Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind production of My
Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is
Speaker 1: Rob Lamb and this is Joe McCormick. And who I
Speaker 1: hope you like Oregan music because today we're doing Dr five's.
Speaker 1: That's right, the Abominable Dr fives from one. Uh. This
Speaker 1: is a film that is frequently described as a dark
Speaker 1: comedy horror film, which is a It is kind of
Speaker 1: a way of saying this movie is weird, and we
Speaker 1: don't really know how to classify it, you know, because
Speaker 1: it certainly has Yeah, it has comedic flair in it,
Speaker 1: it has horror flare um, but it's it's ultimately its
Speaker 1: own unique weird vision. Uh. And it's it's really difficult
Speaker 1: to compare it to just about anything else. I would
Speaker 1: almost say it's a musical, though the characters don't sing songs.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of musical numbers and dancing. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very theatrical. Um Like, in trying to come up
Speaker 1: with an elevator pitch for it, I was thinking, it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of Phantom of the Opera meets Batman meets
Speaker 1: a wax museum horror movie and a swanky, unoccupied nightclub
Speaker 1: for stylish madmen. But but also you have to say
Speaker 1: the words Vincent Price, because I think that is a
Speaker 1: key element of establishing the themes. Yeah, I think this
Speaker 1: is our first Vincent Price film, and um and Fibes
Speaker 1: has been on our our our list, It's been on
Speaker 1: our radar for a while, and I know we've heard
Speaker 1: from at least a couple of listeners suggesting it, and
Speaker 1: it came up again recently when I was looking at
Speaker 1: films that had very well regarded movie scores and so yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is, uh, this is our first Vincent Price film.
Speaker 1: That we did discuss The Tingler from N nine and
Speaker 1: an old episode of Stuff to Blow your Mind, but
Speaker 1: that was pretty weird house that was more of a
Speaker 1: like we used The Tingler as a bringboard to discuss
Speaker 1: some science or vice versa. You know. I would say
Speaker 1: The Tingler is somewhat different because The Tingler is a
Speaker 1: William Castle movie that has Vincent Price in it. But
Speaker 1: lots of Vincent Price movies, it almost feels as if
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who the director is and it's just
Speaker 1: it just becomes a Vincent Price movie. I would say
Speaker 1: this is one of those it is and then on
Speaker 1: the on the same level, one thing I kept thinking
Speaker 1: about is, Okay, Vincent Price plays a character in this
Speaker 1: film that that doesn't actually speak with his voice anymore. Uh.
Speaker 1: You hear Vincent Price's voice, but it's like a it's
Speaker 1: it's like through a machine. And so it's it's unique
Speaker 1: to be watching this and you think, oh, well, you know,
Speaker 1: Vincent Prices is great, like as a visual performer, he
Speaker 1: has this amazing voice, uh, and yet we have a
Speaker 1: character who's uh, in many ways mute in this film,
Speaker 1: and it kind of it kind of applies to other
Speaker 1: characters in the film as well, like a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of the people in this film are just
Speaker 1: part of the set piece. It's about about creating this
Speaker 1: this theatrical vision somehow. Though, even though he doesn't speak
Speaker 1: with his mouth in the movie, the price ham juice
Speaker 1: gets on everything, like the Vincent Price campiness comes through
Speaker 1: in the energy exuded by every other actor in the film.
Speaker 1: And I was going to compare it to another great
Speaker 1: horror movie that I just watched within the last year,
Speaker 1: because they are so similar. This other movie is called
Speaker 1: Theater of Blood from nineteen seventy three. So it came
Speaker 1: out two years after Dr Fibes. But if you can
Speaker 1: believe this, listen to all the parallels. Both movies star
Speaker 1: Vincent Price as a performing artist of some kind who
Speaker 1: is presumed dead but returns to enact an elaborate plan
Speaker 1: of revenge on a list of nine specific enemies, targeting
Speaker 1: each one in a succession of sort of themed murders.
Speaker 1: And in Dr Fibes the themed murders are based on
Speaker 1: the tin plagues of Egypt in the Book of Exodus,
Speaker 1: and in Theater of Blood they're based on deaths in
Speaker 1: the plays of Shakespeare. And in both movies, the Price
Speaker 1: character has a cool, younger female sidekick. In Theater of
Speaker 1: Blood that is actually the It is Vincent Price's character's daughter,
Speaker 1: played by Diana Rigg, who always great. Dia rig one
Speaker 1: of my favorites, and in that one, uh, she's great.
Speaker 1: But also in that when Vincent Price plays a ham
Speaker 1: Shakespearean actor instead of an organist. All right, well, those
Speaker 1: are certainly some five vibes. You're definitely vibing with fibies there. Um.
Speaker 1: You know one thing that I was thinking about, especially
Speaker 1: towards the end of this picture, and we'll discuss the
Speaker 1: plot here that uh was that this film The Abominable
Speaker 1: Doctor fives. It's kind of like the precursor to such
Speaker 1: dreary themed murder films as uh seven as I don't
Speaker 1: even thinking like Resurrection and of course the Saw movies.
Speaker 1: Except this movie is like what if you had something
Speaker 1: like that and it was at least ten times is fun?
Speaker 1: You know? Um oh more than that? Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: the exact opposite. This is a weird, elaborate themed murders
Speaker 1: but just bouncing on rays of sunshine. Yes, So, I
Speaker 1: think Dr Fibes is one of my new show favorites.
Speaker 1: It's going on the list with uh, I think some
Speaker 1: of the best movies we've watched on here, like uh,
Speaker 1: I don't keep a running list of my favorites, but
Speaker 1: they're somewhere in my head. It's gonna be like Mad Love,
Speaker 1: Robot Jock's Ship of Monsters and and oh and Inframan
Speaker 1: and this one's going up there too. Yeah. It's it's
Speaker 1: extremely watchable. I can easily recommend this one to to
Speaker 1: film fans of different genres because it does transcend genre.
Speaker 1: It's not just a horror film, uh, It's it's just
Speaker 1: so stylish so love lovingly stylish that I feel like
Speaker 1: it can suck in just about anybody, like you're just
Speaker 1: just about any given scene. Even the scenes that don't
Speaker 1: play take place within dr Fibes, Subterranean, Um Organum fun
Speaker 1: House are still like lavishly decorated and and ingeniously shot.
Speaker 1: Totally agree? All right, well, let's go ahead and listen
Speaker 1: to the trailer. Here, h what lovely music for a murder?
Speaker 1: Or two or three or nine? Who's this? Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: I want you to meet a dear friend. Nine killed you,
Speaker 1: nine shall die your wife? No fibes but you I
Speaker 1: will kill but you go? Doctor I already dead? But
Speaker 1: what's the guitar? The town cut is visited among the
Speaker 1: pharoahs before Exodus. Are you ready for Doctor five? All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about some of the people involved in this
Speaker 1: motion picture. First of all, let's start at the top
Speaker 1: with the director, Robert Fust Fust Live through two thousand
Speaker 1: and twelve, British director noted for his unique genre style. UM.
Speaker 1: It should come as no surprise to to some fans
Speaker 1: out there that he came up through the Avengers TV
Speaker 1: show before making such features as nineteen seventies and Soon
Speaker 1: in the Darkness, a thriller nineteen seventy adaptation of Worthering
Speaker 1: Heights with Timothy Dalton is Heathcliff, followed by the two
Speaker 1: Doctor Five's films. Uh nineteen seventy three is the Final Program,
Speaker 1: which was based on a Michael moorecock novel starring John Finch,
Speaker 1: and seventy five satanic melt oh Mania movie The Devil's
Speaker 1: Ragin starring Ernest board Nine, The Shot, Tom Scarrett, John Travolta,
Speaker 1: and of course uh Anton LaVey. I was wondering if
Speaker 1: we should come back to The Devil's Reign on weird House.
Speaker 1: It is a notorious for being not very good but
Speaker 1: also being sort of worth seeing. Yeah, yeah, it has
Speaker 1: greatness in it, and I think maybe we're in a
Speaker 1: better place, will be in a better place to understand
Speaker 1: it having experienced fibes. But uh yeah, and also it
Speaker 1: is possible that maybe the world just wasn't ready for
Speaker 1: the Devil's Rain um, especially when you look at his filmography,
Speaker 1: because it looks like, uh, he mostly did TV after
Speaker 1: The Devil's Reign. All right. Um. The writers on this,
Speaker 1: they're two credited writers, James Whitten born two thousand and
Speaker 1: sixteen American writer who wrote the story for two Murder
Speaker 1: by Phone starring Richard Chamberlain. And then there's also William Goldstein,
Speaker 1: credited on both fives movies plus nineteen seventies six is
Speaker 1: The Amazing Doberman's, in which quote an ex con man
Speaker 1: and his five trained Doberman's helped the Treasury Department agent
Speaker 1: stop a racketeer and his gang. It starred James Franciscus,
Speaker 1: Barbara Eden, Fred Astaire, and Billy Bardi. Um. It has
Speaker 1: an amazing poster. And my wife says that she remembered
Speaker 1: this movie. I think her her family they always had
Speaker 1: Doberman so I think they've watched any if there was
Speaker 1: a Doberman movie, Uh, they watched it. Imagine the pitch
Speaker 1: for that. What about Doberman's that solved mysteries? I think
Speaker 1: there was a They also tried to turn into a
Speaker 1: TV show. Wait, what kind of dog was Scooby Doo?
