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The Hoodlum Saint (1946) Norman Taurog

July 29th 2023

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The Mummy's Hand (1940)

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Everyone who was in that Huperpetra dungeon must know each other so intimately

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Republic Pictures Horror Collection will be released on May 21 via Kino Lorber. The two-disc set features four horror films produced by Republic Pictures: The Lady and the Monster, The Phantom Speaks, The Catman of Paris, and Valley of the Zombies.

1944's The Lady and the Monster is directed by George Sherman and written by Dane Lussier and Frederick Kohner, based on Curt Siodmak's 1942 novel Donovan's Brain. Vera Ralston, Richard Arlen, and Erich von Stroheim star.

1945's The Phantom Speaks is directed by John English and written by John K. Butler. Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges, Lynne Roberts, Tom Powers, Charlotte Wynters, and Jonathan Hale star.

1946's The Catman of Paris is directed by Lesley Selander and written by Sherman L. Lowe. Carl Esmond, Lenore Aubert, Adele Mara, Douglass Dumbrille, Gerald Mohr, and Fritz Feld star.

1946's Valley of the Zombies is directed by Philip Ford and written by Dorrell McGowan and Stuart E. McGowan. Robert Livingston, Adrian Booth, Ian Keith, Thomas E. Jackson, Charles Trowbridge, and Earle Hodgins star.

All four films have been have been scanned in 4K by Paramount Pictures. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

The Lady and the Monster audio commentary by film historian Stephen Bissette (new)

The Phantom Speaks audio commentary by film historian Tim Lucas

The Catman of Paris audio commentary by film historians David Del Valle and Miles Hunter (new)

Valley of the Zombies audio commentary by film historians David Del Valle and Miles Hunter (new)

Valley of the Zombies audio commentary by film historian Tim Lucas

The Lady and the Monster interview with film historians Tim Lucas and Steven Bissette

In The Lady and the Monster, a scientist (Erich von Stroheim) and his two assistants (Vera Hruba Ralston, Richard Arlen) keep a dead criminal's brain alive. In The Phantom Speaks, the vengeful spirit of an executed killer takes possession of a scientist to take revenge on those who wronged him, and a newspaper reporter becomes suspicious. In The Catman of Paris, an amnesiac Frenchman (Carl Esmond) blames himself for deeds done with the mark of a beast. In Valley of the Zombies, a woman falls under the hypnotic spell of a resurrected madman.

Pre-order Republic Pictures Horror Collection.

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Dread by the Decade: The Man They Could Not Hang

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★★★

Plot: After he kills a volunteer for an experiment, a scientist is charged with murder.

Review: A fun story with good cinematography, this film is nevertheless limited by its short runtime, which prevents many concepts and arcs from coming to fruition.

Year: 1939 Genre: Sci-Fi Horror, Psychological Horror Country: United States Language: English Runtime: 1 hour 4 minutes

Director: Nick Grinde Writer: Karl Brown Cinematographer: Benjamin H. Kline Editor: William A. Lyon Cast: Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox, Roger Pryor, Ann Doran, Joe De Stefani, Charles Trowbridge, Byron Foulger, Dick Curtis, James Craig, John Tyrrell

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Story: 2.5/5 - It would have been more engaging had it been given time to breathe. As it stands, omitted scenes and rushed pacing hobble it.

Performances: 3/5 - Karloff does quite well, though he is unable to fully show his character's arc due to time jumps. A few actors are stiff and subpar, like Doran.

Cinematography: 4/5 - Creative framing, lighting, and camera movements enhance this film considerably.

Editing: 3.5/5 - Several good fade transitions.

Effects & Props: 4/5 - A lot of awesome lab props and some convincing electrical effects.

Sets: 4/5 - The lab is effective at appearing high tech but unofficial.

Costumes, Hair, & Make-Up: 3.5/5

Trigger Warnings:

Mild violence

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Robert Mitchum and Katharine Hepburn in Undercurrent (Vincente Minnelli, 1946)

Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn, Marjorie Main, Jayne Meadows, Clinton Sundberg, Dan Tobin, Kathryn Card, Leigh Whipper, Charles Trowbridge, James Westerfield, Billy McClain. Screenplay: Edward Chodorov, based on a story by Thelma Strabel. Cinematography: Karl Freund. Art direction: Randall Duell, Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: Ferris Webster. Music: Herbert Stothart. 

