The Story of Mankind
Does this film still exist, or is it cut-up and sold off like The Animal World? Has there been, or is there going to be a DVD release? Story of Mankind on IMDB Listen to this great plot synopsis:...
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I saw the end of this film on either TCM or AMC a few years back and just the end was great fun.....I've been searching for this since that day and I don't believe it's been aired on TV since. I'd...
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You'd think that any film with Groucho Mark as Peter Minuit, Peter Lorre as Nero, and Vincent Price as the devil couldn't be all bad, but this one pretty much is, I'm afraid.
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It's as much fun in exactly the same way as SKIDDOO, which is mouth-watering. (Groucho didn't have a lot of luck in picking 'em, did he?) STORY has great color stock shots of everything-- it's got the...
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One of the most painful 90-or-so minutes I ever spent in my life was when I watched the film down at USC, when I was researching liner notes for THE ANIMAL WORLD. They have it on video down there, and...
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I think this is a terrible movie, no fun at all. It's depressing that this is Colman's last movie.
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I remember reading somewhere (I can't recall where), quite a number of years ago, that Irwin Allen considered this to be the third and final entry in a sort of "life on earth" trilogy, joining The Sea...
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Quote:This was Irwin Allen's finest hour! Hour and forty minutes! (Think Allen would let you shortchange him like that?) Mark, I've read that same bit (about the trilogy) in several places over the...
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Irwin Allen was a publicist before (and, heck, during) his time as a producer, and publicty for STORY OF MANKIND actually connected the dots from SEA to ANIMAL to MANKIND as if it was a progression,...
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At just over an hour, THE SEA AROUND US moves much more enjoyably than THE ANIMAL WORLD. (And, unlike THE ANIMAL WORLD if I recall, wasn't completely cobbled together from bits & pieces of...
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He was also planning to do a documenary called "THE STORY OF SPACE," but I believe due to the failure of his second and third documentaries, he dropped this idea and went in the non-realistic...
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I doubt there was any connection between Allen's proposed space documentary (this is the first I've heard of it) and LOST IN SPACE, since THE ANIMAL WORLD was released in 1956 and LIS began in...
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The concept of LOST IN SPACE, just about ev-er-y-thing about the pilot episode of LOST IN SPACE, was plagiarized by Allen & Co. from an Ib Melchior script written circa 1960. A whole book was...
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Quote:The concept of LOST IN SPACE, just about ev-er-y-thing about the pilot episode of LOST IN SPACE, was plagiarized by Allen & Co. from an Ib Melchior script written circa 1960. Then there's...
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