Swashbuckling cats and monkeys on Mars!
You’ll be able to marvel at both this evening, on another Classic Ross Amico double-feature.
First, Antonio Banderas sends-up his Zorro persona in “Puss in Boots.” We’ll enjoy music from the film, composed by Henry Jackman, alongside selections from James Horner’s score for “The Mask of Zorro.” The balance of the hour will be devoted to Alfred Newman’s music for the Tyrone Power vehicle “Captain from Castile” and Max Steiner’s score for the Errol Flynn classic, “The Adventures of Don Juan.” Gen-Xers may recognize some of the latter from its use in “The Goonies!” Enjoy it this week, on “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies, this Friday evening at 6:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
Then Roy Bjellquist and I will talk ourselves red-in-the-face about the Red Planet, and “Robinson Crusoe on Mars.” Paul Mantee (who took his stage name from Humphrey Bogart’s Duke Mantee), Victor Lundin (who abandoned an operatic career to become a film actor), and Adam West (soon to be TV’s Batman) test their mettle on a foreign world. But that’s okay, since apparently there’s food and oxygen. As the poster states: “This film is SCIENTIFICALLY AUTHENTIC… It’s only one step ahead of present reality!”
FUN FACT: Barney the Woolly Monkey was outfitted with a fur diaper so that he could effectively play female space simian Mona.
Join us for the Facebook live-stream, and be prepared to exchange comments, at Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner, tonight at 7:00 EDT!
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