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«Rampike», Vol. 21, No. 2, 'Poetics – Part Two', Edited by Karl Jirgens, Windsor, 2012 [UWindsor Institutional Repository, University of Windsor, Windsor. room 3o2 books, Ottawa]

Contributions by Michael Winkler, Leonard Cohen & Judith Fitzgerald, Charles Bernstein, Susan Gold & Mike Dyer, George Bowering, Frank Davey, Katie Solbeck, Terry Trowbridge & Alexander Brown, Richard Kostelanetz, Peter Jaeger, Jesse Ferguson, Cathy Wagner, Tim Atkins, Amy De'Ath, Brenda Francis Pelkey, Richard Parker, Marcus Slease, Edward Nixon, Christian Burgaud, Susan Holbrook, Louis Cabri, Brian Ang, Harvey L. Hix, Kevin McPherson Eckoff, Stephen Remus, Eric Schmaltz, Travis Kirton, Kelly Mark, bill bissett, Judith Copithorne, Gregory Betts, Hallie Siegel, Matt Donovan, a.rawlings, derek beaulieu, Steve McCaffery, bill bissett, Cyril Dabydeen, Babar Khan, Norman Lock, George Elliott Clarke, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Denise Desautels & Norman Cornett, Amanda Earl, Nick Power, Lindsey Bannister, Paul Lisson, Raquel Torres, Camille Martin, Stephanie McKenzie, Justin Langlois, Robert Anderson, Andre Narbonne, Tray Drumhann, Eric Zboya, Mat Laporte, Nico Vassilakis, Robert Dassanowsky, rob mclennan & Sachiko Murakami, derek beaulieu, & Ottarormstad, Britt-Marie Lindgren, Michael Basinski

Front Cover Art: Reed Altemus Back Cover Art: Andrew Topel

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Take a Walk 06/30/2023

Welcome back to my daily walk diaries. Today we walked around between 5th ave and Park Ave because I was going to check out the Morgan Library & Museum (which if you live in NYC and you didn't know they have free friday's, they do). Anyways I was a little early for the entry time so I walked around and here were the buildings that caught my eye. If you want to listen to the music I was listening to while you read this, I made a playlist of it. Buckle in, this might be a long one.

Edit: As I was writing this entry I accidentally deleted ~1.5 hrs of work so Im going to keep this rewrite real brief. sry :/

The Robb House

Built 1892

Architect: Stanford White

Fellow Architect/architectural critic of the time Russel Sturgis (who I love) said of this building, "not a palace, but a fit dwelling house for a first-rate citizen."

Curious as to whether one of those medallions on the third floor was replaced since they're slightly different.

The Haviland Building/Lightolier Building/Morgan Lofts

Built 1912, unknown architect

The interesting split facades and bell tower are without a doubt what grabbed my eye.

Funny enough they also stood out on the back of the building when I took a trip around the block without even realizing they were the same building!

Next we have Tiffany & Co.'s second building, built after their previous cast-iron store at Union Square, and as a posthumous completion in honor of Tiffany founder, Charles Tiffany.

Built 1905

Architect: Stanford White! (yes again)

Just look at those Corinthian orders! This building is massive.

(Now is probably a good time to bring up my camera situation.) I've been shooting these on my iPhone 8 mainly because my only other camera is film, and because of it's convenience. However I may end up getting another camera so that my pictures don't come out with such poor quality. (I wish I remember how I worded this during the first take of this post, it was much better)

This is the CUNY Graduates Building, formerly known as its original identity the B. Altman department store. The past 3 buildings in fact were part of a push up 5th ave from Barclay's St downtown where Haviland's, Tiffany's, and Altman all had stores previously.

Built 1906

Architect: Trowbridge & Livingston

The back of the Altman building has this interesting moment where seemingly 3 portions of the building meet. I say 3 instead of the obvious division of the top addition only because if you look closely at the roof overhang on the left, it turns 90 degrees into the building before the 4th window in.

Regardless this transition between is artfully done both between the front and the back, as well as between the base and the upper addition in the reference but not direct copying of window/facade themes.

The Stewart Building

Built 1914

Architect: Whitney Warren

(Bonus picture of the proximity to the Empire State Building)

Right across the street from the Tiffany building lies this beautifully ornamented loft/department building with terracotta tiles said to resemble Josiah Wedgwood jasperware pottery.

Before we get to the Chrysler building this building caught my eye with it's geometric ornamentation on the facade of the building, which I assumed was to fit in amongst the foothills of such an icon in Art Deco Architecture (the Chrysler Building).

This is the Socony-Mobil Building

Built in 1956

Architect: Harrison & Abramovitz

The Icon in question, The Chrysler Building.

