undercover maisie is a 1947 american comedy film produced by metro-goldwyn-mayer as the final of ten film maisie series starring ann sothern as ex-showgirl maisie ravier .

in this series entry , maisie ravier decides to join the los angeles police force .

the ninth , previous , film was up goes maisie .

undercover maisie

undercover maisie <EOT> actor mark daniels at the time of his appearance in the 1947 movie undercover maisie .

maisie the showgirl joins the police force and risks her life to expose a phony psychic in undercover maisie ( 1947 ) .

maisie the showgirl joins the police force and risks her life to expose a phony psychic in undercover maisie ( 1947 ) . >

actor mark daniels at the time of his appearance in the 1947 movie undercover . . .

after the war , nelson starred in a string of movies , including “undercover maisie , ” “time to kill” and “tenth avenue angel . ”

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movie trailer for the film undercover maisie , the final in the mgm “maisie” series . the movie follows a stranded showgirl that joins the police force and risks her life to expose a phony psychic . maisie ravier is a popular fictional character , played by ann sothern , and was the star of ten films and a radio show in the late 1930s through the 1940s .

revere joins police force to be near her latest beau . after an amusingly grueling training session she goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of confidence tricksters headed by willis .

working with the british secret service on an undercover mission , maisie dobbs is sent to hitler s germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue the twelfth novel in jacqueline winspear s new york times bestselling series that seems to get better with each entry ( wall street journal ) .

final maisie film sees maisie ( ann sothern ) ripped off by a con artist . she files a report with the police and mustachioed police lieutenant barry nelson thinks she ' s a natural detective . so he talks her into joining the police academy and learning to be a cop . this leads to one of the more amusing segments of the movie , where maisie learns self defense . after becoming a cop , maisie goes undercover to help stop a phony psychic ( leon ames ) . the maisie series comes to an end with a pleasant , enjoyable episode . sothern is great as usual . dependable leon ames is good as the fake psychic . barry nelson , here sporting a risible mustache , is ok . maisie ' s love interests in these movies never seemed to match her charisma and nelson is no exception . i enjoyed the maisie series a lot . they ' re simple , fun stories with the adorable ann sothern at her most lovable .

maisie revere ( ann sothern ) decides to join the los angeles police force . this she does primarily to be near her latest beau , lt . paul scott ( barry nelson ) . after an amusingly grueling training session , our heroine goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of confidence tricksters , headed by phony swami willis farnes ( leon ames ) .

undercover maisie is very much of its period . i can see why it was popular in 1947 , but later crime comedies are more sophisticated . still , it would be of interest to those who like period movies , or who want to see what l . a . looked like then , and how people dressed and the cars they drove .

a strong end of the series . maisie ends up working for the police department bunco squad . the bunco squad works at busting con games . maisie is perfect with her street - smarts and gutsy personality .

this is brave cancer survivor maisie dury comparing hats and giving no - nonsense budget advice to ed balls .

after graduating college maisie becomes involved both professionally and personally joe morton , who ' s just developed a revolutionary helicopter .

maisie was diagnosed with a central neurocytoma tumour in the centre of her brain in 2007 - and underwent major surgery .

showgirl maisie ravier finds herself once again out of work . she meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family ' s new maid . maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family ' s . . . see full summary »

chorus girl maisie ( ann sothern ) helps a los angeles police detective ( barry nelson ) catch a gang of con artists .

it is great to have maisie , sandra and billie back in the old office working on investigations again . feels like the book is back on track . world war ii has started and for all the veterans of wwi and their families it is a difficult time . dr . francesca thomas of the belgium embassy and secret service has hired maisie to solve a murder of a belgium refugee from wwi . then three more murders occur of people maisie has spoken to during the investigation . maisie has also taken in some children into t

ah , maisie ! ! i was so glad to finally get my hands on a new maisie dobbs , and i was not disappointed ! time continues to pass and now britain is on the cusp of another war ! for maisie and many of her friends and co - workers , the last war was the worst thing ever , but now mr hitler wants to rule the world . maisie is contacted by an old acquaintance in the secret service and asked to look into a murder that may not be receiving all the attention it deserves from the police , who are understandably bu

gold rush maisie is a 1940 drama film , the third of ten films starring ann sothern as maisie ravier , a showgirl with a heart of gold . in this entry in the series , she joins a gold rush to a ghost town . the film was directed by edwin l . marin .

“maisie bit her lip . she had learned that sometimes it was best to let words die of their own accord , rather than fight them . ”

jacqueline winspear’s maisie dobbs is one of the most creatively written characters in fiction today , and in this grave hour is an outstanding addition to the series . the story begins on september 3 , 1939 , the day great britain officially declared war on germany thereby formally entering world war 2 . when maisie returns home that evening , a secret service agent is waiting to hire maisie to find the murderer of a man who had escaped occupied belgium during the great war . this investigation leads

after setting the two previous books in other countries , winspear puts maisie back in london where she started 20 years ago with the cast of characters we have come to know and love . this books starts with maisie gathered with her friend priscilla and family around the radio as mcmillan declares war on germany on september 3 , 1939 . at the forefront of this story are the murders of belgian refugees who immigrated to britain during wwi . maisie is contracted by a woman she ' s worked with before from

during her london trip , maisie also met actress sheila hancock – whose grandson jack survived a brain tumour – and sat in the same chair as her idol ed sheeran .

yes , and no . . . though each maisie dobbs book follows the story line of a discrete , standalone mystery , i really ( really , really ) recommend you read them from the beginning , if only to see maisie ' s character development . there are also a lot of reoccurring characters , each with their own backstory with maisie ( 13 books ' worth of backstory , to be exact ! ) . you might miss a lot of the subtext that makes these books so freaking great . ( less )

maisie ravier finds herself stranded in an arizona ghost town with a family of migrant dust bowl refugees . the ghost town , it turns out , may have a gold mine .

easy going crime book based at at the start of ww2 with several people killed by similar methods and maisie is employed to find the killer and the connections between each victim .

