#johnny downs

[gatutor]

Lucy Beaumont-Johnny Downs "Y el mundo marcha" (The crowd) 1928. de King Vidor.

[charnel-grounds]

Glenn Strange, Anne Nagel, and Johnny Downs in The Mad Monster (1942)

[thesummernostalgia]

Baby Clothes (1926) Plot

Joe’s mother decides to punish her son by forcing him to wear baby clothes until he stops picking fights with other boys.

In the meantime, a lazy man and his wife have been living off financial support from his uncle. To get even more money, they’ve lied for years, claiming they have two children who don’t actually exist.

The scheme hits a snag when the uncle announces he is coming to visit the "kids." Desperate, the man posts an ad in the village looking for an 8-year-old girl and a 2-year-old boy. Seeing an opportunity to make some quick cash, Mickey and Joe decide to step in and pose as the couple's children.

Clancy Street Boys (1943) Plot

Before he passed away, Muggs’s father had spent years deceiving his brother-in-law, claiming he had seven children, including a daughter named Annabel. Because of this lie, Muggs’s mother continued to receive child support from her own brother for these seven fictional kids.

To protect his late father’s reputation and ensure the continued financial support his mother receives from her brother, Muggs convinces his friends to impersonate seven fictional siblings when his uncle unexpectedly announces a visit.

[moviemill]

The Mad Monster (1942)

‘A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.‘

‘the movie sounds like Lawnmower Man but with Werewolf’ @villainpunk

thirty seconds into the movie and two of us see the ‘wolf’ and we just go ‘thats a gotdamn coyote’

they really waste NO time getting to the mad science, we’ve got a wolfman within five minutes (through nothing more than a simple wolfblood transfusion, apparently’

science man is trying to sell this as a miracle and @bioelectriccell said it best: ‘What kind of miracle is this. How is this in any way useful‘

oh, he wants to make an army of wolfmen, apparently.

‘ok but mad science werewoofs eat nazis is a GREAT plan actually’ @gwenfrankenstien​

debating whether this is him practicing a speech, or if he’s just hallucinating.

or if it’s just ye olde zoom meeting.

I’d like to note that this was tagged as ‘drama, horror, romance’ on IMDB.

oh the mad scientist man has a DAUGHTER here

this was apparently a double feature with The Devil Bat. It may also be the same set.

a child appeared onscreen!

whatever happened, happened offscreen but we both think the kid got ate/murdered

(confirmed several minutes later the kid did a die)

someone thinks the mystery murder beast is a dinosaur and this is funnier than it should be

‘it's wild to think blood transfusion was actually seen as crackpot science for decades’ @villainpunk​

this is part of the reason I love looking back at old mad scientist movies because its like. ‘sir this is just regular science’, minus ‘using wolf blood’.

like when radiation does anything that’s not ‘gives you the cancers’

this is just when people dress up their dogs

there’s something very charming about werewolves that are just very hairy men with sharp teeth. like. yes, those are the most important features of a wolf, apparently.

Lamenting the fact that the audio quality on my copy of this is so poor, I have misheard so many things. The Professor who gets murdered via wolfman is named Blaine, but I initially heard it as Blabe, and others got Blaze and Blame, and I’m stealing ‘Professor Blame’ as my new supervillian oc.

LOVE the old lady who just keeps trying to tell people ITS A WEREWOLF and everyone just dismisses her. one of the guys insisted at one point its a DINOSAUR or something and he wont consider WOLFMAN as a viable option.

I’m presenting this comment from @villainpunk​ without any context.

also shoutout to the phrase ‘exciting the various glands’

the wolfman has murdered a few people but we haven’t seen him eat anyone yet. I’m not sure why i’m expecting the wolfman to eat people.

‘the natural enemy of the mad scientist is the mob’ @gwenfrankenstien​

At about an hour into the movie, I realize that despite a lot of things HAPPENING, it doesn't feel like the plot has gone anywhere.

also there’s not been any romance. IMDB lied.

the wolfman spends a lot of time being very well dressed.

shoutout to another comedically abrubt ‘oh shit we gotta end this movie huh’

rated a solid ‘ok i guess’ on the beetsometer. Nothing phenomenal, but far from BAD. just got some pacing issues.

emoji of the film: sciencegasp

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[adelphe]

Film Fun Vol 68, No. 580, August 1937

[michigandrifter]

Column South 1953

[screamscenepodcast]

From the Producers Releasing Corporation comes the Wolf Man ripoff film THE MAD MONSTER (Newfield 1942). The poverty row film stars George Zucco, Glenn Strange, Johnny Downs, & Anne Nagel. But how many more of these vengeful mad scientist plots can your deadicated hosts take?

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 19:38; Discussion 36:32; Ranking 47:19.

[detrixsta]

Commercial Sheet Music tie-in for “Stay In Your Own Backyard”. An 1899 song, that ties-in with the 1925 “Our Gang” Comedy; “Your Own Backyard”. See the film & hear a version of the song (sung by Vaughn de Leath) Here: https://archive.org/details/Our.GangYour.Own.Back.Yard1925