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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jun 1, 2019 7:25:13 GMT -5
It seems like whenever we have a thread about wrestling in other media at least one new hidden gem gets discovered.
Anyway, I watched Night of the Bloody Apes a little bit ago. It is the English language version of a 1969 Mexican horror movie. It is mostly about a doctor who transplants an apes heart into his son who is terminally ill. This forces him to change into a killing/raping ape at random intervals. A lot of luchadora action is also shown as one luchadora has a somewhat big role in the movie. Although not as big as the movie this is a remake of would lead one to believe. That movie was called The Wrestling Women vs. The Killer Doctor.
It was released by Something Weird Video on DVD. The in-ring action actually looks comparatively good compared to some things you see from the era. Like a fairly crisp looking snapmare takeover. Of course when you see wrestling in a Something Weird Video Title it’s often mud wrestling or just naked/almost naked women rolling around. So it didn’t have high standards to live up to.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Jun 1, 2019 10:57:28 GMT -5
i'm watching Ça c'est du cinéma (1951) also known as THE SLAPPIEST DAYS OF OUR LIVES, and it has a clip of a comedy match, haven't a clue who's in it but it has all the tropes .....
and it's very funny
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jun 19, 2019 7:21:42 GMT -5
Okay so this was after 1980, but not much. In the last ever episode of Tales from the Darkside the plot is all about wrestling. They have a Hulk Hogan rip-off that has to beat a demon from Hell in a 2 out of 3 falls match.
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Post by mrpeacock on Jun 19, 2019 11:46:05 GMT -5
Mad Bull was a great made for TV movie about wrestling. It did a great job of using wrestling but not mocking it too badly. Had a cameo by a young Regis Phillbin in it as well. Definitely worth checking out.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jun 19, 2019 11:52:35 GMT -5
Paradise Alley from 1978 is a 40s period piece filled with prominent 70s wrestlers including the Funks, Gene Kininski, Dick Murdoch, Ray Stevens, Haku, and the apparently booked Dennis Stamp himself.
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Post by mrpeacock on Jun 19, 2019 11:58:22 GMT -5
The One and Only was also a period piece from the 1950s starring Henry Winkler as a very unFonzy type character.
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Post by James Fabiano on Jun 20, 2019 9:06:42 GMT -5
There's a little Bugs Bunny short you might have heard of...
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Post by mrpeacock on Jun 20, 2019 9:36:04 GMT -5
There's a little Bugs Bunny short you might have heard of... Porky Pig also took to the wresting ring once in a 1937 short. |
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Post by James Fabiano on Jun 20, 2019 9:37:00 GMT -5
There's a little Bugs Bunny short you might have heard of... Porky Pig also took to the wresting ring once in a 1937 short. I want to say Woody Woodpecker too. |
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 20, 2019 14:59:28 GMT -5
Pin-Down Girl, aka Racket Girls as seen on MST3k Dozens and dozens of Mil Mascaras, Blue Demon, El Santo epics The old classic serial Undersea Kingdom starts off with a wrestling match. Porky Pig also took to the wresting ring once in a 1937 short. I want to say Woody Woodpecker too. Not only did Woody have one, but it broke kayfabe and literally had Woody rewriting the booking sheet script in the middle of a match. Amos & Andy had a wrestling cartoon as well. |
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Post by nickcave on Jun 21, 2019 22:27:29 GMT -5
Verne Gagne’s vanity film The Wrestler from the early 70s featuring Ed Asner
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Post by chazraps on Jun 22, 2019 0:54:50 GMT -5
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Post by jimmyjames on Jun 22, 2019 3:27:51 GMT -5
There was an a episode of The Munsters were Herman became a wrestler and I think there were wrestling scenes in it.
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Post by agent817 on Jun 24, 2019 0:05:39 GMT -5
The Three Stooges - Grips, Grunts and Groans.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Jun 24, 2019 11:34:14 GMT -5
Watching a documentary on Buster Keaton, they showed a sketch he did in the 60s, only showed a couple of seconds, he was in a Roman tag team, tripping over the ropes trying to get his centurion gear off.
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Post by Venti on Jun 24, 2019 11:37:06 GMT -5
I might be wrong, but didn't the original The Wrestler come out in the 70s?
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 24, 2019 16:38:43 GMT -5
Swing Your Lady was a 1938 Humphrey Bogart movie where Bogie plays a wrestling promoter
Alias the Champ from 1949
Bodyhold (1949)
Zasu Pitts starred in Catch-As Catch-Can in 1931
There's a mid-30s Ub Iwerks cartoon short called Rasslin' Round
Porky the Wrestler in '37
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