maisie dobbs is hired by a member of the belgian embassy in this 13th installment of the series . a belgian refugee has been murdered and the embassy wants more of an investigation than the police are providing . things are in turmoil in london as germany and england are preparing to go to war yet again . as long time readers know , the series started at the end of wwi where maisie had served as a combat nurse in france . now war is back in the picture . as maisie ' s investigation progresses , she disc

i had skipped the last two of the maisie dobbs series that venture into foreign lands , mainly because of the reviews , but had read the previous ten . now maisie is back in london with her private investigations and her old cohorts at hand . it did feel a little like old home week when one after the other familiar characters appear . i had been brought up to speed on maisie ' s personal situation from the reviews - how she had lost her husband and unborn child , which a lot of readers were upset about

yes , and no . . . though each maisie dobbs book follows the story line of a discrete , standalone mystery , i really ( really , really ) recommend you read …more

the last few maisie dobbs books have found maisie in germany and spain , away from her friends and family , trying to heal from a horrible tragedy . the latest book , in this grave hour , maisie is back in london and back to work as a private investigator and psychologist . that means that the characters we have grown to love - her assistants billy and sandra , her father and stepmother brenda , best friend priscilla and pris ' husband and sons - are back too . they were sorely missed . as the story opens in 1

i noticed in the opening credits that " undercover maisie " was written by a woman ( thelma robinson ) , which probably accounts for the strong feminist stance of the movie : even at the end , when the conventions of the genre demand that maisie get kidnapped and imprisoned by the villains , she fights them - ultimately successfully - all by herself , putting her self - defense training to practical use . but while this aspect of the film is fun to watch , the film itself is plodding and , at a full 90 minutes , too long ( this kind of programmer usually works better at around an hour ) . maisie has a few ( too few ! ) memorable lines ( " my head . . . . my hand . . . . my knees ! " ) , but the best line in the film , and a quite suggestive one at that , is by far the last one , belonging to barry nelson , which is worth sitting around for . * * out of 4 .

jacqueline winspear continues to hone her skills and develop her characters . this book opens at the start of britain ' s declaration of war in 1939 . maisie is hired by a former colleague who holds dual citizeship - - belgium and the u . k . a man living in england , a past belgium refugee from wwi who ' d made his permanent home in london , has been murdered . the yard hasn ' t made much progress is solving the case , so maisie is asked to take it on . there is a hint that other murders might follow if maisie

" a female investigator every bit as brainy and battle - hardened as lisbeth salander . " — maureen corrigan , npr ' s fresh air , on maisie dobbs sunday september 3rd 1939 . at the moment prime minister neville chamberlain broadcasts to the nation britain’s declaration of war with germany , a senior secret service agent breaks into maisie dobbs ' flat to await her return . dr . france

the last of mgm ' s 10 " maisie " frolics released between 1939 and 1947 , this film was the only installment which failed to net a contemporary new york times review . see more »

maisie returned to her fife home yesterday to make dozens of cakes as she prepare for ‘wear a hat’ fundraising day on friday 27 march and she revealed the london trip had left her very tired .

maisie barricades herself in her guest room and leaves early the next morning . when she finally arrives at the café , her position is already filled . maisie meets a little girl named jubie davis ( virginia weidler ) and hears rumors about a gold rush in a nearby abandoned smalltown . the same day she leaves for phoenix , riding with the davis family , who are there because of the gold findings .

maisie and her team are back doing what they do best . . . . . . investigating murder . lots of new wwii storylines opened for future books . this one recharged my enthusiasm for the series .

parting company with her on - stage partner professor orco partly due to the job being potentially hazardous to her health , streetwise but kind - hearted vaudeville performer maisie ravier , in . . . see full summary »

the premise was a stretch , but the overall movie was funny and cute . my favorite was the last scene . . . . i was laughing so hard and shouting , " get ' em maisie ! "

traveling into the heart of nazi germany , maisie encounters unexpected dangers and finds herself questioning whether it s time to return to the work she loved . but the secret service may have other ideas . . . .

the british government is not alone in its interest in maisie s travel plans . her nemesis the man she holds responsible for her husband s death has learned of her journey , and is also desperate for her help .

streetwise but kind - hearted maisie ravier has put her vaudeville life behind her , but not its associated outward good looks , flash and glamor . trying to get to new york for a job , she instead gets stranded in los angeles literally with only the clothes on her back . lt . paul scott of the lapd bunco squad sees in maisie what he believes would be assets to his team . paul is eventually able to convince his boss , captain mead , that he is not interested in her on a romantic basis , and as such , maisie is placed on the fast track program through the necessary training . during the training , maisie learns that paul is a hard - nosed , straight laced and outwardly unfeeling man , where she finds officer chip dolan , who was formerly in bunco and is trying to get back into the squad , is more a kindred soul . if maisie is able to make it through the training , she may get to work on the case of fortune teller who is swindling people out of vast sums of money , but not through the fortune readings in and . . .

street - smart maisie from brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during wwii and falls in love with handsome pilot " breezy " mclaughlin . breezy , however , falling in love with and . . . see full summary »

streetwise but kind - hearted maisie ravier has put her vaudeville life behind her , but not its associated outward good looks , flash and glamor . trying to get to new york for a job , she . . . see more »

streetwise but kind - hearted maisie ravier has put her vaudeville life behind her , but not its associated outward good looks , flash and glamor . trying to get to new york for a job , she . . . see full summary »

young undefeated boxer terry dolan , who ' s been lying to his invalid mother about his career , confides to maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out . not wanting to let . . . see full summary »

as war is declared in britain , maisie dobbs ' finds herself investigating the death of an belgian expat living in england . dr . francesca thomas who works in intelligence and is original belgian hires her on the part of the belgian embassy but as maisie digs deeper into the case she begins to wonder what dr . thomas is hiding from her . the longer she investigates the more bodies start to pile up , all belgian expats who came to england during wwi and settled down there . while trying to figure out the thread connecting the murder victims maisie must also help out at her family home when a little girl name anna is staying but has trouble telling anyone anything about where she ' s from . this was my first maisie dobbs and i don ' t think choosing to start on the thirteenth book was the best . i actually hadn ' t know it was a series . the mystery was solid but i thought the ending was kind of dumb ,

maisie - who was diagnosed with a brain tumour when she was just two - years - old - was among patients and their families , carers , scientists and charities who presented a new manifesto from the charity brain tumour research to mps .

