Comments on: A Double Dose of William Beaudine

by: adrien

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:09:22 +0000

‘Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter’ can be found on the 50 Chilling Classics DVD set. (warning: bootleg quality)
W.S. Van Dyke, who directed ‘The Thin Man’, among other things, also had the nick-name “One Take”. But then how many takes does one need if directing Myrna Loy and William Powell in their prime?

by: Keith

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:34:38 +0100

Hey Kimberly. I’m sorry that you had such a bad experience that day. It does sound like these movies were real stinkers. Sorry that the kids did like they did. I remember days like that myself. I enjoyed reading about one of your childhood experiences. If I was there, I would have sat there and watched the second film with you. I watched a lot of clunkers when I was growing up. I was more likely to be watching a film or reading a book that outside playing. Thanks for sharing this with us.

by: Peter Nellhaus

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:42:59 +0100

I saw Sparrows at the SF Silent Film Festival, July 2006. Even then, Beaudine wasn’t that good in my estimation. There is the story, possibly connected with the making of the western/horror films that when a producer told Beaudine that he was running behind schedule he responded, “Someone is actually waiting to see this?”

by: Jonathan Lapper

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:17:07 +0100

I bet they’re all miserable investment bankers now who harbor secret jealousy of someone like you who’s not tied in to their type of status quo life. At least that’s what I like to think about everyone who had problems with me.

by: cinebeats

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:49:44 +0100

Ha, ha! Thanks for the show of support Jonathan! ;)

I spent a lot of time watching movies by myself when I probably should have been outside getting some sunshine with the other kids. I’m pretty sure the kids called me names behind my back and thought I was a little freaky due to the fact that I loved horror movies so much. It also didn’t help that I was a total book worm. In other words… I was probably a total geek in the eyes of other kids.

by: cinebeats

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:42:59 +0100

Thanks Chris! I actually used to watch a lot of movies with the neighborhood kids. Movies like the Wizard of Oz and the original Willie Wonka were almost "events" and we all gathered at someone's house to see them when they aired. That's probably because there were 5 or 6 houses with kids of the same age on the block and we played together a lot. I had one friend who I used to watch a lot of Hong Kong films and some horror movies with (I tended to watch horror movies a lot more than was probably healthy) and we also watched TV shows like The Monkees, Charlie's Angels and Kung Fu together a lot.

by: Jonathan Lapper

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:41:43 +0100

Oh Kimberly, those kids, playing board games instead of watching the movie with you. Oh it’s such a feeling to play a movie up to friends only to watch it and have them be clearly disappointed. It’s happened to me a million times. But this story was heartbreaking. I can picture little Kimberly in her white go-go boots pleading with them to stay. Well they were the ultimate losers for not knowing how to enjoy the company of an iconoclast in the making when they saw one.

And by the way, I saw parts of these years ago when Penn and Teller did a few marathons for TBS of bad, bad movies like Plan Nine, Queen of Outer Space, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman and so on. Whew baby, they were something else.

by: cinebeats

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:35:46 +0100

Thanks Gautam!

As for stinkers, well what did you expect from a film boasting about popular western characters meeting classic horror figures?

When I was 10 years old a film “boasting about popular western characters meeting classic horror figures” sounded damn exciting!

by: Chris

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:02:11 +0100

The popcorn and Tang were all gone so there really wasn’t any reason for them to stick around anymore.

Priceless. I like the fact that your review is also about what happened in the room you watched the movie in. Did you ever have any more *screenings with the neighbors*?

by: Gautam

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:53:03 +0100

Kimberly- a very interesting insight into your childhood there, I couldn’t help but feel sad for your 10-year old self. Back in the early nineties, Star TV in India had Double Bills every thursday night but I ended up watching only the first features because the second ones would start at 11 pm, way past my bedtime.

As for stinkers, well what did you expect from a film boasting about popular western characters meeting classic horror figures?

Thanks for the wonderful contribution to the blogathon, you know all the entries that I’ve recieved were just plain unusual! Personally, now I find my own entries to be rather straightforward and boring.

by: cinebeats

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:35:45 +0100

This piece is a great example of the modernist technique of form-as-content.

Really? Neato! And here I thought I was just having fun. I usually hate writing about films I don’t like much, but I couldn’t resist today after memories of watching this dissapointing Beaudine double bill filled my head.

Do you remember calling them “total stinkers” or did your mother supply you with that little tidbit?

I’m pretty sure I called them stinkers, which is a term I probably heard from my mom. Of course I could have also called them plain “crappy” as well since I’ve sworn like a sailor since I was a kid, but my mother would have yelled at me for that and I don’t remember any yelling.

by: Ed Hardy, Jr.

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:21:04 +0100

This piece is a great example of the modernist technique of form-as-content. Reading it, I was as disappointed as the Ten-Year-Old Kimberly when I found out these previously unheard-of and fabulously titled B’s were “total stinkers.” Imagine, reviews for action films that get your pulse pounding, reviews for melodramas that make you cry, funny comedy review!… Um, anywho: Do you remember calling them “total stinkers” or did your mother supply you with that little tidbit?