Tarzan Escapes (1936) / Z-View
Tarzan Escapes (1936)
Director: Richard Thorpe, John Farrow (uncredited), James C. McKay (uncredited), George B. Seitz (uncredited), William A. Wellman (uncredited)
Screenplay: Cyril Hume based on novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O’Sullivan and John Buckler.
The Pitch: “Let’s make another Tarzan movie.”
Tagline: ” It’s New! It’s amazing! 2 years to produce!”
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Jane’s cousins come to the jungle. Their father has died and Jane is needed to see that the will goes through. Jane agrees to go back to England for a short time and then return to Tarzan in the jungle. Jane’s guide has plans to capture Tarzan and sell him to a sideshow.
Jane starts on her journey. Tarzan is captured. To make things worse a warring tribe is on the way to wipe out the white hunters.
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Jack Carter and Gravedigger McCrae by Jonathon Brandon Sawyer
Jonathon Brandon Sawyer created his take on Sly as Jack Carter teamed with Chris Mills’ and Rick Burchett’s Gravedigger McCrae. How cool is that? Very.
To check out more of JBS’ art, head here. You can follow JBS on Twitter.
Gravedigger: Hot Women , Cold Cash by Mills and Burchett gets an A+ rating and is available at the link. – Craig
The Top Ten Deadliest Gunslingers
The Vintage News takes a look at the Top Ten Deadliest Gunslingers and it has some real doozies. Listed below is just a tidbit or two about each gun fighter. You can get the full accounts of each (and they are worth reading) at the Top Ten Deadliest Gunslingers.
John Wesley Hardin – …claimed to have killed 42 men though the newspapers attributed only 27 killings. He was so quick tempered with a gun that it has been said that he once killed a man for snoring…
Jim “Killer” Miller – …credited with killing at least 14 people, though legend has it that the number is somewhere closer to 50… famously declared that he would kill anyone for money, and is rumored to have gunned down everyone from political figures to famed sheriff Pat Garrett…
James “Wild Bill” Hickock – most notorious man in the Wild West. A gunfighter, gambler, civil war spy, Indian fighter, peace officer, Hickok was said to have killed more than 100 men…
Tom Horn, Jr. – following his resignation from the Pinkertons… he developed a reputation as a hitman and is said to have been responsible for as many as 50 murders in his 43 years of life.
Clay Allison – A head injury in the civil war is, many historians believe, what led to his violent temper and unpredictable behavior and… explains some of his shockingly brutal actions, which included once beheading a man he suspected of murder and carrying the head into his favorite bar to share a drink.
Wyatt Earp – participated in numerous gunfights in his life, killing anywhere from 8 to 30. He would become the fearless Western hero in countless novels and films.
Dallas Stoudenmire – After the Civil War he… moved to the lawless and violent city of El Paso, Texas, to serve as sheriff. On the third day on the job, he killed three men with his two 44 caliber Colt revolvers in a famous incident known as the “Four Dead In Five Seconds“ gunfight.
William H. Bonney – All told, Billy the Kid is said to have killed a total of 21 men, one for each of the years of his life…
King Fisher – was known for gunning down three members of his own gang during a dispute over money and then killing seven Mexican bandits a short time later…
Sam Bass – robbed the Union Pacific gold train from San Francisco, netting over $60,000, which is to this day the largest single robbery of the Union Pacific…
Miami Blues (1990) / Z-View
Miami Blues (1990)
Director: George Armitage
Screenplay: George Armitage from a novel by Charles Willeford
Stars: Fred Ward, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Charles Napier and Paul Gleason.
The Pitch: “How about a crime movie based in Miami?”
Tagline: “Real badge. Real gun. Fake cop.”
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Ex-con, Frederick J. Frenger Jr. [Baldwin] heads to Miami for a fresh start. A fresh start means stealing and conning. When Frenger ends up with a cop’s gun and badge, he finds that it makes stealing and conning easier. The cop [Ward] makes it his life’s mission to track down the thief using his identity. Oh, and there’s a sweet prostitute [Leigh], too.
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The “Kong: Skull Island” Comic-Con footage is Here!