i read this earc courtesy of harper books and edelweiss . pub date 03 / 14 / 17 well , maisie dobbs is at it again . traipsing all over the country and then across the continent trying to make sense of , and find the connection between , men who seem to find themselves dead . murdered . in a horrible , almost executionary style . of course , we know that in the end , maisie will be victorious . but getting there is more than half the fun .

in this grave hour is the latest in the maisie dobbs series . we have read about her developing an investigator practice after being a nurse in world war i . in the latest books we have witnessed her personal tragedy and how she rebuilds her life . the next war is approaching and winspear’s latest books have communicated the dread the citizens in britain could have been feeling . now war is declared and people are moving into motion . maisie is caught up in murders that are related to the last war , w

maisie is overworked at her defense job and is ordered to take a two week vacation . when she meets tommy , he offers her a job singing with his band in reno , but she has to get there on her . . . see full summary »

the next morning the family is informed that their gold vein is worthless , and the disappointed davis family get ready to go back onto the road , looking for work elsewhere . maisie explains to bill that they never came to find a fortune , but to survive because they had nowhere else to go . bill takes pity on the poor family and offers them to irrigate some land in a nearby valley with water from his estate , so that they can stay and become farmers . maisie then leaves to find her own fortune .

loved it . great storyline , superb characters , all the emotion . the problem with these maisie dobbs books is that i want to read them quickly to see what happens , but then am so upset that i have to wait so long for the next book !

on the day britain enters world war ii , private detective maisie dobbs gets a visit from her old colleague , dr . francesca thomas . francesca , a belgian national , asks maisie to investigate the death of frederick addens - a belgian refugee who came to britain as a teenager during world war i . . . . . and never went home . instead , addens made a life in england and became a railway engineer . addens was shot in the head while kneeling , which seems like deliberate murder to francesca . however , detective chi

vanessa said : “ed balls , sheila and jack were fantastic with maisie , she had a lot of fun meeting all of them . ed had a great laugh trying on the hats and it was great to meet someone like jack who has survived a tumour and moved on with his life . ”

it s early 1938 , and maisie dobbs is back in england . on a fine yet chilly morning , as she walks towards fitzroy square a place of many memories she is intercepted by brian huntley and robert macfarlane of the secret service . the german government has agreed to release a british subject from prison , but only if he is handed over to a family member . because the man s wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident , the secret service wants maisie who bears a striking resemblance to the daughter to retrieve the man from dachau , on the outskirts of munich .

review : ann sothern ' s " maisie " series drew to a close after eight years with this 10th entry , in which the flippant blonde goes under cover with the los angeles police in order to finger a gang of confidence men . she ' s nearly suspected of being a real gangster bef… ( more )

barry nelson , 27 years old at the time but looking about 18 has a wispy mustache that needs to be seen to be believed . the idea seemed to be to try and make him look older as he plays a lieutenant detective on the bunco squad . ann sothern does her usual good job as maisie although at one point her characters age is mentioned as 25 . that is stretching it a bit . it ' s a shame this film was the last in the maisie series . they were starting to look and feel like bowery boys or abbott & costello movies by this time . cheap with a lot of good character actors .

maisie takes pity on the poor family who has been tricked to come to arizona , and persuades them to set up camp on bill ' s land instead of in the smalltown , where hustlers are working the new arrivals for their savings . bill eventually gives in , letting the davis family raise their tent on his ranch .

ann sothern ' s " maisie " series drew to a close after eight years with this 10th entry , in which the flippant blonde goes under cover with the los angeles police in order to finger a gang of confidence men . she ' s nearly suspected of being a real gangster before she manages to bring in the culprits .

on the way to an audition at the hula parlor café , singer maisie ravier ( ann sothern ) gets trouble with her car in the middle of nowhere in arizona . she manages to get to a ranch nearby , owned by a grumpy man named bill anders ( lee bowman ) , who gets overly friendly during the night .

it ' s early 1938 , and maisie dobbs is back in england . on a fine yet chilly morning , as she walks towards fitzroy square - - a place of many memories - - she is intercepted by brian huntley and robert macfarlane of the secret service . the german government has agreed to release a british subject from . . . full description

this is a fun , fairly lighthearted movie . it ' s part of a series of ten maisie movies . i saw them all on tcm but for some reason the ending of this one was cut off abruptly . thank goodness it was available on amazon ; otherwise i would have been really upset and wondering what happened in the last few minutes . it would have driven me crazy !

my love for maisie dobbs has never wavered . some books in this epic series are better than others , and this one is definitely a 4 - star book . she is sensible and compassionate and vastly intelligent . i always appreciate winspear ' s historical details of the time period . when i first started this series , maisie was a teenager during the first world war , and now she is of middle age , closer to my age , and i relate to her much more . the murder mystery plot was clear and very interesting , and while the big reveal was not too shocking , it wasn ' t a given either . maudie ' s relationships with her friends and family continue to grow , with the addition of a 5yo evacuee named anna . i suspect more complications in that relationship as the series and the war continue .

this book is the first that i have read in the series , and i wasn ' t lost . the times that the author referred to earlier events , she gave plenty of details about it . i loved maisie . this woman is an established investigator with complicated war and personal backgrounds . the story is so well structured that i never guessed who the killer that she was investigating was . many thanks for the signed first edition provided by the publisher !

maisie joins the family in their search of gold , making a deal with the head of the family , bert davis ( john f . hamilton ) . they dig for days without finding anything , but suddenly they strike upon a vein of gold . they report their finding and wait for the paperwork to be finished . meanwhile , a storm comes in over the ranch , destroying the family ' s camp , forcing them to take refuge in bill ' s house .

i am always seduced into reading maisie dobbs ' novels by the settings and the period but i am afraid that more often than not i am most disappointed . and this is the case with ' in this grave hour ' . it is an intense beginning as prime minister neville chamberlain broadcasts to the nation britain’s declaration of war with germany . it is also a poignant and touching ending as a young girl and her grandmother bond , but in between the story rambles around with not very much exciting happening . the tale

this is the latest in a steady stream of more than a dozen maisie dobbs mysteries to appear since 2003 . it is my first encounter with this heroine , whose business card describes her as “psychologist and investigator” ( which must have been an unusual combination in 1939 britain ) . i suspect that died - in - the - wool dobbs fans will also happily welcome back any number of familiar faces : billy , masie’s plain - speaking gumshoe assistant ; sandra , her secretary ( largely absent this time around , laid low by

originally published at reading reality welcome to the sitzkrieg , or as it was better known in britain , the phoney war . as this 13th book in the maisie dobbs series opens in the fall of 1939 , britain declares war on nazi germany after its invasion of poland . then nothing happens . and nothing continues to happen for eight months , until germany invades france and the low countries ( belgium , luxembourg , the netherlands ) in may of 1940 . but during the period of this book , nothing much happens on the wa

september 3 , 1939 . great britain declares war on germany and this novel begins . another excellent installment of the maisie dobbs series . the main story involves belgian refugees in england from the great war , but along the way we see the minutiae of the country preparing for another war . barrage balloons tied up over london ( to make it difficult for low flying planes to enter the airspace , children being sent to the country to stay where it was deemed safer , and the return of women volunteering for the war effort . excellent .

i am amazed that maisie is now up to book 13 ( 14 actually as there is one more published that i have not read yet ) and we have spanned all the time from the first great war to the beginning of the second . there is a lot of interesting historical fact in this book . i got goose bumps during the scene where they listen to neville chamberlain announcing the start of the war on the wireless . wireless - that ' s a lovely word we do not use any more ! also fascinating was the description of the hospital w

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love ann sothern and this is one of the best . i do wonder why after she gets her man at the end of every movie , she is always single at the beginning of the next movie .

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i agree that it ' s best to read the masie dobbs books in sequence - - although i ' ve skipped a few and need to fill in the blanks : - ( . the novels are a …more

i agree that it ' s best to read the masie dobbs books in sequence - - although i ' ve skipped a few and need to fill in the blanks : - ( . the novels are a carefully - wrought continuous story and winspear excels at developing her characters ' self - awareness , most notably masie ' s , as the extended narrative over several decades evolves . ( less )

, it just felt like the whole murder spree was unwarranted . i also found the whole story line with anna really boring , not sure why but i just didn ' t care what was going to happen to the little girl , i really just wanted to know why people were being killed for leaving a country as refugees years ago . the writing was pretty good and the book seemed more historical accurate than most . though the book was a little dry for my tastes , not the biggest fan of political conspiracies and intelligence agencies or pending wars , i do think someone who likes historical fiction or mysteries could really like this one , especially someone more picky about accuracy . also maybe if i had read the other books i ' d care more about the other characters but most of the time i just got annoyed when the plot moved away from the investigation .

this is a series that engaged my interest , my heart , and my mind from the very first book . although i waited a long time for this one to come available through the library on overdrive , it was definitely worth the wait . jacqueline winspear’s writing is exceptionally good . at first i thought maybe this could be read as a standalone , but to be honest , one would miss so much of the bonding experience with all the characters , their backgrounds , and how they all connected without reading the whole set

this series is like a comforting bowl of porridge for me . i like the historical details , and it ' s been interesting finding out little things about how england came out of the first world war in the first book in this series , all the way to this book , with england entering the second world war .

it ' s okay , but not up to her other books which were solid 5 - stars . i know i ' m in the minority here , which is okay , but i personally found the story line rather boring and tedious . in the past i could read her books in a day or two . i found myself putting this book aside often . the wrap - up was contrived and kind of a let - down . the only bright spot for me was the anna storyline . i do look forward to her next book as i love the characters .

i have enjoyed each addition to this wonderful series , which often leaves me thoughtful , or touches me in some way . this volume caused me to think about the way we behave during a time of grieving , and most particularly on how humor can provide a brief respite from the heavy burden of deep sorrow . in the story , wwii is declared and there is grim news each day of death and destruction , which sows seeds of fear of what is to come next . so , it is with almost incredulous wonder that one character ta

absolutely masterful . a perfect build on the series - - which continues to be a great combination that gets better with each book .

i really enjoy history and mysteries . combining the two is perfect . i get to be engaged and interested while maybe learning a thing or two . in this case , i learned about some things that went on during wwi and wwii .

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however , she was rushed into action and with her lack of training she let a big one get away . she tries to set things right on her own and gets caught and her life is in danger . will they kill her off to end the series ? spoiler alert ! she gets engaged for the 9th time !

sothern is looking a little worn here , but still has all her gusto .

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the green slime ( ガンマー第3号 宇宙大作戦 ganmā daisan gō : uchū daisakusen ) is a 1968 science fiction film directed by kinji fukasaku and produced by walter manley and ivan reiner .

it was written by william finger , tom rowe and charles sinclair from a story by reiner .

the film was shot in japan with a japanese director and film crew , but with the non-japanese starring cast of robert horton , richard jaeckel and luciana paluzzi .

after destroying a huge asteroid that was on a rapid collision course with earth , a group of astronauts discover they have accidentally returned to their space station with an alien slime creature that feeds on radiation and can reproduce rapidly from its own blood .

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the green slime <EOT> green slime , the ( 1969 ) - - ( movie clip ) . . .

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a mysterious fungus invades a space station and turns the inhabitants into monsters in the green slime ( 1969 ) .

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world despite otherwise being the weakest slime . they deal more damage and have more health than any other pre - hardmode slime ( excluding

the green slime - alien life form which feeds on energy and even a single drop of blood can regenerate into new creatures . incinerated .

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the green slime is a complete dud , though it ' s so cheesy that it probably has - - and deserves - - a cult following .

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lori beth denberg is an expert on the green goop . by the time she joined the network in 1994 , slime " was already an institution . " she got drenched in the stuff during her tenure on all that and the slime - happy gameshow figure it out .

