Name that movie (off-off-topic)

Hmmm.....



I don't think I even have a guess to that one!

It wasn't Jack Ripper was it?

Nope, Peter Sellers was originally supposed to play the pilot of the plane, Major Kong. But when they were shooting a scene in the "bomb bay", Sellers fell out and broke his leg. They brought Slim Pickins in to replace him for that role. That's also why "Dr Strangelove" is in a wheel chair. Those scenes were filmed after Sellers broke his leg.

Dang, I was actually going to guess Major Kong first!

Getting back to "Eaters of the Dead"--What earlier work did Crichton base his novel on?

I give up, I quit reading Crichton a long time ago.


Here's a sneaky one for you: What other movie was Max Schrek, the original vampire in the original vampire movie "Nosferatu" in?

I don't know, but I have to say I love Nosferatu!! Max Schrek is just plain creepy.

sorry I never came back to this post, I had a minor family crisis to deal with last night.


Incidentally, the work I was referring to was Beowulf.

Max Schrek, Huh?

Hmmmm...........

It wasn't "Metropolis" was it?

Wasn't Beowulf an 8th century story of a serial killer in England? I'm reading a book on serial killers right now and the author mentioned Beowulf in passing, nothing detailed.

and no, it wasn't "Metropolis", good guess though.

I suppose it could be viewed as a story about a serial killer. It's about a Danish warrior/chieftain who rids the land of a man-eating monster called Grendel, and much later in life slays a dragon and dies from its venomous bite. Crighton took the basic outline of the story, and tried to make it plausible--rather than a man eating monster called Grendel, it became a group of man-eating people called the Wendol; Beowulf became Buliwyf, and so forth.

Okay, not Metropolis, huh?

Was it a cameo appearance in Dracula starring Bela Lugosi, or something like that?