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Date Posted: 11:58:48 06/16/12 Sat
Author: Tim
Subject: Re: Victor French and George Reeves
In reply to: Rick 's message, "Victor French and George Reeves" on 23:11:30 06/15/12 Fri

The Little House episode "Haunted House" recently aired on Hallmark. It's a great story, one of my favorites, and features a fine performance by John Anderson. It is just one of many memorable episodes directed by Victor French. "Ebenezer Sprague" is another favorite of mine directed by Mr French.

George Reeves directed a few of the later Adventures of Superman episodes before the series came to a halt. His death in 1959 remains one of the enduring mysteries in Hollywood history.

Hollywoodland (2006) is an interesting film based on his life and legend, with Ben Affleck in the Reeves role.


Tim

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[> I like the visually unusual -- SWC, 20:16:35 06/17/12 Sun [1]

Once I saw a tape of commercials form the 50's and 60's, when I was growing up. The only ones I remembered where the ones that were visually unusual- they left an impression. Animation or claymation, camera tricks like the guy floating from the sky into the driver's seat of a Hertz car, etc.

The Superman episodes I remembered from long after I last saw the show were the ones with something visually unusual, (moreso than Reeves lying on the glass table to simulate flying or crushing a licorice gun). The #1 episode for me was the one where Superman was trapped at the bottom of a shaft with a "krytonite gun" aimed at him, preventing him from leaping out of it and sapping his powers. Jimmy Olsen was trapped there with him and crawled up the shaft by placing his hands and feet on the sides and using them to climb upward while his body shielded Superman from the rays, something an Olympic gymnast couldn't do on their greatest day. But it created an image that was indellible.

Then there was the time a gangster tried to evade the law by hiding in a concrete blockouse lined with lead where even Superman's x-ray vision couldn't see him. He figured if he stayed there seven years, the statue of limitations would be over and he could walk out a free man. Superman consulted a "mentalist" from the Far East who taught him to transport his body through walls by concentrating real hard. He did so and got inside the blockhouse and apprehended the crook. I spent alot of time standing in front of walls, trying to see if I could do the same thing. It's probably fortunate nothing happened. if I'd lost concentration, I might have wound up stuck in the wall.

Another bad guy conceived of the idea of freezing Superman at an extremely low temperature. He thawed out in time to save the day but George Reeves had to spend most of the episode covered wwith powdered sugar to simiulate the frost.

I also recall one where Superman kept having to swallow ntirogylcerine so it would explode harmlessly inside his body and not hurt the people around him. About the third time he had to so this the turned to the camera with a sour look on his face and said "Not again!"

Then there was the one where Jimmy Olsen became a millionaire and got a big head, treating everyone, especially Perry White, arrogantly. He kept all his money in cash in a suitcase. Some villains trapped him and Lois Lane and, in order to send an SOS through smoke signals, they had to burn something. All they had was Jimmy's million dollars. The look on his face as his fortune went up in flames was priceless.


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[> [> Re: [ The Adventures of Superman] -- Joe H., 22:27:59 06/18/12 Mon [1]

I thought that the "statute of limitations" one was solved by Clark Kent's contact with the Atomic Clock man in http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/ England who sped the clock time up, so that the crook exited his bunker one minute too soon! (;-)


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[> [> [> It's been years since I saw them -- SWC, 08:35:58 06/19/12 Tue [1]

I may be combining the plots of two different episodes. I do remember Superman trying to mentally transport himself through a wall, though.


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