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despite the camp presence of ' 60s rock , laughable costumes . . . and of course incredibly goofy - looking monsters , ' the green slime ' is a seriously good movie .

she poo - pooed darby ' s account , telling me there was no rotten food in slime . " the party line that they would tell kids was that slime was mined from the center of the earth . . . the true gloppy slime was oatmeal and applesauce and green food color . a good slime , if it was just oatmeal , would ' plop . ' i haven ' t found whatever it was in there that made it loosen up and ooze . "

green slimes are enemies from the secret quest of find mii ii . they only have 3 hp , making them the weakest enemy in the series . magic can be used while fighting one , but red , blue , and purple magic are completely useless , as they are immune to them . in addition , unlike every other slime , green slimes are immune to yellow magic . green slimes are very evasive , and able to avoid sword attacks real easily . however , light blue and light green magic will lower the evasion capabilities of the green slime significantly , the former of which freezes enemies , and the latter of which makes them fall asleep . however , it is still possible to miss .

commander vince elliott - in charge of the space station and not very happy rankin is senior to him . a rash man who gives one green slime a hug . ( that means he dies . )

this is the oldest technique developed by users of slime release , which was commonly used especially during the warring states period which were few users who carried vats with withstand a considerable amount of liters of slime . using this technique the user releases its slime chakra concentrating on the nitrogen molecules and on the small particles of water vapor dispersed in the air . from this contamination , the user needs to clap its hands to the amount of slime created being restricted . then the user will release a greater quantity of his chakra so that the processing is faster . so that when separate its hands the slime created can be seen and then manipulated the way the user wants .

another unfortunate fact about green slime : even a single drop of blood will grow into a new monster . so now you have dozens of pissed off sigmunds running around electrocuting the crew , good job rankin .

movie green slime plays awesome as well i remember seeing this way way back in the day of when it aired on tv and sunday night late night movie i enjoyed it then and i still do . . .

a look back at the falling green goop that was a mainstay on nickleodeon in the 90s and helped define the childhood of a generation .

this bargain - basement science - fiction thriller concerns attempts to prevent an asteroid from crashing into the earth . horton and jaeckel , after fighting for command of a space ship , destroy the asteroid and take aboard some green slime . the slime clings to the backs of crew members uniforms and turns into serpentine monsters that go on a murderous rampage . . . . read more

just like many other slimes , green slimes will always be passive around players with the royal gel accessory equipped .

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the green carpet was out in front of the broadway theatre dec . 14 for the first official invasion of the swampland domain of the emerald - hued ogre called shrek .

green slimes are the weakest of all slimes , and are also one of the most common ones to encounter . as green slimes spawn commonly in the forest during the daytime , they are likely the first enemy a player will come across in a new world . green slimes will not target the player under usual circumstances , but will become aggressive when damaged , during the night , or if brought underground .

the general ( bud widom ) in charge of space command has elected to interrupt the resignation of hero officer rankin ( robert horton ) because hes the only man to save planet earth from a threatening asteroid , early in the japanese - american co - production the green slime , 1969 . >

journal of my attempt at duplicating the hydroponic setup as outlined in the " mr green : i grow chronic " series on youtube .

robert horton as rankin , running the crew planting bombs to blow up the giant asteroid before it hits planet earth , richard jaeckel the number - two with whom he has history , ted gunther the scientist who wants to save some of the strange goo theyve found , in the green slime , 1969 . >

the use of slime spread to other shows . in double dare , kids faced off against slime during many of the most memorable " physical challenges . " slipping and sliding around a sound stage , the knee - pad clad kids did everything from shoving their arms up giant noses to letting a nickelodeon blimp dump slime on them—all in an effort to collect those elusive red flags and win the game . in wild and crazy kids , a competition show for kids that encouraged playing outside , the three kid - hosts got slimed while announcing contests and awarding prizes . slime became so synonymous with the network , the green stuff even flowed during commercial " bumps " and interstitial ads .

planning a halloween - themed birthday party ? this ooey gooey slimy theme from canva will surely meet the approval of your young birthday celebrator . bedecked with a neon green vector illustration of slime , this modern design is both usable as is and easily customizable .

richard jaeckel is vince , in charge of the space station , luciana paluzzi staffer lisa , and robert horton as rankin is arriving to take charge of the mission to blow up the asteroid bearing down on earth , their love and maybe professional triangle explained , early in the green slime , 1969 . >

now space station crew are being killed , we know by something that grew from the goo they accidentally brought back from the asteroid , richard jaeckel is captain vince who overrules the mission commander , his former boss ( robert horton ) , and its a bad call , in the green slime , 1969 . >

focusing on rankin as an embodiment of orphaned social commentary makes watching the green slime an even more delirious experience than it would have been anyway . this is , overall , an exceedingly clumsy and ridiculous film . the actors were quite plainly chosen more for their willingness to fly to japan and work for chump change than they were for their ability to convey character or deliver a line of dialogue . the decision to put a japanese firm in charge of the special effects was a somewhat unfortunate one , for although the green slime is said to have been budgeted at nearly three times the average level for a japanese film of the late 1960ís , that still wasnít a lot of money by hollywood standards , and the green slime would be playing to audiences who had already seen 2001 : a space odyssey . the monster suits , as befits their origin , are imaginative to the point of overkill , and any dedicated monster movie fan will spend much of the film marveling over the profusion of apparently functionless growths , protuberances , and extrusions that cover the creaturesí bodies . and most of all , like the majority of its decadeís science fiction films , the green slime features production design which seems to have been predicated upon the assumption that the world of the future was simply going to become more and more like the late 1960ís with each passing year . naturally , all these things are the source of the green slime ís charm , but when you consider them in tandem with fukasakuís apparent goal of making something like dr . strangelove in outer space , the result is nothing less than an alchemy of madness .

bathroom the sink tap was thoughtfully encrusted with the previous occupants toothpaste to set off the rust on the very charred wok used as a sink . the bathroom floor had something black and sticky which also matched the charred wok . the sink was atop a very rough , wobbly frame . especially horrid was green slime in patches on nearly everything , but . . .

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an apocryphal story about that scene and the creation of the green slime comes from mathew klickstein ' s slimed ! an oral history of nickelodeon ' s golden age . geoffrey darby , producer of you can ' t do that on television , explained that the slime was never meant to be slime . they ' d prepared a bucket of food slop to dump on the kid ' s head . after waiting for a week due to unexpected delays , " . . . there were eight inches of green crud growing over the top of the bucket . " but time was running too short to make a new bucket of refuse . " we had to get the scene . we couldn ' t get more slop . . . so we said , dump it on the kid anyway . "

from 1990 until the mid 2000s , the best place to get slimed was at nickelodeon studios in orlando , florida . it was a hybrid of a soundstage and a theme park , where they held tapings of shows like double dare , clarissa explains it all , legends of the hidden temple , and much more . there was also a lot of slime . one attraction known as the " slime geyser " spewed the green stuff into the air , while the tapings of live shows that encouraged audience participation kept the kids soaked in it .

the kids who grew up in the 90s still have now become nostalgic for all things nickelodeon—including the slime . there ' s a live - streaming website dedicated to nick reruns where you can watch countless hours of slimming . and there have been innumerable petitions to bring back nickelodeon ' s original slime - laden 90s - era programming .

