WEBVTT - Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Creature with the Atom Brain

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. Rewind.

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<v Speaker 2>This is Rob Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick, and today

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<v Speaker 2>we're bringing you an older episode of Weird House Cinema.

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<v Speaker 2>This was our look at Creature with the Adam Brain,

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<v Speaker 2>prominently featured in one of my favorite Rocky Ericson songs.

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<v Speaker 2>Creature with the Adam Brain came out in nineteen fifty five.

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<v Speaker 2>In this episode, originally published on July seventh, twenty twenty three.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, let's jump right in.

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<v Speaker 3>Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey you, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

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<v Speaker 2>And this is Joe McCormick, and today we're going to

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<v Speaker 2>be covering a movie from the nineteen fifties about evil

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<v Speaker 2>scientists who want to use long distance electrodes to power

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<v Speaker 2>the brain of dead men to do their bidding. No,

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<v Speaker 2>not Plan nine from Outer Space, Not The Bride of

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<v Speaker 2>the Monster. It's another movie with a very similar premise.

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<v Speaker 2>This was sort of in the air. Apparently, this is

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<v Speaker 2>nineteen fifty five's Creature with the Atom Brain.

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<v Speaker 1>Which has always been a confusing title because I think

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<v Speaker 1>for a while I even just would read it as

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<v Speaker 1>creature with the atomic brain, because what would adam brain

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<v Speaker 1>even mean other than possibly super small brain.

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<v Speaker 2>Obviously, Yeah, it seems like an advance on the insult

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<v Speaker 2>pea brain. You know, you go down to pe brain

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<v Speaker 2>and then what's below that atom brain?

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<v Speaker 1>I guess, Yeah, but no, it's it's essentially in the

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<v Speaker 1>same vein as atomic brain. But yeah, but not only

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<v Speaker 1>is this like perhaps an idea of a reduced brain,

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<v Speaker 1>also reduced runtime. This one comes in at a slim

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<v Speaker 1>sixty nine minutes. The one of the reasons we picked

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<v Speaker 1>it for this week was that we had a super

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<v Speaker 1>long movie last week and we had a short week

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<v Speaker 1>this week, so it seemed like a good time to

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<v Speaker 1>dip back back into the nineteen fifties.

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<v Speaker 2>Sixty nine minutes, that's I don't know, that's kind of

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<v Speaker 2>on the long side for these movies. I think a

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<v Speaker 2>Attack of the Crab Monster is more like sixty three.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Some of those Corman and cormanqu pictures come in

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<v Speaker 1>at an hour or less, so yeah, they can get

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<v Speaker 1>shorter now. The other fun thing about this pick is

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<v Speaker 1>that it inspired a Rocky Ericsson song. Rocky Erickson was

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<v Speaker 1>a if not the Texan psychedelic rocker who lived nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>forty seven through twenty nineteen, did a number of songs

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<v Speaker 1>that were inspired or referenced horror movies or horror movie themes,

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<v Speaker 1>and so it's kind of a treat to get to

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<v Speaker 1>talk about a movie that he strongly and directly references.

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<v Speaker 1>I think another one we've talked about is possibly nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>fifty nine's The Alligator People. But yeah, today's movie inspired

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<v Speaker 1>the Rocky ericson track of the same name, Creature with

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<v Speaker 1>the Adam, which you can find on the nineteen eighty

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<v Speaker 1>one album The Evil One.

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<v Speaker 2>I first heard this album, I'm pretty sure in the

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<v Speaker 2>summer between my freshman and sophomore year of college. I

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<v Speaker 2>was hanging out with a friend and he put this

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<v Speaker 2>on while we were playing chess, and it quickly became

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<v Speaker 2>one of my favorite albums of all time, though it's

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<v Speaker 2>one that I think is apparently not for everybody. I

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<v Speaker 2>thought it was just great, But I took The Evil

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<v Speaker 2>One like back to school with me in the fall,

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<v Speaker 2>and you know, I was playing it for all my friends,

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<v Speaker 2>and I feel like a lot of them just weren't

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<v Speaker 2>into it. But it's one of my favorite rock and

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<v Speaker 2>Roll Records, every two Headed Dog, The Wind and More,

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<v Speaker 2>Bloody Hammer, Cold Night for Alligators, Night of the Vampire,

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<v Speaker 2>Creature with the Adam Brain, the hits never stop.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think you You originally turned me on to

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<v Speaker 1>Rocky Erickson, and it took a little while for it

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<v Speaker 1>to really good. Tooksend to me this album in particular,

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<v Speaker 1>but eventually it did, and come back to it pretty frequently.

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<v Speaker 1>They're they're pretty often pretty hard hitting songs. There's pretty

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<v Speaker 1>heavy stuff at times, and the lyrics are tremendous fun.

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<v Speaker 2>But I want to say that while a number of

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<v Speaker 2>songs on this fantastic album, the album is very monster

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<v Speaker 2>themed overall, and while a number of songs on the

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<v Speaker 2>album make oblique reference to identifiable monster movies, for example,

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<v Speaker 2>The Alligator People, there's a song on there called It's

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<v Speaker 2>a Cold Night for Alligator as it talks about how

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<v Speaker 2>the dogs choke on their barking when they see alligator

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<v Speaker 2>persons in the bog and fog. I'm pretty sure the

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<v Speaker 2>song Night of the Vampire must have something to do

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<v Speaker 2>with a particular vampire movie. That's the one where if

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<v Speaker 2>it's raining and you're running, don't slip in mud, because

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<v Speaker 2>if you do, you'll slip in blood. That's just logic.

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<v Speaker 2>But anyway, so a lot of these other songs, the

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<v Speaker 2>references are kind of, you know, oblique illusions, but this

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<v Speaker 2>one is just head on. The song is called Creature

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<v Speaker 2>with the Adam Brain. It's about a movie called Creature

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<v Speaker 2>with the Adam Brain, and the song, at multiple points

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<v Speaker 2>just Rocky starts reciting dialogue from the film.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, so it's pretty dead on. And I looked around.

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<v Speaker 1>I've never read any books, you know, dedicated biographies about

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<v Speaker 1>Rocky Erickson, but I found an article, an interview from

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<v Speaker 1>The Quietess. I'm not sure what year this is, but

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<v Speaker 1>titled getting to Grips with Rocky Ericson, and there's a

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<v Speaker 1>part where they ask him. The interviewer says, what's your

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<v Speaker 1>favorite horror movie, and Rocky Erickson says, quote, I like

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<v Speaker 1>the Creature with the Adam Brain, and I like The

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<v Speaker 1>Giant Cricket. I like them too a lot. Yeah, so

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<v Speaker 1>we have that to go on. The Giant Cricket, I think,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure he might be referring to nineteen fifty

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<v Speaker 1>seven's beginning of the end, but yeah, pretty strong on

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<v Speaker 1>the Creature with the Adam brain here. Maybe there's some

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<v Speaker 1>other interviews where he goes into it more. But there

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<v Speaker 1>is something it is interesting to think about because on

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<v Speaker 1>the surface, if you watch this movie not knowing it

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<v Speaker 1>was anyone's favorite, you might guess that it is no

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<v Speaker 1>one's favorite. Like, there are a lot of fun things

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<v Speaker 1>about it, but it doesn't necessarily scream top tier fifty

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<v Speaker 1>sci fi horror. But it does some things extremely well there.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, there are some moments that are far creepier

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<v Speaker 1>than you might expect them to be, and the ones

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<v Speaker 1>that I kept coming back to were these moments where

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<v Speaker 1>our antagonist Buchanan, who will get into and who is

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<v Speaker 1>referenced in Rocky's song, is using super science to compel

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<v Speaker 1>the dead to do things or speaking through the dead,

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<v Speaker 1>and I don't know, I kept coming back to that

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<v Speaker 1>thinking about, you know, trying to figure out what Rocky

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<v Speaker 1>found so fascinating about this movie.

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<v Speaker 2>I agree with that assessment. I totally had a great

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<v Speaker 2>time watching this, but I don't think it is top

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<v Speaker 2>tier in any dimension. It's not like a truly great

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<v Speaker 2>fifty sci fi film in terms of being scary or

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<v Speaker 2>having interesting science fiction premises or in human drama, any

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<v Speaker 2>of that. It's also not one of the most notable

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<v Speaker 2>in terms of excesses of cheese, Like it's not in

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<v Speaker 2>Edward territory. You know, this is a competently made film,

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<v Speaker 2>but nevertheless it does have some things that are working

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<v Speaker 2>in both directions, and overall it's a fun ride and

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<v Speaker 2>it just moves right along. This is not a slow

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<v Speaker 2>or dull film.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, it does. It does really really move right along.

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<v Speaker 1>So anyway, it'd be interesting to keep all this in mind.

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<v Speaker 1>And again we also have to drive home. You don't

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<v Speaker 1>have to have any kind of like specific reason to

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<v Speaker 1>champion a particular horror movie or sci fi movie that

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<v Speaker 1>no one else does. I don't know, you know, this

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<v Speaker 1>is just one that's stuck with Rocky ericson and he

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<v Speaker 1>made it into a great song. So there you go.

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<v Speaker 2>Sorry, I just put this together. You mentioned that. So

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<v Speaker 2>he said the other one that might be his favorite

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<v Speaker 2>as the Giant Cricket. And you think that might be

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<v Speaker 2>Beginning of the end if that is correct. Beginning of

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<v Speaker 2>the End is a bird Eye Gordon film.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh okay, just had to flag that there might be

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<v Speaker 1>something else that could be classified as the Giant Cricket.

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<v Speaker 1>But this is the main one I came across, and

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<v Speaker 1>it seems to be in that sweet spot of fifties

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<v Speaker 1>films that he's into.

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<v Speaker 2>This is the one, doesn't it have? Like one of

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<v Speaker 2>the special effects shots in it is bird Eye? Gordon

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<v Speaker 2>had a regular sized cricket crawling over like a postcard

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<v Speaker 2>of the New York skyline.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I think that's the one.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's smart.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, well, elevator pitch for the creature with the

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<v Speaker 1>Adam brain. The best I could come up with is

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<v Speaker 1>Popular Science Magazine, June nineteen fifty five, The Horror Movie.

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<v Speaker 1>That's good, yeah, because there is a real feel of

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<v Speaker 1>I just caught up on the latest, you know, bleeding

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<v Speaker 1>edge science and now I'm going to write a script

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<v Speaker 1>for a horror movie that we have to make next week.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, I've got another take on it. So if

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<v Speaker 2>Edward originally sold Bride of the Monster as Bride of

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<v Speaker 2>the Atom, this is like they're exploring more stuff in

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<v Speaker 2>that space. We already did Bride of the Atom. Whatso

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<v Speaker 2>how about entry level employee of the Atom? And I

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<v Speaker 2>think that that's sort of the premise here.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, all right, let's go ahead and listen to that

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<v Speaker 1>trailer audio. This is pretty goodn.

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<v Speaker 4>Fish and science creates an electronic monster so terrifying only

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<v Speaker 4>screams can describe it. Come back home, Come back home.

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<v Speaker 4>According to the evidence, Fanny was murdered by a creature

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<v Speaker 4>with adam rays of superhuman strength and a creature that

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<v Speaker 4>cannot be killed by bullets. I said I would live

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<v Speaker 4>to see you die. I just came from the bureau

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<v Speaker 4>and checked the murderer's fingerprints.

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<v Speaker 1>His name is Willard Pierce.

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<v Speaker 2>They let me have it from the.

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<v Speaker 4>Finals petty theft for three months in prison to prcule.

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<v Speaker 4>How could to burcular men I have strength enough to

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<v Speaker 4>break those bars like that?

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<v Speaker 1>Do you think that's something?

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<v Speaker 2>Answer this one? How could a dead man have strength

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<v Speaker 2>enough to do it?

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<v Speaker 1>Fantastic? But based on scientific fact.

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<v Speaker 2>Please hello, your flight.

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<v Speaker 4>You will stop all planes and trucks searching for radio activity.

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<v Speaker 4>If you do not, many people will be killed.

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<v Speaker 2>There will be no other war. Hello, Hello, Hello, they

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<v Speaker 2>hung up.

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<v Speaker 1>Before I put the trace wrong.

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<v Speaker 4>Slow down, Dave, Dave, Now the killed him.

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<v Speaker 1>There you go. Based on scientific fact. This is a

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<v Speaker 1>This is a film that that screams to be viewed.

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<v Speaker 2>This is hard science, hard science. This is like it's

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<v Speaker 2>like Asimov.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, if you're before we go any further, if

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<v Speaker 1>if if you would like to watch this movie before

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<v Speaker 1>you get into the discussion, well you can.

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<v Speaker 2>You can.

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<v Speaker 1>You might catch a stream or two here or there,

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<v Speaker 1>but the surefire way to view it is to pick

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<v Speaker 1>up some physical media. There are a couple of nice

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<v Speaker 1>collections that include it. One is the four DVD pack

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<v Speaker 1>Icons of Horror collection Sam Katzman, which you can buy

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<v Speaker 1>wherever you get your discs, that features the Giant Claw

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<v Speaker 1>Creature with the Adam Brain, Zombies of Mara Tao, and

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<v Speaker 1>the Werewolf. Arro Video also put these four movies out

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<v Speaker 1>on Blu Ray in the set titled Cold War Creatures

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<v Speaker 1>for Films from Sam Katzman, and I included a picture

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<v Speaker 1>of the whole spread. Here, Joe, this one looks really nice.

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<v Speaker 1>This is not how we watched it, but this will

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<v Speaker 1>splendid if I can't even look at it too closely.

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<v Speaker 1>Otherwise I'm gonna be tempted to buy this thing, and

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<v Speaker 1>I don't have the shelf space.

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<v Speaker 2>Gorgeous, Maybe I'm gonna buy it and then look.

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<v Speaker 1>At that that that Adam brained creature right there on

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<v Speaker 1>the cover. Beautiful.

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<v Speaker 2>I gotta say the original posters for the creature with

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<v Speaker 2>the Adam Brain are very good because they have a

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<v Speaker 2>sort of like a green guy wearing a long coat

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<v Speaker 2>with his arms outstretched walking towards you, and then instead

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<v Speaker 2>of having him carrying an unconscious woman, they just have

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<v Speaker 2>like an upside down woman at the bottom of the poster.

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<v Speaker 2>They're like, oh, yeah, okay, we'll have that in there somewhere,

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<v Speaker 2>but she's just like floating in white space. But then

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<v Speaker 2>the green guy, his head is a drawing of an atom.

