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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's at least a TCM-sourced bootleg out in the ether. In my library, too, as it turns out. Long live absentminded completism, I suppose.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No idea how I lived this long without consciously being aware of Candi Staton's version of "Nights on Broadway," but life finds a way!

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Candi Staton - Nights On Broadway (Official Video) [4K]

YouTube video by RHINO

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Excellent. Here's the late great Mark Dailey laying it on thick to sell a screening of the '79 HOUSE OF USHER on one of my locals:

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Citytv Great Movies - The Fall of the House of Usher [Mark Dailey] (1984)

YouTube video by Retrontario

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Rewatched Haller's NIGHT GALLERY recently, and the Saxon/Nettleton segment plays just like another Corman Poe picture. Not what I expect from this, obviously, but I always find him interesting. Honestly, I overlooked his credit, here. None of what you're saying dissuades me from checking it out!

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Big day for the Forster fan in 1970 Toronto with the debuts of both PIECES OF DREAMS and COVER ME, BABE. I've never seen the former. Honestly, I'd never _heard_ of the former. The former Forster. I like love stories. I enjoy being shocked. Well, at the pictures, at least. Intriguing!

First of two black and white newspaper ads from the Toronto Star, Friday, September 25, 1970.

An ad for the movie PIECES OF DREAMS, starring Robert Forster and Lauren Hutton, who are featured prominently in its photographic artwork. Forster, a dark-haired man on the left who appears to be wearing a clerical collar, stands behind looking forward at Hutton, facing away from him in a chambray shirt deeply unbuttoned.

These images are backgrounded by a much larger greyscale picture, vaguely pointilist or halftone, depicting the two actors in head-and-shoulder closeup, their eyes closed, full lips about to touch.

The tagline tells us it is "A love story that will shock you."

Will Geer's name is featured prominently in the credit block.

You can hear Ferrante & Teicher's "Pieces of Dreams," on United Artists Records. Or as interpreted by Johnny Mathis, on Columbia Records.

It's Adult Entertainment. Playing at the York.

This second black and white ad is for the movie COVER ME, BABE.

A variant of the film's photographic one-sheet artwork, featuring castmember Suzanne Benton, a longhaired blonde, naked from waist to philtrum. Her breasts are overlaid with the images of camera lenses.

(It's difficult to decipher the printed specs on their outer rings, but based on the visual cues provided by contrasting sizes of their respective front-facing elements, it would appear the lens on the left might be telephoto, where the one on the right... my best guess is it's a 1:1.8 50mm prime? I can't presently remember whether this information is relevant to the plot.)

The film's tagline, presented in the upper right corner, reads:

Life. Love.
Illusion.
At 24 frames
per second.

It's a 20th Century Fox presentation and, in this engagement, is doubled with BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, a small version of whose bold text block letter title treatment also appears in this ad.

It's Restricted.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Perhaps the most practical image I've ever seen.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Pretty significant day for the 1986 Toronto cinephile, with the debuts of BLUE VELVET, DOWN BY LAW, and STEWARDESS SCHOOL.

First of three newspaper ads from the September 19, 1986 Toronto Star.

This first one is a full page ad for David Lynch's BLUE VELVET, featuring a top half heavy with critical raves, which read:

"The warnings are all correct. David Lynch's new movie is warped and weird and wicked. It is also utterly fascinating."
-Bruce Kirkland, TORONTO SUN

"BLUE VELVET is a mystery...a masterpiece... a visionary story of sexual awakening, of good and evil, a trip to the underworld."
-David Thompson, CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE

"A nightmarish, intensely disturbing exploration of the hidden side of the soul. It is sure to cause a sensation."
-Ken Turan, GQ

"Brilliant and unsettling...this is the work of an all-American visionary-and a master film stylist."
-Stephen Schiff, VANITY FAIR

"...an eerie and erotic treat..."
-Richard Freedman, NEWHOUSE NEWSPAPERS

Below these, a centred film-sourced image of a bare-skinned dark-haired man (the actor Kyle Maclachlan) holding a reclining dark-haired woman (Isabella Rossellini).