Speaker 1: I guess he was supposed to be like a great
Speaker 1: day In or something. Yeah, yeah, and not a The
Speaker 1: Doberman's have those like the pointy head, those really dirty
Speaker 1: pointed heads. Yeah, um derpy or terrifying depends on how
Speaker 1: you look at him, but they can they can look
Speaker 1: quite dirty, all right. Uh. The star of this film
Speaker 1: playing Dr Anton Fives is Vincent Price, who lived nineteen
Speaker 1: eleven through nineteen The legend himself got all of him
Speaker 1: and an actor of great genuine talent who could have
Speaker 1: kept pressing just to focus on serious film roles, but
Speaker 1: but embraced camp. And that's something I really respect, Yes,
Speaker 1: and it was really really a master of it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Price was active on screen from the late thirties to
Speaker 1: the early nineties. You know, great voice, great look, horror
Speaker 1: icon um. You know, could could really play serious threat.
Speaker 1: But also it seemed to have a great sense of
Speaker 1: humor and was able to play that up. I was
Speaker 1: active in various genres, especially early on in his career,
Speaker 1: and you see him, you know, showing up in some
Speaker 1: some serious pictures during that time period for sure. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then he did all sorts of celebrity appearances and
Speaker 1: product endorsements later in life, and it seems seemed to
Speaker 1: very much you know, cash in on things to a
Speaker 1: certain extent. And again, God bless him, he learned it
Speaker 1: by that point. But uh, time life enchanted world commercials.
Speaker 1: I think he did commercials for what are they called wine? Uh?
Speaker 1: What was that brand of wine coolers? Yes, where he's
Speaker 1: dressed like a polar bear. Um like, I I highly
Speaker 1: recommend anyone out there just do a like a YouTube
Speaker 1: search for Vincent Price commercials and you'll get numerous results
Speaker 1: and they're all great. Oh if you find the ones
Speaker 1: where he's doing wine coolers. I don't remember the brand name,
Speaker 1: but that same brand of wine coolers also has commercials
Speaker 1: with Grace Jones that are amazing. Ultimately, I would say
Speaker 1: the Vincent Price pop culture footprint is almost just too
Speaker 1: huge for us to possibly do justice here in a
Speaker 1: single episode. So for my part, I'm just going to
Speaker 1: mention a few of my favorites, uh from from a
Speaker 1: few different categories. So, first of all, in film, as
Speaker 1: much as I love this film, again, it is kind
Speaker 1: of weird to cast Vincent Price in a role where
Speaker 1: he doesn't actually speak. I think they're they're you know,
Speaker 1: they're much better examples of him acting both as a
Speaker 1: pure protagonist and also as an antagonist. Um. You know.
Speaker 1: Roger Corman's Mask of the Red Death is a great
Speaker 1: example of him in pure villain mode, while the in
Speaker 1: the Tingler. We get to see him as a as
Speaker 1: kind of a tortured hero. Um, wait, is he a hero? No?
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, he's he's like trying to murder his
Speaker 1: wife and the Tingler. Oh, well, yes he was, but
Speaker 1: didn't he Well wait no, I think he's sort of
Speaker 1: he sort of is the hero, but he's a bad dude.
Speaker 1: Is there a film where he plays like a pure protagonist? Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's plenty of one. The Last Man on Earth,
Speaker 1: which is one of the many film adaptations of I
Speaker 1: Am Legend, is one of the earlier ones. He's in
Speaker 1: that and he plays the main character. Um. How many
Speaker 1: film adaptations of I Am Legend are there? There's the
Speaker 1: there's the Omega Man. Yeah, there's the the one with
Speaker 1: Will Smith, There's the one with Vincent Price. There at
Speaker 1: least three, but there may be more. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: think they're they're planning on making more now. Vincent Price
Speaker 1: also did a lot of television. Uh. One notable thing
Speaker 1: is he appeared on Night Gallery. I think a couple
Speaker 1: of times, including the nineteen seventy two episode The Return
Speaker 1: of the Sorcerer, which is one of the few adaptations
Speaker 1: of a Clark Ashton Smith short story. When it comes
Speaker 1: to just pure selebbing, I'd say his nineteen seventy seven
Speaker 1: appearance on The Muppet Show is pretty stellar. That that's
Speaker 1: right in his element. I mean, oh yeah, Price can
Speaker 1: act opposite a puppet. Yes, yes, very well. Though of
Speaker 1: those Muppet shows, some of them, if you try and
Speaker 1: watch them in their entirety, some of them can be
Speaker 1: a little painful at times. There, I mean there it was.
Speaker 1: It was a Hammy show. Uh, you know, not everything
Speaker 1: holds up all that well. But but Price was great
Speaker 1: on that. Now, when it comes to music and spoken word,
Speaker 1: that this is fact. I wasn't familiar with the pure
Speaker 1: scope of this. But uh, if you go to discogs
Speaker 1: dot com, Vincent Price has sixty eight listings. To put
Speaker 1: that in perspective, Christopher Lee only had twenty six, which
Speaker 1: is nothing to sneeze at. Um, but sixty eight listings.
Speaker 1: Does that include Christopher Lee's metal albums? I think it didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now I won't. I won't pretend to have heard even
Speaker 1: half of the uh the releases from Vincent Price. But
Speaker 1: but I've I've got to go with his excellent spoken
Speaker 1: word bit in the three track thriller Uh. That you know,
Speaker 1: it's loads of fun, the funk of forty thousand years. Um.
Speaker 1: And then when it comes to product endorsements, Um again
Speaker 1: the timeline books, Um, Enchanted World's advertisement is great. But
Speaker 1: also he did one for Monster Vitamins. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of fun as animated monsters in it, and he's talking
Speaker 1: it's a children's vitamin commercial. But you've got Vincent Bryce
Speaker 1: there again. We we can't go through everything that Vincent
Speaker 1: Price was in, but just to mention a few of
Speaker 1: the big ones. He was in the Ten Commandments, who
Speaker 1: was in House of Whack, the fly House, Unhaunted Hill.
Speaker 1: He popped up on the old sixties TV Batman series. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's a voice in The Great Mouse Detective. He plays
Speaker 1: the villainous rat and that, and then of course his
Speaker 1: final feature film appearance is in Edward scissor Hands Rest
Speaker 1: in Peace Man, So Vincent prices His character Dr Five's
Speaker 1: is listed in the end credits to this movie as
Speaker 1: one of two protagonists. Um, which is so you know,
Speaker 1: humorous but also in keeping with the strange vibe of
Speaker 1: the film. Uh. The other protagonist is listed as Doctor
Speaker 1: of Salius, played by Joseph Cotton. Joseph Cotton is another
Speaker 1: legend star of film, stage, radio and television Live nineteen
Speaker 1: o five through probably best remembered for his roles and
Speaker 1: I think three different orson Wells movies Citizen Kane and
Speaker 1: forty one, The Magnificent Emberson's at forty two Journey into
Speaker 1: Fear and forty three. Uh. He's also known for The
Speaker 1: Third Man from forty nine. I think that was the
Speaker 1: first first thing I really remember him from, so I
Speaker 1: guess I probably watched Citizen Kane around the same time.
Speaker 1: He was also in gas Light, which is where we
Speaker 1: get the term gas lighting from. And later on he
Speaker 1: appeared in such films as Soiling Green and seventy three,
Speaker 1: and such Italian films as Marcelo Alprandi's nine seventies six
Speaker 1: film They Whisper in the Dark and Sergio Martino's excellent
Speaker 1: Island of the Fishmen a k A. Screamers excellent. So
Speaker 1: any anything he's in, it's a it's a solid screen presence.
Speaker 1: So in this he plays this character, Doctor Vassalius, who
Speaker 1: is the the last of the enemies targeted for revenge
Speaker 1: by Dr Fibes. Yeah, because this film ultimately follows uh
Speaker 1: A pattern that you see in a number of different
Speaker 1: revenge films with kind of an anti hero revenge killer
Speaker 1: at the center is he'll have a number of targets
Speaker 1: and you'll start with the targets that are you either
Speaker 1: don't know much about out or or or or who
Speaker 1: are actively villainous in some way or another, and then
Speaker 1: you work your way towards a character who is more
Speaker 1: relatable and so you know, it forces you to sort
Speaker 1: of enjoy the early kills but feel conflicted about the
Speaker 1: later kills that are planned. All right, some of the
Speaker 1: other people here, we have Peter Jeffrey in this um,
Speaker 1: probably probably not an actor that a lot of people
Speaker 1: are familiar with. He plays Inspector Harry Trout. He's the
Speaker 1: hard nosed British detective on the case. Ultimately has a
Speaker 1: lot of screen time in this um. He lived and
Speaker 1: he had roles in such films as The Adventures of
Speaker 1: Baron Muchausen, Midnight Express, The Return of the Pink Panther,
Speaker 1: and he played the character Count Grendel on Doctor Who,
Speaker 1: among I think some other characters on Doctor Here. He
Speaker 1: did a lot of TV work. This is our main
Speaker 1: Scotland yard detective trying to solve the case of the
Speaker 1: doctors being murdered in bizarre ways. Inspector killed war Trout. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's it's pretty fun because at times he comes
Speaker 1: up a little bit comedic. Other times he's just kind
Speaker 1: of just the hard nosed cop trope. Yeah, oh oh,
Speaker 1: but we've got to talk about so in this movie,
Speaker 1: Dr Fibes has a sidekick. He has an assistant named
Speaker 1: vol Navia, and she's great. Yes, it's played by Virginia North,
Speaker 1: who in my notes here I have six through two
Speaker 1: thousand nine ninety four, I suspect that I have a
Speaker 1: type of there. And she actually lived to two thousand four.
