From fighting the Duke to an Ed Wood movie… poor prop.
Am I strange for feeling pity for an inanimate object?
Ericb
Wake of the Red Witch … Unplugged!
Ken_Begg
Ha!
bgbear_rnh
at least Bela got star billing
Rock Baker
Actually, that first pic is from ED WOOD. Notice the rounder, smoother body section. I wonder whatever happened to THAT prop, actually. If there’s one movie prop I’d love to have, that’d be it!
This is one of the greatest crimes of the modern age. When are grown men gonna stop messing around with octopuses? All those poor Cephalopods try to do is sit there and sleep, and what happens? Some joker walks up and wraps themselves up in their tentacles. I hear even worse things happen in Japan, where… oh, it’s just horrible! Just horrible! What evils doeth Humanity wrought upon the Natural World!
Unless of course I’ve completely misread what’s going on in those pictures.
Then never mind.
The Rev.
As the kids say: You, sir, win +1 internets.
zombiewhacker
I read somewhere that it wasn’t Bela fighting the octopus in that film, it was actually stunt man Eddie Parker.
bgbear_rnh
I don’t doubt you but, the idea of Wood hiring a stuntman is pretty humorous.
Ken_Begg
It might have been his chiropractor!
In that second shot, though, that’s clearly not Lugosi.
Ken_Begg
Rock Baker, PI!
Flangepart
OCTOPUSSY, first draft.
Rock Baker
Yeah, Parker played (save for some Lugosi close-ups) the mutated Dr. Varnoff because he was so much taller, made even more so by platform shoes.