#Paul Birch

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The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955)

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Paul Birch as Paul Johnson in Not Of This Earth

Watercolors on Paper, 8.5" x 11", 2024

By Josh Ryals

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Not of This Earth (1957) Roger Corman

November 3rd 2024

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Jeffrey Hunter-Janice Rule-Paul Birch "Una pistola para un cobarde" (Gun for a coward) 1957, de Abner Biberman

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Day the World Ended

With the rise of drive-in theaters and the discovery of teen audiences in the 1950s, low-budget science fiction and horror films flooded the market. A lot of them are only watchable for camp value, but Roger Corman’s stand out. Sure, the low budget is easy to spot in his use of foam-rubber monsters, furniture and other set elements that crop up from film to film and stunt men who look nothing like the actors they’re doubling. Yet there’s enough intelligence there to make the whackadoodle concepts create some kind of logic. Corman didn’t have the money to shoot from a lot of different angles, but the ones he chose were usually the right ones. And though he rarely took the time to direct his actors, there are always a few performers who stand out by sheer force of personality if nothing else. That’s all true with the first of his many horror films, DAY THE WORLD ENDED (1955, Prime, Tubi, Plex, YouTube).

As with many of his films, there’s a salable title and a monster that’s kept out of sight until almost the end, partly to build suspense and partly because, let’s face it, they often look rather silly. This time, the survivors of a nuclear war (described in voice-over by Chet Huntley) converge on an isolated home surrounded by lead-bearing mountains. The owner (Paul Birch) is a scientist who worked on early nuclear tests and has set the house up as a shelter for himself, his daughter (Lori Nelson) and her fiancé (Corman, who’s only seen in a photo). He’s not ready to house geologist Richard Denning, gangster Mike (billed as “Touch”) Connors, stripper Adele Jergens, prospector Raymond Hatton and first-stage mutant Paul Dubov. Tensions rise as Connors keeps trying to take over, and something large and radioactive lurks in the valley.

As preposterous as the film’s approach to radioactive mutation is Lou Rusoff’s screenplay develops the idea with something resembling dramatic logic. He plants information from the start that will come to fruition when the monster appears. And though the critter sometimes looks silly, it’s well mimed by its designer, Paul Blaisdell. Most of the cast is serviceable, though Nelson, just having left the more nurturing environment at Universal Pictures, seems a little lost playing the ingenue. Jergens, however, is pretty darned good. The script has her alternately attacking Connors and throwing herself at him, which she somehow manages to make work — a little touch of Strindberg at the world’s end. In her best scene, she reenacts her strip routine without taking anything off. She gets one particularly cogent line about the audience, “I love the sound of them breathing.” At the end she collapses in tears against a wall, sharing the frame with a mask of comedy. Sure, it’s cheesy, but that shot has more personality and more of a viewpoint than you’d get from most genre films of the era.

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THE BEAST WITH A MILLION EYES (1955) Reviews and free to watch online

‘An Unspeakable Horror… Destroying… Terrifying!’ The Beast with a Million Eyes is a 1955 American science fiction horror film about an alien able to see through the eyes of the many creatures he takes control of. The movie was produced and directed by David Kramarsky, although some sources indicate that it was co-directed by Lou Place and co-produced by Roger Corman and Samuel Z. Arkoff. The…

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Samba Birches  -  Paul Burgess, 2022.

Welsh,b. 1960s  -

Oil on canvas , 70  100 cm.

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Willis Carto was a holocaust denier who was kicked out of the John Birch Society for being too blatantly anti-Semitic.

(This, despite the fact Revilo P. Oliver, a holocaust denier, was one of the founders of the John Birch Society).

Carto ran the Liberty Lobby, a pro-Nazi front group, which lobbied members of Congress and had its own syndicated radio program.

Carto campaigned for presidential candidate George Wallace in 1968. He took over the group "Youth for Wallace" and turned it into a pro-Nazi organization.

Carto had a close relationship with Orange County Congressman James B. Utt.

Both men were racist authoritarians who frequently hid behind the terms "freedom" and "liberty" to further their cause.

In the 1980s, libertarian hero Ron Paul used Willis Carto's mailing list to solicit donations for his political campaigns.

