some kind of military installation & I remember the monster being more like a singular rubber blob (slightly bigger than one person, no felt pieces)....sort of a cross between The Blob & Godzilla, but for some reason I want to say it was an underwater creature not an alien.

[Ibnezra]

Thanks Thomas & Koukal, "The Green Slime" must be it. Someone else tried to tell me the same thing and I just couldn't believe it. It's funny how nostalgia colors things until you no longer recognize the genuine article when you see it again, years later, divorced from all of the romanticism you've invested it with. This particularly seems to be the case with events and experiences before the age of five. I had a similar experience trying to accept the PBS aired "Space Giants" as the amazing television experience that set my fevered pre-school mind ablaze 35 years ago. Sometimes revisiting the past leads to nothing but disillusionment. Oh well, I'll just glory in my initial enthusiasm instead. What an idealist I must have been!

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

Early 80s. 'Freaks' cross-fertilised with 'People under the stairs' . Things come out at night in a suburban home lurking behind radiator grilles etc. One particularly memorable guest is a torso that walks on his hands. Might wear a fez but that could be my embellishment.

[zedz]

If that were a headless torso wearing a fez, I'd be so there.

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

If that were a headless torso wearing a fez, I'd be so there.

Cracking open Final Draft toot sweet

[Thomas Dukenfield]

Early 80s. 'Freaks' cross-fertilised with 'People under the stairs' . Things come out at night in a suburban home lurking behind radiator grilles etc. One particularly memorable guest is a torso that walks on his hands. Might wear a fez but that could be my embellishment.

It's House of the Damned, but it was released in 1963 and it's in black and white, unless there are two movies about a little guy wearing a fez hiding in a house. Maybe "Akbar and Jeff Go Bad Ronald".

[zedz]

If that were a headless torso wearing a fez, I'd be so there.

Cracking open Final Draft toot sweet

Of course, I'd be waiting the entire film for the big reveal when the Final Screamer finally lifts the fez and reveals he actually has a really tiny head,