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NO THEME TONIGHT!!! •THE DEVIL'S MAN (1967), •ASTRO BOY: THE MYSTERIOUS CAT (1963), •WHERE THERE'S SMOKE (1970), •THE DEVIL'S MAN (1967)
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2nd. Quartile
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MAY
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Monday 01st
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•ASTRO BOY: THE MYSTERIOUS CAT (1963)
Yes, it's an episode from the original 'Sixies ASTROBOY series, (not the crappy 'Eighties series), conceptualised and directed by Osamu Tezuka! This episode has a distinctly enviromentalist theme, involving a mysterious cat and a long-lost professor. But what you really don't want to miss are the opening and closing credits sequences!
Did you know? - Due to his talents with this series, Tezuka was offered a job as a production designer on 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) by (execrable) director Stanley Kubrick. However, he (wisely) declined.
Prod Co: Tezuka
Productions. Prod: Osamu Tezuka. Anim Studio: Mushi Productions. Dist: NBC Films (USA). Wr: Osamu Tezuka, Noriyuki Honma, Masaki Tsuji, Kenichi Takahashi. Dir: Osamu Tezuka, Gisaburo Sugii, Daisaku Sakamoto, Eiichi Yamamoto, Osamu Dazki, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Minoru Okazaki, Fusahito Nagaki. Anim: Daisaku Sakamoto. Cast: Astro Boy, Astro Girl, Dr. Elefun.
25 mins. RMplus
•WHERE THERE'S SMOKE (1970)
A compilation of satirical anti-smoking clips.
Animated clips include:
ARTIFICIAL LUNG: A youngster is encouraged to smoke because by the time he grows up, portable artificial lungs will probably be available.
CHEAT: People who are tempted to cheat the government out of taxes are advised to quit smoking.
DYNAMITE: When he cannot find a match, a worker explodes when using a fuse to light his cigarette.
FIRING SQUAD: A man facing a firing squad boasts that despite smoking, he anticipates being in good health for the rest of his life.
FRINGE BENEFITS: Benefits of smoking include extracting information from spies, damaging furniture and providing work for the medical profession.
FUNERAL: A clever way to kill an enemy is to offer him a cigarette every time you see him.
HERO: A man who works and plays hard may be a hero but a smoker is a slave.
LOVER: By the time a man reaches a woman whose very long cigarette he has lit, she has aged dramatically—"the longer you smoke, the shorter life gets."
SUICIDE: Smoking is recommended as an efficient way to commit suicide.
VOLCANO: A voice bragging about having always smoked turns out to belong to an erupting volcano.
Live-action clips include:
CARMEN: An opera singer prepares for the starring role in Carmen as she smokes but collapses in a coughing fit when she starts to sing.
COFFEE HOUSE: Exasperated by the number of people smoking around her, a woman in a cafe clears the premises by putting on a gas mask and petting a skunk.
COUGH
DANCE: A smoking couple cough as they dance until they can dance no longer.
PARTY: The hostess offers cigarettes to her guests of whom the healthy-looking decline and the haggard-looking accept.
VAMPIRE: A vampire collapses after biting a chain smoking woman.
Prod: Robert Verrall. Prod Co: National Film Board of Canada. 12 mins. ALC
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•THE DEVIL'S MAN (1967)
Don’t let nobody tell you this is a Superargo/Argoman film – ‘coz it ain’t!
In the 1960s, there were so many "diabolic/diabolique" films made in Europe that the messy consequence is just, well, diabolical! Especially when the director has several films released in different languages, under various titles, some of which are "diabolical", some of which are not. Thus, Paolo Bianchini ( - also responsible for a couple of the titles in the famous DJANGO
series - )’s SUPERMAN EL DIABOLICAL (SP) becomes confused with the ‘80s French video release of THE DEVIL’S MAN under the title LE DIABOLIQUE. And so it goes. Anyway, beware!
We are in Sci-Fi EuroSpy territory tonight – a curious conjunction of genres, and this one takes its time in clueing you in as to what is what - bizarre, nonsensical, masked super-criminal fun from Italy. Once again, we tippy-toe into the wonderful realm of cinema that some characterize as "so-bad-it’s-good" territory, but that we are quite content to acknowledge as "so-good-it’s-GREAT!", ‘tho, I must say, it occasionally grazes through the ol' "unintentionally hilarious" zone ( – check my comment about one Watt resistors, below - )! All I can say is, I just wish Hal Todd were still around to present this one after midnight on the telly, interrupting it with ads that ran for three-quarters of an hour for DEL MONTE SUITS and GOLDEN
CASKET JEWELLERS. THE DEVIL'S MAN should be watched late at night, in some sort of inebriated state ( - I think we can help you there! - ) You won't believe it in the morning though!
One-time Western star, GUY MADISON, plays Mike Harway, a secret agent posing as a journalist for a science magazine in Italy. Mike is investigating the disappearance – a possible kidnapping - of a prominent medical scientist and surgeon, Professor Becker, when he crosses paths with the Professor’s gorgeous (natch!) daughter, Christine (LUISA BARRATO), who has also started searching for her father’s whereabouts. Together, the couple traces the missing scientist to a secret organisation’s futuristic hi-tech laboratory, concealed in the abandoned fortress of of El Faium, in the North African desert!
The professor has been abducted by a demented "devil" of a man (as he is known to the local black-robed bedouins, the Tuareg) -
Devilman, a silver wrestling-masked super-criminal, who is forcing the scientist to conduct brain surgery experiments on human guinea-pigs, preparatory to the realization of his master-plan – the substitution of his ‘regular’ Super-criminal brain with an artificial, super Super-criminal model ( - studded with one-Watt resistors! - ), intended to be vastly superior, and to make him omniscient!
As Mike and Christine travel through the desert region and are nearing the facility, they are captured and transported into Devilman’s lair. Becker is there, but he has been brain-washed, and Devilman orders him to conduct a brain-transplant experiment on Christine!
Kun, Devilman’s assistant, gets a case of the jitters, and arranges for Mike to escape, on condition that the journalist returns with reinforcements. Mike manages to make his way back to the Tuareg tribe, and convinces them to help him. The incredible climax
has an army of Moors riding to the rescue! And while the warring Tuareg meet in furious combat with Devilman’s security forces, Mike does the usual James Bond-type job of blowing up the joint and dispatching the villian on the sharp end of his own hideous apparatus.
Genre: Action + Sci-Fi + Thriller (Fantascienza). AKA: DEVILMAN STORY / DEVILMAN, LE DIABOLIQUE (FR) / DEVILMAN: EL HOMBRE DEMONIO (SP). Dubbed, in English. Prod: Gabriele Crisanti. Dir: Paul Maxwell (Paolo Bianchini). Wr: Paul Maxwell, (Paolo Bianchini), Max Caret. Mus: Rob Rowelter. Phot: Al Worley. Ed: Angel Coli (Otello Colangeli). Production Sup: Frank Campi. Dialogue and Post-Synchronisation: Gene Luotto. Production Coys: LION INTERNATIONAL s.p.a; S.E.C. [Società Europea Cinematografica]. Distribution: ITALNORD - ITALCID. Mus: Musical editions "Nea-polis" s.r.l. Cast: Guy Madison, Liz Barrett (Luisa Baratto), Alan Collins (Luciano Pigozzi), Lawrence Michal, Bill Vanders,
Diana Lorys (Yasmin). 87 mins. AGFA LPP. RM
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