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<v Speaker 1>So yes, there you go. Yeah, like the symbol of

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<v Speaker 1>the atom just superimposed over his skull. All right, well,

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<v Speaker 1>let's get into the connections on this one. So normally

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<v Speaker 1>we would of course start with the director, but we're

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<v Speaker 1>going to break tradition here and start with the producer

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<v Speaker 1>since we just mentioned him and I think maybe it's

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<v Speaker 1>fitting for this sort of release as well. And we've

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<v Speaker 1>never talked about this producer before, but this is producer

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<v Speaker 1>Sam Katzman, who lived nineteen oh one through nineteen seventy

0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:56.720
<v Speaker 1>three American film producer and director, famous for his ability

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<v Speaker 1>to pump out low budget features and cereals that actually

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<v Speaker 1>made money. The genres were all over the place, as

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<v Speaker 1>you might expect, but they obviously included horror movies. Not

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<v Speaker 1>only did he do some beat Nick films, but I've

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<v Speaker 1>seen some film historians credit him with the creation of

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<v Speaker 1>the term beat Nick. I don't know if that's accurate

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<v Speaker 1>or not, but at least he was in there enough

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<v Speaker 1>that some people think he might have just come up

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<v Speaker 1>with the term. He only directed five films, all of

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<v Speaker 1>them released in nineteen thirty seven, but he produced one

0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.480
<v Speaker 1>hundred and twenty four films, and some of the more

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<v Speaker 1>well known titles here include some very fun B movies

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<v Speaker 1>that I think are much beloved. There's nineteen forty one's

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<v Speaker 1>The Invisible Claw in nineteen forty twos The Corpse Vanishes.

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<v Speaker 1>Those are both Bela Lagosi films. There's nineteen fifty six's

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<v Speaker 1>The Werewolf, nineteen fifty seven's The Giant Claw. That's a

0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:49.520
<v Speaker 1>giant bird movie, as I recall, nineteen fifty sevens The

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<v Speaker 1>Zombies of Moratao and nineteen sixty sevens Kissing Cousins starring Elvis.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh oh boy, is this one okay question? I haven't

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<v Speaker 2>seen all the Elvis movies. Does he sing in all

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<v Speaker 2>the movies? Or sometimes does he just act.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, I've never watched an Elvis movie all the

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<v Speaker 1>way through, but I assume he does. Why w don't

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<v Speaker 1>you put Elvis in your movie if he's not gonna sing?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. Elvis was handsome and surely well, yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I think they make movies with singers where they don't sing.

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<v Speaker 1>They do, they do, And you know, I think we've

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<v Speaker 1>we've we've certainly watched some things that had singers in

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<v Speaker 1>him and they don't sing.

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<v Speaker 2>Does Chris Christofferson sing in Blade? I don't think he does.

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<v Speaker 1>He does not. Every Elvis movie I've seen a part

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<v Speaker 1>of includes him singing. But yeah, I mean maybe he didn't.

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<v Speaker 1>I just don't know if he sings in all of them?

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<v Speaker 1>Right in, let us know, all right? The director is

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<v Speaker 1>Edward L. Kahn, who lived eighteen ninety nine through nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>sixty three. I've seen him referred to as the one

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<v Speaker 1>week Wonder because he could apparently absolutely pump these movies out.

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<v Speaker 1>He was a kind of you go to guy, you

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<v Speaker 1>gotta a B movie that needs to be made, it's

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<v Speaker 1>definitely got that B movie budget. This is the guy

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<v Speaker 1>that will get you across the finish line. He was

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<v Speaker 1>all about quantity over quality and was highly prolific in

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<v Speaker 1>the low budget film scene for three decades, directing one

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<v Speaker 1>hundred and twenty eight films, a lot of b movies.

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<v Speaker 1>Certainly didn't win any Oscars or anything like that, but

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<v Speaker 1>there's some really fun movies in the mix. You might

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<v Speaker 1>know him from some of his nineteen fifties horror and

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<v Speaker 1>sci fi films, some of which have actually wound up

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<v Speaker 1>on Mystery Science Theater three thousand and the like over

0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.560
<v Speaker 1>the years. There's nineteen fifty seven's It The Terror from

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<v Speaker 1>Beyond Space, which is often cited as being very influential

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<v Speaker 1>and in particular influential on Dan O'Bannon's alien work in

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<v Speaker 1>the decades to come.

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<v Speaker 2>How many different movies have we cited as likely inspiring Alien.

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<v Speaker 2>We're getting to the point where I don't know if

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<v Speaker 2>it makes sense to say it's inspired by because if

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<v Speaker 2>it's inspired by like seven different movies, then that's just synthesis,

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<v Speaker 2>isn't it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Yeah, I agree. Yeah, there's a whole list of

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<v Speaker 1>them at this point, but I don't know. I haven't

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<v Speaker 1>seen it, The Tear from Beyond Space. It be interesting

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<v Speaker 1>to see exactly exactly what texture or detail he could

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<v Speaker 1>have conceivably taken from that. Other films from this director

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<v Speaker 1>include Invasion of the Saucer Men, The Zombies of Marital

0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:21.040
<v Speaker 1>nineteen fifty six, is The She Creature, fifty nine's The

0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:25.960
<v Speaker 1>Invisible Invaders, and The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake. He

0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:29.399
<v Speaker 1>did a lot of westerns action films, bikers, various social

0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:33.160
<v Speaker 1>exploitation films of the thirties, forties, fifties, and very early sixties.

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<v Speaker 2>I have seen a description of his movie The Invisible

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<v Speaker 2>Invaders as being pretty much the same premise as Creature

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<v Speaker 2>with the Adam Brain, except instead of a gangster and

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<v Speaker 2>a scientist, it's aliens who are using the who are

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<v Speaker 2>reanimating the remote controlled corpses. Nice.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, you got a winning concept, you keep doing

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<v Speaker 1>it all right? Well, that brings us who are the

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<v Speaker 1>writer of this piece? And this is a writer we've

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<v Speaker 1>discussed prefeit on Weird House. This is Kurt cid Mack,

0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.600
<v Speaker 1>who lived nineteen oh two through the year two thousand.

0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.480
<v Speaker 1>He wrote the screenplay for nineteen forty six as The

0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:13.000
<v Speaker 1>Beast with Five Fingers, starring Peter Lorii, which we talked about.

0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.760
<v Speaker 1>He also wrote a novelization of that particular screenplay. He

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<v Speaker 1>was a German born novelist, screenwriter and director who left

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<v Speaker 1>Germany for first the UK and then the US due

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<v Speaker 1>to concerns over rising anti Semitism under the Nazis. His

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<v Speaker 1>German output was already pretty successful prior to all. This

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<v Speaker 1>included a sci fi film titled FP One Doesn't Answer

0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:38.000
<v Speaker 1>about a sort of sci fi aircraft carrier base. He

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<v Speaker 1>did British war thrillers in some comedies, but then he

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<v Speaker 1>struck it big with his nineteen forty one screenplay for

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<v Speaker 1>The Invisible Man Returns and his original screenplay for forty

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<v Speaker 1>one's The Wolfman, starring Claude Rains, Bell Lagosi and Lon

0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:52.639
<v Speaker 1>Cheney Junior. He went on to write a whole lot

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<v Speaker 1>of screenplays, including Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman forty three, I

0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:59.240
<v Speaker 1>Walked with a Zombie from forty three, Son of Dracula

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<v Speaker 1>also forty five, He House of Frankenstein from forty four,

0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.800
<v Speaker 1>and many more. He wrote the forty two sci fi

0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:09.399
<v Speaker 1>novel Donovan's Brain, which was adapted three times. Also. His brother,

0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:13.360
<v Speaker 1>Robert Cimc was a director known for nineteen forty six

0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.879
<v Speaker 1>is The Killers and The Spiral Staircase among others.

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<v Speaker 2>You mentioned that he wrote the movie I Walked with

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<v Speaker 2>a Zombie from nineteen forty three. I Walked with the

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<v Speaker 2>Zombie is also the name and pretty much the entire

0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:28.879
<v Speaker 2>lyrical content of another song by Rocky Erickson on the

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<v Speaker 2>album The Evil One, which just repeatedly proclaims I walked

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<v Speaker 2>with the Zombie last night.

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<v Speaker 1>Great stuff. Yeah, definitely go go listen to some of

0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:42.840
<v Speaker 1>this album after you listened to this podcast episode. As

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<v Speaker 1>far as the script for this movie goes, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>perhaps nothing special on the grand scheme of things, but

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<v Speaker 1>I think it does seem legitimately interested in creating something

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<v Speaker 1>inspired by the frontiers of science of the day, maybe

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<v Speaker 1>on a tight schedule and a limited budget, obviously, But

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<v Speaker 1>I also thought the die log is mostly pretty snappy,

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<v Speaker 1>even if on the whole the movie feels very explanatory

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<v Speaker 1>and procedural. Reminds me of some of the serials I've

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<v Speaker 1>seen from this time period, but better pace, better acted,

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<v Speaker 1>and so forth. All right, let's get into the cast here.

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<v Speaker 1>Our star is Richard Dinnon playing doctor chet Walker. Dinning

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<v Speaker 1>lived nineteen fourteen through nineteen ninety eight. Now you might

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<v Speaker 1>well recognize this lean cut of fifties leading man here

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<v Speaker 1>because he did work quite a lot, and he's probably

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<v Speaker 1>best remembered though for one particular creature feature. His credits

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<v Speaker 1>go back to the late nineteen thirties with various adventure films, comedies,

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<v Speaker 1>and so forth. But in nineteen fifty four he starred

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<v Speaker 1>in Jack Arnold's Creature from the Black Lagoon.

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<v Speaker 2>Was he one of the forgettable humans in it?

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<v Speaker 1>He's the forgettable human in it?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh?

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, look up if for some reason you're looking up

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<v Speaker 1>stills from a Creature from the Black Lagoon and you

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<v Speaker 1>don't focus on that fabulous monster costume, you'll probably see

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<v Speaker 1>Richard Dinning standing around, you know, shirtless boat or on

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<v Speaker 1>a boat with a shotgun, comforting a woman. That sort

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<v Speaker 1>of thing.

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<v Speaker 2>I would say, Richard Dinning is not bad in this movie,

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<v Speaker 2>but not great either. He's sort of there, He's fine.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a very warkhorse performance, Like does he do anything wrong?

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<v Speaker 2>Now?

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<v Speaker 1>Is there anything bad?

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<v Speaker 2>Now?

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<v Speaker 1>Is there anything where you're like, Yeah, you really leaned

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<v Speaker 1>into that and made it more interesting than it should

0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:40.520
<v Speaker 1>have been. It's hard to make a case for that,

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<v Speaker 1>but absolutely fulfills the role here. So after Black Lagoon

0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:49.080
<v Speaker 1>he continued to act in war in action films, and

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<v Speaker 1>really most of his output is not sci fi or horror.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's just one of those quirks where I think,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, Creature from the Black Lagoon casts a far

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<v Speaker 1>greater shadow than perhaps anything else he was in, certainly

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<v Speaker 1>in terms of things we're likely to discuss on Weird House,

0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:09.520
<v Speaker 1>but he was also in nineteen fifty seven's The Black Scorpion.

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<v Speaker 1>I know this is a monster movie you've been tempted

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<v Speaker 1>to do before, Joe, because it has a kind of

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<v Speaker 1>a redunculous looking monster in it.

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<v Speaker 2>I've the name sounds familiar, but I've forgotten what this

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<v Speaker 2>monster is. I must have sent it your way. Let

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<v Speaker 2>me look it up. Oh yes, okay, yeah, we may

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<v Speaker 2>have to return to this someday. Sorry. I got briefly

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<v Speaker 2>sidetracked because there's apparently another unrelated movie called Black Scorpion

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<v Speaker 2>from the nineties that looks like some kind of I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know, erotic action movie or something. I'm seeing a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of shiny leather.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's some sort of like syndicated female superhero thing. Now,

0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:49.439
<v Speaker 1>this one was like a desert monster movie with a

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<v Speaker 1>big goofy scorpion monster in it.

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<v Speaker 2>That sounds right, Okay, yeah, yeah, well I have to

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<v Speaker 2>take a look again.

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<v Speaker 1>He was also in nineteen fifty five's The Day the

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<v Speaker 1>World Ended, and if you're looking outside of genre, he

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<v Speaker 1>also had a pretty i think third billing in nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>fifty seven's Unaffair to Remember, which is a pretty big picture,

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<v Speaker 1>but not creature level. Not creature level.

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<v Speaker 2>I'd say his role in this movie is somewhat likable actually,

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<v Speaker 2>except he's somewhat flip about danger to his child. We

0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:21.760
<v Speaker 2>can come back to that later. But he really needs

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<v Speaker 2>a dry martini and he is really into his wife.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I wasn't really prepared for just how all over

0:23:28.160 --> 0:23:31.560
<v Speaker 1>each other. These two are the married couple that we

0:23:31.640 --> 0:23:35.720
<v Speaker 1>have in the film of Doctor chat Walker and Joyce Walker.

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<v Speaker 2>It is an enthusiastic marital relationship.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, even though I think they have the nineteen fifties

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<v Speaker 1>like single pair of single beds in the bedroom.

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<v Speaker 2>They got the twin those four but yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>So yeah, that was interesting. But yeah. Joyce Walker is

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<v Speaker 1>played by Angela Stevens, who lived nineteen twenty five through

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<v Speaker 1>twenty sixteen, nineteen fifties blonde bombshell who pretty much only

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<v Speaker 1>acted during that decade, retiring fairly early on for family reasons.

0:24:05.359 --> 0:24:09.280
<v Speaker 1>But she did a nice smorgas board of b cinema, westerns, horror,

0:24:09.520 --> 0:24:13.560
<v Speaker 1>women in prisons, jungle adventures, that sort of thing. This

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<v Speaker 1>may well be her her biggest role, but she also

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<v Speaker 1>has an uncredited role in nineteen fifty six is the

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<v Speaker 1>Harder They Fall? Now, what does she do in this

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<v Speaker 1>film aside from you know, being doctor Chet's loving wife,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, again for the for the nineteen fifties especially,

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<v Speaker 1>they're they're kind of all over each other.

