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 Robin talks about the upcoming Dark Corners Specials. Things have changed slightly since this was recorded and the Hammer Frankenstein Top Ten is now almost definitely the next special, arriving this coming week. Phantom Menace is being bumped back a bit 

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Behind the Scenes: Specials Update

Robin talks about the upcoming Dark Corners Specials. Things have changed slightly since this was recorded and the Hammer Frankenstein Top Ten is now almost definitely the next special, arriving this coming week. Phantom Menace is being bumped back a bit.

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Stephen Crane

Next time on "It'll Be Alright On The Night"....

Anonymous

Everybody out here wants the Harryhausen special to be a gem, and I think it's going to be one because of your passion. And passion is at the heart of this story. One reason Harryhausen movies had the life/career altering impact they had is that no one, no one was doing this kind of movie making, because no one in the mainstream was interested. The films were transformative and continue to be so. The landscape of 50's science fiction movies was "The Giant Claw" and "The Deadly Mantis." The Harryhausen black-and-white films can be viewed as examples of rebel, disruptive moviemaking. It's really impossible to overestimate his contribution to contemporary cinema. A kid goes to the movies and watches "King Kong," and starts a chain reaction that's still going on today. Remarkable.

Anonymous

As an old fart, I remember that Harryhausen's work was considered as being for a younger audience. I saw the R&amp;S Harryhausen foundation documentary, and it's good. But it didn't say too much about how his work affected the other animators of the 60's (like our Ivor Woods or the Postgates) at that time. And how that view then changed as the Hollywood movies sold and animation became an adult friendly art form with the likes of Selick and Parks. That film needed more interviews...

Anonymous

Not sure if anyone is aware of this movie but Nathan Juran who directed The 7th Voyage of Sinbad also made Jack the Giant Killer which had both the leading man (Kerwin Mathews) and the same bad guy (Torin Thatcher) as Sinbad. Jack the Giant Killer was produced by Edward Small who at one point was pitched Sinbad but turned it down, but when it got big he decided to make his own Sinbad and hired the the same director. Reportedly he couldn't release the original cut of the movie under threat of lawsuit so he redubbed it into a musical which is just awful. here's a section from the musical version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBAJflrDySs