tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post3154025968989074760..comments2024-03-23T21:46:50.843-04:00Comments on the passionate moviegoer: cinema obscura: Ted Brenner's "Run Home, Slow" (1965)joe baltakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11467420961490314339noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-21475468697933577092019-05-04T15:53:39.333-04:002019-05-04T15:53:39.333-04:00This movie's title has the most puzzling comma...This movie's title has the most puzzling comma this side of the Rolling Stones' "Paint It, Black."Bill Wolfenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-73175913942191395132019-05-03T12:15:48.997-04:002019-05-03T12:15:48.997-04:00Thanks, Kevin. Happy you enjoyed it - well, kind o...Thanks, Kevin. Happy you enjoyed it - well, kind of. I think. -Jjoe baltakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11467420961490314339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-24173992908921577812019-05-03T11:46:17.440-04:002019-05-03T11:46:17.440-04:00Well, Joe, Run Home Slow is a true curiosity, alri...Well, Joe, Run Home Slow is a true curiosity, alright. Scary Mercedes is still playing Luz but without George Stevens to control her. That long, dark, static dialogue scene at the beginning is a killer! Then it starts to feel like a drugged version of Treasure of Sierra Madre performed by the inmates of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade. Did Frank Zappa even see the movie, or did he just phone in the score? His naive, sixties TV-style music brought to mind another clinker from the same year, Who Killed Teddy Bear?, which has the same kind of perverse, cheesy, poverty row fascination, somewhere between a real movie and a put-on (Sal Mineo? Elaine Stritch? Juliet Prowse? And Jan Murray, of all people!) ... We movie addicts kiss a lot of frogs! As usual, your recommendations take me on exotic journeys.Kevin Barryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16951372389921640120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-68242519410397346062019-05-02T17:52:46.534-04:002019-05-02T17:52:46.534-04:00Joe! I won't sleep a wink at night until I see...Joe! I won't sleep a wink at night until I see this film, my kind of movie!m.h.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-67917474299306075742019-05-01T20:51:48.581-04:002019-05-01T20:51:48.581-04:00Kevin & Charlotte- We're all on the same p...Kevin & Charlotte- We're all on the same page about Driver. It's typical that, of all the players on "Girls," he'd be the one to end up with a huge film career. Yes, he's talented, much like so many other actors, but also annoyingly off-putting. -Jjoe baltakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11467420961490314339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-75950707400163384772019-05-01T20:42:58.393-04:002019-05-01T20:42:58.393-04:00Thank you, Kevin Berry. I also find Adam Driver hi...Thank you, Kevin Berry. I also find Adam Driver highly resistible. And thank you, Joe, for bringing what sounds like a most idiosyncratic movie to my attention. Charlottenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-85623958115213230072019-05-01T20:14:30.127-04:002019-05-01T20:14:30.127-04:00This one flew under my radar, too. Speaking of ear...This one flew under my radar, too. Speaking of early Zappa efforts though, I presume you've seen Timothy Carey's jaw-dropping, dementedly original "The World's Greatest Sinner," which the young Zappa scored? TCM screened it a couple of times ages ago in its TCM Underground Friday night slot. Bunuelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-49238451805121276522019-05-01T20:00:23.906-04:002019-05-01T20:00:23.906-04:00Thanks, Kevin! The film is a hoot (as I remember ...Thanks, Kevin! The film is a hoot (as I remember it), so it might not be another Mercedes McCambridge let down. Anyway, let me know what you think. -Jjoe baltakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11467420961490314339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-20543088238069651032019-05-01T18:03:13.487-04:002019-05-01T18:03:13.487-04:00Well, Joe, this one is truly worthy of the term &q...Well, Joe, this one is truly worthy of the term "cinema obscura". I never heard of it! Mercedes has always been one of my least favorite actors, one whose name in the credits immediately sets me up for a let down (Adam Driver is a recent addition to my list). But YouTube once again comes to the rescue and I look forward to giving it a watch. YouTube continues to be a source for obscure oddities. I searched for years for The Wind Cannot Read, a British war film that David Lean was originally scheduled to direct (it was also the last film to play the Roxy) and I found it on YouTube. Here's the link to Run Home, Slow. (With a title like that...!)<br /><br />https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=soVPv4mP_9MKevin Barryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16951372389921640120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-12796478860060642772019-05-01T17:45:35.455-04:002019-05-01T17:45:35.455-04:00Yes, Joe, The Palace. Brings back memories. The la...Yes, Joe, The Palace. Brings back memories. The last film I recall seeing there when I worked in Philly was Marilyn Chambers' "Behind the Green Door." As unbelievable as this may sound, in the early '70s, porno was routinely screened for the critics - in the case of Philadelphia, in the Top of the Fox screening room, no less. "Green Door" wasn't screened - so it meant going to the theater to see it on opening day. Reviewing those things was madding. Absolutely surreal. That said, thanks for the heads-up, Joe, re the local showing(s) of "Circus of Fear"/"Psycho Circus." -Jjoe baltakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11467420961490314339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-54643728281219927382019-05-01T16:39:56.760-04:002019-05-01T16:39:56.760-04:00Yep, this played The Palace Theater, one of the on...Yep, this played The Palace Theater, one of the only first-run grindhouses on Market Street.<br />They played a lot of oddities like Moro Witch Doctor and Door to Door Maniac before succumbing to a year-long booking of Man and Wife, condemning the theater to a porno future until its demolition. But Run Home Slow wasn't the only pic that ran simultaneously on tv and theaters--<br />The Edgar Wallace-inspired Circus of Fear debuted in color on channel 6's Double Chiller Theater at the same time it played The Palace in a cut-down version titled Psycho Circus--and in b/w to boot!Joe Dantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13548381294586960387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-36002150802610791662019-05-01T14:49:23.565-04:002019-05-01T14:49:23.565-04:00Linda Gaye Scott. Where is she now? She must have ...Linda Gaye Scott. Where is she now? She must have been a kid when she did this film.<br />How about a photo or two of her - past and present??? PLEASE! -Passionate Paulpaul h.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00718530940727624349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-59667068871403755382019-05-01T10:33:17.026-04:002019-05-01T10:33:17.026-04:00Weird. I never heard of this movie, and I keep up ...Weird. I never heard of this movie, and I keep up with movies big time. Sounds ... curiousBilly from Phillynoreply@blogger.com