And Bette Davis as Regina in "The Little Foxes."
Posted on 07/08/2017 9:57:05 AM PDT by Artemis Webb
Who's your favorite movie villain?
This is not about our most despised real life villain.
I also liked Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff. I was born in '47, and grew up on horror flicks.
Micheal Palin in Brazil still rattles me.
The Devil you know
She looks like a bad case of elephant balls our something coming our way,
For an EVIL WOMAN, I nominate Angela Lansbury in THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE.
How about Evil Roy Slade? John Astin had to be the most hilarious badass ever!
And Bette Davis as Regina in "The Little Foxes."
'Oh please Johnny'...
1940 here. Sometimes the 3 stooges scared me as a kidl
One last villain, the T-1000. Way more powerful than any other character in the film, so much so the audience had no idea if it could be destroyed.
I can still remember my mother taking my brother and me to see "The House on Haunted Hill" at one of the big theaters where we lived in Rochester, NY. It was a William Castle production, and during the scene in the basement, when the skeleton came up out of the acid bath, they'd rigged a skeleton on wire overhead and we watched it slowly make it's way across the stage. They razed the two beautiful theaters in downtown Rochester. One was the RKO Palace, and the other was The Paramount. It was a shame.
Robert Patrick's on the TV series Scorpion now. It's a decent program.
He was also Mr. Big in the 1st episode of Get Smart.
Frank Miller in High Noon. “You know what he’s like”
I love to hear stories from that era...thank you.
Another one that haunted me forever was the original “The Thing” in about 51/52. Got my attention!
Another movie that spooked me, and is still one of my favorites is "The Haunting" (1963), with Julie Harris. One of my favorite scenes from the first part of the movie:
"Mrs. Dudley: [Eleanor has just been shown her room after she arrives] I can't keep the rooms the way I'd like, but there's no one else they could get that would help me.
Eleanor Lance: How very nice.
Mrs. Dudley: I set dinner on the dining room sideboard at 6. I clear up in the morning. I have breakfast for you at 9. I don't wait on people. I don't stay after I set out the dinner, not after it begins to get dark. I leave before the dark.
Eleanor Lance: Your husband?
Mrs. Dudley: We live over in town, miles away.
Eleanor Lance: Yes.
Mrs. Dudley: So there won't be anyone around if you need help.
Eleanor Lance: I understand.
Mrs. Dudley: We couldn't hear you. In the night.
Eleanor Lance: Do you have any idea when Dr. Markway...
Mrs. Dudley: [cuts her off] No one could. No one lives any nearer than town. No one will come any nearer than that.
Eleanor Lance: I know.
Mrs. Dudley: In the night. In the dark.
Yeah, James Arness played "The Thing."
Same thing with me for “Teenagers from Outer Space”. I was five or six at the time. Scared the heck out of me with the ray guns that turned humans into bones.
My brother bought me the film a couple of years ago and I laughed at how hokey it was.
We’ve come a long way in 50+ years...
I love these old si-fi shows from the 1950s! First I ever saw was at the drive-in in Denver Colorado. Dad said we were going to see a movie about “spooks”.
All I remember was a shiny faced “spook” who you could shot, he come back to life, cave ins. Must have blocked it from memory for years.
The other was about the dinosaur that came ashore in NYC and when it ate the cop I headed for the floorboards of the car! Peeked up and saw it tear up buildings! Back to the floorboard! Peeked up again and it was killed by underneath a rollercoaster ride.
Years later I realized what I had seen was INVADERS FROM MARS and BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS. Now two of my favorite si-fi movies.
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