WEBVTT - Weirdhouse Cinema: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:05.280 Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind, a production of 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:14.960 I Heart Radio. Hey you welcome to Weird House Cinema. 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.919 This is Rob Lamb and this is Joe McCormick. Today's movie. 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:22.520 Um goes by many names. It stems from the mid 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:27.360 nineties seventies, and you could easily sort of single it 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:29.800 out for a few different things. It's on one on 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:32.040 one level, it is uh, It's very British. It is 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:35.239 the perhaps the most important British zombie film, certainly of 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:39.680 this time period. It's also a Spanish Italian co production 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:43.480 and has I think no actual British people in it. 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:47.080 It's also not only a horror film, but eco horror 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:51.960 film all true. This is also definitely a grindhouse era picture. 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:54.840 It was actually shown in a double feature with West 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:58.840 Craven's notorious Last House on the Left, which I realized 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:00.680 is a seventy two film, but guess it was still 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:04.039 making the round by seventy four or just hitting certain 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.720 markets by seventy four. But at any rate, Uh, these 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.640 two films were sometimes on the same building. It's interesting 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:14.600 to realize where different zombie movies come in the course 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:21.000 of history, because I think of most zombie films as derivative, uh, 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.440 not just of Night of the Living Dead, but of 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.560 Dawn of the Dead, the second film in George Romero's 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:30.160 uh trilogy. But of course Dawn of the Dead actually 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.360 didn't come out, I think until nineteen seventy eight, so 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:36.040 like four years after this one. Of course Night was earlier. 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.520 But it's kind of strange how I would have said 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.480 this movie was derivative of Dawn, but in fact it 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:46.800 proceeds Dawn. Yeah, it's interesting. It's kind of a I 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:48.840 think even at the time, a lot of people compared 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:50.560 it to Night of the Living Dead, and certainly it 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:54.280 owes uh something to to to that film, as pretty 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.560 much any zombie film that came after it does. But yeah, 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.960 maybe it's a little head of the curve on something 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.800 as well. Now we keep talking about it, we haven't 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.280 said the title of the film yet because you kind 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:10.040 of have your pick of titles for this film. The again, 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.959 it's an Italian Spanish co production, and the original title 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.920 and both languages translates basically to do not profane the 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:20.760 Sleep of the Debt, which I guess the international distributors 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:24.320 didn't go for. They saw opportunities to to tap into 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:28.760 other areas of fear. Uh. It was released under a 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.520 lot of different names around the world. The two most 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:36.120 common are either Let's Sleeping corpses Lie, which is how 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.639 we haven't listed in the title for this episode, but 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.600 it was also widely distributed as The Living Dead at 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:48.120 Manchester Morgue, or it eventually was widely distributed under that name. Um, 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.240 that is the title that displayed in the version of 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.560 it that I watched, though the screen where that title 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.840 pops up looks very out of place. It like doesn't 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:02.679 match the visual style of anything around it. Yeah, it's 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.959 also it's a strange title. A lot of these titles 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.760 are hard to to really rationalize because a lot of 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:11.919 them don't really make sense once you get into the 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.480 plot that there is not a Manchester Morgue in the 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:20.440 film as an actual setting. Uh. We only briefly see 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.200 Manchester at the very beginning of the film, and then 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.680 we go out into rural Britain and that is where 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:27.880 the rest of the film is supposed to be taking place. 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.960 Is the city at the beginning definitely supposed to be Manchester. 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.320 I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be Manchester 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:37.560 or London. It is Manchester. That's what I've read. Yes, 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.640 other titles that this film had there was do not 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.400 Speak Ill of the Dead, which which sounds pretty good. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.000 I mean, that's more or less a translation of the original. 