Built 1930

Architect: William Van Allen

There is a wealth of knowledge on the internet about this art deco beauty, but I'm just going to give you my brief takeaway.

First, that entry way!!! I'm in love, its so grand and those angles are so pleasing to look at. There is one on each side of the building facing the street and boy oh boy it does not lose it's charm the second time you see it.

I also wanted to point out that, um, the base of the building is not centered????? I had literally no idea prior to this but if you look, in the third picture there are three bays of windows to the right of the center and five bays to the left. No your eyes aren't tricking you that's really how it looks in person.

In the tune of imperfections to such a seemingly pristine design, the backwall isn't actually perpendicular to the road or to the rest of the building. It wanders off at some other angle as seen in the fourth picture.

I give it a 9/10 still, it's imperfections are even more reason to love it. They give it an organic beauty that art deco even tends to reference and emphasize, the beauty in natural forms.

Right around the corner of the Chrysler Building is Tudor City, and here are just some highlights. In the order of most difficult things to photograph, these buildings are all built up in a style I like to call the princess tower style with an elaborate penthouse on top. Here are some of the highlights of this group of blocks on the east side.

45 Tudor City Pl. (pics 1 & 2) aka Prospect Tower & St. Albans Church Built 1927, the worlds first residential housing skyscraper Architect: H. Douglas Ives

Around the corner (which regrettably is not pictured) is Harry Osborne's penthouse in the Spider-man movies at 5 Tudor City Pl. aka Windsor Tower

The Church of the Covenant (pic 3) Built 1871 Architect: J. Cleveland Cady

Woodstock Tower (pic 4) Built 1929 Architect: H. Douglas Ives

(pics 5-7) The Cloister & The Manor Built 1927 & 1928 Architect: H. Douglas Ives I think this is also an interesting marrying of facade courses.

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New Fiction 2022 - December

The Chimes at Midnight by Geoff Trowbridge (2008)

It takes its time to get to the meat until there’s more to chew on in the latter half. Most of these TOS alternate histories were mildly interesting but this one is a cut above.

A Gutted World by Keith R.A. DeCandido (2008)

"What if the Cardassians discovered the Bajoran Wormhole?" This is the question that got me reading all these Myriad Universes novellas in the first place, but because I’m me and a completionist, I couldn’t just skip past the others in the series to get here. I come to Star Trek expanded universe stuff with a DS9 first approach so I was keen to read how the author spun out this alternate history in which the Dominion gets their foothold in the alpha quadrant if they met the Cardassians first. It had a little too much TNG cast for my taste (especially since those characters dominate so many of these stories), but it’s a worthy DS9 tale.

Brave New World by Chris Roberson (2008)

Now we get to a whole lot of Data, so more of TNG. The courtroom stuff doesn’t hit the same way in these stories as it does in the TV episodes, and then all the implications of androids woven into the fabric of the galaxy is strangely not that compelling.

The Embrace of Cold Architects by David R. George III (2010)

Another Data-heavy story. I think these novellas introduce interesting directions with how the Federation will absolutely exploit artificial beings if they have the slightest excuse, but this particular one needed to be its own novel. It ends just as things get interesting.

The Tears of Eridanus by Steve Mollmann & Michael Schuster (2010)

A TOS story that deviates from the prime universe thousands of years before the era we know. It revels in an alternate history in which the Andorians made first contact with Earth, and the Vulcans and Romulans never parted ways.

The Last Generation by Andrew Steven Harris, Gordon Purcell, Bob Almond, Terry Pallot, Mario Boon, John Hunt, Robbie Robbins, Chris Mowry, Neil Uyetake, Andy Schmidt, Scott Dunbier, Justin Eisinger, Mariah Huehner, Bill Tortolini (2009)

I could’ve done without Data and the TNG cast at the center of things (again), but it’s cool to see Sulu flying around being a badass in his Excelsior ship. All these TNG tales feels like the higher-ups asking “Ey, where’s my TNG (money)? I gotta have my TNG (money)!”

Strange World dir. Don Hall (2022)

I loved it, but then I’m a sucker for perilous adventure tales across strange new lands.

Violent Night dir. Tommy Wirkola (2022)

Die Hard meets Home Alone with a blend of Bad Santa and maybe God of War?

Empire of Light dir. Sam Mendes (2022)

I was there for it all the way. Sometimes I remember I’m a normie-ass man but that part that feels like I’m a distant weirdo never goes away, and this movie’s for that guy.

