This week on SVENGOOLIE...

[EP Millstone]

What's on this week?

This month on Svengoolie...

4/1: Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) w/ Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Plus Marie Windsor, Michael Ansara, Dan Seymour and Richard Deacon. And directed by Charles Lamont.

4/8: The Old Dark House (1932) w/ Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Gloria Stuart, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger, Eva Moore, Raymond Massey, Elspeth Dudgeon and Brember Wills. And directed by James Whale.

4/15: This Island Earth (1955) w/ Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue and Rex Reason. Plus Russell Johnson and Richard Deacon.

4/22: The Mole People (1956) w/ John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont, Alan Napier and Nestor Paiva.

4/29: Destroy All Monsters (1969) w/ Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki, Yukiko Kobayashi and Yoshio Tsuchiya. And, needless to say, Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, King Ghidorah and other kaiju. And directed by Ishirō Honda.

[Hibi]

Thanks! I love The Mole People! And it has John Agar! This Island Earth is pretty good too.

[Swithin]

Thanks! I love The Mole People! And it has John Agar! This Island Earth is pretty good too.

And This Island Earth has Faith Domergue in a non-cobra role! (And Russell Johnson, in a pre-Professor role).

[Hibi]

Yes!

[EP Millstone]

A cherished artifact from my youth is the Coral Records LP (long-playing record for you youngsters out there) Themes from Horror Movies orchestrated by Dick Jacobs -- ordered from Captain Company via Famous Monsters of Filmland.






Two tracks on the album were the themes to This Island Earth and The Mole People.

[Hibi]

Don't miss THE MOLE PEOPLE this Saturday. JOHN AGAR plus Hugh Beaumont! (from Leave It to Beaver)

[jamesjazzguitar]

Thanks! I love The Mole People! And it has John Agar! This Island Earth is pretty good too.

And This Island Earth has Faith Domergue in a non-cobra role! (And Russell Johnson, in a pre-Professor role).

This Island Earth is a well made Sci Fi film. As noted, Faith Domergue is in the film, made the same year (1955) as Cult of the Cobra.

[jamesjazzguitar]

Don't miss THE MOLE PEOPLE this Saturday. JOHN AGAR plus Hugh Beaumont! (from Leave It to Beaver)

Alan Napier has the best role as Elinu, the High Priest. Alfred gets to go wild!

[Hibi]

Don't miss THE MOLE PEOPLE this Saturday. JOHN AGAR plus Hugh Beaumont! (from Leave It to Beaver)

Alan Napier has the best role as Elinu, the High Priest. Alfred gets to go wild!

LOL. He needed some color.

[ziggy6708a]

Don't miss THE MOLE PEOPLE this Saturday. JOHN AGAR plus Hugh Beaumont! (from Leave It to Beaver)

[Swithin]

Don't miss THE MOLE PEOPLE this Saturday. JOHN AGAR plus Hugh Beaumont! (from Leave It to Beaver)

And it has Nestor Paiva, who, in addition to his film career, appeared on almost every television show in the 1950s and 1960s.



Hugh Beaumont, Nestor Paiva

[Hibi]

I was reading about The Mole People and found out the ending was a reshoot! Universal scrapped the happy ending because they didn't want to seem to be promoting INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE!!! (Humans and Mole People???) Gotta love the 50s!

[Intrepid37]

I was reading about The Mole People and found out the ending was a reshoot! Universal scrapped the happy ending because they didn't want to seem to be promoting INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE!!! (Humans and Mole People???) Gotta love the 50s!

Humans marrying mole people?

A'm agin it.

[Swithin]

I hadn't seen The Mole People in a while and was wondering why they couldn't have a happy ending, thought there must be some censor-type reason for it. What a shame, they made a nice couple.

RADA-trained Alan Napier was the highlight, playing his role as the High Priest like a combination of Boris Karloff and a Shakespearean villain. Napier was a cousin of Neville Chamberlain and was married to a great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens.



One thing that bothered me about the film was that, since the people were "Sumerians," their goddess should have been Inanna, not Ishtar. Ishtar is a slightly later manifestation of the goddess. (I studied Sumerian history/religion).

"The Descent of Inanna to the Nether World" is a poem almost 5,000 years old. It's the prototype for many similar stories. I remember reading it in my very first Theology course in college.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/ ... nanna1.pdf

[Hibi]

I was reading about The Mole People and found out the ending was a reshoot! Universal scrapped the happy ending because they didn't want to seem to be promoting INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE!!! (Humans and Mole People???) Gotta love the 50s!

Humans marrying mole people?

A'm agin it.