Speaker 1: Make that two thousand and four, not two thousand nine. Anyway,
Speaker 1: she was a fashion model who only appeared in a
Speaker 1: handful of titles, including this, which was her final final film,
Speaker 1: and she was She also pops up in On Her
Speaker 1: Majesty's Secret Service. She wasn't a bond girl, however, as
Speaker 1: the main love interest in that movie was played by
Speaker 1: Diana Rigg, the great Diana Rigg. But yeah, I really
Speaker 1: enjoy North as vol Navia in this movie. She this
Speaker 1: is also both of our sort of villain roles. The
Speaker 1: killers in this movie do not speak directly. Vincent Price
Speaker 1: only speaks through like a tube in his neck plugged
Speaker 1: into a phonograph in some scenes, and Vilnavia doesn't speak
Speaker 1: at all, though she does play a mean violin as
Speaker 1: as like doctors are being drained of all their blood
Speaker 1: and she can she can wield a golden axe. That's right.
Speaker 1: So yeah, she's stylish and she's helpful. Now we're not
Speaker 1: going to list all of the various doctors who are
Speaker 1: murdered by Dr fives, but two of them are noteworthy. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's a doctor Longstreet played by Terry Thomas. That of course,
Speaker 1: there's Terry hyphen Thomas, who lived nineteen eleven through n
Speaker 1: This is one of those guys who you just see
Speaker 1: his face and even if it's a still photograph, you
Speaker 1: can imagine the sounds he's making and there's something like yeah, yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1: He tremendous British comedian and character actor who really excelled
Speaker 1: at playing kind of like um, kind of like bumbling
Speaker 1: fops and upper crust weird and um yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: certain type of role that Terry Thomas just absolutely excelled
Speaker 1: at in this movie. He's a little bit Harvey Corman,
Speaker 1: but also a little you're gonna balk for a second,
Speaker 1: I think, but a little bit wings Houser. Well, he
Speaker 1: definitely choose the scenes with with a with a wings
Speaker 1: Houser in Ian uh intensity Um. Terry Thomas was in
Speaker 1: loads of stuff, but I'd say probably the biggest film
Speaker 1: he was in, the most most well known is perhaps
Speaker 1: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World from sixty three.
Speaker 1: He also pops up in Danger Diabolic from sixty eight,
Speaker 1: which is another highly stylish film, and that one was
Speaker 1: of course featured on Mystery Science Theater three thousand. He
Speaker 1: was also a great voice actor. If if you've seen
Speaker 1: Walt Disney's Robin Hood, the animated Robin Hood with all
Speaker 1: the animal characters from Envy three, he is the voice
Speaker 1: of Sir Hiss the Snake. He's sort of the toady
Speaker 1: to the to the cowardly lion prince I believes out Yes,
Speaker 1: all right, another doctor we have doctor Um Hargreaves, played
Speaker 1: by Alex Scott. Alex Scott was in Next of Kin
Speaker 1: from two, which we just covered on a Weird House Cinema.
Speaker 1: So I won't go into detail about him, but you know,
Speaker 1: if you want to hear more about Alex Scott. We
Speaker 1: discussed him in the cast section for our previous episode.
Speaker 1: He was the doctor in Next of Kin. Yes, he
Speaker 1: was the doctor, and he's a doctor in this one too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in this one he's a he's a psychiatrist, right, he
Speaker 1: puts on the frog mask. Now another small but but
Speaker 1: fun role, we have Hugh Griffith popping up playing a
Speaker 1: rabbi who's called in or called upon by the inspectors
Speaker 1: to give some some expert advice on some of the
Speaker 1: clues they've discovered. Griffith live nineteen twelve through nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: a Welsh actor who actually won the Best Supporting oscar
Speaker 1: Um Actor oscar in nineteen sixty for Ben her Now
Speaker 1: the next Oh, this, this is one where I think you.
Speaker 1: I don't think she was actually credited originally on this film,
Speaker 1: but you might say that this film also stars a
Speaker 1: photograph of Caroline Monroe. That's right. Uh, when we actually
Speaker 1: see so she plays Dr fives deceased wife, and at
Speaker 1: some point later in the movie we actually see her
Speaker 1: dead body. But I don't think that's Caroline Monroe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's just photographs oftware that are used which
Speaker 1: is which is interesting especially since uh, since she did
Speaker 1: go on to she wasn't a number of films she
Speaker 1: she was a pin up model, an actress who I
Speaker 1: think ultimately stolen seems to have stolen many like seventies
Speaker 1: film Nerds Heart because she she pops up in films
Speaker 1: like The Spy Loved Me from seventy seven, The Golden
Speaker 1: Voyage of Sinbad from seventy three, Captain Cronos Vampire Hunter
Speaker 1: from seventy four, At the Earth's Core from seventy six,
Speaker 1: Star Crash from seventy eight, Star Crash, Yeah, Star Crash, Uh,
Speaker 1: Dracula A d nineventy two from nineteen seventy two. Um,
Speaker 1: and then she was in some stuff in the eighties
Speaker 1: of note like a Maniac and Slaughter High. But yeah,
Speaker 1: this is it barely counts as an appearance, Like you
Speaker 1: could say that, uh Rita Hayworth is uh just as
Speaker 1: much an acting component in Schasna Shank Redemption as Caroline
Speaker 1: Monroe is actually a cast member of this film, though
Speaker 1: her photo does get a lot of screen time, as
Speaker 1: we have multiple scenes of Vincent Price just worshiping a
Speaker 1: headshot of Caroline Monroe. Yeah all, but but praying to her.
Speaker 1: You know. Another tie into a recent episode of the
Speaker 1: show with with beast Master two. Apparently Caroline Monroe was
Speaker 1: at some point in the running to play the character
Speaker 1: Ursa in Superman, the Villain from the Planet Crypton, the
Speaker 1: part that eventually went to the actress Sarah Douglas, who
Speaker 1: played the sorceress in beast Master two and who I
Speaker 1: thought was by far the best part of that movie.
Speaker 1: But I think Monroe turned down on the role in
Speaker 1: Superman so she could be in in that Roger Moore movie.
Speaker 1: I don't have a real clear memory of that Bond movie. Ye,
Speaker 1: that's the one. It's the first one with Jaws. It established,
Speaker 1: but it's in that regard it's just a necessary precursor
Speaker 1: to Moonraker. Uh yeah, that's true. Uh So that one
Speaker 1: was actually well regarded by critics when it came out.
Speaker 1: If you watch it now, it's, you know, like all
Speaker 1: those Roger Moore movies, is extremely cheesy. I recalled that
Speaker 1: one also being one of the ones with the most
Speaker 1: just evil James Bond in it. Like I recall there's
Speaker 1: a scene where some assassins trying to shoot at him
Speaker 1: and he's like kissing a woman and then he literally
Speaker 1: just turns and uses her as a human shield to
Speaker 1: block the bullet from the assassin. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it's implied that she's in on she's like setting a
Speaker 1: trap for him, but still like come on to that's
Speaker 1: pretty rough. Yeah, so that's a mean Roger Moore James
Speaker 1: Bond though is. Yeah, it has some good stuff about it.
Speaker 1: Villain in it likes to feed people to sharks, because
Speaker 1: of course that's the guy. He's got like a gun
Speaker 1: under the long table. I think that's also the one
Speaker 1: where it's the first one with Jaws in it, and uh,
Speaker 1: Jaws gets thrown to some sharks, but he defeats the
Speaker 1: sharks by biting them. Yes, okay, see, I mean I
Speaker 1: mostly remember it for Jaws. Yeah, alright, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the music on this one. Um. The music for this film,
Speaker 1: though a number of different songs are featured in it,
Speaker 1: the actual scores composed by uh Basil Kirchen, who through
Speaker 1: two thousand and five British composer and musician responsible for
Speaker 1: the scores of such films as sixty seven's The Shuttered Room.
Speaker 1: Starting Oliver read this movie, the four movie The Freakmaster,
Speaker 1: which I've been tempted to watch for this show. It's
Speaker 1: kind of a seventies take on Todd Browning's Freaks and
Speaker 1: has Donald Pleasants, Tom Baker, and Brad Harris in it.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I like that cast list, but something about
Speaker 1: the idea of a vand's take on Freaks does not
Speaker 1: appeal to me. Yeah, I that's probably what's kind of
Speaker 1: helped me back. I know it has I think um
Speaker 1: Tom Baker plays like a giant, like a tall mutant character,
Speaker 1: and there's like a plant man in it. So it's
Speaker 1: got some some attractive elements to it, plus Donald pleasants.
