MST Double Feature in New York!
Paul Duca (tomservo56954@comcast.net)
I was watching Turner Classic Movies, offering a feature called THE
RAT RACE, starring Tony Curtis as a young musician trying to make it
in the New York jazz world. It has a 1960 copyright, but I would
presume location shooting was done in the calendar year 1959.
After arriving from his home in Milwaukee, Curtis' character checks
into a hotel off Times Square (the Mecca for jazzbos). A couple of
doors down from his new residence is a theater offering the twin bill
of THE KILLER SHREWS and THE GIANT GILA MONSTER.
Paul Duca--the Supercharged MSTie
#56954
"It's Jim Henson's LAST PICTURE SHOW BABIES"
Joseph Nebus
>Sadly, this message is about a half-century too late.
Ah, but since the show was cancelled a decade ago it's really
only forty years too late. Or something like that.
>I was watching Turner Classic Movies, offering a feature called THE
>RAT RACE, starring Tony Curtis as a young musician trying to make it
>in the New York jazz world. It has a 1960 copyright, but I would
>presume location shooting was done in the calendar year 1959.
You know, I keep *thinking* that I've seen The Rat Race, but
every single time I realize what I'm actually thinking of -- and that
I actually *have* seen -- is The Apartment.
>After arriving from his home in Milwaukee, Curtis' character checks
>into a hotel off Times Square (the Mecca for jazzbos). A couple of
>doors down from his new residence is a theater offering the twin bill
>of THE KILLER SHREWS and THE GIANT GILA MONSTER.
That's a killer of a combination, certainly. Was there anything
left alive after the lethargic efforts of the various heroes in the two
movies there? Were there killer giants?
--
Joseph Nebus
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Derek Janssen
>
> After arriving from his home in Milwaukee, Curtis' character checks
> into a hotel off Times Square (the Mecca for jazzbos). A couple of
> doors down from his new residence is a theater offering the twin bill
> of THE KILLER SHREWS and THE GIANT GILA MONSTER.
Thank you...I thought I was the ONLY person in the world who tries to
figure out when NYC movies were shot, by looking at Times Square
theater-marquee billboards in the background. :)
Derek Janssen (it's always nice to know you're not alone)
eja...@verizon.net
Doug Elrod
Maybe someday those marquees will be hyperlinked; so you can add those
movies to a Netflix queue.... If you want :-)
-Doug Elrod (dr...@cornell.edu)
Paul Duca (tomservo56954@comcast.net)
"The Rat Race" will be airing on Turner Classic Movies again Saturday,
October 25th, at 12 noon ET.
Paul Duca--the Supercharged MSTie
#56954
"I've got an ass that can fart every Peter, Paul & Mary song
recorded...can I come up there?"
On Aug 28, 7:49 pm, "Paul Duca (tomservo56...@comcast.net)"
Doug Elrod
<tomservo56...@comcast.net> wrote:
> UPDATE!
>
> "The Rat Race" will be airing on Turner Classic Movies again Saturday,
> October 25th, at 12 noon ET.
People might recognize a lot of the people in this from MSTed films:
The narrator, Art Gilmore, also narrated the short "The Days of Our
Years".
Elmer Bernstein, seen performing in the "Red Peppers" band, supplied
original music for "Robot Monster".
Franklyn Farnum was in "Invasion USA", "The She Creature", and the
"Undersea Kingdom" serial.
Hal K. Dawson was in "The Touch of Satan".
Jack McClure was in "Daddy-O".
Jacques Gallo was in "The Magic Sword".
Stanley Adams was in "High School Big Shot".
and Stuart Holmes was in "Rocketship X-M" and "The She Creature"!
>
> "I've got an ass that can fart every Peter, Paul & Mary song
> recorded...can I come up there?"
Um, if by "there" you mean someplace with an independent ventilation
system, well sure!
-Doug Elrod (dr...@cornell.edu) ;-)
P.S. "Rat Race" has both Norman Fell AND Don Rickles!