" the green slime , " a new science - fiction thriller that arrived yesterday , opens promisingly , keeps it up for about half an hour but then fades badly . there is a quiet , tingling efficiency about these early scenes and very little nonsense . view full article in timesmachine »

green slime is a type of monster in adom . they are able to duplicate themselves , and are notable for being able to inflict sickness on the pc should their melee attack damage him / her . the pc should be particularly careful of this should they meet slimes in a lesser jelly vault with gelatinous cubes .

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monster movies produced in partnership between american and japanese studios are very rarely good , but you can nearly always count on them for a wild rideó so now just imagine what happens when you add italians to the mix , too ! the mgm - distributed the green slime grew out of a collaboration between toei and a little - remembered us production company called ram ; that much is generally known . but what isnít reported as widely is that ram appears to have drawn a substantial proportion of its funding from italy , and if you know what to look for , it isnít hard to spot that influence on the film . most visibly , the green slime features a notable italian b - movie glamour girl in a major role , but perhaps more importantly , its basic story was devised by ivan reiner , who had earlier contributed to the screenplays of antonio margheritiís notoriously loopy space station gamma 1 tetralogy ( the wild , wild planet , war of the planets , planet on the prowl , and the snow devils ) . a number of plot points in the green slime will be so familiar to fans of the gamma 1 films that they might be tempted to interpret this movie as being set in the same fictional world . in any case , with reiner doing the plotting and kinji fukasaku in the directorís chair , is it any wonder that the green slime wound up being one of the most deeply bizarre sci - fi films of the 1960ís ?

green slimes are more likely to spawn in place of other enemies when the player is within 200 blocks of the world ' s spawn point . this does not occur in

directing duties were handed to kinji fukasaku , who was in the process of making a name for himself at toei , and had just had a bona - fide hit with the edogawa rampo - inspired black lizard ( 1968 ) whilst moonlighting for shochiku . indeed , a campy sci - fi romp like the green slime may seem a bizarre choice of project for those who are only familiar with fukasaku ' s infamous battle royale ( 2000 ) or his grisly , criminal - centric jitsuroku ( true account ) films that exploded in popularity during the 1970s . nevertheless , his involvement in the green slime ' caused fukasaku considerable embarrassment in later years ' [ 3 ] .

after destroying a giant asteroid heading towards earth , a group of scientists unknowingly bring back a strange green substance that soon mutates into a monster .

lisa is checking her considerably increased patients ( most professional stethoscope work . really . ) when rankin wanders in . he pauses to ask one patient " hows the hand ? " ( hilariously , he responds to the injured guys helpless gesture by raising that damn thumb again ! " hey , look what i can do ! " ) then tells lisa that the station has been completely quarantined , so that she will not be able to send the badly injured to earth for treatment . rankin and elliott devise a plan to lure the slime guys into a storage room , where they can be confined . the lights are shut off all over the station , and the lights on a " power beam search car " used as bait . but the slime guys have ideas of their own , and burst in on lisas patients ( who are really having a bad day ! ) . more screaming and bed pushing follows . lisa invokes her " heroines death battle exemption " , as she is clearly whacked across the head with a tentacle , but not electrocuted . rankin orders all lights doused , gets the attention of one of the slime guys by chucking a large flashlight at it ( he just loves chucking things ) , then uses another one to draw the slime guys after him . this manoeuvre traps him between two slime guys , but duck - roll - somersault gets him out of it . lisa evacuates her patients and shuts an airlock between them and the slime guys . meanwhile , rankin is surrounded by slime guys , but elliott saves him by drawing them to him . the rest of the procedure goes to plan and the slime guys are trapped . but just as rankin is going from square - jaw - serious to smug - bastard - grin , they hear a noise . oops ! guess you forgot about the slime guy in the isolation ward , hey , big shot ?

rankin and a small team fly out to the asteroid with a bomb and drilling equipment . they succeed in destroying it , but one of the team unknowingly brings back a sample of slimy residue that they encountered on the asteroid surface in abundance . attaching itself surreptitiously to the crew member ' s space suit , the slime survives decontamination and begins to grow , evolving into a green , diminutive , one - eyed teratoid with long , electrified tentacles . they begin to multiply and run amok on the station , creating a power - struggle between rankin and elliott . the former , though retired , still has the instinct to lead , whereas the latter , whilst technically in command , doesn ' t have the mettle to resolve the crisis ( in the eyes of rankin at least ) . so rankin , elliott and benson must ignore their personal tensions and work together in rescuing gamma three from the sentient green slime .

hi , i have a philips perfectcare aqua steam iron , which is generally very good . however , it has developed green slime in the water reservoir which is coming out on clothes as i iron them . i can ' t find the instruction manual , to find out what to do . does anyone have any ideas on how to sort it out please ?

in the infirmary , dr lisa is checking her patients ( hey , she must be a doctor  shes got a stethoscope ! ) when she hears a strange noise . next thing we know , slime guys in the room ! much screaming and rushing around and waving of tentacles ensues . slime guy is shot , and bleeds copiously , before rankin can revoke the original " shoot to kill " order ( might have been a good idea to put that over the p . a . , hey , jack ? ) . rankin and elliott use the infirmarys beds  metal - framed beds , mind you  to keep slime guy at a safe distance while everyone else escapes the room . rankin takes off his metal helmet and chucks it at slime guy before doing something almost as irritating as his grin  a spectacular duck - roll - somersault to get himself out of harms way . they trap slime guy in the isolation ward ( heh ! ) , and then halverson points out that the spilled blood is already growing . they lock it in the infirmary . rankin calls for the " monitor car " . the monitor reveals that slime guy is busy healing itself  an ability that with its replicating blood means that slime guy may be impossible to kill . moreover  in a scene guaranteed to make any audience go " eeewww ! ! "  slime guys blood has congealed into disgusting boogery stuff and is crawling all over the walls and  dum , dum , dahh  into the stations ducts . ( as sigourney would say , its always ducts . ) elliott orders the power in the infirmary cut off . " smart move , vince , " approves rankin [ * grin * ] .

