tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post5110983683329311742..comments2024-03-27T05:54:38.797-07:00Comments on <i>bare</i>•bones e-zine: The Hitchcock Project-James Bridges Part Six: The Cadaver [9.8]John Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14082147756474762000noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-59239596898988105012021-10-12T19:42:44.403-07:002021-10-12T19:42:44.403-07:00It sure was! Thanks for reading!It sure was! Thanks for reading!Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-79166681975231823972021-10-10T22:58:14.953-07:002021-10-10T22:58:14.953-07:00Strange Twist Ending!!!Strange Twist Ending!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-31233888308511483242020-11-03T15:02:40.660-08:002020-11-03T15:02:40.660-08:00Thanks for your comment, Jeff. Robert Arthur was r...Thanks for your comment, Jeff. Robert Arthur was responsible, often uncredited, for so many things we enjoyed in younger years.Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-528179881531707382020-11-01T23:02:49.287-08:002020-11-01T23:02:49.287-08:00Thanks so much for this! I just saw the episode an...Thanks so much for this! I just saw the episode and I am a big Robert Arthur fan!Jeff Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00316081079528920123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-13098676114298490662019-02-17T06:20:36.575-08:002019-02-17T06:20:36.575-08:00I was sorry to hear about the death of Michael Par...I was sorry to hear about the death of Michael Parks. Thanks for leaving a comment!Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-72110985135141207502019-02-17T01:22:35.923-08:002019-02-17T01:22:35.923-08:00R.I.P. Michael Parks. You are missed by your TRUE...R.I.P. Michael Parks. You are missed by your TRUE admirers ~ every single day.<br /><br />He had superb acting abilities...<br />He had incredible musical talent...<br />and ~ of course ~ He was absolutely GORGEOUS!<br /><br />He passed away on m May 9, 2017, at the age of 77. ����<br />Shaz Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07637097017967849610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-37147510170047583012017-03-18T09:11:35.073-07:002017-03-18T09:11:35.073-07:00I just read the summary and it sounds like you'...I just read the summary and it sounds like you're right. I'll get to that one eventually!Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-34432288855521708922017-03-17T21:08:03.173-07:002017-03-17T21:08:03.173-07:00I don't know the other one as well, but THE CA...I don't know the other one as well, but THE CADAVER also resembles an Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode called "BETA DELTA GAMMA." Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09603892208775996594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-50045688605269365172017-03-16T17:13:53.290-07:002017-03-16T17:13:53.290-07:00Fantastic! I just listened to the radio show and i...Fantastic! I just listened to the radio show and it's the same story. I'll update the post. Thanks for tipping me off to that!Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-11958853593395504342017-03-16T16:43:50.907-07:002017-03-16T16:43:50.907-07:00I will look into that. Thanks for your comment!I will look into that. Thanks for your comment!Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-9854458244433263512017-03-16T15:57:18.089-07:002017-03-16T15:57:18.089-07:00The original story sounded familiar to me. A radio...The original story sounded familiar to me. A radio program called Murder by Experts aired a show called "Summer Heat" on June 13, 1949 which is basically the same. Andrew Evans is given as the name of the writer. The show can be heard on youtube here: https://youtu.be/CkGdUfIv_58<br />Wondering if Andrew Evans was another name for Andrew West aka Robert Arthur?Blakeneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04778630656258229069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-33672705675105244672017-03-16T14:54:56.209-07:002017-03-16T14:54:56.209-07:00I saw something online that said Quentin Tarantino...I saw something online that said Quentin Tarantino thinks Michael Parks is the greatest living actor or something like that. I can't be critical because I think the same of William Shatner. Thanks for reading and leaving a comment!Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-14617564987144900812017-03-16T14:37:34.189-07:002017-03-16T14:37:34.189-07:00This is a great episode, and of course Ruth McDevi...This is a great episode, and of course Ruth McDevitt's Mrs. Fister is one of the show's best comic relief characters, if not THE best. (McDevitt does a very convincing drunk act too.)<br /><br />One Michael Parks role I've always liked is in a very strange comedy that gets almost no attention (even the negative kind), THE HAPPENING from 1967. <br /><br />Oddly enough, one of Joby Baker's roles was in each of the GIDGET movies (even though most of the other actors in them came and went), which is about as far from this Hitchcock episode as you can get.Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09603892208775996594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-35532137853423571272017-03-16T13:26:39.771-07:002017-03-16T13:26:39.771-07:00Thanks, Jordan! I really appreciate your support. ...Thanks, Jordan! I really appreciate your support. I loved the Hitchcock anthologies as a teenager without ever knowing Robert Arthur was behind them.Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-24212520042507231702017-03-16T11:40:10.354-07:002017-03-16T11:40:10.354-07:00Great article! A very thorough look at this ghouli...Great article! A very thorough look at this ghoulish episode. Arthur played with the cadaver and practical joke story with "The Jokester" from the fourth season of Hitchcock Presents, though from a different angle. And it wasn't until reading your write-up that I realized how similar "The Jokester" and "The Cadaver" are to E.C. Comics horror stories. E.C. did at least a couple stories like this. "Practical Choke" comes to mind. And "Dead Right," the one that was adapted as "Abra Cadaver" for the Crypt TV series. "The Morning After" reminds me a bit of "The Gentleman from America" by Michael Arlen as well, which was adapted for the first season of Hitchcock Presents. I think the original of that type of story is Ambrose Bierce's "A Watcher by the Dead" from 1889, which also concerns a dead body, a practical joke, and a character losing their mind and escaping a mental hospital. <br /><br />Robert Arthur was a publishing machine and it's a shame he isn't generally remembered these days. Some of his Mysterious Traveler shows are classics. He edited The Mysterious Traveler Mystery Magazine for a few issues in the early 50's and Arthur wrote about 80% of the contents under a variety of pseudonyms. One of my favorite Arthur stories, "The Hint," was first published there. It was later memorably adapted as "The Man Who Hated Scenes" for the Vincent Price radio series The Price of Fear and starred Price and Peter Cushing. And he was virtually the publishing manager of the Hitchcock brand from the late '50's to the mid '60's before his untimely death. Arthur had real talent as an editor and his ghost-edited Random House Hitchcock anthologies are full of gems.<br /><br />Thanks for the great work, Jack!JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14808904189056290207noreply@blogger.com