#Hans Conreid

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Vincent Price on Mike Stokley's Pantomime Quiz/Stump the Stars (1950)

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Hans Conreid for Seagram's Golden Gin

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speaking of ahead of their time surrealist child nightmare musicals, the second movie tonight is the live action doctor seuss musical the 5000 fingers of doctor t

this movie, like alice in wonderland, was a resounding flop at the box office, but it's incredible. it's incredible. there's a whammy duel between a plumber and hans conreid, and an ice skating ballet featuring two twins conjoined at the beard. the set design is great in that very specific midcentury way, the costumes are exactly the right level of garish. it's a spiritual predecessor to willy wonka and the chocolate factory, and conreid deserved to break out big because of this and it's a shame 50s US society was so square

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Now THIS is how a proper supervillain does it!

Hans Conreid having the absolute time of his LIFE playing the villainous Dr Terwilliger in "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T", the famously weird movie written by Dr Seuss

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Jerry Lewis counts Hans Conreid’s tonsils. 

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Walt Disney Presents One Hour in Wonderland - NBC - December 25, 1950

Special

Running Time: 60 minutes

One Hour in Wonderland is a 1950 television special made by Walt Disney Productions. It was first seen on Christmas Day, 1950, over NBC (4–5 pm in all time zones) for Coca-Cola, and was Walt Disney's first television production. It featured Disney as host, with Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy (who appeared on radio for Coke), and other celebrities who worked with Disney, including the Firehouse Five Plus Two jazz band. This special was actually a promotional program for Disney's upcoming theatrical feature, Alice in Wonderland. Kathryn Beaumont, who voiced Alice, was dressed like her for this television special. Walt's daughters Diane Marie Disney and Sharon Mae Disney were also featured in the production. Hans Conried appeard as the Magic Mirror. (Wikipedia)

Segments

Seven Dwarves' Party for Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) - 1937

Clock Cleaners (Mickey Mouse) - 1937

Br'er Rabbit Runs Away (Song of the South) - 1946

Bone Trouble (Pluto) - 1940

Jingle Bells (made for the special) - performed by Firehouse Five Plus Two

The Mad Tea Party (Alice in Wonderland) - 1950/1951

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Hans Conreid was an American comedian and actor.

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Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!

this is a very silly poll.

Full disclosure that *I haven't seen all of these movies* so don't count them as recs.

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Favorite Villains of Classic English Literature

Professor Moriarty - This villain is pure, beautiful simplicity: he's an alternate version of the hero with the morality removed. Both Holmes and Moriarty are quirky loners with genius IQs that thrive on challenging their intellects via loaning it out to others in some form of service. But Holmes has a conscience, a sense of right and wrong, which is why his service is that of a consulting detective, whereas Moriarty is a total sociopath whose service is that of a consulting criminal, meaning that he has an invisible hand in almost every crime that's carried out in London. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gives an absolutely perfect description of him and how he operates as a villain: "He is the Napoleon of crime. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. He does little himself. He only plans. But his agents are numerous and splendidly organized. Is there a crime to be done, a paper to be abstracted, we will say, a house to be rifled, a man to be removed--the word is passed to the Professor, the matter is organized and carried out. The agent may be caught. In that case money is found for his bail or his defense. But the central power which uses the agent is never caught--never so much as suspected."

Favorite adaptations: Professor Moriarty (Ernest Torrence) in Sherlock Holmes (Fox, 1932), Professor Moriarty (Lionel Atwill) in Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (Universal, 1943), Professor Moriarty (Eric Porter) in Sherlock Holmes (Granada, 1984), Professor Ratigan (Vincent Price) in The Great Mouse Detective (Disney, 1986), Jim Moriarty (Andrew Scott) in Sherlock (BBC, 2010), Jamie Moriarty (Natalie Dormer) in Elementary (CBS, 2012), and William "Liam" James Moriarty (Soma Saito) in Moriarty the Patriot (Shueisha, 2016).

Captain Hook - If Professor Moriarty is a great complex presentation of a simple character, then Captain Hook is the opposite: a complex character who is presented simply. A ruthless pirate captain with a limb replaced by the object he derives his name from is the easiest thing in the world to understand, but there's much more to old James beneath that surface: a well-educated English gentleman depressed with the notion that he's squandered his life away but too far gone in his pride to turn back, constantly striving for "good form" even when his occupation doesn't allow for much of it, and obsessed with getting revenge on Peter Pan partly out of jealousy and partly to distract from the inevitability of the end result of what Pan did to him - namely, an ever-pursuing crocodile that will ultimately mark the end of his life when the clock it swallowed finally stops ticking. If Pan shows the problems with never growing up, then Hook shows the problems with losing your innocence when you grow up. For as over the top of a villainous character as he is, he's also a tragic, even relatable one.