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.040 Even though it kind of implies that that what's going 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.080 on here is um like the raising of the dead 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:56.440 via slander or something. It shouldn't come as anybody to 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.680 any surprise to anyone out there that it was also 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.520 known as Zombie three, at least in some markets. And 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:03.720 this is hilarious because a number of films seem to 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.320 have been released at one time or another as part 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:12.920 of the very unofficial Italian zombie franchise, including Zombie three, 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:18.320 which was a Fucci and Matte film. So anything can 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.880 or could be a zombie movie. Wait now I'm incredibly 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:26.760 confused here, because so Zombie three would mean this is 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:30.359 trying to be a sequel to Zombie two, which was 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.359 the Fulci film that was not actually a sequel to 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:38.279 the original Zombie, which was another name for Romero's Dawn 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:40.839 of the Dead, which came out in seventy eight. But 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.599 this movie we're talking about came out in seventy four, 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:47.760 and at some point it was called Zombie three. That's 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:52.159 the beauty of the Zombie zero MBI franchise. Yes, so 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.640 I guess this would have to be like in like 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.320 I don't know, later video releases or something, right, Yeah, yeah, 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:00.840 I think so. Now another title that's a lot of 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.320 fun for this one that, again it doesn't really fit 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.440 the movie is Don't Open the Window. I love a 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.240 good seventies don't movie. And we're actually going to hear 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.000 the trailer for Don't Open the Window for that release 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:13.920 of the film here and a bit, just because it's 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.320 the most, in my opinion, the most amusing of the 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:21.440 trailers to listen to in a podcast format. I don't remember. Okay, 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.720 So running through these different titles, we do I think 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.880 see a Manchester area hospital as a set used in 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:31.000 the movie, but it's not really set in Manchester. Do 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:32.719 Not Speak Ill of the Dead, as far as I 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.560 can tell, has no relationship to the plot. Zombie three 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.520 is hilarious because this movie came out before the original 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:43.039 Zombie and I don't think there's anything about opening a 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:49.160 window at all. Can you remember any window stuff? I mean, 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.080 people probably look through windows, and maybe there's a scene 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.520 where somebody grabs through a window, but it's not it's 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.680 not the centerpiece of the picture. I don't know that 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:00.839 any of the don't movies really had that going for it. 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.320 But when a movie's titles say don't go in the basement, 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.320 I feel like that one really works. And if well, 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.200 this is a movie about something horrible going on in 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:12.040 the basement where horrible things belong. Uh, but don't open 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.240 the window, this seems very broad like, I mean, I 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.159 really just not supposed to open the window. Again. Actually, 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.800 there's one scene where one character, Katie, escapes a zombie 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.679 by jumping out a window. So she obeyed the title 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.960 of that version, she would have been killed by the zombie. Yeah, 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:31.359 a more fitting title would be don't use ultrasound technology. Yeah, exactly, 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:35.120 don't trust science, I think would be the correct title here, 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:39.080 and and in that vein, I'd say, let sleeping corpses lie. 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:43.120 It's probably the most on track of all these titles 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.479 because it suggests that something is being done to disturb 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.360 the dead, like you're kind of meddling in some way 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.400 that you shouldn't. Ye. So the elevator pitch for this 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.920 one's pretty straightforward. You have youths from the city clashing 0:06:55.960 --> 0:07:01.480 with authority figures and the living dad in rural written. Strangely, though, 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:03.800 the dichotomy set up in this movie is not an 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:08.640 alliance of like urbanity with the youth. The youths are 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.320 from the city, but urbanity, I would say, is sort 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.520 of the villain, because that's uh in this nexus of 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:18.080 evil things that the movie uh were probably grouped together 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:25.440 like UH cops, UH, cities, science, uh, the government, and 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.360 I guess anything that happens in a big building. And 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:32.000 big buildings, of course have windows. So let's let's go 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.960 ahead and listen to the trailer for Don't Open the Window. 