it is time . . . for the slime very low resolution upload of the 76 minute widescreen japanese language version . made from my own copy of the film with use on mobile devices in mind ; no english anything . shared up primarily for readers of my blog to enjoy while drinking beer . if you love the green slime as much as i do be sure to score the remastered wb archives collection dvd release . instantly feel like an 11 year old anytime you want : urltoken - - i do not own the rights to this movie and understand that the upload may need to be blocked or removed in observance with copyright regulations . - -

, rankin , elliot and some men hurriedly launch a rocketship toward the asteroid , laying charges there to blow it up before it reaches earth . the mission is a success , but a green , globby liquid is brought back to the station unnoticed , and , rising from the soapy green suds little creatures grow and spread like a virus , creating hoards of clumsy but electrified and tentacled monsters !

katie finneran , as usual on the arm of darren goldstein , arrived in a " big green dress to honor brian d ' arcy james for his two hours of makeup before the show . "

the green fluorescent protein - encoding gene from aequorea victoria has been cloned into several different transforming vectors and expressed in the cellular slime molds , polysphondylium pallidum and dictyostelium discoideum . we find that the protein is stable and non - toxic in both species , can be easily visualized in living and fixed specimens , and can be used to purify rare cells by fluorescence - activated cell sorting ( facs ) .

you have to love a sci - fi movie that : 1 ) is a japanese - produced product featuring a mostly - anglo cast ( saves on dubbing cost ) . 2 ) has equivalent special effects of any given " godzilla " movie . 3 ) has italian bombshells named " sheila benson " . 4 ) gives you slime creatures that look like sigmund the sea monster . 5 ) has a mad doctor ( isn ' t that a pre - requisite for these movies ? thought so . ) . 6 ) has one of the all - time coolest title songs i have ever heard in my entire natural life . if you watch " the green slime " , just think : if jaeckel had brought the rest of his " dirty dozen " cronies along with him , the green slime would never have stood a chance . oh well . . . . seven stars . by the way , does anyone know where to get this movie ' s soundtrack ? i have got to get that song . . . .

the falling green goop was a defining characteristic of nickelodeon from the 80s onward . the first official sliming , as far as i can tell , comes from the first episode of you can ' t do that on television , which originally aired on cjoh - tv in ottawa in 1979 . during a skit where a kid is chained up for detention in a dungeon , he ' s told not to pull on his shackles . when he does , a toilet flushes and the signature green slime that has become so ubiquitous with nickelodeon pours down on his head . it ' s a great gag that brought on two decades of slop .

' tis true . one of broadway ' s better - looking leading men lurks in that hulking fat - suit , slathered down in green slime from dome to toe so that all that remains of james is his smile , teeth , eyes and eyebrows . happily , the first and the last are rather identifiable , if not trademarks , by now , and they give you something to go on .

the expedition to blow up flora is a success , but all does not go exactly according to plan . for one thing , the asteroid begins accelerating as it enters earthís gravity well , meaning that the timetable for the mission has to be stepped up as well , and the astronauts come very close to sharing in the destruction they visit upon the wayward space rock . but of greater importance , there turns out to be life on flora . wherever there is a concavity in the landscape , rankin , elliot , halvorsen , and the others encounter puddles of radiant green slime . the slime evidently consists of billions of microorganisms which possess some rudimentary sensory apparatus , and which somehow feed off of energy sources . for while the astronauts themselves remain unmolested by the slime , it slithers up to coat all of their mechanical and electronic equipment , and none of their devices will function after a few minutesí exposure to the substance . halvorsen collects a sample of the slime to bring back to gamma 3 , but rankin will have none of that . before he and his men re - embark aboard their ship for the trip home , rankin seizes halvorsenís sample jar and shatters it on the ground , refusing to countenance the idea of the scientist bringing any of that crud onto his space station . oh , waitó itís elliot ís space station , isnít it ?

i constructed my dripper system following the guidelines in the " mr green " video series . unfortunately i wasn ' t able to find that 8 headed water diverter , but made due with some small air diverters instead .

i watched this movie when i was about 8 or so . the first time my mother brother and i tried to watch it somebody had made a loop and kept playing " the green slime " over and over for four hours . we finally saw it later and i guess my youth and the fact we waited so long to see it made it a fair movie . by todays standards it is pitiful by the standards of the time it came out it was a b - movie .

in the end humanity is saved by crashing gamma 3 into earth ' s atmosphere , incinerating the green slime . thank goodness something stopped them besides throwing your laser rifle . the characters often unload at point blank range without effect . soon as they throw the weapon it goes right through the monster ' s eye . even if you don ' t like watching " spacemen " wearing white 1960 ' s police motorcycle helmets firing " laser guns " at waddling masses of latex monsters you have to love the title song .

was a fun saturday matinee in its day but compared to contemporary films in the same genre , it looks more and more like a parody . " the green slime " are clearly actors in monster suits - some of the goofiest you ' ll ever see - and the dialogue is consistently leaden with such cliched moments as the station ' s doctor ( ted gunther ) trying to save the slime from destruction : " don ' t kill it , it ' s a magnificent discovery ! " it also doesn ' t help that the film is burdened with a romantic triangle subplot - gamma iii nurse lisa ( paluzzi ) is torn between former boyfriend jack ( horton ) and current beau vince ( jaeckel ) - that continually brings the action to a grinding halt .

besides gangster movies , fukasaku also made science - fiction films of quality , such as gamma dai sango ( the green slime , 1968 ) and fukkatsu no hi ( virus , 1980 ) . he also filmed part of the massively tedious american war film tora ! tora ! tora ! ( 1970 ) , in which he shot the attack on pearl harbor seen from the japanese side – the most interesting part of the film . his works began to be shown in the us , and he became a hero to quentin tarantino and john woo .

as you can ' t do that on television grew in popularity , the show became one of the first major purchases of nickelodeon . unsure of who their target audience was , nickelodeon ran syndicated episodes of the canadian show all the time . it was a huge hit that helped define the early days of the channel . as the series progressed , one thing was abundantly clear—kids loved the slime .