Speaker 1: But I haven't actually watched it yet. I've had it,
Speaker 1: like you know in the playlist ready to go Now.
Speaker 1: Kirchen did not return for fivees to UM, but he's
Speaker 1: he's pretty interesting fellows looking into him a bit. Uh
Speaker 1: He came up in big band, but then he also
Speaker 1: got into electronic music and experimental music and tape manipulation
Speaker 1: and uh so you've had a number of individuals have
Speaker 1: pointed to him as an important influence, like Brian eno
Speaker 1: Um broadcast also Nurse with Wound, that's the project from
Speaker 1: Steven Stapleton. If you're not familiar with Nurse with Wound.
Speaker 1: It's a UM kind of early industrial but also kind
Speaker 1: of noise is weird UM musical project that UH like.
Speaker 1: I have to say, I like Nurse with Wound, And
Speaker 1: then there's a lot of Nurse with Wound music that
Speaker 1: I cannot listen to, and and if you played it
Speaker 1: for me, I would say, I hate that, Please don't
Speaker 1: play it. But then there's other stuff that's really solid.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if you're if you're gonna check
Speaker 1: something out, I would say check out Thunder, Perfect Mind
Speaker 1: or UM rock and roll station. So I think the
Speaker 1: five score kind of reflects some of these elements. There's
Speaker 1: certainly a lot of big band notes as well, of course,
Speaker 1: and then we have all this organ music and other
Speaker 1: tracks that are featured. It gets a little noisy and
Speaker 1: per percussive in places, especially when things are getting weird
Speaker 1: or or they want to amp up at tension, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't really get like Nurse with Wound levels of strange.
Speaker 1: But this score is often held up as an as
Speaker 1: an excellent genre score, though it's again it's kind of
Speaker 1: a unique beast um. It's widely available in all formats
Speaker 1: though I think most of the vinyl out there is older.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any evidence of any like super cool
Speaker 1: re releases from recent years. Though, I would emphasize that
Speaker 1: the music in this movie is a kind of hybrid product,
Speaker 1: because on one level you've got this weird score, but
Speaker 1: then you also have a lot of uh, directly diegetic
Speaker 1: music taking place on screen that's like uh jazzy big
Speaker 1: band numbers and an old sort of crooner standards. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And finally, since this is such a visually luscious movie,
Speaker 1: we have to mention the set designer Brian eat Well,
Speaker 1: who lived ninety nine through two thousand and seven. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the sets in this movie are just to die for.
Speaker 1: So props to to eat Well and everyone else involved
Speaker 1: in creating these weird interiors. Um. He was a British
Speaker 1: production designer and art director. He designed the sets for
Speaker 1: both Dr fives movies as well. Uh. He also served
Speaker 1: as production designer on such films as the nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: one Australian movie walk About uh Ye, Godspell, The Three
Speaker 1: Musketeers and the Four Musketeers from seventy three and seventy four. Uh.
Speaker 1: Nineteen seventies six is the Man who Fell to Earth
Speaker 1: start David Bowie, Uh, seventy eight, Sergeant Pepper, Lonely Hearts
Speaker 1: Club Band, Uh, The Onion Field and seventy nine and
Speaker 1: the Killer Lion movie Savage Harvest see seventy three. Guys,
Speaker 1: I guess there's only one movie adaptation of God's Spell?
Speaker 1: Is that with Victor Garber? Yeah? I assume this is one.
Speaker 1: This is as far as far as I know, the
Speaker 1: god Spell. This is the one, the one I've seen,
Speaker 1: and it does have I can see the connection here,
Speaker 1: Like there's a between this, this, this Broadway this, you know,
Speaker 1: this weird Broadway musical brought to life and the you know,
Speaker 1: the visual elements that are in play in God's Spell,
Speaker 1: like they compare reasonably well to some of the sensibilities
Speaker 1: we see in Dr fives, the Fibes never wears the
Speaker 1: Superman shirt. No, all right, you want to talk about
Speaker 1: the plot. Hello, let's talk about this plot? Okay. So
Speaker 1: it starts very strong. You know, lights come up on
Speaker 1: rogue organ music and you see a player in a
Speaker 1: hood and cloak. So this black hood, it's kind of shiny.
Speaker 1: The cloak almost looks like it is wet or oily.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's just the material. But the the organ player
Speaker 1: is sitting at the instrument and then being like raised
Speaker 1: up on as if on an elevator. Yeah it is this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this elevator powered um super moody organ of the supervillain
Speaker 1: organ um playing area. It's it's like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's a familiar trope. It's very Phantom of the Opera,
Speaker 1: but then just played up tremendously. You know. The the
Speaker 1: visuals of this are just again just just so luscious.
Speaker 1: And then like the movie just starts at maximum WTF,
Speaker 1: like how to describe what comes next? And it's it's
Speaker 1: a recurring theme. But so the organ player plays while
Speaker 1: the credits roll, and then he gets up and he
Speaker 1: descends a staircase, and the camera pulls back to reveal
Speaker 1: what appears to be a musical ensemble made of embodied
Speaker 1: humanoid automata like the rock a fire explosion like Chuck
Speaker 1: E Cheese or Showbiz Pizza, but instead of having banjo
Speaker 1: bears and cool rats, they are tuxedo dudes in Michael
Speaker 1: Myer's masks, and they're all playing tubas and drums and
Speaker 1: and stuff, and then he conducts them as if they
Speaker 1: were an orchestra. Yeah, and the drum informs us what
Speaker 1: the name of this group is. It's Dr fivees Clockwork Wizards.
Speaker 1: So it's it's already off to a tremendous start, like
Speaker 1: this is a film that's so bold and it's stylish
Speaker 1: weirdness that we just kick things off with an extended
Speaker 1: horror pipe organ number in this underground nightclub. And then
Speaker 1: we're getting no dialogue. Uh no real you know, human
Speaker 1: faces or human voices or anything, just like pure performative weirdness. Yes,
Speaker 1: and it commits so hard, like it goes on like
Speaker 1: you're saying, without dialogue for a while. So the organist
Speaker 1: in the in the cloak steps back, and then there's
Speaker 1: a whole dance number. Virginia North comes out in this
Speaker 1: amazing I don't know what to call the sugar plum
Speaker 1: fairy costume. Like she's wearing this this weird white dress
Speaker 1: with a strange golden vertical crown on her head, and
Speaker 1: they dance together while the while the robots play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's just it's tremendous, like it just it just
Speaker 1: sucks you absolutely and you're like, just it's and it
Speaker 1: works on so many levels. Um, like it sets the
Speaker 1: tone for a film where it's really hard to have
Speaker 1: expectations about what's going to happen because you're not entirely
Speaker 1: sure what this film's values are. I kept thinking about
Speaker 1: that and ultimately made the the you know, the last
Speaker 1: twenty minutes of the film extra terrifying for me because
Speaker 1: it's like, I, I don't know what how a film
Speaker 1: like this ends. I don't know what it considers a
Speaker 1: proper ending because it feels like it's from another dimension.
Speaker 1: Can we stop them and describe the set in this
Speaker 1: room because they will return to it many times throughout
Speaker 1: the throughout the movie. I was calling this the total
Speaker 1: party house because of course you have the ensemble there
Speaker 1: and and it's it's sort of always a party when
Speaker 1: when the when the automatry playing, But it's it's like
Speaker 1: a room with a giant I guess marble floor and
Speaker 1: then uh like balcony levels surrounding it all around. And
Speaker 1: what are some of the things in there? Like there's
Speaker 1: a table on one side of the room that has
Speaker 1: all of these busts or the upper parts of mannekins.
Speaker 1: I think there are nine of them, each one with
Speaker 1: a ceiling lamp hanging over it that I think they're
Speaker 1: supposed to be made of wax or something like we
Speaker 1: see them melting later. And the organ is up on
Speaker 1: the stage at one end of the room. The room
Speaker 1: is decorated with all these satin curtains and these paintings
Speaker 1: on the columns leading up to the balcony with like
Speaker 1: these I don't know what you like, like pharaoh heads
Speaker 1: and uh, weird symbols. Yeah, it's a trip, Yeah it is.
Speaker 1: It is a space that you know, it feels performed,
Speaker 1: but if it feels like a like a nightclub, but
Speaker 1: it also feels like a temple and it is kind
Speaker 1: of like his temple to holy revenge, a temple to
Speaker 1: uh it's to his love for his departed wife. Those
Speaker 1: those heads represent each of the victims that he is
Speaker 1: going to uh kill, the objects of his revenge. Um.
Speaker 1: So it's yeah, it's it's It has a real, you know,
Speaker 1: strong ritualistic and performative vibe to it. Well, after the
Speaker 1: dance is over, the guy in the cloak he goes
Speaker 1: to operate a chain Pulley and I guess we can
Speaker 1: refer to these characters because we know who they're going
Speaker 1: to be. This is dr Fibes in Volvania, and so
Speaker 1: he goes to operate a chain pulley in the middle
Speaker 1: of the room and it lowers something that looks like
Speaker 1: a shrouded bird cage into a sub floor basement, and
Speaker 1: and then Volvania goes down to the subfloor and tends
Speaker 1: to she kind of straps it onto I think a
Speaker 1: trailer on the back of a car. She straps it
Speaker 1: down with a leather belt, and then they get into
Speaker 1: the car and drive away, and we see them driving
Speaker 1: the car and it's the funniest shots of Wolvannia is
Speaker 1: I don't think that's supposed to be her hair. Maybe
Speaker 1: it is. She's got her head is covered in this
Speaker 1: big ball of fur, and I guess it's supposed to
Speaker 1: be a fur cap, I think so. Yeah. Meanwhile, Fibes
Speaker 1: is sitting in the backseat being chauffeured with just like
Speaker 1: wearing the black hood and with the stocking over his face.
