My favorite exchange about this movie on MST3K came at the opening credits, when Joel and the bots read out the names of the producer and director -- Sigmund Neufeld and Samuel Newfield:
"Must've gotten on different lines at Ellis Island."
Which isn't far from the case! The men were I believe cousins, and Newfield did in fact change his name from the original Neufeld. But a typically clever MST3K quip.
I liked them referring to Sid Melton as monkey boy, and commenting on the "relationships" he seemed to have with the plane and his parachute.
Love when they have the german scientist in the plane tell Sid
"I don't sleep. Get away from me little monkey boy!"
"I meant to ask him in for pie, I don't know what happened" - Margaret Rawhide-Chew
what is up with MST3K lines, who cares? It would appear that you guys have alot more to do than asking other people about MST3K lines and stuff, talk about the movie and if you don't have nothing positive to say about the movie than don't post at all. It's really that simple :)
We can DO IT ALLLL DAY LONG, (We'll have to pay more for the light bill if we do it at night!)
Well, if you don't care, why are you reading all this, let alone posting?
By the way, it's "if you don't have ANYTHING positive to say about the movie", not "nothing". (And "a lot" is two words.)
Anyway, who says we don't have anything positive to say about the movie?
I think citing the MST3K episode is saying something very positive about this movie. If it weren´t for them I´ve never seen this movie about rock climibing and 15 minute rests.
shareCrow (I think) - "Can someone please tell the director about compressing time through editing!!!!"
Oh and without MST3k I'd never see most of the movies they show, so in fact they are keeping these stinkers alive well past their hayday!
Keep circulating the tapes!!
Speaking of MST3K lines, they seem to be unusually fond of the line:
"You DIE, Joe!": They used it at least twice on some(LONG forgotten) I-Tie sword & sandals epics during scenes of swordwielding violence and at least once during Dr Forrester's use of the infamous 'breakfast bazooka';
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When the guy was talking to the plane and then suddenly we hear another person's voice, one of them replies "Hey! It does talk!"
The scene with the dinosaur
Tom: Strange. I see a dinosaur, but I hear an elephant. (I was thinking the exact same thing before he said it.)
Crow (as Cesar Romero lassos a rock outcropping): "Well, here's a little trick I learned from either Will Rogers or Bob Mapplethorpe."
share"my little pizza roll."
"that was a short mourning period."
no joke. did the original film have some scenes dealing with monkeyboy's death?
also would like to know what kind of response they got from the "cool thing" request. did they mention it in a later show? would have been nice if frank touched on it in his new intro.
I can answer one of your questions anyway. For a number of years there was a print of Lost Continent making the rounds that was missing about 90 seconds of footage -- the scene where Sid Melton bids us adieu, after being gored. Even an early VHS of the film used the print without this "lost" sequence.
This was the print used on MST3K. As I recall even the 'bots reacted to this abrupt, obvious cut when the men see Willy gored, start to rush over to him, only to be suddenly seen standing on the cliff as they start their descent. (Joel et al flinched and said, "Huh?") A later, better print of the film, used on a subsequent, high-quality VHS and its successor DVD (shown on the main page), has this scene restored. Basically, it shows the others rush up to Willy, look at him in horror, then has a close-up of him uttering his last words to Joe (Cesar Romero), telling his parachute "What a way to go, baby," then asking for a cigarette. Joe gives him one but as he goes to light it for him, we see the flame blow out from Willy's off-camera last breath. Rather sad, actually.
Don't recall the "cool thing" request.
wow, that does actually sound poetic - wish someone would upload that short clip to YouTube.
"cool thing"
during one of the segments Joel and the Bots look out the SOL's window and keep remarking at how cool what they're looking at is...but it's never shown. Then they put up an address and tell people to send what they thing the cool thing is.
Maybe a very cool pile of rocks with dinosaurs and uranium on it.
The DVD of LC is pretty cool and worth getting if you like the movie at all. Besides being complete (Sid Melton kicking the bucket et al -- ironically he's the lone surviving cast member, 90 this year), it also has the original green tint atop the mountain, shown in theaters in 1951 but not seen again until this modern video age. When I finally saw it with the tint Sid's line about being color blind, and Chick Chandler's crack about there being a green sun in the sky, finally made sense. And, of course, it has The Beaver's dad!
I've always liked this film. Cesar Romero had a percentage of the profits and he made more from it than any other film he had ever done up to that time, and maybe ever. Lippert Films planned a series of sequels of sorts, with Romero and Chandler playing the same two characters encountering various adventures, but nothing ever came of it.