[78-L] Cylinder machine sighting

[Julian Vein]

David Lennick wrote:
> Okay, we watched it last night. Great fun, pure camp but not Roger Corman-Ed 
> Wood shlock by any means. The title "The Beast with Five Fingers" gives the 
> wrong impression, and considering that it comes from Warner Brothers, that's 
> surprising. Nice little murder mystery with plot holes you could drive a camion 
> through. We've already supplied a couple of major spoilers so I don't want to 
> add too many more, but placing the time frame is a bit difficult..the opening 
> title says that the story happened "almost 50 years ago" and the film was made 
> in 1946, but the nephew is said to have been born in 1882 and appears to be in 
> his mid 20s, which puts it more around 1906. I won't presume to guess whether 
> the Edison Standard was around at this time but I see something that says "last 
> patent 1905".
> 
> This is definitely worth seeing for Peter Lorre, whose performance in this is 
> probably the basis for Paul Frees' imitation in Spike Jones's "My Old Flame" 
> the following year. "I can't stand it!"
> 
> dl
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Not 78-related--well, not directly, but I did see a couple of old TV 
series, both from 1959, with such anomalies.

!. A "William Tell" episode features the cuckoo--wrong country, wrong 
century! (Orson Welles got it wrong too!)
2. "Rawhide" refers to a guy playing the accordion--it's a concertina...

      Julian Vein