Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 32: Bride of the Monster! (aka Bride of the Atom)
Ed Wood does it again in his second feature film, whose making was painfully chronicled in the film biography “Ed Wood”. Wood desperately tried to raise funds for this movie. He promised to give the leading role to Loretta King in exchange for financing the film. She didn’t have a dime and a few days into production they got shut down. Leading man Tony McCoy’s father refinanced the film for $50,000 dollars and got the rights to it lock, stock and barrel. Just too bad he didn’t make a dime back!
Filmed on flimsy sets and using an abundance of stock footage, this film tells the story of Dr. Eric Vornoff (played by Bela Lugosi) who is continuing illegal experiments, that got him banned from his homeland, that can produce a race of atomic supermen. Assisting him in this venture is the mute manservant Lobo (played by Tor Johnson) and a giant killer octopus (played by stock footage of an actual octopus and a flaccid rubber octopus stolen from Republic Studios).
Once again this film is PUBLIC DOMAIN and not copyright protected in the US at least. You can make and sell your own DVD of it, download it, show it for free or for profit. Or remix it or use it for stock footage
Home? I have no home. Hunted, despised, living like an animal! The jungle is my home. But I will show the world that I can be its master! I will perfect my own race of people. A race of atomic supermen which will conquer the world! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
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| — | Bela Lugosi as Dr. Eric Vornoff in “Bride of the Monster” |
