The BIG CUNHA
Come on now. How much joy, jumps, and jazzy jokes could one director of 50's shlock give us. Everybody, let's stand up and salute THE BIG CUHNA !!
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A very nice guy. We went down to interview him for 100 Years of Horror-- very personable, very self-effacing about his movies. And by gum there's stuff in them that works. The unveiling of the Nazi's...
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I agree with you about the unveiling of the wife in She Demons; it's a genuinely good shock scene in what I consider to be Cuhna's best film, owing mostly to the sense of humor the film has about...
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Quote:And by gum there's stuff in them that works. The unveiling of the Nazi's wife's face (above), a couple of moments on the Moon, charitable, some stuff of Buddy Baer on the rampage... splashing...
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Oh, give me a home Where the Rock Monsters roam And the sun Will just fry ya to bone ! a pretty recent view of Red Rock Canyon- California Photo courtesy of Mike & John Del Gaudio
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Steve Kronenberg wrote a wonderful article on Cunha for Monsters from the Vault #8 (which is now sold out), you can check out the online version at www.monstersfromthevault.com. Once there click on...
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And to this day, every time I find something interesting buried, I want to yell "The Diablo Giant's battle ax!"
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Quote:"The Diablo Giant's battle ax!" Was that Buddy Baer's wife in the movie?
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Once again, it's nice to have a face to go along with the name. "Da Kahuna"..... Honolulu native shot such low-budget 1950s film favorites as "She Demons" Associated Press OCEANSIDE, Calif. » Honolulu...
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I supplied Image with pics of Cunha on the sets of FRANK'S DAUGHTER and MISSILE TO THE MOON, for their DVDs. There should be one particularly nice one of the late producer Marc Frederic (it was his...
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I don't know if I missed mention of it on these Boards, but I'm surprised that no one seems to have mentioned that son Rick Cunha is a venerable & respected musician in his own right. I remember...
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Quote:Likewise, the strange core of FRANK'S DAUGHTER, in which Sally Todd is somehow resurrected in the big, lumpen form of Harry Wilson, has always seemed to me disturbing -- not just a dumb mistake...
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Here's some stuff I never knew about Victor Sen Yung, AKA Sammy Ching in SHE DEMONS. For 14 years Victor played Hop Sing the cook on the series BONANZA. Victor was born and raised in San Francisco in...
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