tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post5519913693565235403..comments2024-03-25T21:59:05.113-07:00Comments on 13: TOWER OF LONDON - Frank Skinner - "A God Unto Himself" (1939)Eegah!! and Tabonga!http://www.blogger.com/profile/05260131201716267229noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-43643287370357074292012-01-26T19:18:24.511-08:002012-01-26T19:18:24.511-08:00WoW!
I'd watch this one here at home, but it i...WoW!<br />I'd watch this one here at home, but it is on one of those dreaded "un-numbered" VHS tapes, some of which could be in a tub in the basement, labeled, "VHS Tapes I'll never have time to watch". Oh, the horror, the horror.Exeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10168125671000323974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-79662582537106610222012-01-26T17:13:11.032-08:002012-01-26T17:13:11.032-08:00Ah yes, Shakespeare without all that cumberson imm...Ah yes, Shakespeare without all that cumberson immortal poetry.<br /><br />It is indeed a pretty good movie (the director went right on to direct <i>Son of Frankenstein</i> also with Karloff and Rathbone. If only Vinnie had been in that also!), and I think it does qualify as a full-out horror movie. Hardly history. Mord for one is a fictional character.<br /><br />Rathbone, Karloff and Vinnie the P were not all three in the same movie again until the wonderful 1964 <i>Comedy of Terrors</i>, also covered in this blog. (Why wasn't Peter Lorre in <i>Tower of London</i>? He is missed.)<br /><br />It was Vinnie's first initiation into the world he would inhabit. And of course, he starred in the Roger Corman remake, playing the Rathbone role. And then, still later, he played Richard III again in <i>Theater of Blood</i>. So Vinnie got drowned in a butt of malmsy (Which Karloff and Rathbone had "hilariously" filled with floating cigarette butts before the shot) once, and drowned others in that butt twice. Having been the drowned one, he learned to take the other role, and just put up with the hump.D. McEwannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-66364262507432137892012-01-25T23:33:18.203-08:002012-01-25T23:33:18.203-08:00hump back and dragfoot ride again!hump back and dragfoot ride again!Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01165402182512034384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-70095838140255045022012-01-25T21:09:54.877-08:002012-01-25T21:09:54.877-08:00a towering classic! love this one. beautiful choic...a towering classic! love this one. beautiful choice of grabs.Prof. Grewbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16132543249418576650noreply@blogger.com