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Bad movie I have Young Frankenstein 1974

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Oscar Beregi Jr. and Joseph Schildkraut in Deaths-Head Revisited, The Twilight Zone (1959). Aired November 10, 1961.

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In 1961, criminals pulled off a daring caper by stealing a million dollars worth of gold headed to Fort Knox. Knowing they were going to be wanted men and the gold too hot fence, they had themselves placed in suspended animation in a cave till the year 2061. ("The Rip Van Winkle Caper", The Twilight Zone, TV)

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W A T C H E D

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Twilight Zone:  Deaths-Head Revisited -  CBS  -  November 10, 1961

Drama / Fantasy

Running Time:  30 minutes

Stars:

Joseph Schildkraut as Alfred Becker

Oscar Beregi Jr as SS Captain Gunther Lutze / Mr. Schmidt

Kaaren Verne as Hotel Receptionist

Robert Boon as Taxi Driver

Ben Wright as Doctor

Closing narration

“There is an answer to the doctor's question. All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus , the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes – all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to dwell on and to remember, not only in the Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God's Earth.” Rod Serling wrote this episode in response to the renewed world interest in the Holocaust surrounding the then ongoing trial of SS-Obersturmbannführer  Otto Adolf Eichmann

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i’m doing a full watch-through of the twilight zone (1959-1964) and #70 (3x09), “Deaths-Head Revisited” is just, holy shit, y’all, rod serling went all out

A former SS Captain (Oscar Beregi, Jr.) visits the now-deserted concentration camp he commanded where he is tried for his crimes by the ghosts of his prisoners.

i mean the whole episode is not playing around

“At this gate, you gunned down hundreds of people wth machine guns. Do you feel it now, Captain? Do you feel the bullets smashing into your body? Do you feel the agony of tortured lead? On these posts, by the anguished hour, you hung up human beings to die a slow death. Do you feel their torture now? In this room, Captain, the things you did to human beings is...unmentionable. How does their torture feel? [...] This is not hatred: this is retribution. This is not revenge: this is justice. But this is only the beginning. Only the beginning. Your final judgement will come from God.”

i mean pedal to the metal

"Dachau. Why does it still stand? Why do we keep it standing?"

“There is an answer to the doctor's question. All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes – all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to dwell on and to remember, not only in the Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God's Earth.”

even behind the scenes, it’s hardcore

The casting of this episode is notable for several reasons. One is that all of the leading cast were European-born: Beregi was Hungarian, Schildkraut was Austrian, Robert Boon (the taxi driver) was Dutch, Ben Wright (the doctor) was English, and Kaaren Verne (the hotel receptionist) was born in Germany. Nearly all of the main cast also had personal connections to the subject matter—as well as his noted work in The Diary of Anne Frank, Schildkraut (who was Jewish) lost many members of his extended family in the Holocaust, Verne had been forced to flee Germany to escape the Nazis, and both Boon and Ben Wright (the Doctor) had served with the Allied armed forces during World War II.

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Anthony’s Stupid Daily Blog (87): Wed 8th Jun 2022