Below this, the film's title in its stylised script.

It's playing at the Sheraton Centre.

This second ad, also full-page, advertisies Jim Jarmusch's DOWN BY LAW. A banner at the top reminds you it's recently played the Festival of Festivals, under which appear the following review quotes:

"...AN INSTANT HIT... THE HUMOUR IS DARK, SMOKY AND HYSTERICALLY SOMETIMES FUNNY... A DYNAMIC MOVIE."

-BRUCE KIRKLAND, TORONTO SUN

"THREE OF THE DAMNEDEST PERFORMANCES IN AN ECCENTRIC ENSEMBLE SINCE THE MARX BROTHERS."

-ANDREW SARRIS, VILLAGE VOICE

In the centre, a film-sourced image of three men (the actors Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni) sitting on the metal-frame bunk beds inside a small barren jail cell.

The film's title appears at the bottom in faded block letter capitals, right justified and split over three lines.

This third ad, promoting STEWARDESS SCHOOL is considerably smaller. A reproduction of the film's one-sheet poster, reduced in both size and scope, it features a picture of the actress Judy Landers (here in the role of Sugar Dubois, a curly-haired blonde in sheer white négligée), reclining astride a motorcycle (maybe... an '84 Harley Shovelhead?).

A headline of quoted text above seems to suggest her saying "Gee, I've never done it on an airplane before."

We're told that STEWARDESS SCHOOL is "one flight we'll never forget," and shown that the cast includes Brett Cullen, Mary Cadorette, Donald Most, Sandahl Bergman, and Sherman Hemsley, each of whom are identified in a small horizontal line of individual photographs of their characters as they appear in the film.

There's a special late show at the Eaton Centre at 11.35 on Friday and Saturday nights.

Maybe I'll see you there.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm (still, surprisingly!) too young to either know or remember how their scheduling continued. Maybe I'll find out! I mostly only remember the first time I saw THE GREEN DEATH, which marked me for life.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Airing Saturday nights at 7.30, it looks like they kicked things off with THE THREE DOCTORS. An apt intro, I suppose. Then skipped backward to regularly airing the 9th series. Mostly. After DAY OF THE DALEKS and CURSE OF PELADON, third was s8's CLAWS OF AXOS, before returning to s9 with THE MUTANTS.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sweet! You may know this, but today's the 50th anniversary of TVO airing WHO's Canadian premiere. Funny old world!

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fifty years ago tonight, the Tardis first landed on TVO in Toronto with the Canadian debut of DOCTOR WHO (pictured, with Sonic Screwdriver).

Black and white clipping from the Starweek supplemental television guide from the Toronto Star, Saturday, September 11, 1976. A narrow column excerpted from the first of two annual Fall TV Preview issues promotes the Canadian premiere of DOCTOR WHO thusly:

"DR. WHO (TV Ontario, 7:30): A BBC-produced science fiction series which has been running in Britain since 1963, this half-hour weekly series stars Jon Pertwee (the third actor to take the role) as the title character, a Time Lord, one of an advanced race of beings from the planet Gallifry with extraordinary intellectual and psychic powers. Dr. Who has travelled through time and space via a machine called the Tardis to the planet Earth in the 20th century where, as a special adviser to UNIT (a United Nations intelligence group), he uses his powers to outwit an endless array of monsters and villainous forces."

Directly below this text, a black and white illustration of the performer Andy Williams, shown head-and-shoulders in a white suitjacket with extremely wide lapels and likely rendered in pen and ink in a halftone or stippled caricature style inclined toward realism. He holds a microphone. Smiling. Singing? Maybe? Probably!

Williams was about to debut his own (unrelated) variety program this same autumn.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Of course, not only did it not happen as scheduled, that translates to, what... $80? In any event, you get far more up close and personal with the Mad Canadian himself by watching the NFB documentary. Which is real good. And free!

