Movies
Rocky Roberts
This video offers a perfect pairing of weird personalities.
Rocky Roberts, a black man from the USA, once a boxer, who became a pop star, but only in Europe.
Jayne Mansfield, dancing and uttering the line, "My ears directed my body toward the sound." 'Nuff said.
More coverage below.
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 12, 2015 -
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Category: Movies, Music, Sex Symbols, 1960s, Dance, Europe
3 DEV ADAM
The full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 22, 2015 -
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Category: Inebriation and Intoxicants, Movies, Comics, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, 1970s, Asia, Europe
Ed Wood’s JAILBAIT
Full movie below.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 17, 2015 -
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Category: Cult Figures and Artifacts, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Stupid Criminals, Outsider Art, 1950s
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
This short, silent comedy is a bit of classic weirdness from 1916. Apparently it's quite well known, even considered a cult classic. But I hadn't heard of it before, so perhaps it'll be new to you too. Wikipedia offers this description:Fairbanks's character otherwise lampoons Sherlock Holmes with checkered detective hat, clothes and even car, along with the aforementioned propensity for injecting cocaine whenever he feels momentarily down, then laughing with delight. A device used for observing visitors, which is referred to in the title cards as his "scientific periscope", bears a close resemblance to a modern closed-circuit television. What is apparently a clock face has "EATS, DRINKS, SLEEPS, and DOPE" instead of numbers.
The film displays a lighthearted and comic attitude toward Coke Ennyday's use of cocaine and laudanum, while he catches a gang of drug smugglers, he does so after consuming most of their opium. One of the actresses appearing, Alma Rubens, later became addicted to morphine and died young.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Feb 04, 2015 -
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Category: Drugs, Movies, 1910s
Ugandan Kung Fu
More information here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 31, 2015 -
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Category: Movies, Martial Arts, Children, Africa
Charlie Chan Condom and Tampon Case
Just the thing to prevent number one son.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 28, 2014 -
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Category: Movies, Stereotypes and Cliches, Birth Control , Asia
From Hell It Came
This not taken from the Alan Moore graphic novel.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 14, 2014 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Horror, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, 1950s, Natural Wonders
Series 4
Series 4 by Normand Grégoire, National Film Board of Canada
Caution: some bare, false-color bosoms presented in a trippy manner.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 30, 2014 -
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Category: Movies, Avant Garde, Pop Art, Surrealism, 1970s
Doomsday Flight
The movie is apparently pretty good. So good, in fact, that it soon earned an odd place in film history as The Movie Too Dangerous For The Public To See. Whenever it was shown, it inspired a slew of copycat bomb hoaxes, eventually leading the FAA, in 1971, to send a letter to TV stations, requesting that they never show it again. The FAA's letter warned that "the film may have a highly emotional impact on some unstable individual and stimulate him to imitate the fictional situation in the movie."
TV stations honored the FAA's request, and to my knowledge have never aired it again. It eventually was released on VHS (Available on Amazon
), and there may be a DVD of it available (though not on Netflix). But you won't see it on TV.You can find a fuller version of this movie's history here and here.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Oct 30, 2014 -
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Category: Movies, 1960s
Dog Factory
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 16, 2014 -
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Category: Movies, Technology, Dogs, 1900s
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