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:40.000 A k Let's sleep in corpses live. They tampered with nature, 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.840 Now they must pay the price. See the grotesque invade 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:48.440 an unsuspecting village, See a hospital, panic when day old 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:52.040 babies go berserk. See friends turn on each other in 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:55.560 a nightmare of horror. You'll cringe with terror when you 0:07:55.640 --> 0:08:00.960 see don't open the window. Whatever's out there? Wait read 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:07.360 it are see. Now you'll think twice about opening that window, right, 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:09.520 I mean, I wasn't gonna do it before, but now 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:13.520 I'm really convinced. So before we get going here, you 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:15.600 you may be wondering, well, where can I find this 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:19.040 movie under one title or another? Well? I streamed the 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.800 movie on AMC Plus on Amazon under the title The 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.800 Living Dead at Manchester Morgue. Shutter has it as well, 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.840 and you can render by it digitally. But there's also 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.840 a Blu ray release from Signapse Films that features a 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:32.920 four K restoration and it looks really great, has a 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:36.160 lot of neat extra features on it. Now we mentioned 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.240 a little bit about the locations. One thing to keep 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.559 in mind with this picture is that parts of it 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.680 are definitely shot. Their locations and exteriors that are definitely 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:47.600 shot in Britain, and they seem to have have done 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:49.720 a good enough job where they used just enough of 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:51.960 it that, at least to my eyes, it feels like 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.679 Britain most of the time, like there are enough establishing 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.679 shots to establish that. Occasionally though, you can tell like, oh, 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.000 well that's this looks a lot more like an Italian 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:04.760 horror film. The hills look more Italian, uh and uh 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:06.559 and so yeah, there there are plenty of scenes that 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.320 were actually shot in Italy. Oh. I thought they did 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.120 an excellent job with the scenery. I was fully convinced 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:15.680 about the English landscape and uh yeah, I have no 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.839 complaints whatsoever about the locations and scenery in this movie. 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:22.400 In fact, they're they're pretty, they're gorgeous most of the time. Yeah, 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.679 it's it's a really well shot film. So let's go 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.320 ahead and get into the into the folks involved in it. Here, 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.520 we'll start with the director. Uh, this is some Jorge 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:36.920 Grao who lived nineteen thirty through Spanish director, probably best 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.160 remembered internationally anyway, I'm not sure about in Spain for 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:44.160 this picture, but was responsible for various romances and thrillers. 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.040 I think he only did three other horror films in 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.400 nineteen seventy three, Countess Bathory film titled The Legend of 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:57.360 Blood Castle, vy Threes, Violent blood Bath and h Hunting Ground. 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.000 I think those two seventy three films are separate films. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.840 But but now that I read them out loud, it 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.480 makes me wonder maybe this is the same film. I 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.680 don't know. Oh yeah, the bath Thory Bath Bathing and 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.640 blood thing that I can see that, But I don't know. 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.400 I I don't have the details in front of I 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.079 think it's two separate films, but they sound a lot 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.840 of like title wise, now There are four different names 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:24.559 that are attributed on the screenplay, two credited to uncredited 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.439 that you find in in a couple of the databases. 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:33.200 But one of the credited screenwriters is Sandro Continenza, who 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:37.920 lived um, Italian screenwriter best known for such films as 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:43.320 nineteen sixty on Valley of the Lions, eight, The Inglorious Bastards, Uh, 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:46.440 not the Tarantino one later, but Tarantino was drawing on 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:51.160 that title, n Hercules in the Haunted World and really 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:54.800 just a long list of thrillers, action movies, horror movies, 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.440 comedies and more. Okay. The other name is credited is 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:04.160 Marcello Kostia. This is um, an Italian screenwriter dates unknown, 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:08.920 whose filmography includes work apparently uncredited work on nineteen sixties 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:13.120 Black Sunday and such films as nineteen seventy seven Yetti 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.800 Giant of the Twentieth Century, which stars Tony Kendall and 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:21.160 a King Kong sized Yetti. Wait a minute, this nineteen sixties, 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.400 that's the Mario Baba Black Sunday, Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh, 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:28.080 that's a fantastic horror movie. Yeah. So I don't know 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.400 to what degree, uh the screenwriter actually worked on it. 