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DonM435	Zucchini	#61	[-]
Posts: 9514 Jul 17 02 8:38 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'd swear that I'd seen George a hundred times, but it's really only a dozen. But one doesn't forget him. My top Zuccos: THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1939) THE MUMMY'S HAND THE MAD GHOUL HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN
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Richard Valley	Re: Zucchini	#62	[-]
Posts: 54081 Jul 17 02 11:36 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	THE MUMMY'S HAND! In addition to George Zucco, there are two terrific actors in it who . . . uh . . . have I mentioned this before?
Resurrection Joe II	Re: Zucchini	#63	[-]
Posts: 1916 Jul 17 02 6:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yeah, but a good cast, or even PART of a good cast, is worth repeating. Nice to see the Zucco thread resurrected! Don mentioned some top-notch Zucco films and performances. In addition, I enjoy much of his work for PRC, including THE BLACK RAVEN, FOG ISLAND, DEAD MEN WALK and THE MAD MONSTER. Over at Monogram, however, George's turn as a gas station attendant in VOODOO MAN still seems less credible than his other job as High Priest of Ramboona. I enjoy the movie, but I've yet to meet a gas station attendant quite as urbane as George. And I'm glad he managed to side-step the title role in RETURN OF THE APE MAN. Even posing for a photograph in ape man garb must have been a degrading experience for Zucco. For Frank Moran, though, it was probably the role of a lifetime! Funny how that works out.
Richard Valley	Re: Zucchini	#64	[-]
Posts: 54081 Jul 17 02 6:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>>Yeah, but a good cast, or even PART of a good cast, is worth repeating.>> In that case, it may interest people to know that THE MUMMY'S HAND stars Cecil Kellaway and Wallace Ford were later reunited in HARVEY . . .
Richard Valley	Zucco Times Two	#65	[-]
Posts: 54081 Jul 18 02 10:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Our good pal Fred Olen Ray's Retromedia Drive-In Theater has released a George Zucco double-bill on DVD--THE MAD MONSTER and THE BLACK RAVEN.
evilskippy	Re: Zucco Times Two	#66	[-]
Posts: 6190 Aug 25 02 4:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I thoroughly enjoyed a Zucco double feature of Black Raven and Fog Island on dvd recently.May have to try and scare up a copy of The Mad Ghoul as I haven't seen that one in probably 30 years.
MarkDClark	Re: Zucco Times Two	#67	[-]
Posts: 4501 Aug 26 02 9:37 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The MAD GHOUL is an underrated film with a superb Zucco performance. I recently watched the Retromedia MAD MONSTER/BLACK RAVEN disc. Not bad! It includes a delightful 15-minute audio interview with Glenn Strange, conducted by Don Glut in the early 70s. Worth the price of admission by itself.
Sanguinaire E	Re: George Zucco	#68	[-]
Posts: 11180 Dec 8 03 8:59 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Is it true that Zucco died screaming about Lovecraft's "Cuthulu and the Old Ones"? I read that in a few places, but it sounds a little too far out to be true. By the way, I have the same birthday as George, Jan. 11.
Ken Hanke	Re: George Zucco	#69	[-]
Posts: 71281 Dec 8 03 9:30 PM Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Though that story -- thank you, Kenneth Anger -- has been circulating for years, there is not even the slightest hint of a vestige of a smidgen of an iota of veracity to it.
Richard Valley	Re: George Zucco	#70	[-]
Posts: 54081 Dec 8 03 10:52 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Unlike the material printed in Scarlet Street, it's not only gutter trivia, but untrue gutter trivia . . .
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Sanguinaire E	Re: George Zucco	#71	[-]
Posts: 11180 Dec 9 03 1:01 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks, Richard and Ken. I suspected it was a urban legend, but we must remember - there are such things......
Sanguinaire E	Re: George Zucco	#72	[-]
Posts: 11180 Mar 6 04 5:11 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I turned on the TV sometime in the middle of the last night and was pleasantly surprised to see DR. RENAULT'S SECRET. I had wanted to see this for some time. A well paced, well acted, and very well directed forties B movie that features Zucco, playing it smooth as always as the mad doctor. But it's J. Carroll Naish who steals this one. As the unfortunate ape man, he gives off a genuinely weird vibe, helped along by some good makeup and costume effects. Probably the best ape man ever (with apologies to Bela). "There is nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight."
Richard Valley	Zucco Goes Mad	#73	[-]
Posts: 54081 Mar 13 04 1:29 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Question, Scarlet Streeters: Was it Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon that had the stories about George Zucco going whacko and being confined to an asylum . . .?
Maleva	Re: Zucco Goes Mad	#74	[-]
Posts: 12427 Mar 13 04 1:50 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	HOLLYWOOD BABYLON II, to be precise. I was looking through it the other day.
Ken Hanke	Re: Zucco Goes Mad	#75	[-]
Posts: 71281 Mar 13 04 1:52 AM Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I have a feeling that it was HOLLYWOOD BABYLON REVISITED or II or whatever it was called.
len2476buster	Zucco Goes Mad? NOT so!	#76	[-]
Posts: 7251 Mar 14 04 4:02 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Which is why Greg Mank felt compelled to do his best to set the record straight on George Z., which prompted his HOLLYWOOD'S MADDEST DOCTORS book. - Mr. Len
Richard Valley	Re: Zucco Goes Mad? NOT so!	#77	[-]
Posts: 54081 Mar 14 04 6:05 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I didn't mean to suggest that the stories were true; I was only wondering about their origin . . .
len2476buster	Re: Zucco Goes Mad? NOT so!	#78	[-]
Posts: 7251 Mar 14 04 7:40 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hey, speaking of ol' George Z., I got a copy of THE BLACK RAVEN from the fine (I hope!) folks at Alpha Video. As I'm still waiting for a friend of mine to help me rewire my TV, VCR and DVD player so that I can enjoy BOTH technologies, how is the film? I haven't seen it for close to 30 years and my memories of it are very vague. I seem to recall Mr. Ken liking it, though. Any fans of this film? - Mr. Len
Ken Hanke	Re: Zucco Goes Mad? NOT so!	#79	[-]
Posts: 71281 Mar 14 04 10:52 PM Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It is the ne plus ultra of Zuccodom!
Richard Valley	Re: Zucco Goes Mad? NOT so!	#80	[-]
Posts: 54081 Mar 14 04 11:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Mr. Hanke and I are in agreement on the merits of THE BLACK RAVEN, though I have a slight preference for THE MAD MONSTER . . .
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