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The Thing from Another World (1951)
One of the best!
This is one of my favorite movies from the old "Creature Double Feature" days of my youth. The actors and the director take the material very serious. I was on the edge of my seat listening to the Geiger counter go crazy as the Thing got closer. Even after all these years, it still gets my heart beating. The score is excellent, and I wish some of today's movies could be like this one. Two iconic images in mind involve the thing and fire and with electricity. Great stuff!! Watch the skies indeed!
The story involves a crashed spaceship and what they find there. Still to this day, I love the scene where they stretch out on the ice to see how big it is. The dialog is fast and witty. There is some humor to this story. The characters seemed real to me, a credit to all involved in the making. You cared about what happened to them.
The Devil Bat (1940)
Great find!
This movie was a lot of fun. I went into it with no expectations and I loved it! I am very deprived in the fact that the only memory I have of Bela Lugosi as Dracula in the movies he played them. "Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein" being one of my faves. Anyway, in this movie, he takes a turn in the mad scientist role, and there are a couple of scenes where he just has this crazed look in his eyes! He is a bitter employee who is not getting money on the great products he's creating. He develops this lotion that drives a a trained bat crazy. This is not a normal bat, he has bombarded it with nuclear power or some such, and the bat has grown! The part I thought was the best was they only used a real bat for the close- ups! It as just great fun!
The cast was great. Dave O'Brian played reporter Johnny Layton and he almost has this hard-boiled detective quality to him. There is a scene in the police station where the police chief is just giving away everything to the reporter. In this day and age, all they would get was no comment.
All in All, I would greatly recommend this movie giving it two thumbs up!