Endless Ends

[Endless_Night]

Which version of The Thing???

I'm easy! Either the initial 1951 offering, The Thing from Another World , or the absolutely epic 1982 Carpenter version, The Thing .

Radically different movies, but both supremely delicious.

 

[investor2020]

Quite the career progression for James Arness . . . from the actual Thing in the '51 movie to an FBI agent in "Them", and then on to Marshall Dillon.

 

[Endless_Night]

Quite the career progression for James Arness . . . from the actual Thing in the '51 movie to an FBI agent in "Them", and then on to Marshall Dillon.

Them! 1954.

I remember watching that for the first time on Saturday afternoon television as a child. It scared the everliving daylights out me.

The skulls they rolled out of the anthill….

I did not sleep for a week.

 

[tnman03]

Them! 1954.

I remember watching that for the first time on Saturday afternoon television as a child. It scared the everliving daylights out me.

The skulls they rolled out of the anthill….

I did not sleep for a week.

With all of the Godzilla remakes, you'd think that someone would have done a more contemporary remake of Them.

And yes, I remember seeing it on TV when I was a kid and got the biggest kick out seeing that and shot to pieces by a tommygun in the sand storm.

 

[investor2020]

Another interesting career path that foretold future status in Sci-Fi:

Leonard Nimoy has a small, uncredited part as a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant in the communications room in "Them", then played Narab, one of the three Martian invaders in the '52 movie serial "Zombies of the Stratosphere" . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wKlT5mb70E

 

[Endless_Night]

With all of the Godzilla remakes, you'd think that someone would have done a more contemporary remake of Them.

And yes, I remember seeing it on TV when I was a kid and got the biggest kick out seeing that and shot to pieces by a tommygun in the sand storm.

Oooooooh. I would LOVE a remake of Them!!

Someone should make that happen.

LOL, I admire - and vaguely envy - your enthusiasm for destruction.

 

[Endless_Night]

Another interesting career path that foretold future status in Sci-Fi:

Leonard Nimoy has a small, uncredited part as a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant in the communications room in "Them", then played Narab, one of the three Martian invaders in the '52 movie serial "Zombies of the Stratosphere" . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wKlT5mb70E

Holy kittens! I realized James Arness was in Them!, but I hadn't made the Leonard Nimoy connection!

I wonder it that serial is available for purchase? I have a newly minted burning desire to see Zombies of the Stratosphere.

I know serials were a *thing* in the 50s but I don't think I've seen any. Either they weren't shown on Saturday afternoon television, or else they'd quit showing them by the time I was watching.

 

[ydahecnot]

Another interesting career path that foretold future status in Sci-Fi:

Leonard Nimoy has a small, uncredited part as a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant in the communications room in "Them", then played Narab, one of the three Martian invaders in the '52 movie serial "Zombies of the Stratosphere" . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wKlT5mb70E

That sounds illogical

 

[Endless_Night]

That sounds illogical

I approve this message.

 

[Endless_Night]

I appreciate the horror and scifi geekiness in this thread. So much!

You guys are da bomb.

 

[investor2020]

Ask, and you shall receive . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEbl4wY5if0&list=PLTgKFTbvQefqf62qADsUYsxe3OsVlRI-3&index=1

 

[tnman03]

Let's not forget these gems from late-night television and U-Tube obscurity.

Giant grasshoppers and another of the Arness brothers, Peter Graves.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beginning_of_the_End_(film)

And of course the giant praying mantis movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deadly_Mantis

Of course, there's the one with dogs made up to look like shrews and another with a big ole gilia monster that I won't bother to look up. So yeah, monster movies were a big thing in the way back when for sure. They just have awful special effects that make you laugh.

 

[ydahecnot]

And of course the movies that used pie pans as flying saucers

 

[tnman03]

And of course the movies that used pie pans as flying saucers

Yeah, and whatever that goop was they used in the cult classic, but still a stinker, Blob movie that Steve McQueen was in.

 

[Endless_Night]

Ask, and you shall receive . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEbl4wY5if0&list=PLTgKFTbvQefqf62qADsUYsxe3OsVlRI-3&index=1

Oh! Thank you!

I will watch forsooth.

Well, at least sometime tomorrow.



(Seriously, that was kind. )

 

[Endless_Night]

Let's not forget these gems from late-night television and U-Tube obscurity.

Giant grasshoppers and another of the Arness brothers, Peter Graves.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beginning_of_the_End_(film)

And of course the giant praying mantis movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deadly_Mantis

Of course, there's the one with dogs made up to look like shrews and another with a big ole gilia monster that I won't bother to look up. So yeah, monster movies were a big thing in the way back when for sure. They just have awful special effects that make you laugh.

Peter Graves and James Arness are/were related?!?!?

(I can't quite remember who Peter Graves is, but I know I know him. )



How can it be that I've seen neither of these movies? I mean, 200 foot praying mantis is RIGHT up my alley.

My movie tastes are notoriously lowbrow.

 

[Endless_Night]

And of course the movies that used pie pans as flying saucers

Ahem.

*taps foot*

I'm gonna need a name, Sunny.

 

[ydahecnot]

Ahem.

*taps foot*

I'm gonna need a name, Sunny.

What do I look like, Leonard Maltin?

 

[Endless_Night]

What do I look like, Leonard Maltin?

Dare I ask for clarification?

Or…

*heads off to google*


(This better be a clean google, Sunny. )

 

[ydahecnot]

Dare I ask for clarification?

Or…

*heads off to google*


(This better be a clean google, Sunny. )

Leonard Maltin was a movie critic. Whether his peen is on the Net…I can’t say. Live dangerously

 

[Endless_Night]

Whew!

*wipes brow with relief*


Errr, so you're not a cinematic historian. You did, however, raise the subject of pie pan flying saucers.

You owe me a movie name, sir.

I know my rights.

 

[PapaRomantic]

Peter Graves and James Arness are/were related?!?!?

(I can't quite remember who Peter Graves is, but I know I know him. )



How can it be that I've seen neither of these movies? I mean, 200 foot praying mantis is RIGHT up my alley.

My movie tastes are notoriously lowbrow.

I didn't realize that Peter Graves and James Arness were brothers either!

He was well known for the television series "Mission: Impossible"

https://i.imgur.com/rUXDm89m.jpg

And he let his comedy hair down as Captain Oveur in "Airplane" - shown here with Leslie Nielson, another serious actor who got his funny on in the movie.

https://i.imgur.com/QGhW547m.jpg

 

[Endless_Night]

Leonard Maltin was a movie critic. Whether his peen is on the Net…I can’t say. Live dangerously

Please. *waves hand around*

I just had a skunk amble through my yard AND a scorpion take up residence in the box where work gloves are kept.

Don't talk to me about living dangerously!

 

[Endless_Night]

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And he let his comedy hair down as Captain Oveur in "Airplane" - shown here with Leslie Nielson, another serious actor who got his funny on in the movie.

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Ohhhhhhhhh! Airplane! Of course!

I fear I don't remember seeing Mission Impossible, but…wasn't Leonard Nimoy in that as well?

(I'm not sure how I know that. )

 

[ydahecnot]

Whew!

*wipes brow with relief*


Errr, so you're not a cinematic historian. You did, however, raise the subject of pie pan flying saucers.

You owe me a movie name, sir.

I know my rights.

I can’t find one, you whipmistress. I know I have heard of cheaply movies in the 1950s doing that