Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora
Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora
Rhino home video biography of Edward D. Wood Jr., and the films he made.
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
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 30: The Beast Of Yucca Flats!
One of the worst movies of all time! And a favorite on “Mystery Science Theater 3000”!
Directed by Coleman Francis. Tor Johnson plays a Soviet scientist who defects to America and gets chased into a nuclear test site by KGB agents. The radiation turns him into a homicidal mad man!
Contains immortal lines of narration like:
“Flag on the moon. How did it get there?”
“Boys from the city, not yet caught in the wheels of progress, feed soda pop to the thirsty pigs.”
Pure poetry!
The movie was filmed without a soundtrack. Narration, voiceovers and some sound effects were added in post-production. To avoid having to synchronize the audio to the picture, characters only speak when their faces are either off-screen or not clearly visible due to darkness or distance. Likewise, during scenes in which firearms are used, the muzzles of the guns are usually out-of-shot when the weapons are fired. Extensive narration is used in lieu of plot points being conveyed through dialogue.
This version has the full opening murder scene with a little bit of nudity.
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