Speaker 1: So he's just you know, faceless terror. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: worth noting that both of these characters have so many
Speaker 1: different costume changes. Uh. That revenge, they say revenge is
Speaker 1: a dish Beth served cold, but that doesn't mean you
Speaker 1: can't style it up. That means doesn't mean you can't
Speaker 1: change your your your cloak frequently, that you can't engage
Speaker 1: in any number of rituals. Uh. Yeah, they're they're heavy
Speaker 1: and this vengeance game. And so they're headed out somewhere
Speaker 1: and we we cut to a bedroom we assume is
Speaker 1: where they're headed. It's it's this guy in a in
Speaker 1: a lavish bed chamber with I don't know, fancy stuff
Speaker 1: all over the walls, like paintings of horses and markers
Speaker 1: to indicate this is a rich guy. But then in
Speaker 1: the ceiling above this guy's bed, a skylight in the
Speaker 1: ceiling opens up and we see fibes in Volvania lowering
Speaker 1: in that bird cage from earlier and uh, and then
Speaker 1: they retracted. They pull it back up with a trapdoor
Speaker 1: in the bottom of the cage hanging open. So it
Speaker 1: seems they've released something into the room. And this is
Speaker 1: the first murder of the movie. That's right, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be death by free bat, just like in the Old Testament. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll get into the biblical accuracy maybe a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I don't know about that. But so the guy
Speaker 1: in bed, he is attacked by bats. They're like bats
Speaker 1: crawling on him and he's like uh. And then we
Speaker 1: do the intro and reverse the cloaked figure and and Volvani.
Speaker 1: They return home, they turn off the Michael Myers rock
Speaker 1: fire band and then he descends into the floor playing
Speaker 1: his organ. But the next morning, in the in the
Speaker 1: bedroom of the victim, we get to see some Butler action.
Speaker 1: Butler comes in with eggs on toast and like a
Speaker 1: bat lands on the eggs, and there are bats everywhere
Speaker 1: and the guy's face we see him laying in bed.
Speaker 1: It has been fully oatmeal ified. Yeah, death by free bat.
Speaker 1: And then we see the first of a ritual that
Speaker 1: will repeat throughout the movie, which is that Dr fives
Speaker 1: back at his party house. He puts a dependant with
Speaker 1: a with a significant looking symbol on it on on
Speaker 1: one of the heads of the mannekins or the busts
Speaker 1: on the edge of the big concert hall room, and
Speaker 1: then he burns the face of the bust with a candle.
Speaker 1: But the next morning we get to see the police investigating,
Speaker 1: and and the police are they're played for comedy in
Speaker 1: this movie. They're all bumbling. One of him says it's
Speaker 1: strange business. Tom a man literally shredded to death right
Speaker 1: in the heart of London. We find out that the
Speaker 1: victim was a medical doctor, and the police noticed something.
Speaker 1: They noticed that this vicious fruit bat shredding is similar
Speaker 1: to the recent death of another doctor in town who
Speaker 1: was killed by a swarm of bees in his library.
Speaker 1: And they say, almost turning to look at the camera,
Speaker 1: they say, his face looked as if it were covered
Speaker 1: in boils, and that will be important shortly. So then
Speaker 1: we go back to the Total party house and we
Speaker 1: see Vincent Price, uh, putting on his face. We will
Speaker 1: We don't know what Dr Fib's real face looks like,
Speaker 1: but once he does a bunch of stuff to it,
Speaker 1: he looks like Vincent Price. And uh and I love this.
Speaker 1: I love everything about it. I love the weird sets.
Speaker 1: I love Vincent Price with shaggy ringo hair, and I
Speaker 1: love how they make Vincent Price's actual face look like
Speaker 1: a sagging rubber mask on his head. They yeah, they
Speaker 1: give him this really waxy um color, and yeah, they
Speaker 1: had some other little elements to it. Uh. And he
Speaker 1: also know, of course it's been some Price, so he
Speaker 1: has a great mustache, but also really nice sideburns, yes,
Speaker 1: but also uh, dark rings under his eyes always yes,
Speaker 1: So he looks very very haunted, um like he even
Speaker 1: though he's not in pure monster mode right now, he
Speaker 1: still looks kind of monstrous and unnatural. But the movie
Speaker 1: wastes no time. It is immediately onto the next Doctor Murder,
Speaker 1: so we we meet doctor Hargraves again. He's uh, he's
Speaker 1: at some swanky party where it's like fancy people are
Speaker 1: all wearing animal masks of some kind, and prices there
Speaker 1: in a mask. He gives a frog mask to doctor Hargraves.
Speaker 1: Dr Hargraves uh seems to just accept it. Uh, and
Speaker 1: and Vince Price helps him put it on, and he
Speaker 1: like does the catch on it, and and Hargraves introduces himself.
Speaker 1: He says, I'm a psychiatrist, you know, a head shrinker.
Speaker 1: But oh, this rog mask it's a it's a track
Speaker 1: from Saw. It's like a head crushing action mask where
Speaker 1: it just keeps ratcheting itself tighter. And the doctor staggers around,
Speaker 1: trying to get help from a drunken lizard and some
Speaker 1: oaf in a pig mask, but there's no way of
Speaker 1: saving him. He just his head is crushed and he
Speaker 1: lays there with the frog mask and blood coming out
Speaker 1: of it while people in horsehead masks and and other
Speaker 1: weird costumes look on in amazement. So counting the the
Speaker 1: off screen death, that's like the third death. So three
Speaker 1: down right, And we get a rundown of this by
Speaker 1: the police in the next scene, because there's a scene
Speaker 1: at Scotland Yard with cops are talking about how they
Speaker 1: don't want this story about animal themed doctor murders to
Speaker 1: get out to the press. There there's something that characters
Speaker 1: say multiple times in this movie. They're like medical men
Speaker 1: die all the time. I mean true is and because
Speaker 1: human beings die all the time? Um um that that
Speaker 1: that under a suspicion of circumstances with animal themes. I
Speaker 1: don't know that that's like statistically a thing. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: Inspector trout Is he's tracking now, He's like, wait a minute, bats,
Speaker 1: bees and frogs, so what's going on here? But then
Speaker 1: it's immediately on to the next doctor murder. This is
Speaker 1: just they're coming thick and fast, and the next one
Speaker 1: is dr Longstreet. Is this Terry Thomas? This is Terry Thomas,
Speaker 1: And it is such a Terry Thomas sat So. When
Speaker 1: we first meet him, he's immediately furtively ripping into a
Speaker 1: cylindrical parcel. I think he doesn't want his housekeeper to
Speaker 1: see what he's doing. And he's acting all sweaty and squirrely,
Speaker 1: and he appears to what's going on is that he
Speaker 1: seems to have received a canister of racy film reels
Speaker 1: from the East and he plans to watch them on
Speaker 1: his rattling projector while absolutely chugging red wine tonight, since
Speaker 1: the housekeeper is going to be out for the evening. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and this is the part. So we're watching, you know,
Speaker 1: he puts on his film reel and he's watching. It's
Speaker 1: of like a late dancing with a snake, yes, and
Speaker 1: it's like a belly dancing snake dance kind of a film,
Speaker 1: you know, very but also a very old film. This
Speaker 1: is not something that um, well, you know. It brings
Speaker 1: me back to the question, I'm not sure exactly what
Speaker 1: when when this film is supposed to be taking place.
Speaker 1: It's not supposed to take place in the seventies. No,
Speaker 1: I think it's supposed to take place in like the twenties.
Speaker 1: Bro Okay, so maybe it is a current film that
Speaker 1: he has acquired here. Okay, but yeah, Terry Thomas, he
Speaker 1: is a dirty chap and uh he looks a little bit.
Speaker 1: Wings Houser is here. He's watching inappropriate film reels, chugging
Speaker 1: red wine out of a sniff ter and like licking
Speaker 1: his lips so that he's just being gross. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: a great scene. But then oh here comes of course.
Speaker 1: Dr Fibes and Volvania show up at his house. You know,
Speaker 1: they walk in and he's just kind of like, hum,
Speaker 1: what's going on? And while they sit him down in
Speaker 1: a chair, strap him in and then drain out all
Speaker 1: of his blood. Ye, put it in bottles up there
Speaker 1: on the about the they're about the fireplace. I believe
Speaker 1: it on a shelf. So that's four doctors down. But
Speaker 1: this one kind of breaks the animal theme. This one
Speaker 1: is is blood, huh, what's going on? But the police
Speaker 1: put together a different pattern. They figure out that all
Speaker 1: four of these doctors worked for another doctor named Dr Vassalius,
Speaker 1: and this is Joseph Cotton, and so Inspector Trout goes
Speaker 1: to his house to meet him and see if he
Speaker 1: can make any sense of this. And I like how
Speaker 1: when he gets there Vassalius's teenage son Limb is very
Speaker 1: impressed by the presence of Scotland yard. Yes, and Vassalius's
Speaker 1: house looks like a hair salon. It's so stylish, so stylish.
