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Post by johnnypt on Oct 16, 2018 11:18:38 GMT -5
What if ... a Conan movie was created years before? Maybe in the 1930s? Is it funny or sad that the TV show actually WORKS on the level of a 1930s movie! (Fan made opening tittles, scenes from the TV series Conan the Adventurer, starring Ralph Moeller.) A little of both!
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Post by zarono on Oct 18, 2018 9:22:44 GMT -5
Jane Seymour and Taryn Power from Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger would have been a must have for the cast too I have to thank whoever it was that gave Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger a G rating. My mom and dad thought it was a nice thing to watch on HBO one afternoon, we're sitting there watching and...WOW!!!! What did I just see!!! Talking about seared into my memory...in a good way! I saw it at a drive in when I was a kid, it was a double feature but I couldn't say what the other movie was because this was the part that stuck in my mind too
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Post by Von K on Oct 21, 2018 13:15:15 GMT -5
Clint Walker would have made a great Conan, as Zarono's cool pic demonstrates. That's Conan right there. Jack Palance would have been great too.
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Post by zarono on Oct 29, 2018 8:13:44 GMT -5
What if director Charles B. Pierce had made a Conan film with Lee Majors in the title role? I think it would have had a mindblowingly epic lobby poster but it would have turned out something like this.
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Post by Char-Vell on Oct 29, 2018 8:33:06 GMT -5
What if director Charles B. Pierce had made a Conan film with Lee Majors in the title role? I think it would have had a mindblowingly epic lobby poster but it would have turned out something like this. I would have ate it up as a youngster. not that Lee Majors would make the best Conan.
How about Gil Gerard?
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Post by zarono on Oct 29, 2018 8:40:33 GMT -5
1970's Conan movie monster design speculation The Winged monster from Queen of the Black Coast might have looked something like this: Servant of Bit Yakin
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Post by zarono on Oct 29, 2018 8:41:30 GMT -5
What if director Charles B. Pierce had made a Conan film with Lee Majors in the title role? I think it would have had a mindblowingly epic lobby poster but it would have turned out something like this. I would have ate it up as a youngster. not that Lee Majors would make the best Conan.
How about Gil Gerard? Gil could have rocked it!
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Post by stubbs on Nov 9, 2018 15:27:18 GMT -5
I always dreamed of a late 60’s early 70’s Hammer film Conan. All that luminous technicolor, with deep blue shadows and garish scarlet blood, would have painted a striking Hyborian Age. It would have been tough to cast Conan from their stock players. although a contemporaneous Oliver Reed had the ferocity and acting chops to maybe pull it off. But think of... Christopher Lee as Thoth-Amon or Tsotha-Lanti. Peter Cushing as Pelias or Prospero. Ingrid Pitt as Akivasha. Martine Beswick as Belit. Caroline Munro as Valeria. Michael Gough as Yara. Horst Janson as Murilo. Raquel Welch as Zenobia. David Prowse as Pallantides. Given the era and the resources, it couldn’t have been completely true to the source material, but what a glorious vision it might have been. I'm working my way through a Hammer box set and having just watched Prehistoric Women, I'm absolutely with you on Beswick as Belit. She even does a mating dance.
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Post by johnnypt on Nov 9, 2018 15:38:26 GMT -5
I always dreamed of a late 60’s early 70’s Hammer film Conan. All that luminous technicolor, with deep blue shadows and garish scarlet blood, would have painted a striking Hyborian Age. It would have been tough to cast Conan from their stock players. although a contemporaneous Oliver Reed had the ferocity and acting chops to maybe pull it off. But think of... Christopher Lee as Thoth-Amon or Tsotha-Lanti. Peter Cushing as Pelias or Prospero. Ingrid Pitt as Akivasha. Martine Beswick as Belit. Caroline Munro as Valeria. Michael Gough as Yara. Horst Janson as Murilo. Raquel Welch as Zenobia. David Prowse as Pallantides. Given the era and the resources, it couldn’t have been completely true to the source material, but what a glorious vision it might have been. I'm working my way through a Hammer box set and having just watched Prehistoric Women, I'm absolutely with you on Beswick as Belit. She even does a mating dance. Martine certainly would've been fine!