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THE DEVIL AT YOUR HEELS | Full Documentary Film | National Film Board of Canada

YouTube video by NFB

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Here's a timely 50 year-old ad, with Michael Dowse's MAD CANADIAN premiering at TIFF: come on down for the originally scheduled date of Ken Carter's notorious DEVIL AT YOUR HEELS jump across the St. Lawrence. ABC's WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS is gonna be there! Music. Entertainment. Only fifteen bucks!

Black and white plain text newspaper ad from the Toronto Star, Saturday, September 18, 1976, advertising Daredevil Ken Carter's upcoming rocket car jump across the St. Lawrence river. It reads:

"KEN CARTER THINKS EVEL KNIEVEL IS THE 2ND BEST DAREDEVIL IN THE WORLD.

SEE KEN CARTER PUT HIS POINT ACROSS IN THE KEN CARTER ROCKET CAR RIDE TO NEW YORK, SEPT. 25th

From Morrisburg Ontario to Ogden Island New York across the St. Lawrence Seaway.

A THRILL PACKED DAY FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY. North American Tractor Pull Championship featuring Art Arfons' Green Monster. Bennie "Boom Boom" Koske. Mystery Guest

TICKETS:
Advance Sale (orders postmarked before Sept. 15): Adults $12.75, Children (under 12) $3.75, 3 and under free. After Sept. 15 and at Site Box Office: Adults $15, Children (under 12) $5,3 and under free. Tickets available at Eatons, Eatons ATO and Sam the Record Man. For ficket outlet nearest you call: 416-597-1688 or write Ken Carter, Tickets, Morrisburg, Ontario KOC 1X0

MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT

GATES OPEN AT 11:30 A.M.

SEE A MAN JUMP A COUNTRY MILE."

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Marty McKee @martymckeeofficial.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

RIP Gerrit Graham, who performed the greatest stunt I have ever seen in a motion picture. youtu.be/C2iT4iVj7uM?...

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Used Cars (1980) - Gerrit Graham - red car freakout stunt

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HBO MaXXXinoparsnip @dekkoparsnip2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This really bites -- Graham was often a high point in not-great movies and an equally high point in actually great ones.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Short also stars in this home safety video written by brother Michael, a fellow alumnus. Also features a real life physician named Dr. Irving Fefferman, which is a definite bonus point, surely.

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Martin Short's "Home Safe" Safety Video 1992

YouTube video by Betamax King

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And I overlooked REALLY WEIRD TALES.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh, and CANADIAN CONSPIRACY.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

GOING BERSERK and ARMED AND DANGEROUS, for starters.

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Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Double congratulations to Matthew Rhys! Maybe -now- we'll get another season of PERRY MASON.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This past weekend marked the 50th (exclamation punctuation) of the Toronto debut of eventual video rental favourite SQUIRM. Been a looong haul since I'd rewatched it; happy to report it paid dividends capable of surprising even a longtime fan. (It's me -- I'm the wormface, now.)

First of two black and white newspaper ads from The Toronto Star from the weekend of September 10, 1976, advertising the release of the killer-worms-on-a-rampage motion picture SQUIRM.

A banner across the top tells us "THIS WAS THE NIGHT OF THE CRAWLING TERROR!" and we're further informed in a block of text that "...by the billions they came, swarming over the land, sucking the life from anything in their path."

It features the film's hand-painted promotional artwok, consisting of a thick-trunked gnarled deciduous tree, beneath which are a collection of gruesome impressionistic sketches of writhing reaching human bodies engulfed by slithering hungry worms. One dude is mostly skeleton, the flesh of his body wormed right off his bones! Prominent at the bottm of all this and peeking out is a bare, gape-jawed human skull.

The movie's title appears nearer the bottom, stylised to appear as though its letters are composed... of WORMS!!!

It's an American International Picture.

This second ad, with a slightly different layout, adds the helpful information that "This is a TERROR WORM. One can be dangerous. Two can be deadly. ... and a Billion can become a tidal wave of horror -- engulfing a whole town in a living, writhing, seething orgy of ravenous destruction."

You might reasonably assume -- given this is a low-budget, rurally-made production from the early 1970s -- that this ballyhoo is obvious hyperbole.

