Wow, missing theaters due to missing memories due to missing brain cells … there never was a better time for Lost Memory’s stem cell research to regain those Lost Movie Memories !
Excuse me, “Quatermass And The Pit” was the British title of the 1967 film released as “Five Million Years To Earth” in the USA. The second, 1957 Quatermass film, again with Brian Donlevy in the title role, was titled simply “Quatermass 2”.
There was also a TV series titled “Quatermass And The Pit”.
You’re welcome, Ed. It’s million of years, instead of millions of miles. I saw all three Quatermass films at Film Forum in lower Manhattan in August 1987, my first time to one of their summer sci fi film festivals. The line I remember from “Quatermass And The Pit” was Quatermass saying, “Those pipes are full of human pulp !” and seeing some monstrous bell-shaped thing, like The Addams' Family’s Cousin Itt, sloshing around in dark liquid goo inside of some huge septic tank.
You’re right, Bway, the Commodore can’t become a school, because it is now totally gone, and only an empty lot remains. Unless, of course, the school built on its site is named “RKO Commodore Memorial High School”, but that is not likely.
No, Ed, I think you’re confusing it with “Five Million Years To Earth”, about the Martian spaceship found in the Hobbs End subway station in London, the third Quatermass film, the first two being “The Quatermass Experiment”, with Brian Donlevy in the title role and Richard Wordsworth as the hollow-eyed astronaut Victor Carune, who slowly and painfully degenerates into a blob of tentacle-waving goo that must be electrocuted near Westminster Abbey before it reproduces itself and consumes all life on Earth. The American release was titled “The Creeping Unknown”. The rarely seen second film was “Quatermass And The Pit”.
“20 Million Miles To Earth” was the Harryhausen-Charles H. Schneer film about the giant T-Rex-like Ymir from Venus. The Kraken from the 1981 Harryhausen-Charles H. Schneer film “Clash Of The Titans” was very similar to it.
Thanks, Panzer65. Well-put ! The “almighty dollar” is all-too-common and easy a motive in our venture capitalist, free-enterprise economy.
If the Commodore becomes a school, it will join the illustrious company of the RKO Bushwick (School For Social Justice) and the New Casino / DeKalb (PS 274 ?).
I know what you mean. I, too, am grateful for e-mail, and sites like these (Cinema Treasures, Tapeshare, Bushwick Buddies) thtough which we can re-visit our old home neighborhoods.
Thanks for your condolences on my Aunt Gerry. My condolences to you on the more recent loss of your cousin. Actually, I speak every day but Sunday with another aunt who’s six years older (graduated Bushwick High School in 1941) but I know what you mean about the WW II generation dying, and getting all the info one can. My dad, born October 1919, is still alive, and I speak with him about the old days every Sunday. Several years ago I wrote down all his old Bushwick addresses, and “Bway” (Chris) of this site, very kindly took and posted photos of them !
“Never realized all of this stuff would mean something to me some day!”
I know what you mean. It’s like I said to frankie and BrooklynJim when we met in Ridgewood Aug 25 2007 : when I still lived in Ridgewood, I must have walked past the RKO Madison Theater thousands of times, taking it for granted, thinking : it’s been there since the beginning of time, and will always be there, then, missing it, when it was no longer there.
That’s OK, Muzer. Your cousin’s names might be in my Aunt Gerry’s F K Lane 1947 yearbook. I would have to look through it again to be sure, but I can’t easily get to it. It’s buried in family stuff back in my garage. The only names that come quickly to mind are Claire Ward and Stuart Rabinowitz. I can’t question my Aunt Gerry about it, because she died January 5, 1992.
It was my father’s younger sister, not mine. She graduated Franklin K. Lane High School in Cypress Hills in June 1947. At the time, she lived at 1454 Bushwick Avenue with her parents. She next attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, but did not graduate. When she lived with her parents in Cypress Hills, she was an adult, out of school, and working in Manhattan. She was working in midtown Manhattan when the KK subway service started, and so used it to shorten her commute from midtown, home to Cypress Hills.
Good points, all : Ed Solero : interior architectural details. I prefer “debate” to “pissing contest”; “professional disagreement” seems a bit too pompous.
‘Tonino : ticket price would be a factor.
Warren : “nabe” as in “neighborhood”. I get it. Thanks.
Going into “The City” : a friend of mine from Cypress Hills had a similar experience, with relatives visiting from a rural area, who had said they’d gone into “the city” by themselves. At first, my friend thought they meant Manhattan, but all they’d done was head east on Jamaica Avenue to Woodhaven Boulevard.
Wow, missing theaters due to missing memories due to missing brain cells … there never was a better time for Lost Memory’s stem cell research to regain those Lost Movie Memories !
Interesting, Warren, that it would have been fight FILMS, then, rather than closed-circuit TV coverage of the fight.
Excuse me, “Quatermass And The Pit” was the British title of the 1967 film released as “Five Million Years To Earth” in the USA. The second, 1957 Quatermass film, again with Brian Donlevy in the title role, was titled simply “Quatermass 2”.
There was also a TV series titled “Quatermass And The Pit”.
Thanks, Warren.
Which two films were Columbia releases ?
