I have a special place in my heart for these movies. I can't or don't usually watch them, now, but there was a time when most of us who were kids sat glued to our seats at the drive-in or in front of the black & White TV set as Olivia de Havilland (Lady in a Cage), Joan Fontaine (The Devil's Own), Barbara Stanwyck (The Night Walker) and other Big Stars of a recent era suffered through untold abuses and horrors. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane was a classic of artistic cinema compared to some of these schlocky (but still fairly decent-quality) motion pictures.
*recently bygone era
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 18, 2024 12:49 AM |
^^^This trailer is great!
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 18, 2024 12:53 AM |
Anyone?
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 18, 2024 1:01 AM |
I’ve never seen Lady in A Cage but Amy Sedaris did a takeoff of it on an episode of her last show that was hilariously bizarre.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 18, 2024 5:04 AM |
You might find something of interest over at Brian's Drive-In Theater. He's been doing this website since 1998.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 18, 2024 5:35 AM |
I’m watching Caged Heat right now. I could see it playing at a Drive-In.
Remember the days when hiding in someone’s trunk to avoid paying was considered bad ass and exciting?
by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 18, 2024 5:51 AM |
R9 LOL! I'm reminded of this quote from "Golden Girls."
[quote]ROSE: [reminiscing about her late husband] Charlie liked to do all the typical teenage things. When we'd go to a drive-in movie, he'd hide me in the trunk so we only had to pay admission for one. And after the movie, he'd drive me home, let me out of the trunk, and tell me all about it.
😂
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 18, 2024 6:07 AM |
These types of films essentially transformed into made-for-tv movies in the late 1960s and early 70s. Same budget, same level of performer, and a more guaranteed audience.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 18, 2024 7:59 AM |
The Night Walker…is great!! Just the audio could frighten the pants off you
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 18, 2024 8:16 AM |
One of the last, truly memorable performances by Joan in a surprisingly good movie.
Beware. This film depicts…axe murders!
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 18, 2024 8:39 AM |
R11 At my college they had a midnight movie on Friday and Saturday nights where they would show movies like The Night Walker, which is where I first saw it. Another one was The Mask (not related to the later movie) -- from about 1962, a b&w 3D movie (b&w 3D always seemed strange, to me) where you had to put on the 3D glasses whenever anyone would say "PUT ON THE MASK" in the movie -- and would put on a mask.
I guess I never thought of how these same types of films later became TV movies.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 19, 2024 7:15 AM |
^^OP.
I was also fascinated by the fact that exes B. Stanwyck and Robert Taylor (divorced around 1950) starred in the movie together, more than a decade after they were divorced.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 19, 2024 7:17 AM |
Sam Fuller's The Naked Kiss (1964) Peyton Place meets Ble Velvet
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 19, 2024 9:03 AM |
^^^ Blue Velvet
Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor (1963)
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 19, 2024 9:08 AM |
Tales that witness madness Shock Treatment 1964
by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 19, 2024 9:11 AM |
Outsized teens take over a small town in Bert I. Gordon's Village of the Giants (1965)
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 19, 2024 9:26 AM |
Bert I. Gordon's Picture Mommy Dead (1966) Gordon was the poor man's William Castle
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 19, 2024 9:28 AM |
Ugh. As if Mac users weren't smug enough already.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 19, 2024 10:01 AM |
^^^ wrong thread
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 19, 2024 10:01 AM |
R13 I don't know how Joanie would have felt about being called "The CO-STAR of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane"!
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 19, 2024 10:04 AM |
“Butcha’ aah, Joan. Ya’ aah the CO-STAR!”
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 19, 2024 3:43 PM |
Films of the ‘50s, like The House on Haunted Hill, can be included here as well.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 20, 2024 9:11 PM |
More!
by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 21, 2024 1:52 PM |
An enjoyably cheesy thriller from the late '60s.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 21, 2024 1:56 PM |
The Nanny
Dead Ringer
by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 21, 2024 2:07 PM |
The Innocents (1961) with Deborah Kerr
A governess who watches over two children comes to fear that their large estate is haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | July 21, 2024 3:32 PM |
The Bat (1959) starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead.
Lt Anderson investigates a series of murders committed by a killer known as The Bat, which leads him to mystery author Cornelia van Gorder, who is supposedly hiding a horde of treasure in her house.
The movie was distributed on a double bill with the British Hammer film The Mummy.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | July 21, 2024 6:09 PM |
R38, I wouldn't consider The Innocents to be in the same category as the rest of the films in this thread, as it is a prestige film through and through...
by Anonymous | reply 43 | July 21, 2024 8:08 PM |
I'm trying to remember the drive-in movies we went to. Offhand:
The Glass-Bottom Boat
Boeing Boeing
Billie
Ten Little Indians
by Anonymous | reply 45 | July 21, 2024 9:29 PM |
lots of psycho-biddy flicks on the drive-in screens of the 1960s
by Anonymous | reply 47 | July 21, 2024 10:12 PM |
The Annette Funicello beach movies.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | July 22, 2024 12:44 AM |
"Lady in a Cage" is great trash. James Caan as relentlessly sexy, violent rough trade, and Rafael Campos is his giggling little sidekick who clearly is in love with him, like a sleazier Sal Mineo. Ann Sothern plays an old drunken whore.
And Olivia de Havilland realizes her son is distant from him because she's made him a "mama's boy," which means you know what.
The sequence where Olivia sings "Alouette" at the top of her lungs while trapped in the elevator is GOLD.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | July 22, 2024 12:50 AM |
R45 I saw The Glass-Bottom Boat at the drive in also. Age 7 or 8.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | July 22, 2024 2:35 AM |
Roger Corman produced Francis Ford Coppola directed
by Anonymous | reply 60 | July 23, 2024 7:15 AM |
I smuggle this 1955 drama in because of it´s remarkable cast.
Lauren Bacall, Gloria Grahame, Lilian Gish, Fay Wray, Susan Strasberg, Charles Boyer, Richard Widmark and Mabel Albertson all crammed together in a mental institution where internal politics becomes inevitable just because of the purchase of some drapes.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | July 23, 2024 7:00 PM |
"Help! HELP! I'm trapped in a SMALL PRIVATE ELEVATUH!"
by Anonymous | reply 62 | July 24, 2024 12:50 AM |
R61 Not to mention John Kerr and Oscar Levant.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | July 24, 2024 12:54 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 64 | July 24, 2024 2:08 AM |
Shock Treatment (1964). Stewart Whitman, Lauren Bacall, Roddy McDowall, Carol Lynley
by Anonymous | reply 65 | July 24, 2024 4:28 AM |
The Big Cube (1969) Gaslight meets Wild in the Streets.
Lana's sedatives are being spiked with LSD by her stepdaughter and her sleazy pre-med boyfriend. Hilarity ensues.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | July 24, 2024 4:46 AM |