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2) Best and Worst Movies.
3) Jim Shooter - Editor.
4) Kirby's Art and Michael Jackson's Songs.
5) Building and Changing Comic Universes.
6) Foods We Dislike.
7) Falling Out of Love with a Comic Creator.
8) Comic Collecting - Stops and Starts.
9) Favorite Newspaper Comic Strips.
10) Musicals.
11) Country Music.
12) Favorite Comic Arcs.
13) First Comic Acquisition.
14) The Munsters or The Addams Family.
15) Classical Music.
16) Hammer Films.
17) Misheard Song Lyrics.
18) Reading Comics Today.
19) Arnold Schwarzenegger.
20) Great Comic Issues that Aren't the First Issue.
21) Departure of a Comic Creative Team.
22) Bad Beatles Recordings.
23) Characters that Bore You.
24) Additional Income and Summer Reading.
25) Secret Identities.
26) Five Beatles Questions.
27) Comic Reviews of Recommended Arcs.
28) Comic Book Annuals.
29) Our last conversation topic this past week was "Elton John."
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What's the best Ray Harryhausen film ?
Hmm, lots to choose from. I've always liked Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger - although it's been quite some time since I've watched it.
The only Ray Harryhausen film I saw in the cinema was 'Sinbad & The Eye Of The Tiger' in 1977 so I have a great fondness for that film - the bronze minotaur, wicked Queen Zenobia, the heir to the throne turned into a baboon, the friendly giant troglodyte, the Shrine of The Four Elements, the giant walrus, Sinbad played by John Wayne's son (was he ever in any other film ?) and so on...great stuff. But my favorite Harryhausen film is probably 'Jason & The Argonauts'. The scene where the giant statue of Talos comes alive and turns his head to look down at the Argonauts is terrifying. And the film has a line that always makes me chuckle when Jason says he comes from Thessaly and Medea replies "But that's the other side of the world !" - actually, in Greek legend the land of Colchis was on the far side of the Black Sea so the Argonauts would have sailed across the Aegean sea and then across the Black Sea, a journey of maybe four or five days at most, hardly the other side of the world. One of the actors in Jason & The Argonauts is Andrew Faulds who later became a Labour MP in the British parliament.
One of the cable channels recently aired a bunch of them down here (but not all) so I'd have to go with what I saw; like Colin, I'd go with Jason and the Argonauts, gotta love that iconic skeleton fight!
- Mike 'stop motion eater' from Trinidad & Tobago.
For me it's Jason and the Argonauts, no question. It has the best creatures and the skeletons scene is still amazing. Also because, as some of you know, the "J" in my initials stands for Jason, and their weren't many movies with characters named Jason when I was a kid.
I had the good fortune to see it on the big screen about 10 years ago at a film festival, Harryhausen was guest of honor. He introduced the film, when it was over the audience gave him a standing ovation.
Golden Voyage of Sinbad will forever be in my heart as the top of RH's craft. Great 70s sets with crazy colored lighting, the wild imagination of the creature design...can't beat it
Yoyo
Jason & the Argonauts definitely!
Sinbad was okay when I was 6, but doesn't hold up as well.
Wow, this is practically a dead heat between JASON and the ARGONAUTS and CLASH of the TITANS.
Seen Jason at the drive-in, great experience. Love the skeleton fight.
Watched Clash opening weekend .I was in heaven!
Clash by a nose.
Thanks for all the comments - but not very many today !
TOUGH couple of days at work!
Colin, that very scene with Talos from Jason & the Argonauts may have been what triggered a near-phobic response I've always faced when confronted with "giant" things! Man, I love that film!
HB
I'll go with "Jason" by default- it's the only one I've seen! Worth it for the skeletons, it was amazing viewing for pre-teen redartz...
Patrick Wayne:
Patrick made his film debut at age 11 in his father's film Rio Grande. He followed that with films directed by family friend and iconic director John Ford: The Quiet Man, The Sun Shines Bright (1953), The Long Gray Line (1955), Mister Roberts (1955), and The Searchers (1956).
From 1957 to 1958, Wayne appeared as Walter on the CBS sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve, starring Howard Duff and Ida Lupino as a fictitious acting couple living in Beverly Hills. Other television work included the baseball teleplay Rookie of the Year (1955), directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, and Flashing Spikes (1962), a baseball television anthology installment directed by Ford and starring James Stewart, with John Wayne in an extended cameo role. Patrick Wayne played similar roles in both shows as baseball players.
Following high school, Patrick attended Loyola Marymount University, where he was a member of Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity; he graduated in 1961. During this time, he struck out on his own to star in his own film The Young Land (1959). Patrick enlisted in the United States Coast Guard in 1961. He supported his father in The Alamo, Donovan's Reef, McLintock! and The Green Berets. He also appeared in Ford's sprawling epic Cheyenne Autumn (1964), as James Stewart's son in Shenandoah (1965), in An Eye for an Eye (1966), The Deserter (1971), and in a lead role in The Bears and I for Walt Disney (1974).
In 1966 at age 27, Wayne co-starred with Ron Hayes and Chill Wills in the 17-episode ABC comedy-western series The Rounders, based on the 1965 Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda film of the same name. Patrick also served a tour of duty with the United States Coast Guard.[1]
Throughout the 1970s he portrayed Marathon John in commercials for Mars Inc's Marathon candy bar.
(She comes down from Yellow Mountain
On a dark, flat land she rides
On a pony she named Wildfire
With a whirlwind by her side
On a cold Nebraska night
Oh, they say she died one winter
When there came a killing frost
And the pony she named Wildfire
Busted down it's stall
In a blizzard she was lost
She ran calling Wildfire
She ran calling Wildfire
She ran calling Wildfire
By the dark of the moon I planted
But there came an early snow
There's been a hoot-owl howling by my window now
For six nights in a row
She's coming for me, I know
And on Wildfire we're both gonna go
We'll be riding Wildfire
She ran calling Wildfire
She ran calling Wildfire
On Wildfire we're gonna ride
Gonna leave sodbustin' behind
Get these hard times right on out of our minds
Riding Wildfire).
Too long for one post:
Following work on his father's Big Jake, Patrick earned recognition in the sci-fi genre. His career peaked in the late 1970s in the popular matinee fantasy Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), then The People That Time Forgot (1977). Wayne also screen-tested for the title role of Superman.[2] He co-starred as a romantic love interest to Shirley Jones in another brief TV series, Shirley (1979). He was the host of The Monte Carlo Show in 1980, and occasionally worked on game shows and syndicated variety series.
He had many appearances on popular TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, including Fantasy Island (1978), Murder, She Wrote (1984), Charlie's Angels (1976), Sledge Hammer! (1986), and The Love Boat.[1] Wayne appeared in the movie Young Guns (1988) as Pat Garrett. He also did a comic turn in the Western spoof Rustler's Rhapsody (1985) starring Tom Berenger.
Wayne served as the host of the 1990 revival of the game show Tic-Tac-Dough.
In 2003, Patrick became chairman of the John Wayne Cancer Institute.[1]
In December 2, 2015, he travelled to Spain to receive the prize "Almeria Tierra de Cine" in Almeria (Andalucia) for his long career in the cinema, and he remembered his maternal grandparents were born in Madrid and he is half Spanish. He currently lives in Arizona.
In the town where I grew up, the theatre had a stockpile of older movies on hand. Most showings were double features, usually an Elvis movie and then the current feature. When we went to see Jaws, Jason and the Argonauts was the opener.
Prowler, thanks for all that fascinating information !
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