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<v Speaker 2>They are, And she also like she's really keeping up

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<v Speaker 2>with the news and with the caper, because there are

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<v Speaker 2>multiple points where like she reveals a detail to one

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<v Speaker 2>of the investigators or even to the bad guy in

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<v Speaker 2>the form of an adam brain zombie who is sitting

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<v Speaker 2>in her living room playing with her child that ends

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<v Speaker 2>up moving the plot.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, so I think that's a good point. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>she's not nearly as minimal a presence as you might

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<v Speaker 1>find the hero's wife in many of these films from

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<v Speaker 1>the nineteen fifties and so forth. All Right, our movie

0:25:09.400 --> 0:25:12.640
<v Speaker 1>does have a German mad scientist, and it is doctor

0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:18.280
<v Speaker 1>Wilhelm Steig played by Gregory Gay who lived nineteen hundred

0:25:18.280 --> 0:25:21.280
<v Speaker 1>through nineteen ninety three. He was a Russian born actor

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<v Speaker 1>who left after the nineteen seventeen October Revolution. His first

0:25:25.560 --> 0:25:29.040
<v Speaker 1>screen role was an uncredited role as an officer in

0:25:29.119 --> 0:25:32.520
<v Speaker 1>John Barrymore's nineteen twenty eight silent movie about the final

0:25:32.560 --> 0:25:36.800
<v Speaker 1>days of Czarist Russia, Tempest, but he went on to bigger,

0:25:37.160 --> 0:25:40.879
<v Speaker 1>small roles, bigger supporting roles, often playing Russians or Germans,

0:25:41.760 --> 0:25:44.159
<v Speaker 1>often playing diplomats. I think he even shows up on

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<v Speaker 1>the sixties Batman series at one point playing a Russian

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<v Speaker 1>diplomat uncredited. Some of his more visible roles include a

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<v Speaker 1>bit part of a German banker in nineteen forty two's Casablanca,

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<v Speaker 1>a casino owner in nineteen sixties Oceans eleven, and he

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<v Speaker 1>also pops up in nineteen sixty one's Blue Hawaii. This

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<v Speaker 1>starred Elvis and was filmed at the hotel from Death Moon,

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<v Speaker 1>the Coco Palms Resort.

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<v Speaker 2>It just occurred to me, I can't believe they never

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<v Speaker 2>made an Elvis werewolf movie. Can you imagine how he

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<v Speaker 2>could howl?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh man? Yeah? Off the top of my head. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't yeah, I don't think any Elvis movies get into

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<v Speaker 1>horror sci fi, they're all they're all based more in

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<v Speaker 1>just kind of teeny boppy comedy and drama.

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<v Speaker 2>Elvis Presley starring in The Werewolf of Makeout Beach.

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<v Speaker 1>It would have been good. All right. We have another

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<v Speaker 1>villain in this and it is Frank Buchanan. This is

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<v Speaker 1>the character whose name is reference in the Rocky Ericson song.

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<v Speaker 1>This character is played by Michael Granger, who lived nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>twenty three through nineteen eighty one. He is our and

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<v Speaker 1>we'll have to come back to this. I guess he's

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<v Speaker 1>our deported American mobster who was wandering around Europe, found

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<v Speaker 1>alf a German mad scientist, and now has returned to

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<v Speaker 1>seek vengeance on both sides of the law with super science.

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<v Speaker 2>How does one like acquire so you need a doctor

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<v Speaker 2>Fritz to make zombies for you? How do you acquire one?

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<v Speaker 1>You just you. I took it to be like the

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<v Speaker 1>situation where he found this guy. He started financing his work,

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<v Speaker 1>and then you know, once you've been financed by someone

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<v Speaker 1>like this, after a while, you know what they're gonna do.

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<v Speaker 1>They're like, it's time to move this project back to

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<v Speaker 1>the States and begin the next phase, which is Project Vengeance,

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<v Speaker 1>Project Personal Vendetta.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, Granger is pretty interesting because he's an American actor

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<v Speaker 1>of stage and screen who mostly worked small parts on

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<v Speaker 1>the on the screen in the likes of nineteen fifty

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<v Speaker 1>three's The Big Heat and the Magnetic Monster, one of

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<v Speaker 1>only a handful of movies that Kurt siat Meca actually directed,

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<v Speaker 1>as well as nineteen fifty eight Murder by Contract. But

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<v Speaker 1>he was also very active on Broadway and was in

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<v Speaker 1>the original Broadway run of Fiddler on the Roof. Oh

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<v Speaker 1>now it's been It's been a long time since I've

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<v Speaker 1>seen Fiddler on the Roof. I think I saw it

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<v Speaker 1>as a child, so I haven't watched it in a while.

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<v Speaker 1>But he plays a character the butcher named Lazarre Wolf.

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<v Speaker 1>Not laser Wolf, I assume, but Lazarre Wolf. And this

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<v Speaker 1>would have been from like nineteen sixty four through nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>seventy two.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh wow, you know, I do remember it being emphasized

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<v Speaker 2>as laser Wolf. Really, I don't. I don't know if

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<v Speaker 2>that's how they would actually say it in Russia, but

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<v Speaker 2>I remember it like scans that way for the lines

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<v Speaker 2>in some of the songs. Wolf is the so the

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<v Speaker 2>oldest daughter, Zetol, is engaged to laser wolf but she

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't love him. She loves what's his name the other

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<v Speaker 2>I think Muttle the tailor. And so there's this whole

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<v Speaker 2>like like, Teva wants to find a way to get

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<v Speaker 2>his daughter out of that engagement so she can marry

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<v Speaker 2>the guy she really loves, and so he has to

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<v Speaker 2>come up with this scheme where he may up a

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<v Speaker 2>dream with a bad omen where where Laser Wolfe's wife

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<v Speaker 2>will come back as a wraith. And do you remember

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<v Speaker 2>any of this?

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<v Speaker 1>No, man, I don't remember it wraiths or anything. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it's I just remember. I literally just remember the same

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<v Speaker 1>there's there's someone does sing on a roof, right or

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<v Speaker 1>is that a fabricated memory plays a fiddle on a roof.

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<v Speaker 1>That's okay, that's the part I remember.

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<v Speaker 2>No, Okay, well, yeah I remember. It's actually a great subplot.

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<v Speaker 2>So basically, the guy he wants his daughter to be

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<v Speaker 2>able to marry the guy she loves instead of the

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<v Speaker 2>guy she's engaged to, and in order to do so,

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<v Speaker 2>he makes up a fake death omen dream.

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<v Speaker 1>Hm hmm, okay, I really need to I need to

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<v Speaker 1>see it again. That's it? Or I almost see it

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<v Speaker 1>for the first time. Anyway, Granger, I really liked him

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<v Speaker 1>in this. He has a voice that's just as smooth

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<v Speaker 1>as crushed velvet, and he gives way more charisma to

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<v Speaker 1>this role than I think anyone was asking of him.

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<v Speaker 1>He's he's quite good. I don't want to take anything

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<v Speaker 1>away from Dinning, because again, he's he's solid, hits all

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<v Speaker 1>the right notes. But Granger brings that nice bit of

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<v Speaker 1>something extra to the role, Like the dialogue is already

0:30:03.680 --> 0:30:06.840
<v Speaker 1>nice and snappy, but he breathes just a little extra

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<v Speaker 1>malice and machination into everything, which is especially potent when

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<v Speaker 1>he is speaking into the minds of the dead or

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<v Speaker 1>through the dead, because I think if memory serves the

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<v Speaker 1>voice we hear come out of most of the walking

0:30:22.960 --> 0:30:25.960
<v Speaker 1>dead the Atom creatures is the voice of Granger, the

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<v Speaker 1>voice of Buchanan, and Yeah, it's eerie and effective.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Later they upgrade their technology so that the Adam

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<v Speaker 2>Brain zombies can speak with their own voice, but they

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<v Speaker 2>only do that for day if I think.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, which is I think more plot oriented than anything

0:30:45.240 --> 0:30:46.360
<v Speaker 1>we'll get into the end of Dave.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I don't know exactly how it works that when

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<v Speaker 2>the earlier ones talk they speak with Buchanan's voice because

0:30:54.480 --> 0:30:56.840
<v Speaker 2>they would still be using their vocal cords, but I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, special effects, which I guess they're not that impressive

0:31:01.680 --> 0:31:04.920
<v Speaker 1>in this particular film, are worth noting here just because

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<v Speaker 1>they're by Jack Erickson, who lived nineteen eleven through nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>seventy eight, special effects guy who worked with Ray Harryhusen

0:31:11.480 --> 0:31:14.320
<v Speaker 1>the same year on It Came from Beneath the Sea,

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<v Speaker 1>which was also part of the double feature with this

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<v Speaker 1>very film.

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<v Speaker 2>That's right. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Ericson also has a special effects credit on the Galaxy

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<v Speaker 1>Being episode of the classic Outer Limits series. That episode

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<v Speaker 1>starred Cliff Robertson, but more notable than Robertson, it featured

0:31:30.440 --> 0:31:32.880
<v Speaker 1>one of the series more memorable aliens. This was this

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<v Speaker 1>kind of like weirdly glowing creature that. Yeah, if you

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<v Speaker 1>go back and watch any Outer Limits episode from this

0:31:39.760 --> 0:31:42.120
<v Speaker 1>time period, that's the one to check out, because the

0:31:42.120 --> 0:31:43.600
<v Speaker 1>creature absolutely pops.

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<v Speaker 2>Galaxy Being. I can't help but imagine that title inspired

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<v Speaker 2>the title of the later Don Dollar film Galaxy Invader.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, absolutely absolutely it did. Love Galaxy Invader. That

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<v Speaker 1>one's good, all right. Finally, just a note on the

0:32:00.440 --> 0:32:03.920
<v Speaker 1>music here, it's all stock music, so there's somebody to

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<v Speaker 1>single out here, just all stock music. Nothing remarkable about it. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>all right, well, shall we get into the plot.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's do it. You know what, quite strong opening. In fact,

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<v Speaker 2>I would say I think the best looking shot in

0:32:18.760 --> 0:32:22.960
<v Speaker 2>the film is the very opening shot. So we come

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<v Speaker 2>up on a kind of a silent alley way in

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<v Speaker 2>the night time, with trees and shrubbery crowding in on

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<v Speaker 2>both sides, and then in the background, in the distance

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<v Speaker 2>in the shot, there is moonlight pouring in from above

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<v Speaker 2>in a kind of shaft, and that moonlight is falling

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<v Speaker 2>on the dark shape of a man shambling slowly toward

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<v Speaker 2>the camera as nothing but a heartbeat pounds on the soundtrack,

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<v Speaker 2>and then the credits roll as he wanders in our direction.

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<v Speaker 2>It's very very strong opening.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it doesn't waste any time. You know, it's screaming,

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<v Speaker 1>get kids, stop making out and watch your I guess

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<v Speaker 1>second help of the double feature.

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<v Speaker 2>But as I said, I don't think any other shot

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<v Speaker 2>in the movie is as artistically composed as this one is.

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<v Speaker 2>This is the best looking thing we're going to get

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<v Speaker 2>now with my post. George Romero expectations. I thought this

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<v Speaker 2>was going to be a decaying zombie coming toward us

0:33:18.080 --> 0:33:21.960
<v Speaker 2>because of his shambling gait. But no, it is a

0:33:22.120 --> 0:33:24.800
<v Speaker 2>man in a suit and a tie who looks actually

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<v Speaker 2>pretty normal, except his expression is sort of vacant. He

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<v Speaker 2>is a stocky, square featured fellow. He walks like right

0:33:33.760 --> 0:33:36.000
<v Speaker 2>up in our faces. And then the next thing we

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<v Speaker 2>see is him driving a four door sedan around some

0:33:39.760 --> 0:33:42.400
<v Speaker 2>kind of winding mountain roads. So I was thinking, wait

0:33:42.440 --> 0:33:44.720
<v Speaker 2>a minute, is he a zombie or not? Because zombies,

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<v Speaker 2>as generally understood cannot operate motor vehicles, with the exception,

0:33:49.880 --> 0:33:52.800
<v Speaker 2>of course, of Jason Vorhees and Jason takes Manhattan, because

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<v Speaker 2>I stand by my assertion that Jason does drive the boat.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, as we'll learn, this is a special kind of zombie.

0:33:58.960 --> 0:34:01.800
<v Speaker 1>This is a super science zombies, so maybe different rules apply.

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<v Speaker 2>Right. So the zombie non zombie guy, whatever he is,

0:34:05.240 --> 0:34:08.239
<v Speaker 2>he parks his car beside a street lamp outside some

0:34:08.400 --> 0:34:12.719
<v Speaker 2>large building that rob I wonder, what did you initially

0:34:12.800 --> 0:34:14.960
<v Speaker 2>think this building was? I was like, okay, is he

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<v Speaker 2>at like city hall or a nice hotel or something.

0:34:19.600 --> 0:34:22.080
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it looked a like more official like that. I

0:34:22.120 --> 0:34:23.799
<v Speaker 1>was a little surprised when it turned out to be

0:34:23.840 --> 0:34:28.000
<v Speaker 1>more of a like a criminal underworld location as opposed

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<v Speaker 1>to anything concerning like the you know, the city government.

0:34:32.760 --> 0:34:34.960
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I thought, maybe, oh, maybe this is a bank,

0:34:35.040 --> 0:34:37.880
<v Speaker 2>but I think it's supposed to be a casino and

0:34:37.920 --> 0:34:41.040
<v Speaker 2>maybe like an illegal underworld casino. So I don't know

0:34:41.040 --> 0:34:44.680
<v Speaker 2>why it's so fancy looking, but yeah, So he gets

0:34:44.680 --> 0:34:47.640
<v Speaker 2>out of the car, he shambles towards the building. Inside

0:34:47.680 --> 0:34:51.799
<v Speaker 2>we see cashiers closing up money changing stations, and then

0:34:51.840 --> 0:34:55.000
<v Speaker 2>we see a lackey in a tuxedo taking a bag

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<v Speaker 2>of money into a spacious office decorated with nick knacks

0:34:58.600 --> 0:35:01.960
<v Speaker 2>like there's a big Easter island head And this is

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<v Speaker 2>the office of mister Hennessy, who is the number one

0:35:05.120 --> 0:35:08.280
<v Speaker 2>head guy in charge of this hotel city Hall casino.

0:35:08.719 --> 0:35:10.960
<v Speaker 2>The lackey reports that the take for the night was

0:35:10.960 --> 0:35:15.320
<v Speaker 2>twenty grand. Hennessy seems pleased with this, and Hennessy opens

0:35:15.360 --> 0:35:17.600
<v Speaker 2>up his wall safe and starts counting the money and

0:35:17.719 --> 0:35:21.640
<v Speaker 2>narrating into his dictaphone as he does so. And interestingly,

0:35:21.719 --> 0:35:26.040
<v Speaker 2>he's not counting in terms of he's not like counting

0:35:26.080 --> 0:35:29.560
<v Speaker 2>the money. He is counting the numbers of individual bills.