Speaker 1: There's there's like, you know, African nasts on the wall,
Speaker 1: there's this like Satyr's statue with a light above it,
Speaker 1: shiny surfaces everywhere, potted plants, mirrors on the walls, and
Speaker 1: a lot of fancy chairs just lined up along the walls.
Speaker 1: Does his house have a waiting room? I don't know.
Speaker 1: But Dr Vassalius we see, is a model trained guy.
Speaker 1: Rails and train cars are scattered all over the floor.
Speaker 1: When Trout shows up and Trout fills him in, he's like, okay,
Speaker 1: here's what's going on. And he's like, do you know
Speaker 1: why someone would want to kill all of your associates?
Speaker 1: And of course with saleus has no idea. He again,
Speaker 1: he says the same thing as the guy earlier. He's like,
Speaker 1: men in my profession die every day of the year.
Speaker 1: I don't know how often. Then like frog related deaths though,
Speaker 1: but yeah, But anyway, when the police find out about
Speaker 1: the Longstreet murder here, they get a clue, which is
Speaker 1: the pendant left behind at the scene. Dr Fibes actually
Speaker 1: drops the pendant there by accident, and so they find it.
Speaker 1: They take it back to a goldsmith, the person who
Speaker 1: made it, and uh. The goldsmith tells him, Yep, this
Speaker 1: is an ambulance. I made ten of them. It was
Speaker 1: a lady who ordered them. Uh. And Trout is like,
Speaker 1: was she smart? And then he says fashionable. Yeah. It's
Speaker 1: a fun scene because there's a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of goofy back and forth between these two characters. But
Speaker 1: the jeweler informs Trout that the sign on the ambulance
Speaker 1: is something requested by the person who bought them, and
Speaker 1: it's a symbol in Hebrew. So the inspector then has
Speaker 1: a new clue and takes it to a rabbi to
Speaker 1: get the run down, and here we get a major
Speaker 1: exposition scene. So the rabbi tells him that the symbol
Speaker 1: is Hebrew for blood, and okay, this makes sense because
Speaker 1: Longstreet was drained of all blood. But it's also notable
Speaker 1: for being one of the ten plagues of Egypt, of course,
Speaker 1: turning the Nile into blood. And so here we get
Speaker 1: a speech about the ten plagues of Egypt. So this
Speaker 1: is from the story of the Exodus in in the Torah,
Speaker 1: and the context is that the Jews are in bondage
Speaker 1: in Egypt and God keeps sending plagues against Egypt to
Speaker 1: force the Pharaoh to release them. Here we get a
Speaker 1: list of the plagues which are in order. And I'm
Speaker 1: not saying these are necessarily the correct plagues, but this
Speaker 1: is what the movies as says. They are boils, bats, frogs, blood, rats, hail, beasts, locusts,
Speaker 1: death of the firstborn, and darkness. Alright, we've had the
Speaker 1: first four, so we're almost halfway through. I feel like
Speaker 1: I must flag as kind of a Bible nerdy like
Speaker 1: compare that to the actual list in a in a
Speaker 1: good translation of Exodus. I don't think that really matches,
Speaker 1: but anyway, So we get more scenes with Dr Fibes
Speaker 1: back at the party house and he uh, this is
Speaker 1: this is where we first see him speaking to a
Speaker 1: shrine of the image of a woman. We find out
Speaker 1: his wife. This is the one played by the photo
Speaker 1: of Caroline Monroe against Stella star Uh, and he's like
Speaker 1: worshiping this this headshot of her. He's got a whole
Speaker 1: table I think of her her belongings laid out. And
Speaker 1: we mentioned earlier that Vincent Price never actually speaks out
Speaker 1: of his mouth in this movie, so the only times
Speaker 1: he talks are by plugging a phone of graph into
Speaker 1: a jack in the back of his neck. And this
Speaker 1: connects to another weird scene later where he looks it
Speaker 1: looks like he's drinking a beverage by pouring it into
Speaker 1: the back of his neck. Yes, at one point he
Speaker 1: tastes something he's mixed up on his finger by like
Speaker 1: sticking his finger back there to where they're when we
Speaker 1: never see it, but presumably there's some sort of a
Speaker 1: mouth hole back there that has been I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's surgical or technological, but uh, not knowing for
Speaker 1: sure makes it all the more impressive. When he's tasting something,
Speaker 1: is that the Brussels sprout. Google, Yes, the Brussels sprout.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that. But this also provides some exposition
Speaker 1: because talking through the phonograph, he gives this whole uh
Speaker 1: fiery speech and he says nine killed you, nine shall
Speaker 1: die nine It turn it he's in doom. But we
Speaker 1: also get some exposition on the other side, for with
Speaker 1: dr Vesalius and the police. So he and Trout do
Speaker 1: some research and they figure out that there was actually
Speaker 1: only one case where Visalius worked with all of the
Speaker 1: doctors who are now dead, and that was on one
Speaker 1: patient named Victoria Regina Fibes, and we get the whole backstory.
Speaker 1: So she she had some medical emergency. They were operating
Speaker 1: on her. Her husband was someone named Dr Anton Fibes,
Speaker 1: and as Anton Fibes was racing to the hospital where
Speaker 1: his wife was in surgery, his car went off a
Speaker 1: cliff and exploded and he was incinerated or was he?
Speaker 1: And the reason from this, Okay, so the rest of
Speaker 1: the surgical team that worked on this case of Victoria Fibes,
Speaker 1: they all need to be put under police protection, but
Speaker 1: the police don't really get there fast enough for most
Speaker 1: of them because the next scene is where Vincent Price
Speaker 1: uses an air conditioner in a car to kill a guy. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, like this in the carriage there, they
Speaker 1: just kind of like pulled him over, take incapacitate the driver,
Speaker 1: and then just hook him up to the a C
Speaker 1: freeze him solid and there's like snow blowing in his
Speaker 1: face from this machine. Yeah, it's pretty good and this
Speaker 1: one was the scene too that's very feels very Avengers
Speaker 1: uh and uh in its weirdness, you know, because we
Speaker 1: got like a little bit of super science that in
Speaker 1: in weirdness. And we're also getting into that territory here
Speaker 1: too with our villain. Where our villain is um. He's
Speaker 1: not incapable of air. We saw him drop the amulet earlier,
Speaker 1: but he's really thought out everything and is a man
Speaker 1: of multiple talents, a real villainous poly math. Yes. In fact,
Speaker 1: the very next scene we start to learn about all
Speaker 1: of his different expertise. So first of all, we get
Speaker 1: a clue from for Scotland Yard, which comes from Dr
Speaker 1: Vesalius's son Lim, who says he was in the music
Speaker 1: shop I think, talking to the owner there about the
Speaker 1: great organists, and he just happens to name some of
Speaker 1: the great organists offhand, Bridges, Drew and Fibes. And so
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, oh, I see Dr Anton Fibes. He
Speaker 1: was a aid organist and he's apparently been paying the
Speaker 1: local organ shop guy recently, even though he's supposed to
Speaker 1: be dead. So they take a trip out to the
Speaker 1: crypt where Mr and Mrs Fibes were supposedly laid to rest,
Speaker 1: and we get more discussion about his background. They say, okay,
Speaker 1: he's not only a concert organist, he's also a PhD
Speaker 1: in theology. And I thought this was hilarious. Inspector Trout
Speaker 1: is like that would explain his knowledge of the ten
Speaker 1: plagues of Egypt. It seems like rather basic knowledge. I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's not really a deep cut. But another
Speaker 1: really weird thing here is that wait a minute, Okay,
Speaker 1: so Fibes is a concert organist and a PhD in theology.
Speaker 1: I started to wonder, that is a really weird coincidence
Speaker 1: if this is not supposed to be a play on
Speaker 1: Albert Schweitzer. But I don't know why else that would be.
