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I bought "Plan 9 from Outer Space" the other week from the pound shop. I'm still not sure if it's really bad or so bad it's good, but the Missus thinks I was ripped off.
Just watch the bits with Bela Lugosi in it. I'm also a little worried that someone called Dudley Manlove would be cast as Eros.
Quote from: redlandslide on June 20, 2012, 06:35:43 PMOnly Ed Wood would have the temerity to make a film starring a man who'd been dead and buried for three years.You forgot Carl French:QuoteMan (Michael Palin: (Jarring cord)...Well, this time you've crawled too far!Woman (Terry Jones): Oh, Jeb, Jeb! Why did you do it? You could have destroyed the tapes and none of this leftist clap-trap would have happened!Interviewer: (Michael Palin) An excerpt from Carl French's latest film. Carl, we're all a little mystified by your claim that your new film stars Marilyn Monroe.Carl French: (Graham Chapman) It does, yes.Interviewer: Who died over ten years ago?Carl French: Uh, that's correct.Interviewer: Are you lying?Carl French: No, no, it's just that she'e very much in the public eye at the moment.Interviewer: Does she have a big part?Carl French: She is the star of the film.Interviewer: And dead.Carl French: Well, we dug her up and gave her a screen test, a mere formality in her case, and...Interviewer: Can she still act?Carl French: Well... well, she-she's still has this-this enormous, ah-ah, kinda indefinable, uh... no.Interviewer: Was decomposition a problem?Carl French: We did have to put her in the fridge between takes.Interviewer: Ah, what sorts of things does she do in the film?Carl French: Well, we had her lying on beds, lying on floors, falling out of cupboards, scaring the children...Interviewer: But surely Miss Monroe was cremated?Carl French: Well, we had to use a standin for some of the more visible shots.Interviewer: Ah! Uh, another actress.Carl French: Dead actress. But Monroe was in shot the whole time.Interviewer: How?Carl French: Oh, in the ash tray, in the fire grate and vacuum cleaner...Interviewer: So Marilyn does not appear in the film?Carl French: Not as such.Interviewer: Mr. French, you're one of the film world's most arrogant queens. I mean not just homosexual or merry or anything, I mean you are a raving queen.Carl French: Well, yes.Interviewer: I mean, a real screamer, a real "Whoops! Get out! Don't mind me dear!" limp-wristed caricature.Carl French: Is that not in order?Interviewer: No, no, that's fine. And I understand that you married the beautiful black heiress Hueyna Tanoy partly for the publicity but mostly to cover up the fact that you prefer going out with little boys.Carl French: Look, really!Interviewer: Carl, you're an effeminate little poof, a mincing merry-bar loiterer, a winnet-covered walking perfume shop and an evil perverter of innocent little boys!Carl French: What!? Really! Is this part of the interview?Interviewer: No, no, I just wanted a few contacts.Carl French: Well-well, shouldn't we be talking about the film?Interviewer: We've been off the air for ages. Now, where'd you find them?Carl French: Look, I think we are still on the air.Interviewer: Oh, sod the bless'ed air! I just still get locked up with that sort of thing.Carl French: What about the film?Interviewer: Just a few addresses, please...Carl French: Look, we got James Dean in it, in a box!Interviewer: I-I can turn the microphone off if you...Carl French: And bits of Jayne Mansfield...
Only Ed Wood would have the temerity to make a film starring a man who'd been dead and buried for three years.
Man (Michael Palin: (Jarring cord)...Well, this time you've crawled too far!Woman (Terry Jones): Oh, Jeb, Jeb! Why did you do it? You could have destroyed the tapes and none of this leftist clap-trap would have happened!Interviewer: (Michael Palin) An excerpt from Carl French's latest film. Carl, we're all a little mystified by your claim that your new film stars Marilyn Monroe.Carl French: (Graham Chapman) It does, yes.Interviewer: Who died over ten years ago?Carl French: Uh, that's correct.Interviewer: Are you lying?Carl French: No, no, it's just that she'e very much in the public eye at the moment.Interviewer: Does she have a big part?Carl French: She is the star of the film.Interviewer: And dead.Carl French: Well, we dug her up and gave her a screen test, a mere formality in her case, and...Interviewer: Can she still act?Carl French: Well... well, she-she's still has this-this enormous, ah-ah, kinda indefinable, uh... no.Interviewer: Was decomposition a problem?Carl French: We did have to put her in the fridge between takes.Interviewer: Ah, what sorts of things does she do in the film?Carl French: Well, we had her lying on beds, lying on floors, falling out of cupboards, scaring the children...Interviewer: But surely Miss Monroe was cremated?Carl French: Well, we had to use a standin for some of the more visible shots.Interviewer: Ah! Uh, another actress.Carl French: Dead actress. But Monroe was in shot the whole time.Interviewer: How?Carl French: Oh, in the ash tray, in the fire grate and vacuum cleaner...Interviewer: So Marilyn does not appear in the film?Carl French: Not as such.Interviewer: Mr. French, you're one of the film world's most arrogant queens. I mean not just homosexual or merry or anything, I mean you are a raving queen.Carl French: Well, yes.Interviewer: I mean, a real screamer, a real "Whoops! Get out! Don't mind me dear!" limp-wristed caricature.Carl French: Is that not in order?Interviewer: No, no, that's fine. And I understand that you married the beautiful black heiress Hueyna Tanoy partly for the publicity but mostly to cover up the fact that you prefer going out with little boys.Carl French: Look, really!Interviewer: Carl, you're an effeminate little poof, a mincing merry-bar loiterer, a winnet-covered walking perfume shop and an evil perverter of innocent little boys!Carl French: What!? Really! Is this part of the interview?Interviewer: No, no, I just wanted a few contacts.Carl French: Well-well, shouldn't we be talking about the film?Interviewer: We've been off the air for ages. Now, where'd you find them?Carl French: Look, I think we are still on the air.Interviewer: Oh, sod the bless'ed air! I just still get locked up with that sort of thing.Carl French: What about the film?Interviewer: Just a few addresses, please...Carl French: Look, we got James Dean in it, in a box!Interviewer: I-I can turn the microphone off if you...Carl French: And bits of Jayne Mansfield...
