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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Neil Forbes 11th Aug 2015		Cinema Airplane! (Flying High) (1980) (1980)	We knew this as it was marketed here under the title "Flying High" And the follow-up as "Flying High II" (II - roman numeral for 2). Both movies absolute crack-ups!
Neil Forbes 10th Aug 2015		Cinema Krakatoa: East Of Java (1968) (1968)	"....Never heard of him?" Surely you're joking, Monolith!
Neil Forbes 10th Aug 2015		Cinema Carry On Cruising (1962) (1962)	Aside from Vincent Ball, another notable Aussie in this film is Ed Devereaux, later to find fame as Ranger Matt Hammond in "The Adventures Of Skippy, The Bush Kangaroo"..
Neil Forbes 10th Aug 2015		Cinema Krakatoa: East Of Java (1968) (1968)	Aah, didn't answer my question re: John Leyton.
Neil Forbes 10th Aug 2015		Cinema Dracula (1931)	Dracula was spotted lurking around a blood bank... reason: he was waiting for them to open so he could make a withdrawal!(ha-ha)
Neil Forbes 10th Aug 2015		Cinema Krakatoa: East Of Java (1968) (1968)	Yeah. Those who named the movie were geographically challenged! Just noted John Leyton in the cast list, is it the very same John Leyton who recorded for Top Rank, then HMV in the early 1960s?
Neil Forbes 10th Jul 2015		Cinema Young Frankenstein (1974) (1974)	Aaah, ze vunderz ov modern technologie!(Ah, the wonders of modern technology- I was trying to write with an accent, in case anyone thought I didn't go to school - Ha-ha).
Neil Forbes 10th Jul 2015		Cinema Young Frankenstein (1974) (1974)	Then I say to Mel Brooks: *Down, boy! Heel!*(Woof!)
Neil Forbes 10th Jul 2015		Cinema Young Frankenstein (1974) (1974)	Ah, Gene Hackman's later in the movie! He's a blind monk visited by the "monster".
Neil Forbes 10th Jul 2015		Cinema Sometimes A Great Notion (1970) (1970)	Vic Christopher did a cover of Charley Pride's record in 1972 for a label still in its infancy in Australia in that year, M7 Records. I had a copy but got rid of it. Needless to say that, though I like Charley Pride as a singer, I don't bother with his, or anyone else's version of that song.
Neil Forbes 10th Jul 2015		Cinema Young Frankenstein (1974) (1974)	Jawohl!
Neil Forbes 9th Jul 2015		Cinema Young Frankenstein (1974) (1974)	@Zabadak - "Pardon me boy, is this the Transylvania station?" Track 29! Can I give you a shine?
Neil Forbes 9th Jul 2015		Cinema El Buque Maldito (The Ghost Galleon) (1974) (1974)	Another ghost flick I missed on! Aw gee!
Neil Forbes 5th Jul 2015		Cinema Thir13een Ghosts (Thirteen Ghosts) (2001) (2001)	@Henry29, a couple of points, first, you said the opening was in colour, it would've been for cinema but when they transferred it to VHS(and later to DVD), it's likely they took the colour saturation right back to monochrome to render the whole movie thus. Secondly, and this will have something to do with cutting back the saturation of colour, the instances where the ghosts appeared had a pinkish tint applied(if I remember rightly), to see the ghosts you looked through blue cellophane, to not see them, red cellophane. special "glasses" were issued to cinema patrons, made by William Castle Inc.,(the movie's producers) with strips of each coloured cellophane attached to a card with two horizontal slits cut into it(about 3 inches long and a half-inch wide). I'm working from memory here as it's been yonks since I've seen the movie!
Neil Forbes 4th Jul 2015		Cinema Thir13een Ghosts (Thirteen Ghosts) (2001) (2001)	@Henry29, Opening in colour huh? I forgot that bit. It's absolutely yonks since I saw it at the Savoy Theatre in my original home town, Stockton NSW. It was the second(and main) feature of a Friday, 13th(Black Friday) double feature way back about 1969 or 1970(me still in my teens) and the movie looked new to me(didn't know back then that it was already almost a decade old - WOW!) In all this time it has never shown up in any late night movies on TV(ABC or commercial)... Bummer! Would like to see it again though!
Neil Forbes 3rd Jul 2015		Cinema Thir13een Ghosts (Thirteen Ghosts) (2001) (2001)	This was a supposed remake from the early 21st century of a movie shot in black & white with tinted segments where the theatre audience would look through "glasses" of two different colours of cellophane to either see or not see the ghosts. This "remake" made no attempt to follow the original story. I'd much rather see the original, though I do have this one stored on my external hard-drive(lifted from a VHS tape). F. Murray Abraham was also in this new version, by the way.
Neil Forbes 2nd Jul 2015		Cinema Being Human (1994) (1994)	Saw the title and immediately thought of the Brit. TV series about a werewolf, ghost and vampire living(?) in the same inner-London townhouse. Very likely unrelated to the plot of this movie, though!
Neil Forbes 2nd Jul 2015		Cinema Blazing Saddles (1974) (1974)	The Kensington. That one's gone as well. Last I remember it was converted to an under/18s night venue(no alcohol) but what it is now, I have no idea. Never went any further into it than the front entrance off Hunter Street. I remember what was there before it, though, a H.G. Palmer sewing machine sales and repair shop had that location well-and-truly stitched up!
Neil Forbes 2nd Jul 2015		Cinema Blazing Saddles (1974) (1974)	Some movies would work well with that theatre's audio system, others might not. Incidentally, the theatre was originally called the Lyric and entry was directly off Wolfe Street in the days before the Goumas's got hold of it. It had spent several years in disuse until about 1972 or 1973 when it was refurbished, given its "posh" new spelling and had the entry foyer relocated to under where the original foyer was. A "tunnel" with a set of steps brought you up to the corner of Wolfe and King Streets.
Neil Forbes 2nd Jul 2015		Cinema Invisible Ghost (1941) (1941)	Another old spooky! Title's a bit of a tautology though, Wouldn't mind seeing it, just for the subject's sake.
Neil Forbes 2nd Jul 2015		Cinema Blazing Saddles (1974) (1974)	The cinema was one of the first equipped for Stereo movies, not that Mel Brooks' s films made very much use of the stereo effect throughout, just at moments he wished to highlight. Accoustically the theatre was so-so. It's mainly Margaret Goumas's manner that got people off-side.
Neil Forbes 2nd Jul 2015		Cinema Blazing Saddles (1974) (1974)	I remember the first time I saw this at the Lyrique Cinema, Wolfe Street, Newcastle NSW. There was me and only one other person in the whole cinema to see it! This might've been partly due to the personality of the cinema's owners, Theo & Margaret Goumas, particularly Margaret, rude and abrupt, and somewhat arrogant. Theatre closed a couple of years ago, hardly anyone missed or misses it.
Neil Forbes 30th Jun 2015		Cinema The Haunting (1963) (1963)	@Monolith - thanks for that info! Sorry you had to relive frightening experiences. Hope it doesn't give you any nightmares! Nightmare(nightmayor): An elected city official who works after dark?(ha-ha)
Neil Forbes 30th Jun 2015		Cinema The Haunting (1963) (1963)	@Zabadak, you didn't answer my question.... what was the storyline? I think I'm going to have to keep an eye out for this one.
Neil Forbes 30th Jun 2015		Cinema The Haunting (1963) (1963)	I don't remember seeing this one at all. What was its storyline? Knowing that might(only might) remind me. I love a good ghost movie?

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