Speaker 1: So do you know anything about Schweitzer. I didn't know
Speaker 1: a lot about him until you you mentioned the possible connection,
Speaker 1: and I read like just a basic bio on him. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He's an interesting figure who was a medical doctor, a
Speaker 1: concert organist, and one of the most important scholars ever
Speaker 1: of the New Testament. He's largely responsible in historical Jesus
Speaker 1: scholarship for putting forward probably the reigning historical understanding of
Speaker 1: of Jesus today, which is that he was an apocalyptic
Speaker 1: Jewish prophet, somebody who was predicting the imminent end of
Speaker 1: the world. But but I was just thinking, like, it
Speaker 1: doesn't make a lot of sense otherwise, But it would
Speaker 1: be that is such a weirdly specific thing. An organist
Speaker 1: and a PhD in theology. I don't know. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it makes sense. It's one way to flesh
Speaker 1: out your villain. Pick a pick an historical figure and
Speaker 1: say what if we made them into a super villain,
Speaker 1: If they were a super villain, what would it be like? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I don't know, strange choice, but interesting anyway. At
Speaker 1: the crip we've got, you know, so they're like, well,
Speaker 1: let's just pop open these coffins and have us look. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no no official process here. They just just rip
Speaker 1: them open, just pop them open. Yeah. So they pop
Speaker 1: open the Doctor fibes to him. It has only ashes
Speaker 1: in it, but whose ashes we don't know. They pop
Speaker 1: open the Mrs fibes to him, nothing, completely empty. One
Speaker 1: of the next scenes I recall is Inspector Trout back
Speaker 1: at the office receiving just a whacking chew out from
Speaker 1: his superiors. So they, you know, he's what what is
Speaker 1: do you remember this boss's name, the guy who's yelling
Speaker 1: at him for like a minute straight. I believe this
Speaker 1: is James Grout just playing sergeant. I could be wrong
Speaker 1: on that, but but it's a it's it's a real
Speaker 1: fun role because he's, yeah, he's a real he's a
Speaker 1: real hard ass. Yeah he's he's demanding that they solve
Speaker 1: the case immediately. You know, we we can't have these
Speaker 1: weird doctor murders just hanging out there because there was
Speaker 1: public outcry and that's falling on me. And the big
Speaker 1: boss also yells at Trout for not wearing his suit
Speaker 1: jacket inside. It is a real stickler. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: we get another doctor murder scene. This one I thought
Speaker 1: was kind of strange, but it was the rat attack
Speaker 1: in the planes. One of the doctors is an amateur pilot.
Speaker 1: He takes his plane up and then while in there,
Speaker 1: I guess they guess Dr FIBs and Volvania have put
Speaker 1: rats in the plane. The rats attack him and then
Speaker 1: he crashes the plane. Um. I guess part of it's
Speaker 1: the sequential nature of this and also the britishness of it.
Speaker 1: But I was reminded of psychomania A lot in this
Speaker 1: because it's the whole section in Psychomania where there's you
Speaker 1: have every all the bikers trying to kill themselves in
Speaker 1: unique ways. They can come back as undead bikers, and
Speaker 1: there's kind of like each one is more ridiculous than
Speaker 1: the last. That is a great sequence, oh Psychomania. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's also one of the best, I think, speaking of
Speaker 1: the best, oh, the next murder it maybe it's one
Speaker 1: of the cheapest where you're kind of like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Five's you're kind of really stretching the theme here, but
Speaker 1: on the other level, like absolut lutely top marks for
Speaker 1: creativity and style. So the so the police have not
Speaker 1: been able to protect any of the doctors yet. So
Speaker 1: they finally get to the next one before five Scan.
Speaker 1: They're at his Gentleman's club in London, I guess, and
Speaker 1: they're like, okay, we're gonna take you into protective custody,
Speaker 1: will make sure nothing happens to you. So they're walking
Speaker 1: out of the club and as they opened the door,
Speaker 1: you just hear like an arrow hitting the target sound effect,
Speaker 1: and he has been pierced through with the horn of
Speaker 1: a brass unicorn. Yes, as oh, when they say it
Speaker 1: was fired from a catapult. Yeah, And this is one
Speaker 1: of those moments in The Villagers reminds you like, don't
Speaker 1: try and think too forensically about this motion picture. If
Speaker 1: you're like, well, how did they get a cataby lay
Speaker 1: a catapult trap there, and and how did they work
Speaker 1: out the aerodynamics of launching like this brass unicorn at
Speaker 1: this guy. We'll just don't worry about that. Just trust
Speaker 1: us that happened. The unicorn horn has a spiral pattern
Speaker 1: on it, and they have to unscrew the guy from
Speaker 1: the wall. They show like his feet going around. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's such it's such great gallows humor. I love it.
Speaker 1: But then so you've got this extremely silly scene and
Speaker 1: then right after there's kind of a serious scene where
Speaker 1: Fibes is he's again worshiping the headshot of Caroline Monroe,
Speaker 1: but in this one he recites part of a wonderful
Speaker 1: love poem by John Dunn, The Goodmorrow. Do you know
Speaker 1: this one? Rob, I wasn't familiar with this one. You
Speaker 1: might remember lines from it, you know, people might have
Speaker 1: read it at school, and sometimes it has the lines
Speaker 1: if ever, any beauty I did see which I desired
Speaker 1: and got twas but a dream of the well. He
Speaker 1: doesn't say those lines in the movie. He instead he
Speaker 1: quotes some lines from the last stands of the poem.
Speaker 1: He quotes them out of order. So the last stanza
Speaker 1: is my face in thine I thine in mine appears
Speaker 1: and true plane hearts do in the faces rest? Where
Speaker 1: can we find two better hemispheres without sharp north, without
Speaker 1: declining west? Whatever dies was not equally if our two
Speaker 1: loves be one or thou and I love so alike
Speaker 1: that none do slacken, none can die. It's a great poem.
Speaker 1: But he so he reads the first four lines of
Speaker 1: that stanza, but he reads lines three and four and
Speaker 1: then one and two, so the ones about the hemispheres
Speaker 1: and then the in the faces rest. Well, Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: put a lot of work into this whole revenged cycle
Speaker 1: and ritual h So you know, he's he's figured out
Speaker 1: how to mix it up a little bit. He's got
Speaker 1: to get it just right. There's been many takes. But
Speaker 1: then it goes straight from that into probably I would say,
Speaker 1: the weirdest murder in the entire movie. Would you agree, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's and it's also and this is nice that the
Speaker 1: murders all feel a little bit different, and they're presented
Speaker 1: in different ways. Like we get no clue at all
Speaker 1: about the set up for the brass unicorn catapult murder,
Speaker 1: but the making the unicorn or everything, no extended scenes
Speaker 1: of that, But this one is all about the prep work.
Speaker 1: In fact, you just set you just sat there watching
Speaker 1: this weirdness take place, and you're like, what are they doing? What? What? What?
Speaker 1: What of the tin plagues of Egypt involved Brussels sprouts.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Brussels sprouts. What is happening. Volvania is
Speaker 1: walking around dressed like Queen Elizabeth and holding trays of
Speaker 1: Brussels sprouts, and Vincent Price is standing over a giant
Speaker 1: pot of boiling Brussels sprouts, and he's like picking Brussels
Speaker 1: sprouts from her hands and throwing some of them into
Speaker 1: the pot and throwing other ones away. He's inspecting them
Speaker 1: to see if they're just right. I don't know why,
Speaker 1: I don't know how this works, but he's like making
Speaker 1: he's turning the Brussels sprouts into some kind of essence
Speaker 1: of Brussels sprout. Yeah, and I wasn't sure what was
Speaker 1: going on. I was like, well, we know that, um,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously he was. He was heavily disfigured, and
Speaker 1: we I think by this point we already knew know
Speaker 1: that he drinks through his neck. So I was thinking, well,
Speaker 1: maybe this is just what Dr Fibes consumes. Maybe he's
Speaker 1: on a liqu a diet and he likes Brussels sprouts,
Speaker 1: and brussels prouts are good for you, and brussel trouts
Speaker 1: are great. So I mean, maybe not in this form,
Speaker 1: but no, this is this is the world. I mean,
Speaker 1: I love brussel sprouts like good, like roasted. The idea
Speaker 1: of boiling brussels sprouts down to a paste is one
Speaker 1: of the most disgusting things I can imagine Brussel sprouts
Speaker 1: and wet heat. No, no, no, yeah, but yeah. Watching this,
Speaker 1: I was like, I have no idea where this is going.
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm all in, let's see, well where is
Speaker 1: it going. We've got one last person on the list.
Speaker 1: It's a nurse who worked on the you know, the
Speaker 1: Victoria Fives case, and so the police are trying to
Speaker 1: protect her. They send her into a room in some
Speaker 1: building where every surface is green. Very nice and fits
Speaker 1: with the theme of of green good. So they're like, okay,
Speaker 1: go in this room and sleep, and she's like okay.
Speaker 1: They tell her to take a sleeping pill, and uh,
Speaker 1: I guess that would explain why she is slow to wake. Later,
Speaker 1: Dr five sneaks into the floor above her, drills a
Speaker 1: hole in the floor, hooks up a machine to pump
Speaker 1: green goog. I guess this is what he made out
Speaker 1: of the Brussels sprouts into the room. It dribbles all
Speaker 1: over some globe lamp and then dribbles all over her face.
Speaker 1: And then he releases locusts into the room via a
Speaker 1: tube and they marched single file and then they go
Speaker 1: down and I guess they start eating the green goo
Speaker 1: off of her because they like plants and I don't know.
Speaker 1: And then they just strip her flesh down to the bones. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it just completely de flesh her skeleton. Yeah, pironify her.
Speaker 1: Is that weird enough for you? It's such a weird scene,
Speaker 1: and of course you know it's completely unrealistic, but but
Speaker 1: but kudos he was able to work. It was like,
Speaker 1: once I saw the bugs, I was like, ah, you're
Speaker 1: doing the locusts. Okay, now it all makes sense. He
Speaker 1: made Brussels sprout goo. Then he used, okay, well you
Speaker 1: know he's been working up again. A lot of work
Speaker 1: went into this. He probably tried different you know, liquefied
Speaker 1: vegetables and liquefied plants to see what would get the
Speaker 1: locust excited enough to completely consume the human human bodies flesh.
