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Gregory Walcott,in a scene from "Plan 9 From Outer Space".
Gregory Walcott,in a scene from "Plan 9 From Outer Space".
Featured an actress with a freakishly small waistline IIRC....
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.”
“Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future.”
That was the Ed Wood film wasn’t it?
“Now he belongs to the ages”.
Plans 1-8 got tossed out because they hinged on finding intelligent life on earth.
He was a regular on the tv-series “87th Precinct,” with Robert Lansing. And played lots of villains in westerns. He actually had a pretty decent career, DESPITE having “Plan 9” on his resume.
Always liked the guy. He had a Southern gentlemanly quality. Seemed genuine and unpretentious.
Oh, he’s a real stiff in this!
When I was young, this was shown on a regular basis at The Thalia - the legendary NYC flea pit - and kids would pour in and mimic the movie in hilarious ways. It’s actually one of the most entertaining movies ever made - although perhaps not as funny as “Glen or Glenda.”
I’ve seen worse movies.
I watched the highly acclaimed movie BREATHLESS (1960)directed by Jean-Luc Gadard which all the critics were falling down and having fits because it was so good!
Caught it on TCM one night. After seeing it, I wanted two hours of my life back! Amateurish filming.
Even Belmondo said he thought the film was terrible.
One of the worst si-fi movies I ever saw was EQUINOX (1970)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox_%28film%29
It looked like something done by a high school film group. It cost a whopping six thousand dollars to make.
He played the Marshall in Joe Kidd, too.
Plan 9 wasn’t that bad. Some parts were even funny. There are plenty of movies far worse than Plan 9. “Patch Adams” comes to mind.
In many movies especially with Clint Eastwood. He was great as “Pope” in the Eiger Sanction.
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.
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.
R.I.P.
RIP.