David Wilt @dwilt55

Film! I love Film! (Also books) davewiltfilms.net College Park MD Joined June 2009

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David Wilt @dwilt55

5 hours ago

#SantoSaturday: shot in '72 but not shown theatrically until '76 ('78 in the USA), "Santo vs. las lobas" doesn't seem to have gotten very wide distribution but it's not a bad film and has had a long life on home video. #ElSanto #CineMexicano

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David Wilt @dwilt55

a day ago

#FilmQuotesFriday: "I don't like macaroni. I'd rather have my spaghetti without any holes." Col. Kato (Susumu Fujita) advises his fighter pilots on Italian cuisine. From "Kato hayabusa sento-tai" (Col. Kato's Falcon Squadron, 1944). #JapaneseCinema

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David Wilt @dwilt55

a day ago

#ThisWeeksBooks: still Meal-time reading Clare Jackson's "Devil-Land: England Under Siege 1588-1688" (it's very long) & Metro-Reading "The Sentinel" (Lee & Andrew Child), so here's some reading-related art (from the cover of "Extraño Pero Cierto" 241. #FridayReads

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David Wilt @dwilt55

2 days ago

#TopTuneThursday: high-energy show band -- complete with synchronised choreography & honking sax -- Freddie Bell and the Bell Boys do "Ding Dong" in the film "Rock Around the Clock" (1956). The song was a hit in the UK and elsewhere, but not in the USA. youtube.com/watch?v=bxWQyF…

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David Wilt @dwilt55

2 days ago

Swipe File #2: a photo-montage promoting "The Incredible #Hulk" TV show (1978-82) was recreated by Francisco Betancourt for the cover of "Sensacional de Terror" 526 (Mar '89). The artwork was reused on "Leyendas de Terror" 8 (Nov '94), changing the werewolf to a . . . zombie?

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David Wilt @dwilt55

3 days ago

#WarehouseWednesday: more excellent #VHS box art for #CineMexicano productions. Most of these were direct-to-video films (although I have seen a theatrical lobby card for "Zona del silencio") so the art is original, not re-purposed cinema posters.

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David Wilt @dwilt55

4 days ago

#BallyhooTuesday: Come see our movie! It will claw your brain, hit you between the eyes, wrench your guts (or rip them out), make you scream your head off, shrivel your spine, curl your mind, shock you out of your skull, and knock your eyes out! That's entertainment!

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David Wilt @dwilt55

4 days ago

#RomanceComicsTuesday: "I'm not GOOD enough for a guy like you!" Poor self-esteem afflicts some romance-comic heroines. Will they ever find true love? Clockwise: Confessions of the Lovelorn 79 , Romantic Confessions v2 n2 , Diary Confessions 11 , and Young Romance 24 .

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David Wilt @dwilt55

5 days ago

#MexicanMovieMonday: #CineMexicano in production 40 yrs ago this month -- an action film based on a popular corrido; comedy about women's wrestling; one of Arturo Ripstein's lesser-known films (but I like it), a thriller-drama with a twisty plot.

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David Wilt @dwilt55

6 days ago

#ThisWeeksFilms: "The Devil's Mistress" (1965), an independent fantasy-Western shot in New Mexico that played for years on the exploitation circuit and has recently gotten a significant amount of critical & popular attention. #HorrorMovies

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David Wilt @dwilt55

a week ago

#SantoSaturday: "Las bestias del terror," filmed in Miami in '72, got Mexican & USA release, but may not have been shown in Spain. The highly misleading poster suggests "El Enmascarado Negro" is a major character (he's only #ElSanto's opponent in a wrestling match). #CineMexicano

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David Wilt @dwilt55

a week ago

#FilmQuotesFriday: "That's how I got so sick -- someone called me on the telephone!" Brian De Palma's "Sisters" (1972). Yeah lady, I hate talking on the phone, too. I haven't seen this in at least 30 yrs, guess I need to check out the Blu-ray (which has been out for 6 yrs).

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David Wilt @dwilt55

a week ago

#ThisWeeksBooks: got 15 lbs. of books from UM library this week including "Devil-Land: England Under Siege 1588-1688" (Clare Jackson) as Mealtime Reading; "The Sentinel" (Lee & Andrew Child) might be the last Metro-Commute Reading of the semester (just 2 wks to go). #FridayReads

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David Wilt @dwilt55

a week ago

#TopTuneThursday: 1966 hit "Time Won't Let Me" by Cleveland band The Outsiders, with Sonny Geraci on vocals. And no, that's not Boris Johnson on the right. youtube.com/watch?v=30sMxq…

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David Wilt @dwilt55

a week ago

#SwipeFile (new feature!) 1: "Blood of Dracula" -- an image migrates from magazine to film poster to magazine, and a comic book cover homage to the film's iconic monster makeup. The full story here: mexcine.tumblr.com/post/748091942… #HorrorMovies

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David Wilt @dwilt55

a week ago

#WarehouseWednesday: adult film posters a l'orange -- a wide variety of art styles, but all orange! I got most of these in the '90s. "Easy Alice" was $10: latest Heritage price was $81, which seems high. "Hot Oven" cost $6, Heritage price $45. #movieposters

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David Wilt @dwilt55

2 weeks ago

#BallyhooTuesday: "Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory"(originally "Lycanthropus") had 2 giveaway gimmicks -- a "Do-It-Yourself Werewolf Kit" & recordings of the theme song "Ghoul in School," altho it appears the kits were not used extensively by cinemas. #HorrorMovies #Exploitation

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David Wilt @dwilt55

2 weeks ago

#RomanceComicsTuesday: "Women Who Never Wed" -- "If you want to be happy, you'd better change --- fast!" Men put on their hats and run away from the Self-Worshipping Woman: "All you think of is you, you, YOU! I'm sick of it -- and of you!" (Romantic Adventures 11, 1950).

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David Wilt @dwilt55

2 weeks ago

#MexicanMovieMonday: #CineMexicano in production 50 yrs ago this month. Only 2 films started shooting -- "Don Herculano enamorado," ranchera-style adaptation of "El sombrero de tres picos," previously filmed in '43. Juan López Moctezuma's #cultfilm "Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary."

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David Wilt @dwilt55

2 weeks ago

#ThisWeeksFilms: "Odessa in Fiamme" [Odessa in Flames, 1942]. Took me a while to track down the restored version (w/ English subs) of this Italian-Romanian co-production. Anti-Soviet WWII #Propaganda that seems oddly relevant today.