Plan 9 From Outer Space

Starring: Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot Director: Edward D Wood Jr Dvd Release: 2nd July, 2001 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Black & White, Colour, Full Screen, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Plan 9 from Outer Space is a point & click adventure game developed by Konami for the Amiga & Commodore 64. It was released in 1992 & published by Gremlin Graphics. A DOS version was made but only released in the USA. The game is inspired by the 1957 B-movie Plan 9 from Outer Space. It featured footage of famous actor Bela Lugosi interspersed with a double who looked nothing like him. Wood had taken a few minutes of silent footage of Lugosi, in his Dracula cape, for a planned vampire picture but was unable to find financing for the project. When he later conceived of Plan 9, he wrote the script to incorporate the Lugosi footage & hired his wifes chiropractor to double for Lugosi in additional shots. The double hid his face with his cape to hide the fact that he was not Bela Lugosi. The game starts when the producer notices that the film has been stolen by Bela Lugosi s double. The player must carry out a detective campaign to find the 6 missing reels. Absurd situations occur in this game. Posters Of Plan 9 From Outer Space

Sometimes a movie achieves such legendary status that it cant quite live up to its reputation. Plan 9 from Outer Space is not one of these movies. It is just as magnificently terrible as youve heard. Plan 9 is the story of space aliens who try to conquer the Earth through resurrection of the dead. Psychic Criswell narrates as police rush through the cemetery, occasionally clipping the cardboard tombstones in their zeal to find the source of the mysterious goings-on. More than just a bad film, Plan 9 is something of a one-stop clearinghouse for poor cinematic techniques: the time shifts whimsically from midnight to afternoon sun, Tor Johnson flails desperately in an attempt to rise from his coffin, & flying saucers zoom past on clearly visible strings. Fading star Bela Lugosi tragically died during filming but such a small hurdle could not stop writer-producer-director Ed Wood. Lugosi is ingeniously replaced with a man who holds a cape across his face & might as well have NOT BELA LUGOSI stamped on his forehead. Plan 9 is so sweetly well intentioned in both its message & its execution that its impossible not to love it. And if you dont, well, as Eros says, You people of Earth are idiots!

Bela Lugosi was the stage name of actor Blaskó Béla Ferenc Dezső. He was born in Lugos, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary, the youngest of four children of a banker. Lugosi started his acting career on the stage in Europe in several Shakespearean plays. He however, became most notably known for his portrayal of Dracula in a stage production of Bram Stoker s classic vampire story. During World War I he served as an infantry lieutenant for the Central Powers. He left from his native Hungary for Germany in 1919 after persecution following his complicity in the forming of an actors union & emigrated to the United States in 1921. He was most famous for his title role in Tod Browning s Dracula. The film was a success, but Lugosi was typecast as a horror heavy with such movies as White Zombie & Scared to Death. He declined an offer to appear as The Monster in Frankenstein but made an impression as the insane Ygor in two sequels, Son of Frankenstein & Ghost of Frankenstein before finally consenting to play the creature in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. Posters Of Bela Lugosi

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Lyle Talbot, was a Hollywood actor best known for playing Joe Randolph on televisions The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet & also well-known to B-movie aficionados for his long career of film from 1931 to 1963. his appearance in the classic noir Three on a Match with Humphrey Bogart & Bette Davis, working with the Three Stooges in The Stooges Go West, his portrayal of Lex Luthor in 1950 s Superman vs. the Atom Man, as Commissioner Gordon in the 1949 serial Batman & Robin & playing opposite rockers like Jerry Lee Lewis in 1958 s High School Confidential. Talbot also guest starred on such classic TV series as Leave it to Beaver The Lone Ranger ; The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok ; Topper ; The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin ; Perry Mason ; Rawhide ; Wagon Train ; The Beverly Hillbillies ; Green Acres ; Charlies Angels ; Newhart ; The Dukes of Hazzard & Whos the Boss?. Posters Of Jail Bait

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Edward Davis Wood, Junior is a filmmaker known for a series of critically-derided movies & for his transvestite tendencies. He is probably the best-known maker of B-movies, famed for his ultra-low budget horror, science fiction & cowboy motion pictures. After extensive critical & commercial failure, he ended his career making pornography & writing schlock transvestite-themed novels drawing from his own fetishes. Woods posthumous fame began two years after his death, when he was awarded a Golden Turkey Award for being the worst director of all time. Today, he is generally respected by film scholars & historians — not for his talent, which has so far not undergone any kind of critical re-appraisal, but for his evident zeal & honest love of movies & movie production. The very lack of conventional filmmaking ability in his work has earned him & his films a considerable cult following. Some of his films have been lampooned on the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000, which has given those works wider exposure. Eds father, Edward D Wood Sr. Posters Of Jail Bait

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