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:35.320 But there's at least an uncredited tagging on that. And 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.000 then there are a couple of other Spanish screenwriters who 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:44.080 are uncredited. There's Miguel Rubio and one Cobos Um. Both 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.800 of those are individuals who are like Rubio did a 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:50.280 number of Spanish romances, it looks like, and uh Cobos 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:54.640 did various Western thrillers, etcetera. Now getting into the cast here, 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.200 it apparently depends on where it was released, who got 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:01.760 top billing and so forth. But uh, the character, and 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:03.480 I guess she's she's one of our our two main 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.560 characters in this and that is Edna the City Girl, 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:11.080 played by Christina Galbo. She was born nineteen fifty was 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:14.199 a Spanish child actor who later worked in various films, 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.440 a number of horror films, but also some dramas in 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:20.640 there as well. Her credits include the Western from Night Twice, 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.880 a Judas with klaus Kinski, nineteen sixty nine is the 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.920 House That Screamed? N seventy two is What Have You 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:31.920 Done to Solange? And nine The Killer Must Kill Again? Oh, 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:36.400 and then also a nine one film titled Sober Natural 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.800 which just looks amazing. It's also known as Return of 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:43.199 the poulter Geist. Oh, this is the verk Beast movie 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.240 that you shared the cover box and the box art 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.800 with me on. Yeah. Yeah, this is what a Dutch 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.920 VHS cover that I found here. And I have read 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.040 some reviews that say, don't go into this film, uh 0:12:56.120 --> 0:13:00.600 sober natural expectant return of the poulter Geist, expecting to 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:06.199 get this level of insanity. But it's it's supposedly interesting. Nonetheless, 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.640 I'm sorry it was so funny because the Dutch language 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:13.199 on the cover you shared with has this like tagline 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:18.480 that says over Winnen, which I think means like will 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:22.040 evil prevail? I don't know I haven't seen it. I 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.280 don't know how how it turns out. They might, but 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:28.200 it's got the work beast standing there, like clutching some 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.960 kind of glowing skull over his crotch. It's yeah, or 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.640 like his belly has a ghost in it or something. 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:39.440 It's it's very intriguing. Yeah. Um. Anyway, the actor here, Gabbo, 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:43.520 Christina Gabbo, uh quite good in this. It's, as we'll discuss, 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.400 it's a role that does limit her to a fair 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:49.360 amount of screaming and being afraid. But you know, so 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.680 it's essentially kind of a scream queen role. But I 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.200 think she's really good in it. I mean, I would 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.280 say that the acting in this movie is good for 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:02.280 what the movie calls for, which is not very nuanced performances. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:06.559 The roles in this movie are painted with a broad brush, 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:10.120 but in in that capacity, the cast is by and 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:14.000 large very good. Now our central uh we we kept 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:17.120 calling him a hippie, but it might be more accurate 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.840 to think of him as a rocker. I don't know. 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.200 There's a lot to dissect there. I've got a note 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.520 on this later in the plot. All Right, we'll get 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.480 we'll get back to this. But this is George. George 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:32.240 is played by Ray Lovelock, who lived nineteen fifty through seen. 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.920 He was an Italian actor and musician. His father was English, 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.040 his mother was Italian. But I'm still doubtful he's he's 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.640 doing his own English language dubbing in this film because 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:46.160 it's very I don't know that it's very um um 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:49.680 over the top, it seemed to me, but I could 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.040 be could be wrong on this. Well, it's it's very 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:57.560 loaded with the vernacular markers of British English, so it's 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.760 just a lot of a lot, a little you know, 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.920 like I don't know what you call it, a little flourishes, 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:08.680 like like referring to women as birds and stuff. So 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:10.360 so I'm not sure on this, and this might be 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.640 his own voice. I think everyone is dubbed in this film. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.160 I think this is one of those pictures where they 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:19.120 didn't have um, they weren't actually recording this a sound 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.680 but locally, and then everybody's coming back into dub it. 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.440 But I'm not sure if he's doing his own dubbing 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.800 or not here. But at any rate, even if it's 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.600 just a physical performance, he's still pretty good in this. