He tried to warn us about the Morlocks and now they have all, but taken over.
Posted on 01/09/2015 1:32:23 PM PST by Kartographer
Rod Taylor, the suave Australian actor whose brawny good looks made him a leading man for films ranging from Westerns to romantic comedies, has died. He was 84.
Taylor died in Los Angeles on Wednesday, his daughter, Felicia Taylor, told the Los Angeles Times http://lat.ms/14DPYvs). The Associated Press was not immediately able to contact her.
Taylor's breakthrough came in 1960 with "The Time Machine," George Pal's special effects marvel in which Taylor's dogged British inventor transports himself into a future where he witnesses world wars, nuclear annihilation and, finally, the rise of a new society.
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OMG ... that could very well BE !
Great movie. Got me interested in HG Wells and set the precedent for every decent time machine move to come. (Too bad HG Wells turned out to be a big commie.)
So true
RIP
They sure have! The movie Morlocks were terrified of fire/flame. ‘Our’ Morlocks feel the same way about job applications or child support payment orders......
Australian? I didn’t know that.
Good movie: The Birds with Tippi Hedren
Suzanne Pleshette played the teacher.
I didn’t realize he was still alive, figured he died years ago.
Original cut of the movie was so violent that many scenes were cut out even before movie was submitted to the ratings board which still demanded additional cuts on some of the graphic scenes. Scenes which were cut because of the violence and other reasons include; Curry forcing Claire to have sex with him, Simbas raping nuns and throwing them to crocodiles, Simbas raping women during the village massacre and gang raping Liutenant Surrier, Simbas dragging a guy tied to the motorcycle and then pouring gasoline on him and setting him on fire, longer death scene of Ruffo in which he tries to grab Henlein after he stabs him but Henlein stabs him again killing him, longer fight between Curry and Henlein and longer death scene of Henlein in which Curry kills him in very graphic and bloody way. Some action scenes were also cut, some deaths too. Because of the many cuts made on the movie some scenes suffer from bad editing, most notably parts of the village massacre and death scenes of Ruffo and Henlein.
I remember the the scene where the representative of the mine knowing that the train he and his wife were on was getting ready to be captured by the Simbas. He took out his pistol and killed his wife so she wouldn’t be captured alive.
“The Birds”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The time lapse was phenominal to my teenaged mind.
Or as they say in Brooklyn, “Da Boids.”
He was great in The V.I.Ps with Liz Taylor and Richard Burton .
Rod Taylor was also in “36 Hours” with James Garner and John Banner (Sgt Schultz).
I even liked Sunday in New York because it was before we knew Jane Fonda was a traitor.
DARK OF THE SUN was a great movie! I saw it in Los Angeles when it was first released, and graphic it was! I think it was also released as THE MERCENARIES, but not in the U.S.
Yeah, 36 HOURS was a very good film, with a very unique story line. At the end of the movie James Garner says to Eva Marie Saint, “You’re crying!” after she had said she had no more tears left in her because of her experience in a concentration camp.
Gathering of Eagles
When Cary Grant died, Narbos Hpesoj wrote a tribute, referring to Grant as “preposterously handsome.” I always thought the same was true of Rod Taylor.
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