Thanks, Bway. Then what about all those theaters like the Peerless and the Subway on Myrtle Avenue between Bway and Jay St. ?
Lost Memory, do you have adequate funding for your stem cell research on human memory loss ?
You’re welcome, Ed. It’s million of years, instead of millions of miles. I saw all three Quatermass films at Film Forum in lower Manhattan in August 1987, my first time to one of their summer sci fi film festivals. The line I remember from “Quatermass And The Pit” was Quatermass saying, “Those pipes are full of human pulp !” and seeing some monstrous bell-shaped thing, like The Addams' Family’s Cousin Itt, sloshing around in dark liquid goo inside of some huge septic tank.
Rodan was released in 1956, “Vertigo” in 1958.
“Vertigo” would have been awesome at the Valencia !
Potsy ? Stoop ball ?
I’m 51 going on 52.
The New Casino / DeKalb Theater is Theater # 6900 on this site.
You’re welcome, Panzer65.
You’re right, Bway, the Commodore can’t become a school, because it is now totally gone, and only an empty lot remains. Unless, of course, the school built on its site is named “RKO Commodore Memorial High School”, but that is not likely.
No, Ed, I think you’re confusing it with “Five Million Years To Earth”, about the Martian spaceship found in the Hobbs End subway station in London, the third Quatermass film, the first two being “The Quatermass Experiment”, with Brian Donlevy in the title role and Richard Wordsworth as the hollow-eyed astronaut Victor Carune, who slowly and painfully degenerates into a blob of tentacle-waving goo that must be electrocuted near Westminster Abbey before it reproduces itself and consumes all life on Earth. The American release was titled “The Creeping Unknown”. The rarely seen second film was “Quatermass And The Pit”.
“20 Million Miles To Earth” was the Harryhausen-Charles H. Schneer film about the giant T-Rex-like Ymir from Venus. The Kraken from the 1981 Harryhausen-Charles H. Schneer film “Clash Of The Titans” was very similar to it.
Thanks, Panzer65. Well-put ! The “almighty dollar” is all-too-common and easy a motive in our venture capitalist, free-enterprise economy.
If the Commodore becomes a school, it will join the illustrious company of the RKO Bushwick (School For Social Justice) and the New Casino / DeKalb (PS 274 ?).
Thanks, Lost Memory. I don’t think I’d ever heard or read about this film !
Any new thoughts and feelings, Panzer65 ? You seem so passionate about this theater from earlier posts.
Perhaps we should ask Brooklyn Jim Nabors !
“20 Million Miles to Earth” plus “Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers” would have made it a Ray Harryhausen FX double feature.
“Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers” ?
Muzer,
I know what you mean. I, too, am grateful for e-mail, and sites like these (Cinema Treasures, Tapeshare, Bushwick Buddies) thtough which we can re-visit our old home neighborhoods.
PKoch
Muzer,
Thanks for your condolences on my Aunt Gerry. My condolences to you on the more recent loss of your cousin. Actually, I speak every day but Sunday with another aunt who’s six years older (graduated Bushwick High School in 1941) but I know what you mean about the WW II generation dying, and getting all the info one can. My dad, born October 1919, is still alive, and I speak with him about the old days every Sunday. Several years ago I wrote down all his old Bushwick addresses, and “Bway” (Chris) of this site, very kindly took and posted photos of them !
“Never realized all of this stuff would mean something to me some day!”
I know what you mean. It’s like I said to frankie and BrooklynJim when we met in Ridgewood Aug 25 2007 : when I still lived in Ridgewood, I must have walked past the RKO Madison Theater thousands of times, taking it for granted, thinking : it’s been there since the beginning of time, and will always be there, then, missing it, when it was no longer there.
PKoch
That’s OK, Muzer. Your cousin’s names might be in my Aunt Gerry’s F K Lane 1947 yearbook. I would have to look through it again to be sure, but I can’t easily get to it. It’s buried in family stuff back in my garage. The only names that come quickly to mind are Claire Ward and Stuart Rabinowitz. I can’t question my Aunt Gerry about it, because she died January 5, 1992.
Muzer :
It was my father’s younger sister, not mine. She graduated Franklin K. Lane High School in Cypress Hills in June 1947. At the time, she lived at 1454 Bushwick Avenue with her parents. She next attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, but did not graduate. When she lived with her parents in Cypress Hills, she was an adult, out of school, and working in Manhattan. She was working in midtown Manhattan when the KK subway service started, and so used it to shorten her commute from midtown, home to Cypress Hills.
Justin Fencsak, please read this page to find out what played at the Madison. I and others have posted a LOT of info here about that.
Thanks for posting that, Bway, I’ve noticed that myself.
Good points, all : Ed Solero : interior architectural details. I prefer “debate” to “pissing contest”; “professional disagreement” seems a bit too pompous.
‘Tonino : ticket price would be a factor.
Warren : “nabe” as in “neighborhood”. I get it. Thanks.
Going into “The City” : a friend of mine from Cypress Hills had a similar experience, with relatives visiting from a rural area, who had said they’d gone into “the city” by themselves. At first, my friend thought they meant Manhattan, but all they’d done was head east on Jamaica Avenue to Woodhaven Boulevard.