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.640 It's ah So. As a musician, he put out a 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.640 number of singles in Italy and Japan in the late 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:38.360 sixties and then early to mid seventies, and as an actor, 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:42.880 his credits include sixties sevens Django, Kill If You Live Shoot, 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:47.080 also Norman Jewison's nineteen seventy one adaptation of Fiddler on 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:50.680 the Roof. Oh who does he play in in that Fiddler? Um, 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:52.960 let's see, I have to look it up again. Okay, 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:56.600 let me look it up. Hold on Oh, Okay, he 0:15:56.680 --> 0:16:00.840 plays He plays uh Fiedka, who is a a Christian 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:04.760 farmer who is the husband married by the third daughter, 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.680 have a Okay, it's been a I think I saw 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:09.960 Fiddler on the Roof, this version of it with Toball 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.360 in it when I was a child, But all I 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.920 remember is just some of the singing. I always loved 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.280 Fiddler on the Roof. I think his role in this 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.840 is sad because when hav falls in love with Fieka 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:21.720 and they want to get married, that this is what 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.680 Teva finally like, won't accept and he says no, no, 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.040 I will not accept it. Is there a scene in 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:28.760 Fiddler in the Roof where someone plays a fiddle on 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:32.160 the roof? Yes, okay, that's at the beginning. Yeah, I thought, 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.080 I mean I I had that image in my mind, 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.040 but I was suddenly second guessing myself, Like maybe I 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.600 since I saw it as a kid and I remember 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.640 the title, I would just create the memory of top 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.080 Ball singing on the roof. I need to see it again, 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:49.280 clearly anyway. There are other pictures that love Luck was in, 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:53.680 including the nineteen seventy four umberto Lindsay police thriller Almost 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:58.360 Human and the nineteen seventy five Jallo film Autopsy. Oh 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:02.280 and he was also in Luccio Folci four musical Murder Rock. 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:07.040 That's the gory horror musical. Yes, yeah, I I actually 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.280 have a blu ray of it, but I haven't watched 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:11.560 it yet. Um, So at some point I'll check that 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.920 out and see if it's um if it is something 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:15.639 for weird house, or if it's something just for me, 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.960 we'll see, Okay, all right. We also have an authority 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:23.240 figure in this picture, and that is the inspector, who 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:27.600 is not a rural police inspector like he seems to 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.200 have come in from the city himself because he's staying 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.320 at the hotel. He doesn't have a local residence. But 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:39.040 this character is played by Arthur Kennedy um not a Brett, 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.320 not an Italian or or a Spanish actor. An American 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:46.520 actor of stage and screen who won a Tony Award 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.120 for his role in the original production of Arthur Miller's 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.879 Death of a Salesman and was a five time Oscar nominee. 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.960 He worked in a number of Arthur Miller's Broadway plays 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:59.280 as well, and he was in such major films of 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:03.000 the forties five teas in sixties as Lawrence of Arabia, Right, Victory, 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:06.280 Peyton Place, and Champion. He worked a lot in Europe 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.760 later in his career. Uh. This is the second Arthur 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.000 Kennedy movie that we've discussed on Weird House, because it 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:15.800 was in the human Oid from it was an Italian 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:19.520 star Wars rip off. Right, Yeah, the one that had 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.480 what's his name in it? Um? Oh, Richard Keel or 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:27.080 Kyle Keel. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he plays the the 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:31.439 titular humanoid, I believe. Yeah, I forgot Arthur Kennedy was 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:36.080 in that. Well, in this he's just a snarling fascist 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.320 police inspector who has absolutely had it up to here 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:43.760 with the hippies. And it's it's difficult to figure out 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:48.359 his accent in this. I was I was, im, I'm guessing, like, 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.560 since the film is supposed to take place near the 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.480 Scottish border in what Cumbria, I was thinking, well, maybe 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:57.720 he's going for a Scottish accent here. No, to the 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.320 extent that he is attempting an accent, I think he's 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:04.760 going for Irish, not Scottish. But it's but no, it's 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:08.040 almost as bad as Kevin Costner in Robin Hood. Uh. 