0:35:29.760 --> 0:35:32.759
<v Speaker 2>So he's like, this many hundred dollar bills, this many

0:35:32.840 --> 0:35:38.600
<v Speaker 2>fifty dollars bills. Is that normal criminal behavior? I don't know. Meanwhile,

0:35:38.680 --> 0:35:42.840
<v Speaker 2>outside the window, the zombie driver keeps staggering toward the building,

0:35:43.120 --> 0:35:47.120
<v Speaker 2>and then we see through the zombie's eyes, and then

0:35:47.160 --> 0:35:51.440
<v Speaker 2>there's an interesting transition. We see through his eyes on

0:35:51.840 --> 0:35:55.280
<v Speaker 2>a TV screen on screen. So now we're somewhere else

0:35:55.440 --> 0:35:58.399
<v Speaker 2>in a laboratory. They make it easy to know where

0:35:58.400 --> 0:36:02.480
<v Speaker 2>you are by like having electrodes emit zapping sounds. And

0:36:02.600 --> 0:36:07.200
<v Speaker 2>there's a TV showing the zombies eye view, and there

0:36:07.200 --> 0:36:10.120
<v Speaker 2>are two guys watching it. You've got a stout gangsters

0:36:10.560 --> 0:36:14.840
<v Speaker 2>gangster looking man in a suit and a bespectacled scientist

0:36:14.920 --> 0:36:17.319
<v Speaker 2>in a white lab coat. And the gangster guy is

0:36:17.360 --> 0:36:20.920
<v Speaker 2>holding a microphone up to his mouth while the scientist

0:36:21.040 --> 0:36:25.040
<v Speaker 2>is fiddling with knobs. Back at the casino, the zombie

0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:28.799
<v Speaker 2>bends the bars outside the window to Hennessy's office. He

0:36:28.880 --> 0:36:31.080
<v Speaker 2>just you know, grabs him with his hands, bends him back,

0:36:31.520 --> 0:36:34.640
<v Speaker 2>and then smashes through the glass. He actually basically he

0:36:34.760 --> 0:36:37.880
<v Speaker 2>just like flathand outward pushes through the window.

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<v Speaker 1>There are numerous stunts where like a sort of roundish

0:36:43.280 --> 0:36:47.640
<v Speaker 1>man goes through a plate of glass glass window in

0:36:47.680 --> 0:36:49.279
<v Speaker 1>this movie. And I was looking at some of the

0:36:49.280 --> 0:36:52.640
<v Speaker 1>stunt players and one of the guys did this I think,

0:36:52.680 --> 0:36:55.040
<v Speaker 1>pretty much the same stunt in The Wizard of Oz

0:36:55.800 --> 0:36:58.440
<v Speaker 1>as the Cowardly Lion. So I guess it was just

0:36:58.520 --> 0:37:01.840
<v Speaker 1>like printed on this guy's business, like you need a

0:37:01.960 --> 0:37:04.520
<v Speaker 1>like a slightly rotund actor to go through a window.

0:37:04.760 --> 0:37:07.120
<v Speaker 2>I'm your guy, and I'll do it just by pushing

0:37:07.160 --> 0:37:08.000
<v Speaker 2>the glass out.

0:37:08.480 --> 0:37:11.719
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean, obviously it's trick glass, but still specialized skill.

0:37:12.280 --> 0:37:13.640
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I don't know if I can tell

0:37:13.640 --> 0:37:15.880
<v Speaker 2>trick class just by looking at it. I will assume

0:37:16.000 --> 0:37:18.880
<v Speaker 2>this was a safe set. Yeah, but anyway, Yeah, so

0:37:18.920 --> 0:37:21.200
<v Speaker 2>the guy comes through the window. He goes up to Hennessy.

0:37:21.280 --> 0:37:24.560
<v Speaker 2>He says in a in a mechanical voice, I told

0:37:24.600 --> 0:37:27.920
<v Speaker 2>you i'd come back. And here we're getting into one

0:37:27.960 --> 0:37:30.880
<v Speaker 2>of the bits of dialogue that Rocky Ericson just recites

0:37:31.040 --> 0:37:36.359
<v Speaker 2>in the song. And the zombie says, remember Buchanan, and

0:37:36.400 --> 0:37:40.120
<v Speaker 2>Hennessy says, but you're not Buchanan. The zombie says, I

0:37:40.239 --> 0:37:43.840
<v Speaker 2>may not look like him, but I am him. Don't

0:37:43.880 --> 0:37:47.319
<v Speaker 2>you recognize the voice, Jim, I promised to see you

0:37:47.440 --> 0:37:50.799
<v Speaker 2>die and I will. Then Hennessy he whips out a

0:37:50.800 --> 0:37:53.400
<v Speaker 2>pistol tries to shoot the zombie, but of course it

0:37:53.520 --> 0:37:59.040
<v Speaker 2>does no good. The zombie grabs Hennessy lifts him up

0:37:59.120 --> 0:38:02.760
<v Speaker 2>over his head and then we see only a shadow

0:38:02.960 --> 0:38:06.080
<v Speaker 2>of the two figures cast upon the wall, and in

0:38:06.120 --> 0:38:10.200
<v Speaker 2>the shadow, the zombie just folds Tennessy like a wallet.

0:38:10.320 --> 0:38:13.719
<v Speaker 2>He just snaps him in half backwards like a kitcat

0:38:13.760 --> 0:38:16.080
<v Speaker 2>bar crunch. It is brutal.

0:38:16.480 --> 0:38:18.640
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I love this. This is a great use of

0:38:19.000 --> 0:38:24.920
<v Speaker 1>shadow and implying the physical violence. There's another example of

0:38:24.960 --> 0:38:26.239
<v Speaker 1>this later on in the film, but this is the

0:38:26.280 --> 0:38:28.799
<v Speaker 1>best example of it. It just lifts him up in

0:38:28.800 --> 0:38:32.359
<v Speaker 1>a gorilla press and does this backbreaker death move. And

0:38:32.440 --> 0:38:34.560
<v Speaker 1>as this was occurring, as he was like setting this up,

0:38:34.640 --> 0:38:38.479
<v Speaker 1>especially where you see an actual zombie grab a good dude,

0:38:38.520 --> 0:38:40.799
<v Speaker 1>grapple him and lift him up, I was like, I

0:38:40.840 --> 0:38:44.560
<v Speaker 1>bet this guy's a wrestler. Sure enough. This role is

0:38:44.600 --> 0:38:50.400
<v Speaker 1>played by former pro wrestler Carl Killer Davis aka Crippler Carl,

0:38:50.480 --> 0:38:53.560
<v Speaker 1>who lived nineteen oh eight through nineteen seventy seven. I

0:38:53.600 --> 0:38:55.279
<v Speaker 1>was not familiar with this guy, but apparently it was

0:38:55.280 --> 0:38:57.719
<v Speaker 1>a big heel in the thirties and forties. He got

0:38:57.719 --> 0:39:00.319
<v Speaker 1>his first acting break playing one of the I think

0:39:00.400 --> 0:39:03.799
<v Speaker 1>ten strongmen who opposes Mighty Joe Young in nineteen forty

0:39:03.880 --> 0:39:09.040
<v Speaker 1>nine's Mighty Joe Young, alongside fellow wrestler turned actor Tor Johnson,

0:39:09.280 --> 0:39:12.200
<v Speaker 1>as well as some other big guys like Italian boxer

0:39:12.400 --> 0:39:17.520
<v Speaker 1>wrestler of the Day Primo Canara and anyway. This led

0:39:17.520 --> 0:39:20.600
<v Speaker 1>to a whole career of heavy roles for Davis. And

0:39:20.680 --> 0:39:22.080
<v Speaker 1>here he is our zombie.

0:39:22.320 --> 0:39:24.759
<v Speaker 2>He's got a great look for film too, though he's

0:39:24.760 --> 0:39:30.239
<v Speaker 2>got very kind of square head and sharp features. He's good.

0:39:30.480 --> 0:39:33.680
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Unlike Tor, I think he mostly played like heavies

0:39:33.760 --> 0:39:37.560
<v Speaker 1>and like you know, enforcers and so forth, as opposed

0:39:37.560 --> 0:39:38.600
<v Speaker 1>to outright monsters.

0:39:39.239 --> 0:39:43.480
<v Speaker 2>Wait, this wasn't one of the communist saboteur wrestlers in

0:39:44.080 --> 0:39:45.759
<v Speaker 2>the Mighty Tobar, was it.

0:39:46.320 --> 0:39:48.080
<v Speaker 1>No, that was a different guy. But that was another

0:39:48.120 --> 0:39:49.880
<v Speaker 1>one where you could tell, like the way he was

0:39:49.920 --> 0:39:51.560
<v Speaker 1>I think it was the bumping in that one, Like

0:39:51.600 --> 0:39:54.760
<v Speaker 1>the way he was falling down. You know, he could tell, Okay,

0:39:54.800 --> 0:39:56.919
<v Speaker 1>this guy's a wrestler. He's got to be and you know, sure,

0:39:57.000 --> 0:39:59.719
<v Speaker 1>enough once you know the signs, it's pretty clear.

0:40:00.000 --> 0:40:04.280
<v Speaker 2>All right. Well so anyway, after the zombie just breaks

0:40:04.280 --> 0:40:07.440
<v Speaker 2>Tennessee in half like a cracker, Hennessy's goons run in

0:40:07.480 --> 0:40:10.600
<v Speaker 2>the start shooting at the zombie, but he seems unbothered

0:40:10.600 --> 0:40:13.279
<v Speaker 2>by bullets. I think there are some squibs in this

0:40:13.360 --> 0:40:14.480
<v Speaker 2>scene that look pretty good.

0:40:14.840 --> 0:40:16.600
<v Speaker 1>Mm hmm. Yeah, there are a number of effects in

0:40:16.640 --> 0:40:19.839
<v Speaker 1>the film where people are like shooting through zombies, and yeah,

0:40:20.000 --> 0:40:22.040
<v Speaker 1>it looks believable. A lot of films would just have

0:40:22.239 --> 0:40:25.440
<v Speaker 1>the maybe you're having the gun actually fire blanks, and

0:40:25.480 --> 0:40:26.640
<v Speaker 1>the rest is just implied.

0:40:27.040 --> 0:40:28.799
<v Speaker 2>It's just a mid shot you don't like see it.

0:40:28.800 --> 0:40:31.920
<v Speaker 2>But this was like you see like these squibs exploding

0:40:31.960 --> 0:40:36.960
<v Speaker 2>out the back of the zombies suit jacket. Yeah, but anyway,

0:40:37.040 --> 0:40:38.839
<v Speaker 2>zombie goes out the window, he gets in the car

0:40:38.840 --> 0:40:42.920
<v Speaker 2>and drives away. Meanwhile, we see back in the laboratory

0:40:42.960 --> 0:40:46.319
<v Speaker 2>where the two guys are watching Zombie ITV. The guy

0:40:46.360 --> 0:40:50.800
<v Speaker 2>holding the microphone starts saying, come back home, come back home.

0:40:51.680 --> 0:40:55.600
<v Speaker 2>So it's clear what's starting to become clear what's going on.

0:40:55.680 --> 0:40:59.480
<v Speaker 2>This is like a remote controlled zombie or somnambulist or

0:40:59.480 --> 0:41:02.960
<v Speaker 2>something here and then there's a kind of funny moment

0:41:03.000 --> 0:41:06.120
<v Speaker 2>where the other guy grabs the microphone, like the scientist

0:41:06.239 --> 0:41:09.480
<v Speaker 2>takes it from the gangster guy, and he starts saying

0:41:09.480 --> 0:41:12.759
<v Speaker 2>in a German accent, get in the automobile, Get in

0:41:12.840 --> 0:41:18.960
<v Speaker 2>the automobile, the automobile, get inside. So eventually the zombie obeys,

0:41:19.680 --> 0:41:23.080
<v Speaker 2>and then the gangster guy this is Buchanan, and we

0:41:23.120 --> 0:41:25.120
<v Speaker 2>already know that because he was the one talking through

0:41:25.120 --> 0:41:28.960
<v Speaker 2>the zombie. Remember Buchanan, I am him, and the scientists

0:41:29.080 --> 0:41:33.720
<v Speaker 2>this is doctor Steig. They chatter about how the zombies work.

0:41:34.640 --> 0:41:37.479
<v Speaker 2>Buchanan is afraid that the zombie won't make it back

0:41:37.560 --> 0:41:40.719
<v Speaker 2>because of his gunshot wounds, but Steig says that as

0:41:40.760 --> 0:41:42.920
<v Speaker 2>long as he still has an ounce of fluid in

0:41:43.000 --> 0:41:46.200
<v Speaker 2>his body, he'll keep moving. And when these creatures are

0:41:46.280 --> 0:41:49.880
<v Speaker 2>damaged or run low on power, they automatically return to

0:41:49.920 --> 0:41:50.920
<v Speaker 2>the home base.

0:41:51.120 --> 0:41:51.560
<v Speaker 1>Like a room.

0:41:52.120 --> 0:41:56.280
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, like that. But there's also you can see

0:41:56.320 --> 0:42:01.400
<v Speaker 2>emerging some conflict between Buchanan and Stig zombie mission control.

0:42:01.760 --> 0:42:04.480
<v Speaker 2>Buchanan is pleased. He's like, all right, that was the

0:42:04.480 --> 0:42:08.240
<v Speaker 2>first of them, first of the people on my murder list,

0:42:08.480 --> 0:42:10.760
<v Speaker 2>But there are more we have to send our zombies

0:42:10.800 --> 0:42:14.880
<v Speaker 2>after and then Steig kind of breaks into a lament.

0:42:15.040 --> 0:42:17.560
<v Speaker 2>He's like, oh, you know, I invented these remote control

0:42:17.680 --> 0:42:20.799
<v Speaker 2>zombies hoping that they could be used to help humanity

0:42:20.880 --> 0:42:24.400
<v Speaker 2>because they could do tasks that were dangerous for living workers.

0:42:24.800 --> 0:42:27.640
<v Speaker 2>But now that I'm working with Buchanan, he's like, all

0:42:27.680 --> 0:42:31.160
<v Speaker 2>you want to do is see people die. But Buchanan protests,

0:42:31.200 --> 0:42:33.479
<v Speaker 2>He's like, look, I don't just want to see people die.