Before work I re-watched the Twilight Zone episode The Rip Van Winkle Caper. In this episode a group of thieves steal a load of gold from Fort Knox then cryogenically freeze themselves for 100 hundred year so that when they unthaw no-one will know who they are and they can sell the gold and be rich. The group ends up walking in the dessert and eventually killing one another for water until there is only one left. This one remaining thief is found by a married couple and offers them his gold to save him but dies before they can get him medical attention. The couple then reveal that in their present gold is useless because they found a way to make it. This episode has one of the most creative plots of the entire series and although I think the twist is a bit underwhelming for reasons I'll get into later, the two central performances by Simon Oakland and Oscar Beregi Jr are the saving grace of this episode. The plot of a group of close friends gradually killing each other to ensure their own survival was done before in the season one episode "I Shot an Arrow Into the Air” which wasn’t a terrible episode but was a bit under-thought out in my opinion, this episode does the story much better and is a much more interesting story. Oscar Beregi, Jr. was born to play a bad guy. He has such a sinister voice and a menacing look that you can't imagine him playing anything but utter monsters. I especially love his slow delivery of his lines. He doesn't scream and shout he takes his time delivering his monologues like a serial killer taking his sweet time to torture his victims rather than kill them with one blow. The echoing of his voice around the glass casket and the cave is especially creepy. I also love the second half of the film where they go to great effort to get over just how tired the two characters are. Their clothes are soaking wet and they even dry out Belegi Jr's lips to sell how hot it is which is great attention to detail. The first time I saw the twist ending I thought it was really clever. The idea that all of these men’s efforts and their descent into madness and murder was, in the end, all for nothing is a really good ironic twist of fate. However the more I think about it, the potential impact the twist could have had if they'd altered it a bit feels wasted. Farewell dies before he learns that the Gold is useless. Surely it would be a better twist if Farwell survived and then as he was recovering in hospital discovered that the gold was useless meaning he'd committed murder for no reason. Sadly the nitpicks don't stop there. The part where De Cruz runs "over" Brooks with the car is kind of lame. Were there no stunt men who could have jumped over the car instead of just having the car drive past the actor and then have the actor crumble to the ground? Also after De Cruz kills Brooks he lets the car drive off a cliff? Why? They need that to get to the town. There's no logical reason to do this other than Serling needed the characters to walk through the desert and he had to get rid of the car they used to get to the cave. If that was the case why not have had them drive for a little bit then have the car break down? Also after the characters awaken De Cruz opens the cave by pulling on something off screen and the rock covering the entrance moves like a sliding door? What kind of door system have they set up in a cave in the middle of the desert to achieve this affect? What is this The Flintstones? Later in the episode Farwell has to reach all the way into his pouch before he realizes his canister isn't there. Surely he would be able to tell just by looking? Then towards the end of the episode Farwell drops one of his two gold bars and he keeps walking without picking it up. I get that it's to sell how tired he is but then he continues walking so how much harder would it be to pick up the gold? While not a nitpick per-se one thing I think the episode could have done a little bit better to ramp up the tension is to have Farwell discover that De Cruz actually stole his canister when he wasn't looking in order to give him more motive for killing him. The main problem I have from this episode though is the fact that Farwell is a scientist who has invented a way to cryogenically preserve human beings for over a century and yet the way he tries to earn cash is to rob a train and then freeze himself to allude the law? Surely the invention of ths machine itself would ensure that he would become a gagillionaire, right? The ability to freeze a human being and then awaken him in the future? I’m pretty sure that would fetch a large sum of cash, there’s no need to resort to train robberies when you could earn a fortune legally. But yeah other than all those nitpicks this is a flawless episode.

At work I got an email saying that my first day with Amazon was tomorrow at 8:00am. This sent me into a panic because I had been told that my first day was on Friday at 9AM so why had it changed now. This made me a nervous wreck for the rest of the day because I didn't want to be shafting the call centre in order to start work with Amazon a day early as this might hurt references for future jobs should I need them. On my lunch break I drove home and called up the Amazon new recruits line and the girl I spoke to seemed convinced that it’s definitely Friday and this email saying it was tomorrow was simply a mistake. I’d like to say I’m reassured but hmm...Don’t forget she is a person who isn’t me and therefore an idiot after all so I'm not sure I can trust her. I'm really hoping I don’t get a call from Amazon just after 8 tomorrow asking where the fuck I am and since I haven't shown up for my first day they're revoking their offer.

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Horror on TV: Thriller 2.12 "The Return of Andrew Bentley" (dir by John Newland)

Horror on TV: Thriller 2.12 “The Return of Andrew Bentley” (dir by John Newland)

For tonight’s televised horror, we have another episode of the Boris Karloff-hosted anthology series, Thriller! Like many of the Thriller episodes that we’ve shared this month, this episode deals with an inheritance and a possibly haunted house.  Ellis Corbett (John Newland, who also directed) promises his uncle that, after his uncle’s death, Ellis will never leave the family mansion and that he…

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Young Frankenstein (1974) Review

Young Frankenstein (1974) Review

Fredrick Frankenstein is the grandson of the infamous scientist struggling to prove that he is not as insane but when he is invited to Transylvania to settle his Grandfathers affairs things will change when he discovers the process that brings a dead body back to life.

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(2061 AD) In 1961, criminals pull off a daring caper by stealing a million dollars worth of gold headed to Fort Knox. Knowing they are going to be wanted men and the gold too hot to fence, they have themselves placed in suspended animation in a cave till the year 2061. One of the criminals dies before he is revived. The remaining criminals let greed get the best of them and in the end, all end up dead. The irony is that by the year 2061, gold is worthless. ("The Rip Van Winkle Caper" The Twilight Zone, TV)