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Post by NoShear on Nov 15, 2023 13:44:06 GMT
I was wondering if Alicia Malone mentioned the Hungarian background of co-writer/producer Ivan Tors with her talks on The GLASS WALL last night... Ivan Tors, whose "fliPPeR" would later become his quintessential offering(s) to both film and television, was born in Budapest.   Ivan Tors was married to actress Constance Dowling prior to her death... Constance Dowling's sister, Doris, is seen here in "Bitter Rice" with Vittorio Gassman who played the displaced Hungarian in The GLASS WALL (1953):  |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Nov 15, 2023 18:20:51 GMT
I really liked some of the sci-fi movies he produced in the 1950's, especially Gog (1954), about strange happenings at a government facility. I liked robots as a kid and this had a good one.  I also watched both of the "underwater" TV shows he produced, Sea Hunt and The Aquanauts. But later I was at that age where I was "too cool" for Flipper. You know what teens are like. |
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Post by NoShear on Nov 16, 2023 16:12:27 GMT
I really liked some of the sci-fi movies he produced in the 1950's, especially Gog (1954), about strange happenings at a government facility. I liked robots as a kid and this had a good one. I also watched both of the "underwater" TV shows he produced, Sea Hunt and The Aquanauts. But later I was at that age where I was "too cool" for Flipper. You know what teens are like. Thank you for furthering the six degrees of Ivan Tors, I Love Melvin: gog's Constance Dowling credit! There exists a toy which you may have had during your childhood days of undersea television, and I wish I'd had during mine:  "Nowadays, you have kids with their sonar, radar, electric toothbrushes..." |
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