0:42:33.600 --> 0:42:36.839
<v Speaker 2>I want to see particular people die and I'll get

0:42:36.880 --> 0:42:41.560
<v Speaker 2>them all. After this, Buchanan and Steig go into the

0:42:41.600 --> 0:42:45.880
<v Speaker 2>first of many in the movie almost ritualistic scenes of

0:42:46.440 --> 0:42:50.120
<v Speaker 2>dressing in these lead lined suits with respirator hoses and

0:42:50.200 --> 0:42:55.439
<v Speaker 2>crawling through a plastic lined tunnel into the operating room,

0:42:55.480 --> 0:42:59.120
<v Speaker 2>which I think we assume must be flooded with radiation.

0:43:00.120 --> 0:43:02.960
<v Speaker 2>This is kind of the storage room for more zombies

0:43:03.080 --> 0:43:06.480
<v Speaker 2>like our spine cruncher friend, and these are the titular

0:43:06.680 --> 0:43:11.239
<v Speaker 2>creatures with the atom brains. Now, while in the radioactive room,

0:43:11.320 --> 0:43:13.880
<v Speaker 2>they have to decommission a couple of Adam brain dudes

0:43:13.880 --> 0:43:19.000
<v Speaker 2>who have deteriorated beyond use. Because Stig explains, different parts

0:43:19.000 --> 0:43:22.279
<v Speaker 2>of the body die at different times and buchanans like,

0:43:22.320 --> 0:43:25.560
<v Speaker 2>does the brain still die first? And Steig says, always,

0:43:25.640 --> 0:43:27.720
<v Speaker 2>the brain always dies first.

0:43:28.000 --> 0:43:30.120
<v Speaker 1>They didn't have an acid vat for this though. This

0:43:30.160 --> 0:43:31.919
<v Speaker 1>would have been a great time to have an acid vat.

0:43:32.239 --> 0:43:36.439
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, you know you think that the they say

0:43:36.480 --> 0:43:40.600
<v Speaker 2>it so portentously, you almost think that the brain always

0:43:40.640 --> 0:43:42.680
<v Speaker 2>dies first is going to become a plot point. But

0:43:42.800 --> 0:43:43.720
<v Speaker 2>I don't think it does.

0:43:44.120 --> 0:43:46.200
<v Speaker 1>That's I think that this is something we can chalk

0:43:46.320 --> 0:43:48.920
<v Speaker 1>up to, but not only the script of the performances here,

0:43:48.920 --> 0:43:51.120
<v Speaker 1>but there are a lot of lines like this that

0:43:51.120 --> 0:43:55.279
<v Speaker 1>that work far far better than they they probably that

0:43:55.320 --> 0:43:57.319
<v Speaker 1>they could have or certainly should have. You know, it's

0:43:57.360 --> 0:44:00.319
<v Speaker 1>like it this is not an important detail, but you

0:44:00.360 --> 0:44:02.560
<v Speaker 1>know it still kind of zings and sticks with you.

0:44:03.120 --> 0:44:05.080
<v Speaker 1>And I don't think this is Granger speaking this line.

0:44:05.080 --> 0:44:07.120
<v Speaker 1>I think this is this is the doctor.

0:44:07.440 --> 0:44:10.240
<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, But all right, that's sort of the setup

0:44:10.280 --> 0:44:12.239
<v Speaker 2>for the film. You start to see, like what the

0:44:12.280 --> 0:44:16.200
<v Speaker 2>supernatural or science fiction premises, what comes next in this

0:44:16.320 --> 0:44:19.720
<v Speaker 2>kind of movie. Police arrive on the scene, of course, investigators,

0:44:20.680 --> 0:44:23.319
<v Speaker 2>and one of them is our hero, who seems to

0:44:23.360 --> 0:44:28.040
<v Speaker 2>be I'm going to say that the hero character is

0:44:28.080 --> 0:44:30.839
<v Speaker 2>the product of a compromise in the writer's room. They

0:44:30.920 --> 0:44:34.200
<v Speaker 2>went something like this, It's let's see, should our leading

0:44:34.280 --> 0:44:38.360
<v Speaker 2>man be a cop or a scientist? What if he

0:44:38.640 --> 0:44:43.560
<v Speaker 2>was both? So our hero, Chet Walker is some kind

0:44:43.560 --> 0:44:47.120
<v Speaker 2>of science cop. He is a cop, but he heads

0:44:47.200 --> 0:44:51.760
<v Speaker 2>up a forensic laboratory full of microscopes and glass slides

0:44:51.800 --> 0:44:55.440
<v Speaker 2>and Geiger counters, and he seems to be, I don't know,

0:44:55.560 --> 0:44:58.640
<v Speaker 2>like a mister wizard detective. He's like where the police

0:44:59.160 --> 0:45:02.560
<v Speaker 2>come to console his genius in order to solve murder cases.

0:45:02.920 --> 0:45:05.560
<v Speaker 2>But they also don't just refer evidence to him. He's

0:45:05.640 --> 0:45:09.120
<v Speaker 2>like always first on the scene investigating the crime.

0:45:09.600 --> 0:45:12.759
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, this is kind of like the nineteen fifties version

0:45:12.800 --> 0:45:14.960
<v Speaker 1>of CSI. I guess you know where you have the

0:45:15.800 --> 0:45:20.800
<v Speaker 1>forensic expert. He's also just very, very and perhaps unrealistically

0:45:20.880 --> 0:45:23.560
<v Speaker 1>front and center of any investigation.

0:45:31.600 --> 0:45:33.880
<v Speaker 2>All right, So chet and colleagues are on sen at

0:45:33.920 --> 0:45:36.680
<v Speaker 2>the casino where Hennessy got crunched like a ritz cracker,

0:45:37.120 --> 0:45:40.720
<v Speaker 2>and they discover several interesting things. They say, whoever broke

0:45:40.800 --> 0:45:43.440
<v Speaker 2>in was able to bend back the iron bars outside

0:45:43.440 --> 0:45:47.319
<v Speaker 2>the window with his bare hands. They noticed the perpetrator

0:45:47.400 --> 0:45:50.160
<v Speaker 2>did not bother to steal the money from the safe.

0:45:50.880 --> 0:45:53.480
<v Speaker 2>They say he was shot, leaving behind a trail of

0:45:53.520 --> 0:45:56.799
<v Speaker 2>blood and yet was still able to escape, and then

0:45:56.880 --> 0:45:59.839
<v Speaker 2>finally they discovered that his blood, his fingerprints, and his

0:46:00.000 --> 0:46:04.520
<v Speaker 2>footprints all glow in the dark. Also in this scene

0:46:04.560 --> 0:46:06.799
<v Speaker 2>there is the beginning of a theme where Chet is

0:46:06.880 --> 0:46:10.319
<v Speaker 2>followed around by a gang of I don't know, like

0:46:10.400 --> 0:46:14.000
<v Speaker 2>five to seven excitable and fairly credulous reporters who are

0:46:14.000 --> 0:46:18.000
<v Speaker 2>all slobbering for a story. And so the reporters are like,

0:46:18.040 --> 0:46:20.800
<v Speaker 2>how did he ben those bars? And Chet says maybe

0:46:20.840 --> 0:46:24.840
<v Speaker 2>he ate all his vitamins, and the reporters like vitamins

0:46:26.640 --> 0:46:28.560
<v Speaker 2>like he thinks, so maybe this is a real scoop.

0:46:28.600 --> 0:46:34.000
<v Speaker 2>I don't know about vitamins vitamins behind iron bar killing,

0:46:35.400 --> 0:46:38.480
<v Speaker 2>I think. In the scene we also meet Chet's friend Dave,

0:46:38.600 --> 0:46:41.040
<v Speaker 2>who is some other kind of cop. Is he supposed

0:46:41.080 --> 0:46:44.440
<v Speaker 2>to be like FBI or something or police captain? He

0:46:45.040 --> 0:46:49.080
<v Speaker 2>seems in some way separate from whatever Chet is.

0:46:50.040 --> 0:46:53.680
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, I can never completely nail it down. I

0:46:54.120 --> 0:46:56.720
<v Speaker 1>will throw in that. Dave is played by s John Lonner,

0:46:56.760 --> 0:47:00.880
<v Speaker 1>who lived nineteen through two thousand and six, mostly small roles,

0:47:01.239 --> 0:47:05.680
<v Speaker 1>but appears in Hitchcock's Marnie from sixty four, Mommy dearis

0:47:05.719 --> 0:47:08.640
<v Speaker 1>from eighty one and was also in both The Werewolf

0:47:08.640 --> 0:47:11.719
<v Speaker 1>in fifty six, and I was a teenage Werewolf from

0:47:11.719 --> 0:47:12.320
<v Speaker 1>fifty seven.

0:47:13.760 --> 0:47:17.320
<v Speaker 2>So back at the lab, Chet analyzes the luminous residue

0:47:17.360 --> 0:47:19.480
<v Speaker 2>and the blood left behind at the crime scene. He

0:47:19.560 --> 0:47:22.399
<v Speaker 2>discovers that the blood is not blood at all, it's

0:47:22.440 --> 0:47:27.600
<v Speaker 2>some kind of artificial concoction containing microscopic crystals. And then

0:47:27.640 --> 0:47:30.399
<v Speaker 2>the question is why does it all glow? Well, Chet

0:47:30.400 --> 0:47:32.680
<v Speaker 2>starts holding a Geiger counter up to it and it

0:47:32.760 --> 0:47:37.440
<v Speaker 2>starts it's going nuts. And doctor Walker's like, this so

0:47:37.600 --> 0:47:43.520
<v Speaker 2>called blood is radioactive, Dave says dangerously, So Chet responds,

0:47:43.719 --> 0:47:44.600
<v Speaker 2>plus nine.

0:47:45.440 --> 0:47:47.160
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, didn't throw in like you wouldn't want to be

0:47:47.160 --> 0:47:49.200
<v Speaker 1>around this stuff for long because that's back on the

0:47:49.239 --> 0:47:50.719
<v Speaker 1>desk and kids conversation.

0:47:52.200 --> 0:47:55.000
<v Speaker 2>They just put it on the desk. You keep talking. Yeah, So,

0:47:55.480 --> 0:47:58.759
<v Speaker 2>while leaving the lab, Chet is again intercepted by the reporters.

0:47:58.760 --> 0:48:01.920
<v Speaker 2>They demand a story, and Chet tells them that Hennessy

0:48:02.040 --> 0:48:05.400
<v Speaker 2>was killed by quote, a creature with adam rays of

0:48:05.480 --> 0:48:09.680
<v Speaker 2>superhuman strength and a creature that cannot be killed by bullets,

0:48:10.560 --> 0:48:13.560
<v Speaker 2>and the reporters are angered by this because they think

0:48:13.600 --> 0:48:16.040
<v Speaker 2>he is pulling their leg, and one of the reporters

0:48:16.080 --> 0:48:19.880
<v Speaker 2>threatens to misspell chet Walker's name, which this sent me

0:48:19.920 --> 0:48:21.640
<v Speaker 2>down a rabbit hole of what would be the best

0:48:21.680 --> 0:48:27.440
<v Speaker 2>way to misspell chet Walker. I'm gonna say, like Cheb Wonker.

0:48:28.239 --> 0:48:28.520
<v Speaker 2>M M.

0:48:28.640 --> 0:48:30.759
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. It's a delicate balance because you don't want to

0:48:30.760 --> 0:48:33.120
<v Speaker 1>put anything in the paper that I'll get you in trouble.

0:48:33.360 --> 0:48:35.800
<v Speaker 1>He's got to get it, get it, you know, the

0:48:35.880 --> 0:48:39.480
<v Speaker 1>right level of insulting without being profane. But anyway, I

0:48:39.520 --> 0:48:42.120
<v Speaker 1>like this one little back and forth here because it's like, yeah,

0:48:42.120 --> 0:48:43.719
<v Speaker 1>I'll just tell you straight up what's going on with

0:48:43.719 --> 0:48:46.239
<v Speaker 1>the zombie and dare you to print it? Dare you

0:48:46.320 --> 0:48:47.280
<v Speaker 1>to take me seriously?

0:48:48.080 --> 0:48:51.000
<v Speaker 2>So the next morning, Dave comes to Chet's house and

0:48:51.040 --> 0:48:53.400
<v Speaker 2>he's greeted by Chet's wife, Joyce. This is when we

0:48:53.440 --> 0:48:57.080
<v Speaker 2>first meet Chet's family. We find out he's not just

0:48:57.120 --> 0:48:59.520
<v Speaker 2>any science cop. This is a science cop of the family.

0:48:59.600 --> 0:49:01.480
<v Speaker 2>So he's had a wife named Joyce and a daughter

0:49:01.560 --> 0:49:06.359
<v Speaker 2>named Penny. Penny has a cherished doll named Henrietta, and

0:49:06.400 --> 0:49:08.960
<v Speaker 2>this leads to a weird exchange where Dave, who I

0:49:09.000 --> 0:49:12.080
<v Speaker 2>think is like trying to feed either Penny or the

0:49:12.160 --> 0:49:15.960
<v Speaker 2>Dolls serial. But Dave is like, you know, I used

0:49:16.000 --> 0:49:18.600
<v Speaker 2>to go with a girl named Henrietta. And Penny says

0:49:18.640 --> 0:49:21.040
<v Speaker 2>what happened to her? And Dave says, what happened to

0:49:21.080 --> 0:49:23.959
<v Speaker 2>her shouldn't happen to your doll? She married a con man.

0:49:26.400 --> 0:49:30.959
<v Speaker 2>Hey strange, But anyway, this is not a social call.

0:49:31.600 --> 0:49:34.520
<v Speaker 2>Dave is here to discuss work. He has some alarming news.

0:49:34.800 --> 0:49:37.360
<v Speaker 2>They got back a match on the fingerprints found at

0:49:37.400 --> 0:49:40.479
<v Speaker 2>the crime scene. They belonged to a convicted criminal who

0:49:40.600 --> 0:49:45.319
<v Speaker 2>died in jail twenty four days ago. From here we

0:49:45.360 --> 0:49:47.600
<v Speaker 2>go to let's see, it's been a few minutes since

0:49:47.600 --> 0:49:48.960
<v Speaker 2>we had a murder in this movie. We've got to

0:49:48.960 --> 0:49:52.279
<v Speaker 2>have another Adam Brain murder. So now we cut to

0:49:52.520 --> 0:49:56.040
<v Speaker 2>district Attorney McGraw, who we met at the first crime

0:49:56.040 --> 0:49:58.360
<v Speaker 2>scene earlier. I think he had a line that was

0:49:58.360 --> 0:50:02.400
<v Speaker 2>something like, look, just a district attorney, not a chemist.

0:50:03.800 --> 0:50:06.319
<v Speaker 2>McGraw is getting in his car in his garage when

0:50:06.360 --> 0:50:09.560
<v Speaker 2>he is startled by a strange man in a mechanics jumpsuit.