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Post by deuce on Dec 13, 2018 2:08:05 GMT -5
"Give me a rough, tough brutal story, quick action and a gang of hard-boiled hairy chested eggs: George Bancroft; Matthew Betz; Lionel Barrymore; Vic McLaglen, who once fought Jack Johnson; Lou Wolheim; Bob Armstrong; Bill Boyd; Ernest Torrence; Ed Lowe; Warner Baxter; Gunboat Smith; Tom Kennedy; Wallace Beery; Tom O’Brien; Carl Dane; Blue Washington; Fred Kohler.
Then if they have to have a heroine, throw in some hard baby with a poker face and a heavyweight punch, that can take it on the chin and hand out punishment, too: Evelyn Brent; Fay Wray; Lilian Tashman; Florence Vidor; Louise Brooks; Baclanova; Lili Damita — boy, go no further!"
-- REH
There ya have it. McLaglen and Brooks as Conan and Belit or Conan and Akivasha. Unfortunately, Brooks basically gave up on Hollywood a good year before Conan was even created. Lulu and Vic were in a movie called A Girl in Every Port released in 1928. McLaglen portrayed a soft-hearted sailor who gets played by the hard-boiled beauty, Brooks. Sailor Steve Costigan, anyone? McLaglen may be my #1 pick for a 1920s-'30s Conan. Lulu: Cold as ice. Hot as hell. Vic: Maybe the only pro boxer to win an Oscar. Seen below in a frikkin' loincloth.
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Post by deuce on Dec 14, 2018 2:12:23 GMT -5
Imagining Conan's lines in John Wayne's voice is making my brain hurt. Well, REH's Conan sure never sounded like the mumble-mouthed hillbilly son of an Austrian Nazi...pilgrim. You can take that to the bank. There's a fairly reputable story out there that John Ford and the Duke (drunkenly) discussed filming Conan the Conqueror with Wayne in the lead. Then they got even drunker and forgot all about it.
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Post by Grim Wanderer on Dec 14, 2018 9:38:29 GMT -5
Imagining Conan's lines in John Wayne's voice is making my brain hurt. Well, REH's Conan sure never sounded like the mumble-mouthed hillbilly son of an Austrian Nazi...pilgrim. You can take that to the bank. There's a fairly reputable story out there that John Ford and the Duke (drunkenly) discussed filming Conan the Conqueror with Wayne in the lead. Then they got even drunker and forgot all about it. And we are forever grateful.
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Post by johnnypt on Dec 14, 2018 12:01:59 GMT -5
Well, REH's Conan sure never sounded like the mumble-mouthed hillbilly son of an Austrian Nazi...pilgrim. You can take that to the bank. There's a fairly reputable story out there that John Ford and the Duke (drunkenly) discussed filming Conan the Conqueror with Wayne in the lead. Then they got even drunker and forgot all about it. And we are forever grateful. Much as I love the Duke and the Admiral, it's not exactly the type of film in their wheelhouse (having just watched Stagecoach again the other night and might give a watch to 3 Godfathers this Xmas season). Plus movies with Wayne and Conqueror in the title didn't work out so well.
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Post by Grim Wanderer on Dec 14, 2018 12:25:57 GMT -5
And we are forever grateful. Much as I love the Duke and the Admiral, it's not exactly the type of film in their wheelhouse (having just watched Stagecoach again the other night and might give a watch to 3 Godfathers this Xmas season). Plus movies with Wayne and Conqueror in the title didn't work out so well. Ouch. No need to bring that up here.
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Post by zarono on Dec 26, 2018 21:58:33 GMT -5
You know he would have been the best!
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