Reader? You would be mistaken.

And if you see it at the Northeast or Northwest Drive-Ins, you could see for yourself and stick around to catch FOOD OF THE GODS.

Or it's playing in Oshawa with SPECIAL DELIVERY.

(Not a difficult choice, imho.)

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I came to The Patrol late in life, and it has been one of the true joys of my middle-age watchlist. Sweaty square-jawed dudes fantailing jeeps through the desert doing sick jumps and fuckin up Nazis with machineguns, firebombs, and fists. Perfect late-nite zone out fuel. It rules.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Always knew that info'd come in handy. You hear that, EVERY GUIDANCE COUNSELLOR I EVER HAD?!

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD! (¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ?)

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Heading instead to the softer side to secure some Silvertone.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The whole thing is detrimentally stagebound and almost entirely bereft of style. But! It's got a sense of humour, and there are some _remarkable_ sets, including a magnificent and impractical mausoleum that wouldn't be out of place in a grand gothic spookshow of the era. A passable distraction.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Tashman is interesting. Distinct, sonorous voice, but with an obvious Transatlantic inflection that nevertheless brought to mind Lina Lamont's elocution lessons. It's her movie by a country mile. Pichel is enjoyably b r o a d as a hulking simpleton who... well, he just loves murder *so much*!

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Not a DRACULA, she's a Vampire. As in 'Vamp,' (per Theda Bara) although this is never vocalised. But Tashman gets some delectably scheming close-ups that remove any lingering doubt. Still -- False advertising! As is the title, which is, frankly, mystifying. Not re: MURDER, but definitely re: CLOCKs.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

95 years ago To-morrow -- the Toronto debut of MURDER BY THE CLOCK, booting Jackie Coogan from the Uptown. Real interested to find out if a man can be murdered twice. Can't deny the allure of a Female Dracula, either. And in a movie co-starring Dracula's Daughter's familiar-to-be? Hmm.

Black and white newspaper ad from the Toronto Star, Friday, September 11, 1931. A clipping advertising the premiere of the 1931 motion picture MURDER BY THE CLOCK, whose title appears in shivery black block letters.

The ad's embellished with a shadowy sketch of a reaching, clawlike hand that stretches toward a photograph of a slightly spooked blonde woman (the actress Lilyan Tashman) with waved chignon hair and a virtually nonexistent nightgown featuring remarkable decolletage.

A block of text bound within the graphic shape of a downward-pointing arrow asks "CAN a Man be murdered twice? Impossible? -- Not in this strange house of horror, where every tick of the clock brought a threat of Death!"

More text describes "A Female DRACULA! A Beautiful Woman -- whose MASTER MIND -- shcemes, plots -- making men do her bidding -- working with fiendish, clockwork precision -- a beautiful siren who deals death to her lovers!"

Admission is 25c until 6pm. Saturday it's 35c; then 50c to close.

"YOU'LL BE GLAD WHEN THE LIGHTS ARE TURNED ON!"

Well maybe we'll see about that.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Leaving the dial untouched to see how William Windom looks in colour on the third season premiere of 12 O'CLOCK HIGH.

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Marty McKee @martymckeeofficial.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Tonight is the 60th anniversary of THE GREEN HORNET and THE TIME TUNNEL.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 60th to Ron Ely's TARZAN, which "sneak peek"ed this night in 1966, alongside Richard Mulligan's comedic western THE HERO. Also, the premiere of F TROOP's second season. In colour!

Sepia-toned newsprint clipping from the TV Guide issue dated September 3, 1966. A half page close-up highlighting the Debut of the TARZAN television series. The episode is called "Eyes of the Lion," and next to a small black and white picture of Ron Ely as Tarzan, with his tiny chimp Cheetah, the description reads:

"Tonight, a native named Oringa is stalking "The Red One," a lion who killed Oringa's father. But the native is not aware that another lion is in the area a peaceful beast said to be the companion of a jungle princess.
For TV, Tarzan is played by Ron Ely, who is the 15th Tarzan. Cheetah the chimpanzee will be at his side, but there will be no Jane.