The Kong: Skull Island Comic-Con footage is Here!
The “Justice League” Special Comic-Con footage is Here!
The Justice League Special Comic-Con footage is Here! [And it looks really good!]
Walter Hill and Matz Team for Triggerman!
That’s a cover detail from Triggerman, a new crime comic coming from Hard Case Crime and Titan Comics.
Triggerman will be written by Walter (“The Warriors”) Hill with art by Matz.
In the mean streets of Chicago, a convict is thrown headfirst into a life of bloodshed and bullets to save the girl he left behind…
I love the sound and look. I’ll definitely be pulling the trigger on Triggerman.
Sources: Flickering Myth and Down the Tubes.
The Fear the Walking Dead Season 2B Comic-Con 2016 Official Trailer is Here!
The Fear the Walking Dead Season 2B Comic-Con 2016 Official Trailer is Here!
“The Walking Dead” Season 7 Comic-Con Trailer is Here!
The Walking Dead Season 7 Comic-Con Trailer is Here!
Rare Still from “Curse of the Werewolf”
Today we have a rare photo of Oliver Reed in full werewolf make-up from Curse of the Werewolf. For my money, the best werewolf make-up of them all… and probably the best werewolf movie as well.
Source: Steve Niles’ Tumblr.
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) / Z-View
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
Director: Charles Lamont
Screenplay: John Grant from a story by Lee Leob
Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor, Michael Ansara and Richard Deacon.
The Pitch: “Hey, Abbott and Costello Haven’t Met the Mummy yet!”
Tagline: “It has been said that a man’s best friend is his mummy…”
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Abbott and Costello are in Egypt… and they meet The Mummy. Hilarity [ok, a fair amount of laughs] follow.
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Stars of “The Strain” Perform “Vamps Boom!”
I’m a huge fan of The Strain and am always on the look out for ways to get more people on board. With that said, I wasn’t expecting The Strain’s Kevin Durand, David Bradley and Miguel Gomez performance of Vamps Boom!
Jason Latour Talks to EW at Con-X
Jason Latour is the subject of a piece at Entertainment Weekly. When asked about the tv adaptation of Southern Bastards, Latour responded…
“We’re hopeful that it will move forward… It’s a slow, slow process, but there’s really good people behind it and excited by it. At some point now, to do the comic everyday, you have to forget that there might be a TV show.”
A tv series would be icing but as long as Jason Aaron and Jason Latour keep the comic coming, that’s the cake, baby.
16 High-Flying Facts About “The Rocketeer”
Stacy Conradt and Mental_Floss present 16 High-Flying Facts About The Rocketeer. Here are three of my favorites…
1. IT WAS ORIGINALLY A COMIC BOOK.
In 1982, artist Dave Stevens created a comic book character called The Rocketeer, inspired by pulp characters and series from the 1930s through 1950s. Though originally intended to be a secondary strip in a more popular comic called Starslayer, the quirky character quickly proved his star power. Stevens’ Rocketeer was so popular, in fact, that the movie was optioned just a year later.
5. DISNEY WANTED JOHNNY DEPP FOR THE LEAD ROLE.
Billy Campbell was hired for the starring role after Johnny Depp turned it down—and Campbell’s agent played a part in getting Depp to nix the part. “As it happened, my agent’s office was right next to Johnny Depp’s agent’s office,” Campbell later said. “My agent called me one day all excited and he said, ‘Tracy is about to have a meeting with Johnny about whether to do Rocketeer or not, and she asked me to join in on the meeting. I’ll call you back.’ So, he went in on the meeting and he brilliantly convinced Johnny Depp that this was exactly not the kind of movie that he should be doing.”
Vincent D’Onofrio was also offered the lead at one point, but turned it down because he wasn’t sure it would fit with his image.
15. MORE MOVIES WERE IN THE WORKS.
This news is bittersweet for fans: Before the movie flopped at the box office, a sequel (and maybe even a trilogy) was in the works. “There was a lot of talk of a sequel on June 20, 1991, but there wasn’t any on the 22nd,” Johnston said in 2011.