Demon Wind dir. Charles Philip Moore (1990)

I watched this movie within a video game along with its MST3K-style commentary at 2 AM with my youngest brother and what a thing to do and write down.

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio dir. Guillermo del Toro (2022)

I mean, of course it’s great. I haven’t read the original story and it sounds like this hews closer to that than the popular perception from Disney’s takes.

Babylon dir. Damien Chazelle (2022)

This could've been dry but instead it’s constantly running at full charge, and even when we slow down to the granular level of filmmaking commentary it’s still a high pressure romp.

Jack and Jill dir. Dennis Dugan (2011)

Eh, I suppose the most impressive thing here is that Sandler sells the idea that’s he's own twin sister to the point that you consider them separate people.

The Whale dir. Darren Aronofsky (2022)

This had the potential to be bleak but instead it’s just genuinely hopeful. The performances come across a little too staged, as does the whole movie I suppose, so it’s no surprise to learn than this was originally a stage play.

The Outer Limits - "The Sandkings" (1995)

Here we go! I’d been thinking about watching the entire 1995 reboot of The Outer Limits and it’s everything I could’ve hoped for. All the 90s actors I remember from Saturday afternoon sci-fi TV, dated effects and production techniques, stories about man’s reach exceeding his grasp. This first episode even features three generations of the Bridges acting clan. The thing about intelligent alien bugs isn’t so compelling, but the overall production makes up for it.

The Outer Limits - "Vanishing Act" (1996)

I was looking for an episode that features New Year’s Day and found this story about a man who time jumps forward by ten years every time he falls asleep. It’s a sci-fi sort of twist on It’s a Wonderful Life and very reminiscent of something you’d see on Star Trek.

Tales from the Crypt - "And All Through the House" (1989)

And since I plan to also watch Tales from the Crypt after TOL, I skipped over to this story about a bad Santa stalking a bad mom.

The Outer Limits - "Valerie 23" (1995)

Here’s a reminder not to fuck around with robots. Don’t do it! Especially not if they’re hot! There’ll more fucked up robot tales in the seasons ahead...

The Outer Limits - "Blood Brothers" (1995)

We get a few stories here about rich assholes trying to live forever. This one does also present an interesting idea: what if we could all be cured of all ailments and live twice as long in the process? What happens when no one’s dying and the population count explodes? In any case, that’s more thought than what goes into the episode’s story. It’s mostly about a rich guy jumping the gun on proper medical testing and getting screwed as he should.

The Outer Limits - "The Second Soul" (1995)

Oh man, I was definitely on the paranoid side of this story as the events unfold. It was nice to get one of these where it isn’t a bleak or worst case ending.

The Outer Limits - "White Light Fever" (1995)

Another rich asshole who literally wants to live forever. And that’s it. Spoiler: he doesn’t get to.

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared - Series 2 (2022)

I wanna love this because I loved the original web series, but binging a bunch of TV-length episodes just felt like too much of it. I liked them when they were shorter and spaced out more. Binger beware, I know.

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Lucy Parkman Trowbridge (1859-1943) pintora estadounidense.

Lucy fue una miniaturista nacida en una familia prominente en Washington, DC. Su madre era Lucy Parkman de Savannah, de Georgia, la última de su familia en sobrevivir al hundimiento del vapor Pulaski en 1838.

Su padre, William Petit Trowbridge, había sido general de división del ejército estadounidense. También disfrutó de una exitosa carrera científica que incluyó cátedras de ingeniería en Yale y Columbia en los últimos años de su vida.

Lucy fue la segunda de ocho hijos, pero no se sabe mucho más sobre su infancia. Un breve aviso en la edición del 9 de mayo de 1891 de Harper's Bazaar informó que Lucy y su hermana Kate “dirigieron todo el vestuario de los artistas recientes en Antígona en New Haven. Habían hecho un estudio cuidadoso de la obra y el resultado fue particularmente exitoso”.

Estudió en la Escuela de Bellas Artes de Yale entre 1877 y 1881, obteniendo un certificado por completar un curso de tres años. En 1893, formó parte de la Junta Estatal de Directoras de la Exposición Mundial Colombina. Lucy ayudó a organizar la Exposición, trabajando tanto en la exhibición de mujeres como en el edificio del estado de Connecticut.

Se formó en París durante tres años en la Académie Julian y con Frederick MacMonnies. También se dice que trabajó con "Armand Jean" (un error ortográfico de Edmond Aman-Jean).