Series regulars include Manuel Padilla Jr. as Jai, an orphaned village boy; Alan Caillou as Jason Flood, Jai's tutor; Rockne Tarkington as Rao, a vet- erinarian; and Stewart Rafill as Tall Boy, the vet's assistant.

Filmed in Brazil. Script by George F. Slavin. Director: Robert Day. (60 min.)

Guest Cast
Nara...Laurie Sibbald

Oringa...Ned Romero"

Another clipping from the same TV Guide issue, this one promoting an "Advance Premiere" of F TROOP. At 8:00. In Color. A small black and white picture shows the program's three leads, Civil war-era military men (from L-R, Parmenter, O'Rourke, and Agarn, respectively played by Ken Berry, Forrest Tucker, and Larry Storch) standing around a desk (Parmenter's, inside his office at Ft. Courage's HQ).

A full-page advertisement from the same TV Guide issue, promoting the "Sneak a Peek at NBC Week!" with details and artwork from three television programs debuting on this Thursday night, September 8, 1966. Clockwise from the top, the shows are TARZAN, whose painted artwork depicts a rampaging elephant smashing through the giant block letters of a title treatment as other jungle animals (gorillas, giraffes, etc.) scatter; THE HERO, where a painted portrait of the actor Richard Mulligan in western garb leans slightly with his legs crossed, an arrow through his cowboy hat; and also STAR TREK.

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The Drebit's Rain @sdrebit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This week I’m in awe of another Lee/Cushing joint. Have a read, if you like!

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Happened to rewatch this just last week. Wholeheartedly agree, esp. w/r/t Lee's "urgency" and its striking colours. Nice piece!

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Fell asleep last night before this dude even showed up to the old dark country manor where some phoney baloney motorcycle cop was murdering mad scientists. Excited to see how they eventually explain him rolling in.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Here's Luana Patten in JOE DAKOTA.

Collection of four screengrabs from the 1957 Universal Pictures Eastmancolor western JOE DAKOTA.

Each one shows the actress Luana Patten -- here an attractive, pale young woman with long sandy brown or reddish hair and bright red lips -- alone in the frame.

In this first one, she's leaning against the corner of an adobe building on the plains, arms folded in a green and yellow gingham dress. Short, dry grass fills the space behind her. She looks up and out of frame, considering.

Here, in a lilac-coloured flower print dress with a lace collar, she's leaning through parted lace curtains out the window of an adobe building, looking offscreen. It may be night.

On a street beneath the covered porch outside a barbershop, holding on to a square wooden column, wearing the same yellow dress from the first image. Behind her in the distance rises the bank of a scrub-covered foothill. It's morning or afternoon.

Finally, she's leaning on a cast iron lift-pump, head tilted, smiling dreamily. Behind her across scrubby grass, a small wooden pen in disrepair and a tall narrow wooden derrick. In the distance, rolling low-forested hills against a hazy tan afternoon sky.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

67 years ago today, Toronto's Odeon Theatres offered exhausted CNE patrons a surefire spa moment with a double bill of NERVE SHATTERING SHOCK!

Black and white newspaper ad from the Toronto Star, Friday August 28, 1959 promoting a double bill of RETURN OF THE FLY and THE ALLIGATOR PEOPLE, featuring elements of both films' painted promotional artwork (oversized clawhanded flies stepping on the faces of scientists, ample-bosomed women shrieking, scaly-faced alligator dudes, things of this nature).

They're billed as "2 SUPER-MONSTROUS DOUBLE-CHILL SENSATIONS!"

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Marty McKee @martymckeeofficial.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A thread of Whit Bissell getting choked out. First, BARNABY JONES.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I could've sworn he got roughed up on a Petrocelli, but he's the one dealing, there.

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Geoff. @cinterrobang.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Important work you're doing, here. Best I've got for now is Bissell's stunt double going ass over elbows while trying to shut Jaime Sommers up in a steamer trunk.

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