Speaker 1: And this is what worked. And she never woke up
Speaker 1: the whole time. Well, she she'd taken a sleeping tale,
Speaker 1: so she was she was out. But then finally we
Speaker 1: get down to the climax, which is when Visalius realizes that, oh,
Speaker 1: the biblical play falling to him is the death of
Speaker 1: the firstborn, his organist son, his son Limb has been
Speaker 1: kidnapped by Dr Fibes, and uh here here we come
Speaker 1: to our James Bond trap ending. So Vassalius finds out
Speaker 1: that Fibes has his kid. He knocks out Inspector Trout,
Speaker 1: who tries to stop him, and then he heads over
Speaker 1: to the party house where all kinds of things are happening.
Speaker 1: U vol Navia is wearing this amazing like red cloak
Speaker 1: with a with a golden son with all these like
Speaker 1: insect legs on it, and this, uh, this hat with
Speaker 1: peacock things shooting off of it. I don't know. She's
Speaker 1: the high priestess of the Revenge, I think at this point, yes,
Speaker 1: beauty full and this, uh, the the Automata playing their
Speaker 1: their big band music, and Doctor Vissalius arrives and and
Speaker 1: oh god, they explained this whole thing to him. His
Speaker 1: They're like, Okay, you've got six minutes to operate on
Speaker 1: your son, to get a key out of his body
Speaker 1: that I've placed in his body that you will have
Speaker 1: to use to unlock the table, which so you can
Speaker 1: move the table that he's on so that this timer
Speaker 1: doesn't release a bunch of acid onto him. Right, It's
Speaker 1: it's it's like, this is very much This is where
Speaker 1: I was definitely thinking about, like the Saw movies and
Speaker 1: and all, but like, really Jigsaw just a rank amateur
Speaker 1: with no style at all compared to Dr Five's because
Speaker 1: as grotesque is this sounds, and it does come off
Speaker 1: as like legitimately kind of at this point, it's still
Speaker 1: beautifully rendered. You know, this white background. It's it's very
Speaker 1: stylish and and it also works really well. I feel
Speaker 1: like the tension really builds in this part of the
Speaker 1: movie because, like I I referenced earlier, we're at the
Speaker 1: part where we're past the victims, where we can be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that guy seems sleazy. I guess it's okay of our
Speaker 1: unrealistic movie villain kills them. But now, like we're dealing
Speaker 1: with with the doctor alone, we haven't really seen anything
Speaker 1: to any reason to hate him and his son even
Speaker 1: more so, like he is an innocent when it comes
Speaker 1: to the death of fibes wife. You know, no, no
Speaker 1: matter how you you know, tease apart the details of
Speaker 1: her demise, right, so Visalius is he's he's setting to it.
Speaker 1: He's trying to get the task done. Meanwhile, of all,
Speaker 1: Navia goes to grab a solid old axe and just
Speaker 1: starts hacking up the whole place. I guess, you know,
Speaker 1: Fibes is like, we're done destroy everything, so she's at it.
Speaker 1: We get a Fibes face reveal, Yes, where what is
Speaker 1: his real face? It's I don't know how to describe it.
Speaker 1: It's a skull face. Yeah, it's a like very very
Speaker 1: Phantom of the Opera skeleton face. Uh. You know on
Speaker 1: the posters you see some like mechanical elements um that
Speaker 1: are part of it, like you know, he's you know,
Speaker 1: touching on the fact that he's also kind of made
Speaker 1: up have some clockwork elements to himself, because he has
Speaker 1: this big showdown right where he's talking about, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: how the doctors can't be trusted. The doctor said he
Speaker 1: wouldn't survive, but he used his own ingenuity, to his
Speaker 1: knowledge of music and acoustics to allow himself to speak again.
Speaker 1: And and he also has that great line there where
Speaker 1: he's says, I've killed nine times in my life. How
Speaker 1: many motors may be attributed to you? Speaking to the doctor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So he comes down there, he takes the mask off,
Speaker 1: because this whole thing is like soon your son will
Speaker 1: be disfigured by acid. It will look just like me. Um.
Speaker 1: And then of course the doctor continues to try and
Speaker 1: frantically work the surgery, and meanwhile he just kind of
Speaker 1: like backs up and scapes into the elevator, uh, and
Speaker 1: leaves them to try and pull it off. Now we
Speaker 1: Visalia succeeds. The sun is not harmed, but Fibes does
Speaker 1: get away and the police arrive. Oh and there when
Speaker 1: the police arrived, Volnavia is standing there, I guess, ready
Speaker 1: to attack with the golden, the solid gold axe. But
Speaker 1: then she stands under the acid machine and she gets
Speaker 1: she gets acided. Yeah, she gets acids lined. We don't
Speaker 1: actually see her melt or anything, but um, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's an implied melting. And I guess
Speaker 1: you know she's not a good character. She's not. She's
Speaker 1: been doing a lot of murder, a lot of murders,
Speaker 1: so it feels fair. Oh but then Dr Fibes he
Speaker 1: basically gets away with it because what does he do.
Speaker 1: He goes down and we find out, oh, there's there's
Speaker 1: Mrs Fibes in a sort of crypt with a robotic
Speaker 1: lifting or mechanically lifting lid. He gets into the crypt
Speaker 1: next to her, I guess, planning to be interred alongside
Speaker 1: her body, and then hooks up a machine to replace
Speaker 1: his blood with embalming fluid, and we see it like
Speaker 1: coming out of these yellow, very clearly labeled beakers that
Speaker 1: say embalming fluid. And so he's going down there, I guess,
Speaker 1: getting embalmed in real time. When the when the police
Speaker 1: inspectors show up, the we're like, wait a minute, what
Speaker 1: was the last plague big Stinger? Of course, plague of
Speaker 1: darkness and the lights go out. Yeah, and we get
Speaker 1: the credits roll. And this is in the credits where
Speaker 1: we see both doctor both doctors are listed as the protagonists,
Speaker 1: which I like. And then when oh, and then what
Speaker 1: song is playing over the end credits just to add
Speaker 1: to the utter weirdness of this movie. Somewhere over the rainbow. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's so good. And then at the very end you
Speaker 1: get a little stinger, you get an evil doctor fives
Speaker 1: Vincent price laugh. Oh god, I love it. There's just
Speaker 1: in the last twenty minutes there's so many weird touches,
Speaker 1: like I love how the when he self embalms himself alive.
Speaker 1: The embalming fluid is this bright yellow opposite the bright
Speaker 1: red of the blood. Um. It made me think. I
Speaker 1: think phantasm too has bright yellow embalming fluid. I have
Speaker 1: no idea what color embalming fluid actually is, but I
Speaker 1: hope it's bright mustard yellow like in these motion pictures.
Speaker 1: There's the lid to the casket. Oh what about that? Oh,
Speaker 1: it has like this elaborate sun, moon and earth, this
Speaker 1: astrological thing going on. Amazing great set design. Uh, this
Speaker 1: one's a real winner. Dr Fibes is the best. Absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 1: this one. This one was a lot of fun. Highly
Speaker 1: recommend it. Just just a weird fun picture. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: probably not for the week, kids or anything, but unless
Speaker 1: we say otherwise, that applies to any movie we talk
Speaker 1: about here, right right, But I've got a lot of
Speaker 1: fun for just about everybody else. Uh. This one is
Speaker 1: currently hard to stream anywhere as of this recording, at
Speaker 1: least in the United States. Uh. There's an old DVD
Speaker 1: available in the United States and and that is what
Speaker 1: I rented from Video Drome to watch it. There's a
Speaker 1: nice arrow video Blu Ray for regions be Slash two
Speaker 1: out there. But luckily the folks at Video Drume informed
Speaker 1: me that a new Blu Ray edition is about to
Speaker 1: come out from Keno Lorber. It's gonna come out next
Speaker 1: month and it's a two pack with both Fibes movies
Speaker 1: in part one and the sequel. Uh. So if you're
Speaker 1: excited to check out this film, well, hey, it's about here.
Speaker 1: And who knows a lot of times when these films
Speaker 1: come out like this, um it opens up streaming options
Speaker 1: as well, at least in subsequent months. So I feel
Speaker 1: like Fibes is returning. Uh. In grandiose fashion, which of course,
Speaker 1: uh fits him perfectly. I can't wait. I will probably
Speaker 1: be trying to grab one of those. Yeah, Kino Lorber.
Speaker 1: They tend to do a really good job. Alright, anything
Speaker 1: else you want to say about Dr FIBs, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so many This is one of those movies are
Speaker 1: just so rich with weirdness that we we didn't even
Speaker 1: have time to touch on everything. There's so many great shots, um,
Speaker 1: you know, so many nice little details that are either
Speaker 1: added to a performance or certainly to the background. For instance,
Speaker 1: I feel like we could have just described his organ
Speaker 1: that he plays, glowing red organ. Oh yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: so beautiful, gothically super villain stylish. Oh, it's just it
Speaker 1: has to be seen. Don't watch this movie if you're
Speaker 1: making Brussels sprouts for dinner. All right, We're gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and close out this episode. But as always so
Speaker 1: we'd love to hear from everyone out there. Any five
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