[modeleng] Re: O/T Re: Re: Loco identity - Plan 9 from Outer Space
- From: "AndyA" <AndyA10@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 21:16:20 +0100
All you ever wanted to know about plan 9 from outer space here.....
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052077/
No. I'm not a film buff
Andy
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From: "Jesse Livingston" <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 6:41 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: O/T Re: Re: Loco identity - Plan 9 from Outer Space
>] O/T Re: Re: Loco identity - Plan 9 from Outer Space
>
>
> Yes, I think a film buff friend of mine showed me a bit of that years ago,
> and eluded to parts of it's history.
>
> Was that the film by Ed Wood? Reputed that it should have been called
> Planet
> 9 From Outer Space, but Ed had got funding from a local Church, and they
> were none too happy about the suggestion of the existence of extra
> terrestrials. Hence a major script rewrite.
>
> Other issues as I recall, lead actor Bella Lugosi (spelling?) died part
> way
> through the filming and was replaced by someone a clear foot shorter and
> looked nothing like him.
>
> Tombstones were made of foam and kept falling over.
>
> The flying saucers really were just hub caps on string!
>
> Did you see the more recept film made about the life of Ed himself?
>
>
> Yours,
>
>
> Rich.
>
> Rich,
>
> Have you figured out how the valve motion could work on that weirdo
> locomotive? Looks like the loco was designed by someone who once saw a
> steam locomotive and tried to build one from memory.
>
> I don't remember who the Plan 9 film was produced by, but as you say Bela
> did die and have to be replaced partway through the film. They always
> referred to him as "The Old Man" without giving him a name. Those flying
> saucers were obviously done on the cheap though I thought they were paper
> plates because it seems that one was burned while flying. I hadn't heard
> about the foam tombstones. The other film someone tried to make of War
> of
> the Worlds consisted mostly of some bloke who was always running here and
> there. I think it was made in old Blighty, but not sure. I know one
> thing,
> the main character sure could run.
>
> Jesse in hot dry Troy, TN USA.
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