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Wow. Dude's acting-fu was strong.
Posted on 03/26/2015 9:59:23 AM PDT by massmike
Gregory Walcott, a character actor whose résumé included numerous television westerns, several Clint Eastwood movies and prestige films like “Norma Rae” — but who was probably best known as one of the stars of “Plan 9 From Outer Space,” often called the worst movie ever made — died on Friday at his home in the Canoga Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. He was 87.
He said in a 1998 interview that the “Plan 9” script “made no sense” but that he took the job because one of the producers was a friend of his.
“I thought maybe my name could give the show some credibility,” he said.
The film seemed destined to be no more than a footnote in Mr. Walcott’s busy career.
But “Plan 9 From Outer Space” slowly developed a following for its cheap effects, its stilted dialogue and a ragtag cast that included the one-name TV personalities Vampira and Criswell as well as Bela Lugosi, in footage shot shortly before his death in 1956. To Mr. Walcott’s embarrassment, “Plan 9” became a staple at bad-film festivals and the movie with which he was most often associated.
Mr. Walcott came to accept his bad-film fame with good humor. His last screen role was a cameo in Tim Burton’s “Ed Wood” (1994), about the making of “Plan 9” and its eccentric auteur. Mr. Mattox, his son, said that when a bar called Plan 9 Alehouse opened near his home in Escondido, Calif., last year, he gave the owners, with Mr. Walcott’s blessing, a copy of his “Plan 9” script to use as wallpaper in the men’s room.
“I didn’t want to be remembered for that,” Mr. Walcott told The Los Angeles Times in 2000. “But it’s better to be remembered for something than for nothing, don’t you think?”
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“Plan 9 is one of my favorite movies of all time.”
I like the part where the mausoleum gets bumped by an actor and it’s obvious it’s cardboard from the way it shimmies.
In many movies especially with Clint Eastwood. He was great as “Pope” in the Eiger Sanction.
I love that scene, too, with the mausoleum. And the two cops are hysterical!!
Ed Wood is a really great movie as well, IMHO.
Breathless is a breezy delight. It’s highly imitated as well.
The worst movie I ever saw in a theater—THE WORST—was “Tarzan and Jane” with Bo Derek. When my wife and I were newlyweds around 1985, we saw it in a little theater on State Street in Santa Barbara. By about 15 minutes into the movie, audience members were making loud, humorous comments about the dialogue (the monologue, actually, by Bo since in this movie Tarzan apparently couldn’t talk). Ten minutes later almost the whole audience was hooting and throwing things at the screen. We walked out after that along with most of the audience. Never saw anything like it, before or since.
Equinox has Fritz Leiber in a cameo.
Freegards
"Show business is like politics, Eddie - dress nice and speak well and they'll swallow anything you tell them"
"**** the octopus, it's cold in here"....
Movie “Ed Wood”: Plan 9: “THIS is the one they’ll remember me for!”
“I used to think it was the worst movie of all time until my daughter had to walk out of Uma Thurman’s “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.” “
I dunno, “Cowgirls” had Lorraine Bracco naked. I’m sure “Plan 9” didn’t have anything like that.
My kids love patch adams !
Everything Al Gore knows about science he learned from that movie. Which is why as a senator he pushed for the Solaranite test ban treaty with Freedonia, Latveria, and France.
“Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun. Now, you spread a thin line of it to a ball, representing the earth. Now, the gasoline represents the sunlight, the sun particles. Here we saturate the ball with the gasoline, the sunlight. Then we put a flame to the ball. The flame will speedily travel around the earth, back along the line of gasoline to the can, or the sun itself. It will explode this source and spread to every place that gasoline, our sunlight, touches. Explode the sunlight here, gentlemen, you explode the universe. Explode the sunlight here and a chain reaction will occur direct to the sun itself and to all the planets that sunlight touches, to every planet in the universe. This is why you must be stopped. This is why any means must be used to stop you. In a friendly manner or as (it seems) you want it.”
Which, unsurprisingly, makes more sense than the theories supporting man made global warming.
Plan 9 is a good movie to catch after dinner at a Chinese restaurant.
Joe Kidd is one of my favorite Clint movies, but it’s always been dismissed as mediocre. Any movie with Robert Duvall, Paul Koslo, Greg Walcott, Don Stroud, and John Saxon has to be fairly good.
He was in a Perry Mason episode too. Perry tricks him by saying, "Maybe it's hidden right in here," or something, and they guy, a sleazebag blackmailing golf pro, reflexively glances at the trophy on his mantel.
Wow. Dude's acting-fu was strong.
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