0:50:09.560 --> 0:50:11.600
<v Speaker 2>It looks kind of like Michael Myers without a mask,

0:50:12.760 --> 0:50:16.399
<v Speaker 2>and the man says I'm from Buchanan. If you know that,

0:50:16.760 --> 0:50:20.040
<v Speaker 2>you know why I'm here. It's no use, McGraw. And

0:50:20.080 --> 0:50:23.680
<v Speaker 2>then he reaches into McGrath's car and yanks the steering

0:50:23.719 --> 0:50:27.520
<v Speaker 2>wheel out of its housing, and he says, I said

0:50:27.680 --> 0:50:31.200
<v Speaker 2>I would see you die. I am watching you now.

0:50:33.239 --> 0:50:35.760
<v Speaker 2>I think there's like an implied therefore, like he's saying

0:50:36.239 --> 0:50:39.040
<v Speaker 2>I said I would see you die, I can see

0:50:39.080 --> 0:50:41.440
<v Speaker 2>you now. Therefore you're going to die.

0:50:41.840 --> 0:50:44.840
<v Speaker 1>Well, Buchanan knows he only has so much time to gloat.

0:50:44.920 --> 0:50:47.600
<v Speaker 1>He's got to get to it with this remote death

0:50:48.080 --> 0:50:49.400
<v Speaker 1>via reanimated corpse.

0:50:49.760 --> 0:50:53.680
<v Speaker 2>Right, So this Adam brain lifts McGraw up by the

0:50:53.760 --> 0:50:56.759
<v Speaker 2>neck and then crunches him somehow does another crunchy thing.

0:50:57.560 --> 0:51:00.160
<v Speaker 2>So Chet and Dave arrive at the murder scene in

0:51:00.200 --> 0:51:04.799
<v Speaker 2>the garage, and there is a doctor on site who's like, yes,

0:51:04.920 --> 0:51:07.080
<v Speaker 2>of course, I already gave his wife a sedative. It

0:51:07.160 --> 0:51:09.440
<v Speaker 2>is nineteen fifty five. I know what I'm supposed to do.

0:51:10.680 --> 0:51:14.040
<v Speaker 2>But he also concludes that McGraw was killed by having

0:51:14.040 --> 0:51:18.440
<v Speaker 2>his bones crushed by a single hand. I can deduce

0:51:18.480 --> 0:51:21.680
<v Speaker 2>that by looking at him somehow, And this leads Chet

0:51:21.680 --> 0:51:25.080
<v Speaker 2>and Dave to conclude that it was the same murderer

0:51:25.239 --> 0:51:30.040
<v Speaker 2>as Hennessy. But that doesn't make sense, they say, because

0:51:30.080 --> 0:51:33.920
<v Speaker 2>Hennessy he was some kind of gangland boss and McGraw

0:51:34.080 --> 0:51:37.280
<v Speaker 2>was a district attorney, so that was like cop and criminal.

0:51:37.320 --> 0:51:40.759
<v Speaker 2>They're on opposite sides. How would they share a common enemy. Well,

0:51:40.800 --> 0:51:43.960
<v Speaker 2>there are more clues. McGraw's car is radioactive now and

0:51:44.000 --> 0:51:48.040
<v Speaker 2>the fingerprints of the murderer match a man who died

0:51:48.160 --> 0:51:51.560
<v Speaker 2>a few weeks ago, so another dead man's fingerprints around

0:51:51.560 --> 0:51:55.240
<v Speaker 2>the scene. And the reporters show back up again there,

0:51:55.440 --> 0:51:57.080
<v Speaker 2>you know. They go up to Chet and they're like, hey,

0:51:57.120 --> 0:51:59.600
<v Speaker 2>were you actually serious about these murders being done by

0:51:59.640 --> 0:52:03.279
<v Speaker 2>a thing with a brain charged by Adam Rays? And

0:52:03.400 --> 0:52:06.200
<v Speaker 2>Chet's like, yes, I was serious. And then the reporters say,

0:52:06.200 --> 0:52:08.000
<v Speaker 2>hot dog, you know we had a scoop. We didn't

0:52:08.000 --> 0:52:10.440
<v Speaker 2>even know it, And then they all run off together.

0:52:10.560 --> 0:52:13.440
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, is that a scoop if all nine of

0:52:13.480 --> 0:52:16.839
<v Speaker 2>you got it at the same time? Yeah?

0:52:16.880 --> 0:52:20.560
<v Speaker 1>Are they all working for the same papers? This is

0:52:21.080 --> 0:52:23.720
<v Speaker 1>the budget for this newspaper? Is a ditting question.

0:52:24.080 --> 0:52:26.320
<v Speaker 2>They also they don't like stop to get a quote

0:52:26.400 --> 0:52:28.880
<v Speaker 2>or ask any follow up questions. They just he just

0:52:28.960 --> 0:52:31.920
<v Speaker 2>confirms it was Adam Brain's and they're like, okay, we

0:52:32.000 --> 0:52:33.560
<v Speaker 2>got a story, and they run off.

0:52:33.760 --> 0:52:34.240
<v Speaker 1>Confirmed.

0:52:34.760 --> 0:52:37.759
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, okay. After this, we go to one of my

0:52:37.920 --> 0:52:41.440
<v Speaker 2>favorite characters in the movie. Who is uh is his

0:52:41.560 --> 0:52:42.760
<v Speaker 2>name Dick Cutting?

0:52:43.640 --> 0:52:44.320
<v Speaker 1>Dick Cutting?

0:52:44.400 --> 0:52:48.360
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yeah, okay, So we go to Dick Cutting is

0:52:48.719 --> 0:52:52.719
<v Speaker 2>a man who looks like he should be playing like

0:52:53.280 --> 0:52:56.480
<v Speaker 2>a commander in the Galactic Empire in Star Wars. He

0:52:56.520 --> 0:52:59.120
<v Speaker 2>has that kind of he should be Admiral Cutting.

0:52:59.239 --> 0:53:02.040
<v Speaker 1>Played by Richard H. Cutting, who lived nineteen twelve through

0:53:02.120 --> 0:53:03.000
<v Speaker 1>nineteen seventy two.

0:53:03.440 --> 0:53:04.879
<v Speaker 2>Wait, that's his real name.

0:53:05.360 --> 0:53:07.520
<v Speaker 1>Apparently. Yeah. He was also an attack of the crab

0:53:07.560 --> 0:53:09.080
<v Speaker 1>monsters in South Pacific.

0:53:09.640 --> 0:53:12.960
<v Speaker 2>Oh, I didn't recognize him from crab Monsters. We'll see

0:53:12.960 --> 0:53:15.000
<v Speaker 2>which one was he is he the scientist in it?

0:53:15.600 --> 0:53:19.280
<v Speaker 2>I'll have to come back and doctor James Carson. Okay, okay.

0:53:20.239 --> 0:53:23.799
<v Speaker 2>So he's got a news monologue which is just tremendous.

0:53:23.840 --> 0:53:26.640
<v Speaker 2>His scenes are some of my favorite stuff in the film.

0:53:26.680 --> 0:53:28.759
<v Speaker 2>So he says hello, ladies and gentlemen. He's sitting at

0:53:28.760 --> 0:53:31.799
<v Speaker 2>like a very nice looking desk, and then behind him

0:53:31.880 --> 0:53:34.840
<v Speaker 2>there's a shelf full of what looked like very old books.

0:53:35.000 --> 0:53:38.040
<v Speaker 2>You know they're like, I don't know first editions or something.

0:53:38.400 --> 0:53:41.240
<v Speaker 2>He says, Hello, ladies and gentlemen. This is Dick cutting

0:53:41.320 --> 0:53:45.160
<v Speaker 2>with today's commentary on the news. As you know, today's

0:53:45.160 --> 0:53:48.040
<v Speaker 2>story hinges around the killing of District Attorney McGraw, whose

0:53:48.040 --> 0:53:51.000
<v Speaker 2>body was found today in his garage, murdered in much

0:53:51.040 --> 0:53:54.200
<v Speaker 2>the same manner as Hennessy was. What connection can the

0:53:54.280 --> 0:53:57.800
<v Speaker 2>murder have to Hennessy, who was obviously a gangland boss

0:53:58.000 --> 0:54:02.319
<v Speaker 2>is unknown at present. Chet Walker of the police Laboratory

0:54:02.680 --> 0:54:05.759
<v Speaker 2>has given out a fantastic story so incredible that one

0:54:05.800 --> 0:54:08.680
<v Speaker 2>can lend it little credence. Doctor Walker is of the

0:54:08.719 --> 0:54:12.560
<v Speaker 2>opinion that these crimes are being perpetrated by dead men. Yes,

0:54:12.640 --> 0:54:16.040
<v Speaker 2>I said, dead men restored to life in some unknown

0:54:16.120 --> 0:54:19.960
<v Speaker 2>manner by being charged with atom Ray's which gives them

0:54:20.000 --> 0:54:23.920
<v Speaker 2>superhuman strength and makes them impervious to bullets. Well, if

0:54:23.960 --> 0:54:26.600
<v Speaker 2>you want to believe that story, you can, And then

0:54:26.680 --> 0:54:30.000
<v Speaker 2>cut to Buchanan switching off the TV angrily.

0:54:31.800 --> 0:54:33.839
<v Speaker 1>There'll be more from Dick cutting here in a bed.

0:54:34.000 --> 0:54:34.920
<v Speaker 1>It gets even better.

0:54:35.280 --> 0:54:37.120
<v Speaker 2>Today's commentary on the.

0:54:37.120 --> 0:54:40.120
<v Speaker 1>News, filmed in what just looks like a lawyer's office

0:54:40.120 --> 0:54:42.799
<v Speaker 1>as opposed to a TV studio or.

0:54:42.719 --> 0:54:46.360
<v Speaker 2>Something, except there are curtains on the wall in the background.

0:54:46.440 --> 0:54:46.640
<v Speaker 4>Ah.

0:54:46.719 --> 0:54:51.040
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yeah, So Buchanan is mad that I guess they've

0:54:51.040 --> 0:54:53.359
<v Speaker 2>figured out the whole scheme. And now, even though dick

0:54:53.400 --> 0:54:57.520
<v Speaker 2>cutting does not lend it any credence, he's mad just

0:54:57.560 --> 0:55:01.400
<v Speaker 2>to hear it being spoken, the lips of dick Cutting,

0:55:01.480 --> 0:55:05.799
<v Speaker 2>even if to be dismissed. Yes, so Buchanan says, this

0:55:05.920 --> 0:55:09.400
<v Speaker 2>doctor Walker has quite the imagination, and then Steig says,

0:55:09.480 --> 0:55:12.319
<v Speaker 2>the kind of imagination that could prove dangerous to us.

0:55:12.520 --> 0:55:15.319
<v Speaker 2>And then Buchanan says, you mean the kind of imagination

0:55:15.400 --> 0:55:19.719
<v Speaker 2>that could prove dangerous to him? Ooh, Buchanan is ruthless.

0:55:20.280 --> 0:55:22.920
<v Speaker 2>Now next we get another what I thought was a

0:55:23.000 --> 0:55:25.840
<v Speaker 2>highlight of the film, which is the meeting at City

0:55:25.920 --> 0:55:28.760
<v Speaker 2>Hall scene. This is like twenty two twenty three minutes

0:55:28.800 --> 0:55:32.160
<v Speaker 2>in Walker meets with the mayor and a bunch of

0:55:32.200 --> 0:55:37.239
<v Speaker 2>big wigs, including a General Saunders, and oh my god,

0:55:37.320 --> 0:55:39.600
<v Speaker 2>this guy's line deliveries. I don't know if you found

0:55:39.600 --> 0:55:42.920
<v Speaker 2>them as hilarious as I did, but they're just perfect.

0:55:43.200 --> 0:55:45.719
<v Speaker 2>He's I don't know if I can do an impression,

0:55:45.800 --> 0:55:48.600
<v Speaker 2>but you know they're they're introducing everybody, and he's like,

0:55:48.760 --> 0:55:56.200
<v Speaker 2>I'm from the military called just concerned me. So Chat

0:55:56.239 --> 0:55:59.400
<v Speaker 2>explains the creature with the Adam brain theory of the

0:55:59.440 --> 0:56:03.879
<v Speaker 2>case by talking about Faraday's experiments with a frog's leg,

0:56:04.120 --> 0:56:06.680
<v Speaker 2>you know, animating it with electricities, Like what if we

0:56:06.680 --> 0:56:09.440
<v Speaker 2>could do the same thing but with a human with

0:56:09.560 --> 0:56:15.360
<v Speaker 2>atomic rays and that, you know, basically like Colonel Sanders

0:56:15.480 --> 0:56:19.240
<v Speaker 2>is oh wait, no, is that his name? Colonel No? Sorry,

0:56:19.440 --> 0:56:26.080
<v Speaker 2>General Saunders. The genuine mistake here, okay, General Saunders, who says,

0:56:27.120 --> 0:56:31.919
<v Speaker 2>oh ye sorry. Chat requests trucks and planes that can

0:56:32.080 --> 0:56:36.920
<v Speaker 2>detect radiation so that they can find the headquarters of

0:56:37.680 --> 0:56:41.480
<v Speaker 2>the atom brain monsters, and General Saunders is like, I'll

0:56:41.480 --> 0:56:42.480
<v Speaker 2>go through your.

0:56:42.440 --> 0:56:49.200
<v Speaker 1>Plans, oh man, So now the investigation into the atom creatures,

0:56:49.239 --> 0:56:51.720
<v Speaker 1>the atom brain creatures is about to have military support.

0:56:52.480 --> 0:56:54.239
<v Speaker 2>This is I think we've talked about this before, but

0:56:54.320 --> 0:56:56.640
<v Speaker 2>this is a way that a lot of stories from

0:56:56.719 --> 0:56:59.319
<v Speaker 2>this era are structured that makes them I think not

0:56:59.480 --> 0:57:02.840
<v Speaker 2>nearly as thrilling or high tension as they could be

0:57:03.000 --> 0:57:06.759
<v Speaker 2>just in the plot wise, because it basically has the

0:57:06.840 --> 0:57:12.120
<v Speaker 2>heroes aligned with like powerful forces and many you know,

0:57:12.280 --> 0:57:15.160
<v Speaker 2>lots of backup, like the police, and the military are

0:57:15.200 --> 0:57:19.560
<v Speaker 2>aligned with the heroes, helping search out the isolated, besieged

0:57:19.720 --> 0:57:20.400
<v Speaker 2>bad guys.

