Imagine being an eight year old paying a nickel to watch three or four of this type of movies plus some westerns on a Saturday afternoon. Good times. Sadly gone.
And remember if you got the winning ticket you got to put your hand in the fishbowl and whatever coins you grabbed were yours to keep and 5 cents bought a huge Hershey bar
I was eleven years old in '53 and it was (I think) eleven cents for me to go to the Capitol Theater where there was a double feature AND the next chapter of a serial I was devoted to! But also on Saturday, across the river, the Randolf theater had a double feature and five cartoons.
There was a readable rear license plate on a vehicle they used when they went digging for the giant conquistador. You could make out the world California.
Professor Groves has a serious problem controlling his anger, for a man of science and reason he is a most unreasonable person, going on angry tirades like a spoiled brat.
A zoologist and a game warden discovered a saber tooth cat, extinct for 20,000, or more, years. The first thing they do is kill it, then both leave it where they killed it, not even trying to cut a small tree to carry it between them, then and there. Also, neither thought to bring a camera. Is there not more than one thing wrong and stupid about that whole scenario?
Made it .5 way through. Shane poorly cast. Should have been the sherrif. He was inspector Henderson, after all. The music is ridiculous. But, it was entertaining, at worst. The saber teeth prosthetics harken to the Killer Shrews, another corker.
At the time, most actors and scriptwriters came from the stage. There was no CGI at the time so special effects had to be manipulated using trick photography and stop-motion. Quite often there were a lot of mistakes made. The actual tiger did not have saber teeth. When the doctor pulled up to the house, the passenger door was ajar. Most Sci-fi movies were low-budget. For older movies we must suspend disbelief and criticism and not measure them by today's standards. They were the best that could be produced at the time with limitations on budgets, technologies and social ideology.
Imagine being an eight year old paying a nickel to watch three or four of this type of movies plus some westerns on a Saturday afternoon. Good times. Sadly gone.
And remember if you got the winning ticket you got to put your hand in the fishbowl and whatever coins you grabbed were yours to keep and 5 cents bought a huge Hershey bar
Hard to imagine a kid was able to do that. Must have been nice.
This is about the time when America began to lose her innocence.
I was eleven years old in '53 and it was (I think) eleven cents for me to go to the Capitol Theater where there was a double feature AND the next chapter of a serial I was devoted to! But also on Saturday, across the river, the Randolf theater had a double feature and five cartoons.
Never in my life have I seen a game warden wear a suit and tie in the field.
Professor Groves needs a good old fashioned wall-to-wall counseling session.
BRILLIANT ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT AMERICAN MOVIE. OSCAR WORTHY!!!!
I’m a neanderthal and I don’t behave badly at all. In fact my cranial index is larger than most modern humans.
Why this never won an Oscar I'l never know.
Like the shooting coat Ross Harkness had on near the end of this flick, real sharp!
The autos! 👍
Robert Easton who played Danny, is a distant cousin of mine!
Love that final scene
Stupidity is contagious and it has no difficulty infecting another. 27:05. Oh brother truer words have never been spoken.
"The second in two days..." That's almost one a day!
This was directed by E. A. Dupont, the great man who made "Variety" a '20s super-success. How have the mighty fallen!
The first time he gets top billing in a movie and they spell Robert Shayne's name wrong!!
The Professor played bosses, execs, etc. in the 1960s and 1970s, but I can't quite place him...🤔
Inspector Henderson on Superman !
@paulpetock2836 Thank you!
He was General Buskirk in the Giant Claw
Here kitty , kitty !!!
Ok...😑 But, thanks for uploading... 👍🏻
Freeze it at 7:11! 😂
"Piltdown Man"!
Piltman,,down 😂
Yes, piltdown man found in England.😊
Any tips on how to get the stink of this movie out of my TV set?
Unless that tiger escaped from a zoo, they weren't in califorina.
LOL
Where is califorina 😂
There was a readable rear license plate on a vehicle they used when they went digging for the giant conquistador. You could make out the world California.
Get the whiskey
This movie was sponsored by, "Nash Rambler." The fine folks who intended for you to enter and exit their cars by using only the passenger door .
Whoever wrote the dialogue should have stepped out from the ages, like that cat!
Professor Groves has a serious problem controlling his anger, for a man of science and reason he is a most unreasonable person, going on angry tirades like a spoiled brat.
True
Robert Easton was Luke Shorts boy Beau on Beverly Hillbillies
A zoologist and a game warden discovered a saber tooth cat, extinct for 20,000, or more, years. The first thing they do is kill it, then both leave it where they killed it, not even trying to cut a small tree to carry it between them, then and there. Also, neither thought to bring a camera. Is there not more than one thing wrong and stupid about that whole scenario?
Made it .5 way through. Shane poorly cast. Should have been the sherrif. He was inspector Henderson, after all. The music is ridiculous. But, it was entertaining, at worst. The saber teeth prosthetics harken to the Killer Shrews, another corker.
Really bad. Sure hit the spot.
👍
Very dumb
Ya but the ‘special effects’ are awesome!! 😂
At the time, most actors and scriptwriters came from the stage. There was no CGI at the time so special effects had to be manipulated using trick photography and stop-motion. Quite often there were a lot of mistakes made. The actual tiger did not have saber teeth. When the doctor pulled up to the house, the passenger door was ajar. Most Sci-fi movies were low-budget.
For older movies we must suspend disbelief and criticism and not measure them by today's standards. They were the best that could be produced at the time with limitations on budgets, technologies and social ideology.