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Actor Rex Reason has died
Examiner.com ^ | November 21, 2015

Posted on 11/21/2015 6:52:55 PM PST by EveningStar

Rex Reason, the leading man in such films as "This Island Earth" and "The Creature Walks Among Us" has died according to his official Facebook page. He was 86.

(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: obituaries; obituary; rexreason; thisislandearth
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To: ETL

Forbidden Planet is one of my favorite films. I’ll have to dig out the DVD for Thanksgiving!

and then there’s the remake rumors: http://www.scifimoviepage.com/upcoming/previews/forbidden_planet-remake.html


21 posted on 11/21/2015 8:15:29 PM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: ETL

And War of the Worlds, 1953. The special effects in those films are awesome. I think today’s special effects suck for the most part.


22 posted on 11/21/2015 8:35:17 PM PST by Ken H
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To: ETL

Ann Francis was smokin’ hot before there was smokin’ hot.


23 posted on 11/21/2015 8:39:20 PM PST by TTFlyer
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To: Mr. K

Lol!


24 posted on 11/21/2015 8:58:17 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: TTFlyer
Ann Francis was smokin hot before there was smokin hot.

Yes she was. The scene in Forbidden Planet when she is swimming in the pool - that did things to me!

25 posted on 11/21/2015 9:03:17 PM PST by Ken H
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To: Ken H
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26 posted on 11/21/2015 9:03:48 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: ETL

The Preacher guy runs out from the bunker and says “We mean you no harm”

Then they vaporize him. muhahhahhaha.


27 posted on 11/21/2015 9:08:59 PM PST by JohnnyP
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To: EveningStar

And Reason’s “Creature Walks Among Us” fellow co-star, Greg Palmer, also passed away just a few weeks ago.

I can’t deny I often got Rex and his brother Rhodes mixed up.


28 posted on 11/21/2015 9:12:34 PM PST by greene66
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To: ETL
Anne Robinson (Sylvia Van Buren) is another hot 50s sci-fi girl.

She is 86 and still appears at sci-fi conventions. I gather she is quite popular among that crowd.

29 posted on 11/21/2015 9:16:04 PM PST by Ken H
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To: JohnnyP

I don’t remember much from War of the Worlds. I know I saw it. But it’s been many years.


30 posted on 11/21/2015 9:17:39 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: Ken H
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31 posted on 11/21/2015 9:27:52 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: Ken H
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"Ann Robinson (born May 25, 1929) is an American actress and stunt horse rider, perhaps best known for her work in the science-fiction classic The War of the Worlds and in the 1954 film Dragnet, in which she starred as a Los Angeles police officer opposite Jack Webb and Ben Alexander."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Robinson

32 posted on 11/21/2015 9:36:52 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: Ken H

The War of the Worlds - Original Full (((Radio))) Broadcast on October 30, 1938. Orson Welles

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2kvqur_the-war-of-the-worlds-original-full-radio-broadcast-on-october-30-1938-orson-welles-s-filmed-next-da_fun


33 posted on 11/21/2015 9:53:38 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: advertising guy

Faith Domergue

leaves me breathless


34 posted on 11/21/2015 10:00:26 PM PST by JohnnyP
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To: JohnnyP
Re: Faith Domergue

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35 posted on 11/21/2015 10:09:35 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: advertising guy
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I suddenly only see to the left

Are you saying here on FR that you are a LEFTIST??

:)

36 posted on 11/22/2015 4:37:16 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: EveningStar; Dawgreg; wally_bert; ClearCase_guy; greene66
Roaring 20's cast.JPG
Rex Reason (right) with The Roaring 20's
co-stars Donald May and Dorothy Provine

Born November 30, 1928
Berlin, Germany

Died November 21, 2015,
Los Angeles, California
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Cast photo Bus Stop.jpg
Rhodes Reason as the sheriff with Marilyn
Maxwell and Joan Freeman in Bus Stop

Born April 19, 1930,
Glendale, California

Died December 26, 2014,
Palm Springs, California

Source: wikipedia

37 posted on 11/22/2015 4:40:13 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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“Reason is perhaps best known for his role as stalwart, heroic scientist Dr. Cal Meacham in the science fiction This Island Earth (1955). Reason co-starred as sympathetic scientist Dr. Tom Morgan in the third-and final-installment of Universal International Pictures’ Creature from the Black Lagoon horror film series in The Creature Walks Among Us (1956).[3]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Reason


38 posted on 11/22/2015 4:43:58 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: ETL

“Forbidden Planet”

I read the book before the movie came out. ...Yeah, I was a sci-fi freak when I was a little kid and I still like it now that I’m in my 70s.

I watch the movie every time I can find it on a cable channel. It set a standard for the early sci-fi movies of the era and most of them failed; but were still entertaining.


39 posted on 11/22/2015 5:12:48 AM PST by octex
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To: TTFlyer

Ann Francis was smokin’ hot before there was smokin’ hot.
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My opinion is that Rita Hayworth was a 10, while Ann Francis was a 7, in comparison.

Folks just see things differently.


40 posted on 11/22/2015 5:19:12 AM PST by octex
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