Category Archives: Joe Dante

Listen: Joe Dante Talkin’ Movies!

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Danny

A live radio conversation, recorded for posterity and your enjoyment!

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New at TFH: Joe Dante on THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE!

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Danny

Peckinpah!

“He found water where it wasn’t”. Hardly seen even in its day, this is yet another troubled Sam Peckinpah project which nonetheless emerged as a lyrical, deeply personal western love story that stands with the very best of his work. Its failure led the director to consider abandoning westerns once and for all. Although she and Peckinpah fought throughout, it features Stella Stevens’ finest performance, which she had hoped would lead to stardom.

 

Click here to watch the trailer.

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New at TFH: Joe Dante on INVISIBLE INVADERS

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Danny

Joe Dante lets us in on the secrets of the Invisible Invaders.

“Earth Given 24 Hours to Surrender!” It’s those darned aliens again! This time they’re reanimating dead people that they killed in the first place. Luckily for us, sci fi stalwart John Agar is on the job. But a lot of years have passed and who knows how many of these unseen creatures are currently running our world! Watch the skies, or at least the cemeteries!

 

Click here to watch the trailer, then read on for some bonus linkage.

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House on Haunted Hill… The Living Screenplay!

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Marty Melville


Trailers From Hell! is pleased to announce the first-time-ever publication of William Castle’s original, annotated shooting scripts!

The series kicks off this summer when Trailer Park Publishing and Terry Castle present William Castle’s annotated script for his 1959 scarefest, House on Haunted Hill!
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New at TFH: Joe Dante on THE MONSTER OF PIEDRAS BLANCAS

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Danny

More rubber suits, more water monster mayhem and more Joe Dante talking about The Monster of Piedras Blancas.

Low rent but affectionately made by professional monster movie fans, this modest Creature imitation didn’t garner many theatrical playdates but had a long afterlife on tv Double Chiller programs. The well constructed Monster is considerably less sympathetic than his Black Lagoon compatriot. The producers missed a bet by not hiring their lead actor, radio star Les Tremayne, to narrate the trailer.

Click here to watch the trailer and then read on for some annotated oddities.

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New at TFH: Joe Dante on VERBOTEN

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Danny

Joe Dante speaks well of Samuel Fuller and declares it Verboten! to do otherwise.

Once again Samuel Fuller uses the skimpiest of budgets as a tool to contrast reality with artifice. A long cherished project for the director, this German-set postwar drama was the last RKO picture, and has been out of circulation for years until its recent Warner Archive dvd release.

 

Check out the trailer commentary and then keep reading for some bonus annotations.

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SOME LIKE IT HOT and the Great Paul Frees

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Joe

Joe Dante weighs in on the sonorous wavelength of Paul Frees.

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Drive-In Doubles: Monsters, Mutants and Martians

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Joe

Joe’s picks for the first week of a month-long monster mash on Turner Classic Movies.

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New at TFH: Joe Dante on THE BIG CLOCK

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Danny

Joe Dante brings us another of his favorite flicks and counts the seconds on The Big Clock.

Ray Milland is the fall guy in Charles Laughton and George Macready’s murder coverup.Told in the back-to-front flashback style unique to film noir, John Farrow’s ingenious, criminally undervalued mystery thriller sometimes skirts the edge of screwball comedy. This highly entertaining thriller has some intriguing plot similarities to both Welles’ Mr. Arkadin and Alain Corneau’s Police Python 357.

Click here to watch Joe’s commentary for this tremendous film and then keep reading for some extended viewing and a couple bonus notes.

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Joe Listens When THE EXHIBITOR HAS HIS SAY

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Joe

Joe looks back on Boxoffice magazine’s lost feature The Exhibitor Has His Say.

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