Godzilla Month Begins Where It All Started- “Godzilla, King of the Monsters” Tonight! Good Morning, Everyone: What better way to start “Godzilla” Month than a side by side comparison with the Monster he is most often compared to – King Kong: Both films deal with a Prehistoric Monster, still living, in a remote area of the South Pacific, revered by indigenous natives as a God and being encroached upon by Civilization. Genre: King Kong is a bizarre retelling of the “Beauty and the Beast” story but it also has strong social and racial themes. It has been classified as: Adventure, Melodrama, Romance, Drama and even Fantasy. Godzilla has always been classified as Science Fiction – an allegory of man’s misuse of nuclear weapons.

This 1989 sequel to David Cronenberg’s masterpiece of body horror is not a particularly great movie. For the most part, it’s not even a very good one. Robert Fuest, Director: Dr. Phibes Rises Again. Well regarded for his stylish genre work of the 1970s, Robert Fuest may not have a very extensive list of feature film. 1,046 Responses to Fur Cryin’ Out Loud- It’s “The Boy Who Cried Werewolf”-Tonight!

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Height: King Kong: Per Publicity Release: 5. In actuality: Scaled for 1. City. Godzilla: Per Press Release: 4. In actuality: Based on the 1/2. Japanese structures designed by Eiji Tsuburaya, he is 1. Motus Operandi: King Kong: The style that nightmares are made of! He can outrun his prey.

He also delights in punishing individuals, picking them out of warm beds and dropping them from great heights, crushing them in his jaws or grinding them underfoot. Godzilla: More Germanic in style. Slow but unstoppable. Death is impersonal in The Atomic Age: people die in clusters, crushed under collapsing buildings or caught in blasts of radioactive fire.

In 2. 8 films, this Monster has killed on an individual basis maybe 6 times. And most of those individuals actually asked for it! Both films contain a powerful Love Story – and in both instances – it is a Triangle! Power for Destruction: King Kong: Despite his size, Kong does relatively little damage after his escape in New York. As originally conceived by Ruth Rose, Kong, a simian, would have sought higher ground immediately after recapturing Ann Darrow and taken to the rooftops on his way to the Empire State Building. His trek from the Theatre District to 5th Avenue and 3. Street: 1. 1 miles.

Godzilla: His rampage, which is both geographically and architecturally accurate, takes him on a Northwest path through three of the fourteen districts which comprise Tokyo, destroying recognizable landmarks along the way! He begins in industrial Shinbashi, crosses over into Ginza where he demolishes the Hattori Building (the clock tower) and a Toho Flagship Theatre (with his tail). He finishes off in Chiba where he plows through The Diet. Weaknesses: King Kong: Despite his size – the normal laws of physics apply. Enough machine gun bullets pumped into Old Kong will bring him down! Godzilla: Being radioactive has its benefits. His G- cells generate more rapidly than they can be destroyed.

For all intents and purposes – Godzilla is indestructible! Special Effects: King Kong: The emphasis is on combining Kong with other stop- go animation models and/or live action figures, in the same scene, as often as possible.

Godzilla: The emphasis is on spectacle. As Carlos Clerens once described it” Sheer displays of virtuosity in which Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama collapse like a deck of cards!” The sequence that most successfully combines Godzilla with live action figures occurs in his first attack on the Shingawa rail yards where it appears the populace is fleeing a rapidly approaching prehistoric Monster. Both films capture the spirit and the times of the Nations in which they were made!

Vincent Price - Wikipedia. Vincent Leonard Price Jr. May 2. 7, 1. 91. 1 – October 2. American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and performances in horror films.

His career spanned other genres, including film noir, drama, mystery, thriller, and comedy. He appeared on stage, television, radio, and more than one hundred films. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one for motion pictures, and one for television.[1] Born and raised near St. Louis, Missouri, Price also has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Price was an art collector and consultant, with a degree in art history, lecturing and writing books on the subject. Additionally, he was the founder of the eponymous Vincent Price Art Museum in California.[2] He was also a noted gourmet cook.[3]Early life and career[edit]Price was born in St.

Louis, Missouri, the youngest of the four children of Vincent Leonard Price, Sr. July 3. 0, 1. 87. June 1. 8, 1. 94. National Candy Company, and his wife Marguerite Cobb (née Wilcox) Price (October 2. September 1. 2, 1.

His grandfather, Vincent Clarence Price, invented "Dr. Price's Baking Powder", the first cream of tartar- based baking powder, and secured the family's fortune.[5][6] Price was of English descent and was a descendant of Peregrine White, the first white child born in Colonial Massachusetts, being born on the Mayflower while it was in the harbor of Massachusetts.[7] Price had some Welsh ancestry as well.[7]Price attended St. Louis Country Day School, as well as Milford Academy in Milford, Connecticut.[8]. In 1. 93. 3, he graduated with a degree in art history from Yale University, where he worked on the campus humor magazine The Yale Record.[9] After teaching for a year, he entered the University of London, intending to study for a master's degree in fine arts. Instead, he was drawn to the theater, first appearing on stage professionally in 1. His acting career began in London in 1.

Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre.[1. In 1. 93. 6, Price appeared as Prince Albert[1. American production of Laurence Housman's play, Victoria Regina, which starred Helen Hayes in the title role of Queen Victoria.[1. Introduction to film roles[edit]Price started out in films as a character actor.

