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Back when I was a child, in the early to mid-Sixties, Channel 9, in New York, on Saturday nights, ran something called "Supernatural Theatre," from 8:30 to 10PM. One evening, my grandmother, who lived with us, and was taking care of me, when my parents went out, let me stay up that night to watch "The Crawling Eye!!!!!!!!!" Darlings, we laughed our heads off.
Even though I probably have seen it within the last twenty years, that first viewing remains most memorable.
It takes place in a fictional Swiss town called Trollenberg. The film's original title was "The Trollenberg Terror," but I think "The Crawling Eye" is more catchy!
The film features a pre-"F-Troop" Forrest Tucker, (how the hell did he get involved in this?) and wait till you see Jennifer Jayne and Janet Munro, as the Pilgrim Sisters, Sarah and Anne, and their amazing mind reading act. Right! Anne, of course, catches on to what is going on.
And when the title character makes its entrance--WOW! I wish I could have this set prop in my living room! What a conversation piece!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, the eye really crawls, darlings! And there is more, which I am not telling.
Now older, it will make me think--
What if it gets cataracts? Glaucoma? Or even pink eye?
Find out with us, this Saturday!
See you this Saturday, girls!!!!!!!!!!!! Toodles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2 comments:
Your grandmother lived with you?
I don’t remember you sharing that before!!
How did it go??
Victoria,
As a child, my maternal grandmother
was both a caretaker anc companion,
who read to me, and played games
with me.
But as puberty set in, while I stil
loved her, i enjoyed playing harlmess
tricks on her.
Living with us came to a halt in the
Spring of 1971, when she had a stroke,
which left her with speech, but paralayzed
on the left side. She was in a nursing home
for seven years, and we visited her regularly.
She died, at age 89, in 1978. Less than a year
later, on April 2, 1979, my mother passed.
It was a horrible time. I still miss them both.
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