Ed Wood’s 1959 masterwork Plan 9 From Outer Space is nowhere near the worst movie ever made, as anyone who’s seen it might testify. What can be said about it? It defied any traditional movie-making conventions and does it without any shame whatsoever. Wood had to have the cast baptized in order to make this bizarre film, and that’s the least strange thing about it. The original title Grave Robbers from Outer Spacewas later ditched, but Criswell mentions it during the intro nevertheless.
Plan 9 was promoted as “almost starring Bela Lugosi” because he died before the film could even get finished, and the footage of Lugosi from this film was originally filmed by Wood to be included as a part of his movie The Ghoul On The Moon, which never got made, so Wood just shoehorned those scenes (which just involve Lugosi walking around with a cane...
Plan 9 was promoted as “almost starring Bela Lugosi” because he died before the film could even get finished, and the footage of Lugosi from this film was originally filmed by Wood to be included as a part of his movie The Ghoul On The Moon, which never got made, so Wood just shoehorned those scenes (which just involve Lugosi walking around with a cane...
- 11/25/2015
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The story goes that at the time of his passing in 1956, Bela Lugosi was grasping a script called Final Curtain, penned by pal Ed Wood. Final Curtain was a television pilot for an anthology series to be called Portraits Of Terror, intended to be a Twilight Zone-esque theater of the bizarre. While Lugosi would miss the boat, Wood ended up shooting the show in 1957 with a cast made up of Duke Moore, Dudley Manlove, and Jeannie Stevens. The 22-minute short concerned a cop who makes the mistake of investigating a mysterious theater late at night while on solo patrol.
Nothing became of the show, and while Wood would go on to many other projects, including his career-defining Plan 9 From Outer Space in 1959, Final Curtain was something the director often brought up, sharing footage with his friends and hangers-on, dreaming of what could have been. One of those friends was actor Paul Marco,...
Nothing became of the show, and while Wood would go on to many other projects, including his career-defining Plan 9 From Outer Space in 1959, Final Curtain was something the director often brought up, sharing footage with his friends and hangers-on, dreaming of what could have been. One of those friends was actor Paul Marco,...
- 1/23/2012
- by Justin
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
A long-lost TV pilot titled Final Curtain, directed by legendary B movie auteur Ed Wood, has been discovered in the archive of a private collector. The episode is said to rival The Twilight Zone and represent some of Wood's best work. For almost 50 years, Wood's colleagues and film historians have searched for a print of the pilot episode for a proposed anthology series titled Portraits of Terror. Wood had intended Bela Lugosi to star but the legendary actor passed away while reading the script. The damaged print was located by Jason Insalaco, the nephew of Wood's friend and stock company member Paul Marco, who died before he could fulfill his quest to find the missing film. Insalaco painstakingly restored the film and it will be shown at the Slamdance Film Festival in Utah. For more click here...
- 1/23/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
There hasn't been a whole lot of previewing in the run-up to today's opening of Slamdance 2012 but I've come across one truly terrific story in, of all places, Entertainment Weekly. On Monday, Final Curtain, a long-lost 22-minute film from 1957 that Ed Wood hoped would be the pilot episode of a TV series he wanted to call Portraits of Terror, will essentially be seeing its world premiere in Park City. Clark Collis tells the story of its rediscovery and restoration but also that of the actors involved, particularly Paul Marco. Great stuff.
Otherwise, I can point you to two previews of the lineup and, as notable reviews come in, I'll make a note of them here. IndieWIRE's Eric Kohn picks six films to keep an eye on and reminds us that Slamdance doesn't really deserve to be overlooked as much as it has been so far this year: "Last year's premiere...
Otherwise, I can point you to two previews of the lineup and, as notable reviews come in, I'll make a note of them here. IndieWIRE's Eric Kohn picks six films to keep an eye on and reminds us that Slamdance doesn't really deserve to be overlooked as much as it has been so far this year: "Last year's premiere...
- 1/20/2012
- MUBI
Many people have a “funny uncle,” some eccentric, older blood relation or larger-than-life, close family friend. But few are funnier than Jason Insalaco’s late, great-uncle Paul Marco.
Marco was a close friend of the director Ed Wood and played a character called “Kelton the Cop” in three of the much derided auteur’s movies, including 1959′s infamously terrible Plan 9 From Outer Space. Not that Marco himself believed there to be anything wrong with the film or the cinematic chops of his pal Wood.
“Paul was his right hand man and they would socialize a lot,” recalls Insalaco, who...
Marco was a close friend of the director Ed Wood and played a character called “Kelton the Cop” in three of the much derided auteur’s movies, including 1959′s infamously terrible Plan 9 From Outer Space. Not that Marco himself believed there to be anything wrong with the film or the cinematic chops of his pal Wood.
“Paul was his right hand man and they would socialize a lot,” recalls Insalaco, who...
- 1/19/2012
- by Clark Collis
- EW - Inside Movies
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