He made his film debut in 1. Service de Luxe and established himself in the film Laura (1. Gene Tierney, directed by Otto Preminger.[1. He played Joseph Smith in the movie Brigham Young (1.

William Gibbs Mc. Adoo in Wilson (1.

Bernadette's prosecutor, Vital Dutour, in The Song of Bernadette (1. The Keys of the Kingdom (1. His first venture into the horror genre, for which he became famous, was in the 1. Boris Karloff film Tower of London.

The following year Price portrayed the title character in The Invisible Man Returns (a role he reprised in a vocal cameo at the end of the 1. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein). In 1. 94. 6, Price reunited with Tierney in two notable films, Dragonwyck and Leave Her to Heaven. There were also many villainous roles in film noir thrillers like The Web (1. The Long Night (1.

Rogues' Regiment (1. The Bribe (1. 94.

Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner and Charles Laughton. Price in the trailer for the film Laura (1. His first starring role was as conman. James Addison Reavis in the 1.

The Baron of Arizona. He also did a comedic turn as the tycoon Burnbridge Waters, co- starring with Ronald Colman in Champagne for Caesar, one of his favorite film roles.[1. He was active in radio, portraying the Robin Hood- inspired crime- fighter Simon Templar in The Saint, which ran from 1.

In the 1. 95. 0s, Price moved into horror films, with a role in House of Wax (1. D film to land in the year's top ten at the North American box office. His next roles were The Mad Magician (1.

The Fly (1. 95. 8) and its sequel Return of the Fly (1. That same year, he starred in a pair of beloved thrillers by producer- director William Castle: House on Haunted Hill (1. Fredrick Loren, and The Tingler as Dr. Warren Chapin, who discovered the titular creature. He also appeared to great effect in the radio drama "Three Skeleton Key," the story of an island lighthouse besieged by an army of rats. He first performed the work in 1.

Escape and returned to it in 1. Suspense.[1. 4]Outside the horror realm, Price played Baka (the master builder) in The Ten Commandments in 1. About this time he also appeared on NBC's The Martha Raye Show. In the 1. 95. 5–5.

Crossroads, a study of clergymen from different denominations. In the 1. 95. 5 episode "Cleanup", Price portrayed the Reverend Robert Russell.

In 1. 95. 6, he was cast as Rabbi. Gershom Mendes Seixas in "The Rebel", and as the Rev. Alfred W. Price in "God's Healing". In the 1. 96. 0s, Price achieved a number of low- budget filmmaking successes with Roger Corman[1.

American International Pictures (AIP) starting with the House of Usher (1. United States[1. 6] and led to the subsequent Edgar Allan Poe adaptations of The Pit and the Pendulum (1. Tales of Terror (1. The Comedy of Terrors (1. The Raven (1. 96. The Masque of the Red Death (1. The Tomb of Ligeia (1.

He starred in The Last Man on Earth (1. Richard Matheson novel I Am Legend. In 1. 96. 8 Price portrayed witchhunter Matthew Hopkins in Witchfinder General[1.

US as The Conqueror Worm). He starred in comedy films, notably Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1. Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1. In 1. 96. 8 he played the part of an eccentric artist in the musical Darling of the Day, opposite Patricia Routledge.[1. Price often spoke of his pleasure playing Egghead in the Batman television series. Watch American Flyer Online Hulu there.

One of his co- stars, Yvonne Craig (Batgirl), said Price was her favorite villain in the series. In an oft- repeated anecdote from the set of Batman, Price, after a take ended, started throwing eggs at series stars Adam West and Burt Ward, and when asked to stop, replied, "With a full artillery? Not a chance!", causing an egg fight to erupt on the soundstage. This incident is re- enacted in the behind- the- scenes telefilm Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt. In the 1. 96. 0s he began his role as a guest on the television game show Hollywood Squares, becoming a semi- regular in the 1.

Price made guest star appearances in many TV shows during the decade, including F Troop, Get Smart, The Man from U. N. C. L. E., and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. In 1. 96. 4, he provided the narration for the Tombstone Historama in Tombstone, Arizona, which is still in operation as of 2. Later career[edit]During the early 1. Price hosted and starred in BBC Radio's horror and mystery series The Price of Fear. Price accepted a cameo part in the Canadian children's television program The Hilarious House of Frightenstein (1. Hamilton, Ontario, on the local television station CHCH.

In addition to the opening and closing monologues, his role in the show was to recite poems about the show's various characters, sometimes wearing a cloak or other costumes.[2. He appeared in The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1. 97. 1), its sequel Dr.

Phibes Rises Again (1. Theatre of Blood (1. That same year Price appeared as himself in Mooch Goes to Hollywood, a film written by Jim Backus. Price was an admirer of the works of Edgar Allan Poe and in 1. Edgar Allan Poe Museum (Richmond, Virginia), where he had his picture taken with the museum's popular stuffed raven.[2. Price recorded dramatic readings of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and poems, which were collected together with readings by Basil Rathbone. In 1. 97. 5, Price and his wife Coral Browne appeared together in an international stage adaptation of Ardèle which played in the USA as well as in London at the Queen's Theatre.

During this run, Browne & Price starred together in a BBC Radio play Night of the Wolf first airing in 1. Price greatly reduced his film work from around 1.

Milton Bradley's Shrunken Head Apple Sculpture.[2. Price's voiceover is heard on Alice Cooper's first solo album, Welcome to My Nightmare from 1.

TV special Alice Cooper: The Nightmare. He starred for a year in the early 1. Tales of the Unexplained.