THRILLER has a Facebook page! Does anybody care? (NO!)
Stephen Ledger of the New Jersey STAR-LEDGER came up with a great way to describe THRILLER to neophytes:
"It was a black-and-white TV anthology show that drew on spooky fiction by masters of the genre — but it wasn’t THE TWILIGHT ZONE. It was hosted by a Hollywood icon, featuring stories with tricky twists in the tale — but it wasn’t ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS. It ran for an hour, and gave early breaks to young stars and steady work to Hollywood veterans — but it wasn’t THE OUTER LIMITS ..."
AND IN OTHER THRILLER NEWS:
ReplyDeleteJohn Kenneth Muir has name-checked the THRILLER "brick."
http://reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com/2010/08/boris-karloffs-thriller-coming-soon-to.html
For the record, the original LA TIMES article that was ported to Amazon.com is available HERE:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/homeentertainment/la-et-karloff-20100831,0,2934239.story
THRILLER has a Facebook page! Does anybody care? (NO!)
Stephen Ledger of the New Jersey STAR-LEDGER came up with a great way to describe THRILLER to neophytes:
"It was a black-and-white TV anthology show that drew on spooky fiction by masters of the genre — but it wasn’t THE TWILIGHT ZONE. It was hosted by a Hollywood icon, featuring stories with tricky twists in the tale — but it wasn’t ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS. It ran for an hour, and gave early breaks to young stars and steady work to Hollywood veterans — but it wasn’t THE OUTER LIMITS ..."
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/movies/index.ssf/2010/08/boris_karloff_hosted_and_sometimes_starred_in_the_spooky_tales_of_thriller.html
An ED PLATT tribute site? I hadn't heard of it, either! (Lots of frame grabs, including Ed's rare romantic / makeout scenes!)
edplatt.20m.com/photo5.html
Want to know a bunch more about Robert Arthur?
http://threeinvestigatorsbooks.homestead.com/robertarthur.html
Not a bad "fake interview" with Karloff from the THRILLER era, from Lawrence French's "Supernal Dreams" column:
http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2010/09/boris-karloff-on-thriller/
Boris Karloff ACTION FIGURE (beware if you might be upset by the idea of King Karloff, naked):
http://www.mwctoys.com/REVIEW_091109a.htm
All THRILLER, all the time.