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:12.959 He just alternating freely between attempting an accent and not 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.880 at all and in the cases where he does actually 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:18.880 alter his accent, I do think he's trying for Irish, 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:21.240 but there are plenty of scenes where it's just nothing, 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:25.439 not even trying. He has a gravelly American voice. I 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:27.920 guess it's just his natural voice, and he sounds kind 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.159 of like imagine the voice of William Holden, you know, 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:36.520 kind of gruff, gravelly, um core American accent. And I'd 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:39.800 say this is what we hear at least half the time. Yeah, 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:43.639 now trying to figure out the accent itself. Aside, I 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:48.600 think he is a very convincing screen presence in the film. Like, again, 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:52.560 not maybe not the most nuanced character of all time here, 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:56.040 but just as a just as an absolute authority figure 0:19:56.160 --> 0:20:01.040 villain to to menace our our freethinking youths are supposedly 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:04.160 freethinking youths. I think he's he's pretty great. Like he's 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:06.639 just bristling and snarling every time he's on the screen, 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:11.400 Basically every scene, he's just decrying the decadence and filth 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:13.679 of the young and and saying, why don't we just 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:16.960 lock them all up? Yeah? Why why can't I abuse 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:20.720 my power more? If only I could abuse my power? Uh, 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:23.879 like a few degrees more than we could, we wouldn't 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:26.280 have any problems at all. Yeah, we'll see some other 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:30.720 actors in this of note, Janine Mestry plays Katie Katie West. 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:35.960 This is the sister of the character played by Christina Galbo. 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:40.239 So this is Edna's sister. Uh. She's a major uh, 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:43.040 an important character that kind of brings everyone together here. 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:46.359 But the actor here was born in forty seven, Spanish 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:50.000 actor whose work seems to lean more historical and more 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:52.679 into dramas. But she had a small role as a 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:56.199 vampire woman in Jeff Franco's nineteen seventy Dracula movie that 0:20:56.280 --> 0:21:00.320 had Christopher Lee, Klaskinski and Herbert lom in it. Mm 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.239 hmm quite a cast. I mean you can guess who 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:08.080 klaus Kinsky played, right, Yes? Wait are you saying not Dracula, 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:14.440 not drag Christopher Lee's Dracula. Oh klaus Kinsey Rinfield? Yes, yes, okay, 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:18.960 makes sense all right? And then playing Katie's husband, Martin West, 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:23.000 who have Jose Lafonte, Spanish actor with two hundred four 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:25.800 almost at two thousand, two hundred and four varied credits, 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:31.480 including seven's beaks. The movie is that when you've seen 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:34.520 what You don't remember us talking about Beaks in the past, 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:37.840 I don't remind me. I think it came up on 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:42.240 this show, maybe because a listener UH asked us what 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:45.160 were the worst films we've ever seen? And I don't 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:47.160 know exactly how to answer that. Not you know, it's 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:49.720 hard to put old movies on the same scale. You 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:52.159 can't consider them all with the same criteria. But I 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:55.480 think one of the worst times I ever had trying 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:58.639 to finish watching a movie was Beaks, which is a 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:02.160 rip off of the Bird, but it was like excruciating. 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:06.480 It had these high pitched, droning synthesizer sounds that were 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:09.879 just like needles going into your ears. And pair that 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:14.399 with overuse of slow motion and you can imagine just 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:17.359 the nausea and the pain of trying to get to 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:21.200 the end. This was a Renee Cardona Junior picture too. 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:24.800 All right, well, now you've been twice warned to avoid Beaks. 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:27.920 We also have a character that will become important. Guthrie Wilson, 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:31.160 who is a tramp lives by the river in this 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:35.639 rural British setting, played by Fernando Hillbeck, who of ninety 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:39.159 three through two thousand and nine. Um, I thought Hillbeck 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:40.879 was interesting in this, and maybe it's more in the 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:43.720 way he was shot, but he almost has kind of 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:49.280 George Eastman vibes going on here, very intimidating physical presence. Uh. 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:52.280 He was a Spanish actor, mostly the character actor, who 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:54.480 did a lot of work in various genres. One of 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:57.119 his biggest international credits is I believe he plays a 0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:01.560 uh like an evil night or something in Paul Verhoven's 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:05.240 medieval drama Flesh. I guess it's flesh and blood, but 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:08.600 it's always flesh plus blood. Um, like it's supposed to 0:23:08.640 --> 0:23:12.520