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Edna reckons more Dingles have descended on the dales.

Oh, they’ll take over this village one day and then it REALLY will be time to up the stakes.

Val and Paul show off the new drapes in the Sugden home. Edna, Pearl and Betty are in fine form gossiping about the new Dingle baby and Edna (MVP of the episode) is very spot on about things. Hearing all the gossiping from the trio, Jack PROUDLY announces Andy is the dad and he’s thrilled (Robert is far from that),

13-Jun-2005

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The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955)

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This week, for our 300th EPISODE, we present the radio adventurer we started it all with way back in September of 2018, THE SHADOW! Bret Morrison stars as the cackling crimefighter in "The Phantom Of The Lighthouse"!

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Ron Paul on the Importance of the John Birch Society

Aug 16, 2013, “The John Birch Society kept the spirit of Liberty alive over these last 50 years. The JBS has played the most important role of educating the public about the Constitution and teaching on how freedom works and how to defend it.” Ron Paul

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12. An unpopular character you like? (and why more people should like them)

asdfghjk THANKS FOR THE ASK I'M GIVING YOU SO MUCH <33 RN

Ooh, hmm, this'll be fun. there are so many examples in pokeani and honestly some are a little eh, but then I remembered how almost every comment I see about 'worse' characters seem to include Max and I just don't get it?? How can anyone hate him??

(fun fact, when I was first watching him - in dub mind you - I also really didn't like him much. but I was coming off from the end of the OG, which was pretty sad considering who we lost, and tbh especially in 4kids early seasons dub EVERYONE was pretty unlikeable. I think I hated almost everyone back in the early gens at some point lol; I can be real vindicative but I think watching the whole thing taught me to take my time before judging stuff :v)

But yeah!! I really don't get the hate. Oh, so he said that Ash sucked for getting 8th place in the Silver Conference - can we all remember that a) legit kid and b) he's seeing this guy lose to an evolved starter from his own region of the SAME type as Ash's. It's like watching a Venasaur lose to Meganium if you're from Kanto; you'll be feeling pretty patriotic and stuff too ngl, especially if you don't have any battle experience yet.

But he acts so smart - Yes, and?? I don't see anyone talk about how Gary was coming up in the first season spouting random facts only to lose in the prelims and get a lower place than Ash. Again, I wish that people remember that Max is the kid of a Gym Leader, who reads and watches Leagues to make up for not being able to watc the Gym Battles taking place under the same roof, who dreams of becoming as strong if not stronger than his father. He's going to have high expectations. He's going to think that knowledge is everything. He's going to show off as much as he can, to make up for the fact that he's the only one in the group who isn't a Trainer. And I love how he learns that you have to actually interact with Pokemon to learn what it's all about, that you can't replace experience, that you can still experience things now even if you are too young to start. There isn't a limit to going out and interacting with the world. He doesn't have to wait. He's allowed to make mistakes and own up and not know stuff and grow, now and in the future. In a way, he's learning the same things as May, and I think that's wonderful.

And while I wish that he could've gotten a Pokemon while on the journey (one that he could keep à la XY with Bonnie), I'm fine with what he had in Advanced. He got to see Gym Battles. He got to travel two (2) regions. He got to see different aspects of being a Trainer, as a Coordinator and as a Breeder/Doctor. He got the recognition of his father in the end and was able to get into the Gym business. He got to play and learn with so many Pokemon and just act his age for once, instead of having to grow up to make up the percieved difference (wrongly percieved, might I add). Dang it, he brefriended two Mythical Pokemon (Jirachi and that other Deoxys). I dunno, he's doing pretty well for himself. Sure he's snappish and remarks on a bunch of stuff, but AG is full of that (ugh Ash was on another level, especially in Hoenn) (we don't talk about flat Brock) and S1 Kanto was way worse.

Anyways everyone go out and appreciate this goober. He did not bond with this Ralts for nothing and I swear I did not cry in this ep just for everyone to hate him. His character growth was awesome and if we ever get a Chronicles 2.0 I need to see his journey (the kids that go with Ash legit get such powerful Pokemon I fear for the competition lol).