Favorite adaptations: Captain Hook (Ernest Torrence) in Peter Pan (Paramount, 1924), Captain Hook (Hans Conreid) in Peter Pan (Disney, 1953), Captain Hook (Cyril Ritchard) in Peter Pan (Broadway, 1954), Captain Hook (Tim Curry) in Peter Pan and the Pirates (Fox, 1990), Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman) in Hook (Amblin, 1991), Captain Hook (Jason Isaacs) in Peter Pan (Universal, 2003), "Jimmy" (Rhys Ifans) in Neverland (Syfy, 2011), Killian Jones (Colin O'Donoghue) in Once Upon a Time (ABC, 2012), Captain Hook (Stan Tucci) in Peter and Wendy (ITV, 2015) and Captain Hook (Jude Law) in Peter and Wendy (Disney, 2023).

And hey, wouldn't you know it! The same actor got the ball rolling in my favorite adaptations of both these characters! Clearly, the two of them were always destined to share this post.

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drip for days

(Hans Conreid performs "Dressing Song/Do-Me-Do Duds" in THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T. All the songs in the film were written by Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss,)

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Here's a real curiosity in Bob Clampett's career: he had a technique called "Cut Up" with live-action heads on animated bodies, like a precursor to Syncro-Vox, and an unfinished 1962 pilot using it, "Tex & Judy", exists. Familiar voices include Mel Blanc and Hans Conreid, as well as the heads of Verna Felton and Billy Gilbert.

YEAH!! thank you for reminding me of this little gem, i’d forgotten about it!! i deeply enjoy learning out of Clampett’s career outside of Warners—one of my greatest hopes is that some more footage from Time for Beany will eventually surface one day!

but yeah, Tex and Judy is a lot of fun!! it’s always rewarding to see how Clampett was actively pushing the boundaries of the mediums he worked with. very fun casting choices too!!

see for yourself!

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And let's not overlook the bad guys..

The Organisation of Generally Rotten Endeavors... aka O.G.R.E.

Dr Dred (voiced by the mighty Hans Conreid), Vampira, Mummy Man, Toad (channelling his inner Peter Lorre) and Fly

When Hans Conreid voicing the arch camp villain isn't even near the campest thing in a series, you KNOW they understood the assignment.

From 3DBearnadette on tweeter...

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Hans Conreid versus Rod Serling

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We’re diving into the curious 1953 fantasy The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. Produced by Stanley Kramer, directed by Roy Rowland, and uniquely penned by Dr. Seuss, the film stars Hans Conreid as Dr. Terwilliker, a sinister piano teacher who’s devised the “Terwilliker Method” for the obedient fingers of child pianists. Tommy Rettig plays Bartholomew Collins, an imaginative boy determined to derail Dr. T's grand plans. Join Mike, playwright David MacGregor, and critic John Monaghan as they delve into the film's quirky charms, elaborate set pieces, and iconic status. https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-715-the-5000-fingers-of-dr-t-1953--62587091

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1. Introduction - The Amazing Criswell

2. Monster Rally - Hans Conreid & Alice Pearce

3. I Put a Spell On You - Jeff Beck with Joss Stone

4. The World's Most Gruesome Monster - Victor Banana

5. In The Hall Of The Mountain King - Hugo Montenegro

6. Thriller - Will Champlin

7. Frankenstein Meets the Beetles - Jekyll & Hyde

8. Dance Macabre (Saint-Saens) - Lew White

9. Witch For A Night - Aireene Espiritu

10. Re: Your Brains - Jonathan Coulton

11. The Haunted House Boogie - Happy Wilson

12. Shake Them Rattlin' Bones - Jo Carley and The Old Dry Skulls

13. Old Witch, Old Witch - Burl Ives

14. This is Halloween - Peter Hollens

15. The Ghost Of Smokey Joe - Cab Calloway

16. Furry Happy Monsters - R.E.M. and the Muppets

17. I Like to Creep - Dave Rudolf

18. Killer Zombies - Strange Tenants

19. In the Court of the Crimson King - Crimson Jazz Trio

20. The Bone Collector - The Curse of K.K. Hammond

21. Casper The Friendly Ghost - Little Richard

22. Sir Roderick's Song - Paul Hecht + Twilight Zone (Season 1 ending) - Bernard Herrmann

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Me experimenting with new inking stuff from procreate by mrsdrpepper from Twitter! Their sketch and marker sets are amazing!!