Figuraba en la guía Indicateur de 1896 como residente en el número 4 de la rue de Chevreuse. Se desconoce si alguna vez vivió en otro lugar de París, pero su estudio estaba ubicado en un pasaje cerca de la Rue de Vaugirard.

Como muchos de sus compatriotas, viajó mientras estuvo en París, visitó España, Italia, Inglaterra y otras partes de Francia.

Expuso miniaturas en el Salón de Bellas Artes en tres ocasiones (1896, 1897, 1898), obteniendo elogios de la crítica por su trabajo.

Obtuvo el primer lugar en el Salon du Champs-de-Mars (Salon des Beaux-Arts) por tres miniaturas en 1896.

Regresó a los Estados Unidos entre 1897 y 1898.

En 1899, se casó con el abogado Francis G. Ingersoll, hijo del ex gobernador de Connecticut Charles R. Ingersoll.

Lucy completó una licenciatura en Bellas Artes en la Escuela de Bellas Artes de Yale en 1903, pero a pesar de esto no continuó seriamente su carrera como artista después de su matrimonio. 

Viajó durante seis meses en 1922 a Holanda, Alemania, Francia, Italia, Bélgica, Eslovaquia, Grecia y Egipto.

Tuvo una hija que moría trágicamente, de suicidio en 1924.

Lucy Parkman murió en New Haven en casa de su hermana, su única pariente superviviente.

Le ponemos cara.

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Shock (1946) Alfred L. Werker

December 21st 2022

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Our Town (1940) William Holden | Marsha Scott | Full Length English Movi...

Our Town is a 1940 American drama romance film adaptation of a 1938 play of the same name by Thornton Wilder starring Martha Scott as Emily Webb, and William Holden as George Gibbs. AWARDS: The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Scott, who reprised her stage role as Emily Webb, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Aaron Copland was nominated for Best Score and Thomas T. Moulton was nominated for Best Sound. Cast William Holden as George Gibbs Martha Scott as Emily Webb Fay Bainter as Mrs. Julia Gibbs Dix Davis as Joe Crowell Jr. Beulah Bondi as Mrs. Myrtle Webb Thomas Mitchell as Dr. Frank F. Gibbs Guy Kibbee as Mr. Charles Webb Tim Davis as Si Crowell Stuart Erwin as Howie Newsome Frank Craven as Stage Manager Doro Merande as Mrs. Louella Soames Philip Wood as Simon Stimson Ruth Tobey as Rebecca Gibbs (as Ruth Toby) Douglas Gardiner as Wally Webb Arthur B. Allen as Prof. Willard (as Arthur Allen) Charles Trowbridge as Rev. Dr. Ferguson Spencer Charters as Const. Bill Warren You are invited to join the channel so that Mr. P can notify you when new videos are uploaded, https://www.youtube.com/@nrpsmovieclassics

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The Mummy's Hand (1940)

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Valley of the Zombies (Philip Ford, 1946).

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The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)

"How frail a thing to solve the riddle of death. We're really very stupid, Lang. We live surrounded by working models of this machine and only now it occurs to us to duplicate the machinery. The heart is nothing but a pump like this; veins and arteries are only tubes like these. So what could be simpler than to use the glass pump to force the real pump into action after it has stopped?"

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Dread by the Decade: The Man with Nine Lives

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★★

Plot: Believing he can cure patients of disease by freezing them, a doctor imprisons live subjects to prove his theory.

Review: A spiritual follow-up to The Man They Could Not Hang (1939), this lifeless film does nothing new with the concept of a scientist driven mad by his pursuits.

Year: 1940 Genre: Sci-Fi Horror Country: United States Language: English Runtime: 1 hour 14 minutes

Director: Nick Grinde Writer: Karl Brown Cinematographer: Benjamin H. Kline Editor: Al Clark Cast: Roger Pryor, Boris Karloff, Jo Ann Sayers, Stanley Brown, John Dilson, Byron Foulger, Charles Trowbridge

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Story: 1.5/5 - Dull with flat characters who make inscrutable choices. The majority of it consists of people just delivering clunky exposition or bickering.

Performances: 2.5/5 - Most of the performances are serviceable at best, though Sayers is outright stiff and unnatural.

Cinematography: 2.5/5 - Little of artistic merit save for the use of flickering firelight.

Editing: 3/5

Effects & Props: 2.5/5 - Generic lab equipment. The ice, though phony, is at least interesting to look at.

Sets: 2/5 - Extremely limited and lacking originality.

Costumes, Hair, & Make-Up: 3.5/5

Trigger Warnings:

Very mild violence

Medical scenes