0:57:21.200 --> 0:57:27.160
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, all all of the lawful good agencies are going

0:57:27.200 --> 0:57:32.240
<v Speaker 1>to align and will overcome the I guess lawful evil

0:57:32.320 --> 0:57:34.840
<v Speaker 1>or maybe chaotoic evil forces of the villain. Like, there's

0:57:34.880 --> 0:57:37.760
<v Speaker 1>not really, there's no conflict among them, there's no question

0:57:37.840 --> 0:57:40.720
<v Speaker 1>of confidence. It's just a matter of time.

0:57:40.560 --> 0:57:51.240
<v Speaker 2>Really, all right. So somewhere in here there is a

0:57:51.240 --> 0:57:56.320
<v Speaker 2>plot where Buchanan and Steige send a road assassin after

0:57:56.440 --> 0:57:59.840
<v Speaker 2>Chet Walker. They figured out that he's onto them, and

0:58:00.200 --> 0:58:02.200
<v Speaker 2>they get this guy in a car like trying to

0:58:02.280 --> 0:58:03.680
<v Speaker 2>chase him down and run him off the road, but

0:58:03.760 --> 0:58:06.960
<v Speaker 2>instead they just follow him to a military airfield where

0:58:06.960 --> 0:58:09.160
<v Speaker 2>they're like, oh, actually we need to do surveillance. This

0:58:09.160 --> 0:58:12.880
<v Speaker 2>guy's got something big cooking. But next there is a

0:58:12.960 --> 0:58:16.240
<v Speaker 2>scene at Chet and Joyce's house, and I thought the

0:58:16.240 --> 0:58:20.040
<v Speaker 2>sequence of this whole scene, the arc here is hilarious.

0:58:20.520 --> 0:58:23.560
<v Speaker 2>So first Chet comes home, Chet and Joyce are all

0:58:23.600 --> 0:58:26.520
<v Speaker 2>over each other, of course, then they announced it's time

0:58:26.560 --> 0:58:30.800
<v Speaker 2>for dinner. Then Joyce sees a newspaper that has a

0:58:30.840 --> 0:58:36.560
<v Speaker 2>banner headline do dead men walk city streets? Authorities tracking

0:58:36.600 --> 0:58:39.680
<v Speaker 2>down all clues. Also some other headlines. I see building

0:58:39.760 --> 0:58:40.800
<v Speaker 2>code under fire.

0:58:41.480 --> 0:58:43.640
<v Speaker 1>Oh man, I feel that that was going to be

0:58:43.680 --> 0:58:45.920
<v Speaker 1>the lead. But then this dead man walking the street

0:58:45.960 --> 0:58:47.600
<v Speaker 1>thing popped up exactly.

0:58:47.640 --> 0:58:50.320
<v Speaker 2>So Joyce gets the paper. She says, it's not true,

0:58:50.360 --> 0:58:53.040
<v Speaker 2>is it? I assume she's not talking about the building code.

0:58:53.040 --> 0:58:55.000
<v Speaker 2>She means like, is it true about the dead men?

0:58:56.520 --> 0:59:00.240
<v Speaker 2>And Chet says, better hide it from Penny. Say, could

0:59:00.320 --> 0:59:04.720
<v Speaker 2>use a really nice cold martini, So Joyce makes him one.

0:59:05.080 --> 0:59:07.960
<v Speaker 2>And then as she is making him a nice cold martini,

0:59:08.120 --> 0:59:11.160
<v Speaker 2>she's like, well, pennies out playing in the street where

0:59:11.160 --> 0:59:17.040
<v Speaker 2>the atomic brains are? Is that safe? And doctor Chet says,

0:59:17.360 --> 0:59:20.120
<v Speaker 2>there seems to be some sort of definite pattern. Can't

0:59:20.160 --> 0:59:22.000
<v Speaker 2>put my finger on it, but I do know that

0:59:22.040 --> 0:59:25.120
<v Speaker 2>Hennessy and mcgral were killed for a reason. And then

0:59:25.240 --> 0:59:27.880
<v Speaker 2>Joyce is like, well, it's all right. Then he didn't

0:59:27.920 --> 0:59:31.360
<v Speaker 2>really answer the question, and Chet says, well, for a while,

0:59:31.440 --> 0:59:35.080
<v Speaker 2>I don't think they've gotten around to indiscriminate killings yet.

0:59:36.400 --> 0:59:40.480
<v Speaker 1>That's not even part of the plan. Has been described

0:59:40.600 --> 0:59:44.640
<v Speaker 1>by Buchanan. They are very specific killings. These they're not

0:59:44.720 --> 0:59:48.280
<v Speaker 1>random killings either, a specific vengeance killings.

0:59:48.400 --> 0:59:50.520
<v Speaker 2>But so Chet seems to be like, yes, it is

0:59:50.560 --> 0:59:52.600
<v Speaker 2>okay for Penny to play in the street with the

0:59:52.640 --> 0:59:56.440
<v Speaker 2>Adam Brains. And then Penny comes inside. She asked for

0:59:56.520 --> 0:59:59.000
<v Speaker 2>the newspaper because she wants to read the funnies, and

0:59:59.080 --> 1:00:01.840
<v Speaker 2>they lie and tell her it didn't come today. Then

1:00:01.840 --> 1:00:04.200
<v Speaker 2>she wants to turn on the TV, and they lie

1:00:04.360 --> 1:00:06.120
<v Speaker 2>and tell her the TV is broken. You know, it

1:00:06.200 --> 1:00:09.280
<v Speaker 2>must be new tubes or something. Then Chet gets his

1:00:09.400 --> 1:00:11.920
<v Speaker 2>martini and he's like, ooh, I've been thinking about this

1:00:12.000 --> 1:00:16.120
<v Speaker 2>all day. And then Dave arrives. Captain Dave here arrives

1:00:16.200 --> 1:00:19.120
<v Speaker 2>to explain more Adam Brain news, and then they send

1:00:19.160 --> 1:00:21.720
<v Speaker 2>Penny to her room so she can't hear the conversation

1:00:22.160 --> 1:00:24.360
<v Speaker 2>and they have a whole big argument about it. Penny's like,

1:00:24.400 --> 1:00:26.280
<v Speaker 2>you know, oh, I you know, I promise not to

1:00:26.320 --> 1:00:29.040
<v Speaker 2>bother them. They're like, no, you must go. I think

1:00:29.080 --> 1:00:30.640
<v Speaker 2>they tell her to go to her room and like

1:00:30.720 --> 1:00:34.800
<v Speaker 2>punish Henrietta the doll or something. So there is this

1:00:34.920 --> 1:00:41.160
<v Speaker 2>persistent theme about them systematically hiding knowledge of danger from

1:00:41.240 --> 1:00:45.600
<v Speaker 2>Penny while actually not protecting her from the danger itself.

1:00:45.920 --> 1:00:47.960
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and of course I think you could make a

1:00:47.960 --> 1:00:51.400
<v Speaker 1>lot out of that too as a commentary on people

1:00:51.440 --> 1:00:54.440
<v Speaker 1>growing up in the nineteen fifties and even some subsequent decades.

1:00:54.480 --> 1:00:58.160
<v Speaker 1>You know, not so much as it concerns the threat

1:00:58.280 --> 1:01:03.440
<v Speaker 1>of adam brained walking corpses, but various other issues in life.

1:01:03.760 --> 1:01:06.800
<v Speaker 1>You know, this sense of being overly protective in one way,

1:01:07.080 --> 1:01:11.000
<v Speaker 1>but not preparing a child at all for the realities

1:01:11.320 --> 1:01:13.040
<v Speaker 1>of well, in this case, the walking dead.

1:01:13.440 --> 1:01:17.960
<v Speaker 2>Right, So Dave has some information. He explains the backstory

1:01:18.000 --> 1:01:20.360
<v Speaker 2>that he pieced together that could make sense of all this.

1:01:20.800 --> 1:01:24.560
<v Speaker 2>There was this guy Buchanan, the old crime boss in town,

1:01:25.160 --> 1:01:29.920
<v Speaker 2>who many years ago was tried and convicted of crime

1:01:30.760 --> 1:01:35.640
<v Speaker 2>and then sent into exile in Italy. What was this

1:01:35.760 --> 1:01:38.480
<v Speaker 2>like a common punishment in the nineteen forties. So you're

1:01:38.520 --> 1:01:42.040
<v Speaker 2>convicted of being a mafia boss and instead of going

1:01:42.080 --> 1:01:44.320
<v Speaker 2>to prison, you're sent to Italy.

1:01:44.880 --> 1:01:49.440
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I had the same head scratching situation with this detail,

1:01:49.520 --> 1:01:52.720
<v Speaker 1>and I was looking it up and I can't find

1:01:52.760 --> 1:01:55.240
<v Speaker 1>anything that would support this as an actual reality. I

1:01:55.240 --> 1:01:57.280
<v Speaker 1>think you can get instant just some murky stuff about

1:01:57.360 --> 1:02:00.680
<v Speaker 1>US states being able to exile people from a given state.

1:02:01.200 --> 1:02:04.800
<v Speaker 1>But I didn't come across anything regarding like judicial exile,

1:02:05.760 --> 1:02:09.040
<v Speaker 1>like unless Buchanan was an Italian national. I guess maybe

1:02:09.040 --> 1:02:10.760
<v Speaker 1>that would make sense, but there's nothing to indicate that

1:02:10.840 --> 1:02:15.600
<v Speaker 1>he is or was. This is his name is Buchanan. Yeah,

1:02:15.640 --> 1:02:18.800
<v Speaker 1>that's a Scottish name. Yeah, So I don't know. I mean,

1:02:19.280 --> 1:02:25.000
<v Speaker 1>maybe there's something lost and re writes to the script

1:02:25.160 --> 1:02:27.800
<v Speaker 1>like it's one thing if he was living in exile

1:02:27.880 --> 1:02:30.920
<v Speaker 1>because he fled the law, like that would seem to

1:02:30.960 --> 1:02:33.400
<v Speaker 1>match up. But this idea of being exiled even in

1:02:33.440 --> 1:02:36.160
<v Speaker 1>like the nineteen forties, to another country because you were

1:02:36.440 --> 1:02:38.720
<v Speaker 1>a criminal, career criminal, I just don't know if that

1:02:38.760 --> 1:02:39.680
<v Speaker 1>makes any sense at all.

1:02:39.960 --> 1:02:42.480
<v Speaker 2>Well, anyway, apparently when he was convicted, he stood up

1:02:42.480 --> 1:02:46.280
<v Speaker 2>in court and swore revenge on Da McGraw and everybody

1:02:46.280 --> 1:02:50.040
<v Speaker 2>else who had testified against him at trial, which included Hennessy,

1:02:50.080 --> 1:02:53.800
<v Speaker 2>who was his number two, but also included three other guys,

1:02:53.880 --> 1:02:57.000
<v Speaker 2>and we'll meet them in a minute. We also will

1:02:57.040 --> 1:03:01.160
<v Speaker 2>eventually learn, via these repeated cabe that they received from

1:03:01.240 --> 1:03:05.720
<v Speaker 2>police in Rome that while Buchanan was there, he made

1:03:05.760 --> 1:03:09.440
<v Speaker 2>friends with a German scientist named Stig who did weird

1:03:09.640 --> 1:03:15.200
<v Speaker 2>experiments on dogs, cats, and monkeys involving atomic radiation. So

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<v Speaker 2>it's all coming together now for the police investigators. But

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<v Speaker 2>they think, Okay, these other three guys who testified against Buchanan,

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<v Speaker 2>they are in danger, so we got to round them up.

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<v Speaker 2>And then at the very end of the scene, there's

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<v Speaker 2>a strange thing where Joyce offers Chet a second Martini

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<v Speaker 2>to take in the car with him. He turns it down,

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<v Speaker 2>so she chugs it and then has a coughing fit.

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<v Speaker 2>So it's like she can't hang stretch.

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<v Speaker 1>Like, even if it doesn't make sense, it's like the

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<v Speaker 1>script is economic. They're fitting a lot of stuff. Then

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<v Speaker 1>there's no ways in space. Even if we don't really

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<v Speaker 1>understand what the point.

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<v Speaker 2>Is, right, but we know what's going to happen next, Right,

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<v Speaker 2>Buchanan's going to be sending Adam brainiacs to kill the

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<v Speaker 2>three more guys, the others who testified against him. The

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<v Speaker 2>police offer to let those guys stay in jail for

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<v Speaker 2>their own protection, but they turn it down. They're like, no,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to be at home. Now.

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<v Speaker 1>We're about I think at the thirty four minute mark

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<v Speaker 1>here and there's we're gonna check back in with Dick

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<v Speaker 1>cutting for just an absolutely perfect newscast that brings to

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<v Speaker 1>mind the newscaster from the Simpsons. There's this great sort

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<v Speaker 1>of issuing of an apology concerning the Adam Brain creatures. I,

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<v Speaker 1>for one, welcome our new Adam Brain overlords, according Dick Cutting,

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<v Speaker 1>so he says.

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<v Speaker 2>And with the murder of Jason, Oh so, one of

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<v Speaker 2>the guys, one of the three guys gets murdered, Dick

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<v Speaker 2>Cutting says, And with the murder of Jason Franschat last night,

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<v Speaker 2>I must apologize for my recent skepticism regarding these atomic creatures.

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<v Speaker 2>It seems they do exist, and they are prowling the street.

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<v Speaker 2>I love it, but I think there's a subtext also,

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<v Speaker 2>which is like, but please do allow your children to

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<v Speaker 2>continue to play in the street. We don't want them

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<v Speaker 2>to know there could be any danger. And now a

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<v Speaker 2>message from our sponsor, you know, healthy lung cigarettes.

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<v Speaker 1>I do feel like this movie was sponsored by pipe smoke.

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<v Speaker 1>There there's a lot of like Chat is always smoking

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<v Speaker 1>a pipe. There scenes where two characters having conversations smoking

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<v Speaker 1>pipes at the same time. I haven't seen this much

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<v Speaker 1>pipe smoke since Lord of the Rings.

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<v Speaker 2>We're going to get to a pipe scene in a minute. So,

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<v Speaker 2>but first, there are those planes and trucks that the

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<v Speaker 2>Chet requested earlier. They've got radium finders equipped and they're

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<v Speaker 2>scanning the city to find Adam brain HQ. And there's

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<v Speaker 2>a scene where Stig is out on the town. I

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<v Speaker 2>think he's out getting medicine to treat his radiation poisoning,

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<v Speaker 2>and he ducks into a bar to hide from the

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<v Speaker 2>military because they're like doing a house to house with

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<v Speaker 2>their bayonets out. I guess looking for I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>any scientists. I don't know exactly what they're running around with.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess they've got Geiger counters. Maybe they're scanning people

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<v Speaker 2>to see, like, are you radioactive? So he runs into

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<v Speaker 2>a bar to hide, orders a beer and then runs

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<v Speaker 2>out through the back door, leaves radiation on his beer

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<v Speaker 2>and they find that there. But they're like, oh, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>so we're looking for this German accent guy. Then there

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<v Speaker 2>is a research segment of the film, rob I think

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<v Speaker 2>you recently alluded to there's a like in each campaign

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<v Speaker 2>of Arkham Horror, there's like a research segment.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yep, this is our research segment for sure.

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<v Speaker 2>Chet goes to consult a neurologist friend of his about

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<v Speaker 2>Steig and his research. He learns all about Adam brain experiments.

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<v Speaker 2>Actually not Adam brain experiments. He learns about so I

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<v Speaker 2>think the thing is he learns that there have been

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<v Speaker 2>experiments that you can use electrodes to remotely control the

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<v Speaker 2>behavior of other creatures, like dogs. So they watch a

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<v Speaker 2>film strip with an electric dog. That is the cutest

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<v Speaker 2>thing I've ever seen.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, you'll never see fictional footage of dog mad science experiments.

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<v Speaker 1>That is so horrible because yeah, there's the the implication

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<v Speaker 1>on some level is that this is cruel and monstrous,

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<v Speaker 1>but you don't get that from the footage because it's

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<v Speaker 1>clearly like somebody's beloved pet dog with a couple of

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<v Speaker 1>wires attached to its collar or something, or maybe just

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<v Speaker 1>kind of like tucked into its fur, and then it's

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<v Speaker 1>just doing dog stuff. They're like, look it barks on command,

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<v Speaker 1>Look it sets down, and so forth.

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<v Speaker 2>How can you imagine a dog doing something on command?

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<v Speaker 2>But no, they're doing it by controlling its brain. But

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<v Speaker 2>also it's funny because the dog is like, they're like,

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<v Speaker 2>you hear, by flipping this electrode, you can make it

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<v Speaker 2>vicious and then it goes er.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's the cutest dog, So it is.

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<v Speaker 2>It's cute viciousness. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, this is like I don't know what kind of dog,

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<v Speaker 1>like a bingee dog, you know, that level of dog.

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<v Speaker 2>So that's the like electric control. But then I think

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<v Speaker 2>they make the bridge to the Adam brain thing by saying, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>but could you control a dead person with this kind

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<v Speaker 2>of method? And the guy's like no, because you didn't

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<v Speaker 2>have the energy to power the body if they were

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<v Speaker 2>no longer alive. But then Chad is like, what if

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<v Speaker 2>you used atom rays? And then the guy's like, oh no,

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<v Speaker 2>I hadn't thought of that.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, He's like, we're not there yet, but kind of

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<v Speaker 1>implying like it's a good idea though, like this is

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<v Speaker 1>a good way to use corpses, but we're just not

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<v Speaker 1>there yet.

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<v Speaker 2>But this whole scene, they're just digging into some pipes.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, just so much pipe smoking. They both have

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<v Speaker 1>one going.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like, try some of my tobacco blend.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, from here, there is a subplot where Buchanan and

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<v Speaker 2>Styg resort to terrorism. They're trying to get the army

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<v Speaker 2>to stop scanning with their radium finders, so they have

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<v Speaker 2>one of the Adam brains call in from a payphone

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<v Speaker 2>to the Army. I guess to call somebody and say, like,

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<v Speaker 2>stop your investigation or there will be disasters. And of

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<v Speaker 2>course the authorities don't negotiate with Adam Brain, so they

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<v Speaker 2>don't stop. And then we are treated to stock footage

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<v Speaker 2>of like trains derailing and mountains exploding and stuff. We

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<v Speaker 2>see a headline in the newspaper that says, plane bus

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<v Speaker 2>and rail crashes stir public.

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<v Speaker 1>Really in this calculation on the cannon's part, because he

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<v Speaker 1>always doing is antagonizing the military at this point, if

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<v Speaker 1>he really wanted the heat to die down, they should

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<v Speaker 1>have just stopped doing Adam Brains.

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<v Speaker 2>For a little bit. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Also, doesn't he have just like three more murders left

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<v Speaker 1>to complete his agenda here?

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<v Speaker 2>I think he did one of the three, so he's

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<v Speaker 2>got two more.

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<v Speaker 1>Two murders left, and you're gonna go ahead and rile

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<v Speaker 1>up the military. I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it seems like he should keep his eye on

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<v Speaker 2>the ball, like they're really getting sidetracked. I feel like

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<v Speaker 2>it would be harder to accomplish plane bus and rail

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<v Speaker 2>crashes than to just finish his business. Yeah, but oh no.

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<v Speaker 2>Then we get to a scene where Dave Chet's friend

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<v Speaker 2>gets Adam brained. He gets attacked by I think the

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<v Speaker 2>one of the three guys who was on the murder list,

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<v Speaker 2>the accountant, the former accountant of Buchanan. He gets killed

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<v Speaker 2>in his house by an Adam brain. He gets turned

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<v Speaker 2>into an Adam brain. He kills Dave in Dave's car,

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<v Speaker 2>and then Dave gets Adam brained.

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<v Speaker 1>And we get to see the is this the Adam

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<v Speaker 1>brain itself? Could I couldn't make out all the detail

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<v Speaker 1>when I was viewing it. It's just some sort of

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<v Speaker 1>implied some sort of like thing with wires on it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's going to go into the open cranium because I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know. Do we mention that all the Adam brains

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<v Speaker 1>have like what appears to be stitching across their forehead.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that their head has been opened up like a

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<v Speaker 2>like a pez dispenser and something is inserted in it.

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<v Speaker 2>The thing is some kind of electrode brain plates. I

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<v Speaker 2>think they install the plate in the brain to send

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<v Speaker 2>electrodes down into the brain tissue to control the body remotely,

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<v Speaker 2>and then they power it with the Adam rays. So

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<v Speaker 2>they Adam brain Dave and then they get Dave talking.

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<v Speaker 2>They're like testing him out. They find that he can

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<v Speaker 2>use his own vocal cords so he won't sound like

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<v Speaker 2>Buchanan when he talks. He'll sound like Dave. But they're

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<v Speaker 2>like get you. They're like, you know, Captain Harris, say

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<v Speaker 2>your name, and he goes, my name is David Harris,

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<v Speaker 2>Homicide Squad. And then they tuck a knife in his

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<v Speaker 2>pants and they send him on his way. I think

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<v Speaker 2>they're sending him to try to go kill Chet Walker,

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<v Speaker 2>the main guy.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and since he can talk like Dave, he's more

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<v Speaker 1>of an infiltration unit at this point.

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<v Speaker 2>So there is a scene that I think is supposed

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<v Speaker 2>to be very tense but actually was mostly funny where

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<v Speaker 2>Dave goes to Chet's house. Chet's not home, but Joyce

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<v Speaker 2>and Penny are there. He comes to the door and

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<v Speaker 2>Penny's like, who is it, and he goes, my name

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<v Speaker 2>is David Harris, Captain Harris, Homicide Squad. And she lets

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<v Speaker 2>him in and Joyce is like, oh, why so formal, Dave?

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<v Speaker 2>You sound terrible? Are you coming down with a cold?

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<v Speaker 2>And he's playing with pennies Dolly while Penny goes into

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<v Speaker 2>the kitchen to talk to her mom, and then Joyce

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<v Speaker 2>just happens to let She's like, oh, Chet had a

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<v Speaker 2>brainstorm this morning, Dave something about giving out phony information

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<v Speaker 2>to Buchanan about where the men and protective custody are

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<v Speaker 2>when actually they are at the county jail. So now

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<v Speaker 2>not realizing that Dave is actually Adam brain Dave, and

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<v Speaker 2>now Buchanan has that information, you know where he's going.

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<v Speaker 2>He's going to the county jail to get his revenge.

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<v Speaker 2>But the end of the scene finally made sense sort

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<v Speaker 2>of some of the lyrics from the Rocky Erickson song,

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<v Speaker 2>which again I'd never seen the movie before, so I

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<v Speaker 2>didn't know what this referred to. But there are some

1:12:36.680 --> 1:12:40.280
<v Speaker 2>lyrics that say threw the doll right down, ripped its

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<v Speaker 2>guts off, and threw it on the ground. And at

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<v Speaker 2>the end of the scene, Penny comes back into the room,

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<v Speaker 2>Dave is gone, but she finds her doll just smashed

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<v Speaker 2>to pieces on the floor.

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<v Speaker 1>If you're not familiar with the lyrics of Rocky erics

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<v Speaker 1>and songs, they often do have this kind of like

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<v Speaker 1>stream of consciousness kind of quality to them, and they

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<v Speaker 1>seem kind of cryptic and hard to decipher and don't

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<v Speaker 1>always include proper grammar, but often uses improper grammar in

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<v Speaker 1>ways that feel intentional and important to whatever he was

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<v Speaker 1>trying to get across.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, Like the preposition ripped its guts off instead of

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<v Speaker 2>out interesting and it doesn't have guts, it's a doll. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So Adam brain Dave goes to get his revenge. Buchanan

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<v Speaker 2>sends him to the jail where he kills the other

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<v Speaker 2>two witnesses. And then after that, Adam Brain Dave tries

1:13:36.000 --> 1:13:38.400
<v Speaker 2>to kill Chet because Chet gets into a car with

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<v Speaker 2>him and then they're like, crash the car, smash it

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<v Speaker 2>to pieces, but Chet jumps out of the car in

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<v Speaker 2>time to save himself. Though I don't know if you

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<v Speaker 2>jump out of a speeding car, that's you're gonna get hurt.

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<v Speaker 2>That's not good for you.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, not in movies. Though in movies you can just

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<v Speaker 1>jump out of them and you're fine.

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<v Speaker 2>It's the same principle as like if you jump up

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<v Speaker 2>right before the crashing plane hits the ground, you'll be ok.

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<v Speaker 2>But after this crash, the police recover Adam brain Dave.

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<v Speaker 2>Adam Brain Dave is damaged, so he's no longer following

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<v Speaker 2>orders from Buchanan. But so they like they check him

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<v Speaker 2>out and they're like oh wow, look at all the

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<v Speaker 2>electrodes in his brain. But he recovers some functionality while

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<v Speaker 2>in the hospital does another window stunt, like he pushes

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<v Speaker 2>the glass out of a window and then jumps out

1:14:22.640 --> 1:14:26.960
<v Speaker 2>the window to shamble back to Adam brain HQ. This

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<v Speaker 2>leads the police in the military right to the bad guys,

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<v Speaker 2>and then we have our final showdown. Buchanan gets mad

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<v Speaker 2>at Steig for some reason. I don't remember why. Actually,

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<v Speaker 2>Buchanan just kills Stig.

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<v Speaker 1>I think then Iig finally is like, I can't take

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<v Speaker 1>it anymore. This is too much murder. I wasn't in

1:14:42.439 --> 1:14:44.000
<v Speaker 1>it for the murder. I was just in it for

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<v Speaker 1>the resurrection of the dead. And so he brains him

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<v Speaker 1>with a with a some sort of eye guy Ranch

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<v Speaker 1>or something before he can destroy the machine.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so Buchanan then he gets all of his Adam

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<v Speaker 2>brain's active at once. There's like ten of them, and

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<v Speaker 2>he's like, go out attack the police kill them all.

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<v Speaker 2>So there's a big fight where the police are all

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<v Speaker 2>fighting with Adam brains on the lawn and then Chet

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<v Speaker 2>has to go inside and smash up the machine. But

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<v Speaker 2>before he can do that, Buchanan corners him and there's

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<v Speaker 2>like a there's a showdown there. But ultimately Buchanan is

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<v Speaker 2>destroyed by his own wrath because one of the Adam

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<v Speaker 2>brains comes in and grabs I think it's the Adam

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<v Speaker 2>Brain Dave maybe comes in and grabs Buchanan and strangles him.

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<v Speaker 2>He kills him.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, destroyed by his own Adam brains. A fitting ending there.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And then they destroy the Adam ray machine and

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<v Speaker 2>that powers down all of the Adam Brains on the

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<v Speaker 2>lawn and good prevails over evil.

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<v Speaker 1>Pretty pretty solid ending, mostly by the books. I loved

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<v Speaker 1>the battle on the lawn between the Adam Brains and

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<v Speaker 1>the law and military. It was better than I expected

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<v Speaker 1>it to be. And again you get the people, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>firing bullets through the Adam brains and a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>like crunching and so forth. But then we close things

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<v Speaker 1>out though with the family unit at the dinner table

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<v Speaker 1>with with with Chet and his family.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's enough of that. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And we get this super weird ending where the

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<v Speaker 1>little girl what's her name, Henrietta.

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<v Speaker 2>No, Henrietta is the doll that got stripped off. The

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<v Speaker 2>girl is Penny.

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<v Speaker 1>Penny, yes, sorry, Penny is asking about Uncle Dave. She's like,

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<v Speaker 1>where's Uncle Dave? And they don't tell her that he's dead.

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<v Speaker 1>They're like, oh, he's gone for a little while, which

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<v Speaker 1>is crazy, right, because it's one thing to you know,

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<v Speaker 1>obviously you want to keep it age appropriate. You don't

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<v Speaker 1>have to tell her that a career criminal and a

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<v Speaker 1>mad scientist murdered him and then stuffed his brain with

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<v Speaker 1>electrodes and reanimated his corpse and made it do murders.

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<v Speaker 1>But to just be like, oh, the Uncle Dave went

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<v Speaker 1>away for littlely, he's on a vacation. No, no, Uncle

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<v Speaker 1>Dave is dead, Like, at least tell her he's dead.

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<v Speaker 2>He went up to an Adam farm upstate.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's so weird, and perhaps you know, telling of

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<v Speaker 1>how you know, we approached the protection of our children

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<v Speaker 1>in previous decades. I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, Well that's all I gotta say about creature

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<v Speaker 2>with the Adam brain. Why is he acting so strange?

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<v Speaker 2>It's because he is a creature with an Adam brain.

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<v Speaker 2>The mystery is solved.

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<v Speaker 1>Ah, yeah, it's it's a it's a fun one. If

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<v Speaker 1>you enjoy fifties B movies, this is a solid and

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<v Speaker 1>entertaining good time. You know it's again it's not not

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<v Speaker 1>top tier for genre and time period, but but pretty solid.

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<v Speaker 1>It's never boring. Uh, there's a lot, a lot to

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<v Speaker 1>love here. As always, we'd love to hear from everyone

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