i waited and waited for this movie to come on television after weeks of ads in the 1970 ' s , and it did not disappoint . firstoff , the title is not true . there is no slime in this movie . the aliens have tentacles and are electric . the title infers a blob - like movie . wrong . it sorta reminded me of the space 1999 two - parter " dragon ' s domain " . lots of astronauts were tentacled by the " green slime " aliens which had invaded their base . it had a very japanese b - movie feel to it . lots of action , but not very scary . many cheese scenes , but watching it with a light - attitude , it can be fun .

of course , the green slime is not to be taken seriously and is arguably a camp classic waiting to be re - discovered . everything about the production is wantonly silly , not least the titular alien creatures which squeak and shriek like high - pitched , un - oiled door hinges , hobble about due to their short legs and flay their tentacle - arms wildly , electrocuting crew members unconvincingly . more often than not , they operate in plain sight and are not particularly menacing , especially when you consider that most areas of the space station are brightly lit ; looking flat and non - threatening . with better creature design , a bit more shadow in the sets and a more earnest execution , the green slime could have easily been a noteworthy progenitor to ridley scott ' s brooding sci - fi / horror alien ( 1979 ) . while there are certainly some plot similarities , their respective tones couldn ' t be further apart .

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after a perilous mission to a huge asteroid , a crew returns to its space station , unaware a bit of ooze from the asteroid clings to a crewman ' s uniform . the green goop grows - into murderous , tentacled monsters . and as station members fight to live , gunk from the monsters ' wounds turns into more monsters ! that ' s the story . now enjoy as our heroes fight to preserve earth and , unintentionally , our own senses of humor with a movie that kevin thomas of the los angeles times called " one of the funniest made - in - japan sci - fi monster movies ever . " kinji fukasaku , whose later work was championed by quentin tarantino , directs . the world would be a far more bleak and joyless place without marvels like the green slime .

the green slime was the first monster film that really stands out in my childhood memories ( from the 1960s ) , what i recall most clearly is the creatures being prominently displayed on the cover of famous monsters of filmland , a required reading as part of growing up in 60s america itself . it was the first issue of that magazine my mother refused to buy for me , subsequently my whining and wheedling got here to take me later that week to see the movie at our local drive - in , of course it was paired up with another ' rubber monster ' b - movie of which ' s title i have forgotten . one last note to this story is the scene in the concession stand between films when i discovered a huge ( well , larger than child - sized me at the time ) stand - up lobby poster with a near life - sized green slime monster , this was going home with me so off i carried it to the car , the theater manager just smiled and nodded , my mother had other ideas , so with a slightly stinging butt i watched the second feature pinning over my lost treasure .

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unfortunately , sliming ain ' t what it used to be . with the so - called " glory days " of nickelodeon waning ( numbers took a sharp downturn in 2012 ) , slime has been relegated to award shows and youtube clips . the nickelodeon studios theme park , where kids could go to get slimed in real life , was shut down in 2004 . the only place to get doused in green goo seems to be a nickelodeon - themed resort in orlando where water - park games include the occasional sliming .

on the other hand , maybe fukasaku was the right man for message from space after all . having directed the green slime as well as the attack sequences for the pearl harbor dramatisation tora tora tora ( 1970 ) , he was a seasoned handler of sizable international co - productions and a multi - ethnic cast ; a skill set few other japanese directors had at the time ( only those working in tv advertising with foreign stars had comparable experience ) . fukasaku would go on to direct virus ( 1980 ) , another large - scale science fiction production with an international cast .

when the astronauts land to place their bombs they find the asteroid is inhabited by strange blobs of glowing slime that are drawn to the equipment . after blasting off and barely escaping the massive explosion ( imagine an orange and brown papier mache ' ball with half a stick of dynamite inside and you ' re golden . ) the heroes return to space station gamma 3 .

eventually , the network cashed on slime and started hawking it to kids in various goofy spin - off products . nickelodeon slime shampoo , by fisher - price , became all the rage when it pretty much invented the kids haircare market in the late 80s . and toy sales of a nick - branded slimy substance , gak , soared in the 1990s ( and is still on sale today ) . as erik davis reported in the village voice in 1993 , " last year , gak was mattel ' s best - selling product , and this year the company estimates it will sell 8 million ' splats ' —the air - tight plastic containers that package gak . "

initial issue # 2 - the " mr . green " series seems like it ' s very in depth to the total newb , but alas as i tried to put together my list of things necessary i started running into big gaps in certain very important details .

" the green slime " is one of those movies that must of seemed like a good idea at the time . toyko must wonder what happened to the money they spent on effects . i still think it ' s a great way to kill 90min . how can you not like a movie who ' s star is a wax figure ! ! luckly all the other bad effects , bad acting , & the last word in 60 ' s theme songs ( have airsick bag handy ! ! ) help take some of the sting of the wax mans acting ! sit down drink up or light up and have a good time ! ! ! !

the actress , who now officiates weddings and stars in indie films , explained that the slime they used to get doused in was a bit of a nuisance . " the green color would just stain your bras and underwear forever . " according to her , your best bet was to , " sit straight up or lean back a little bit . . . if you ' re gonna get slimed , get slimed . don ' t curl up in a ball and let it run down your back . . . into your buttcrack . "

clothing was optional for hutts , and some would use live sha ' rellian toops as hairpieces . hutts liked to eat gorgs , slime pods and klatooine paddy frogs , [ 7 ] and were known to smoke hookah pipes . [ 1 ]

i was just a kid when the local theater began handing out little metal badges , stickers , and even rubber " green slimes " all proclaiming that " the green slime is coming " weeks before the flick showed up . my friends and i were stoked to say the least . and then it arrive , and were we disappointed ? hell no , it was great fun . plenty of space ships , rayguns and monsters ! man , it was a more innocent time then , i tell you ! not to mention it was on as a double feature with a chris lee " fu manchu " flick that opened with a big guy chopping off someones head with an axe ! man , those were the days . . . . . i have it on video and i think i will go put it on right now !

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after seeing the scene , i ' m dubious . the slime doesn ' t look like rotten and moldy food . and who would dump that on a kid ? ( i t ' s worth noting that klickstein went on to give a career - killing racist and sexist interview while promoting his book . )

the green slime starts with commander jack rankin ( horton ) being pulled out of retirement and assigned a mission that is pretty standard by now : stop a wayward asteroid that ' s on a collision course with earth . he docks at his former command post , the space station gamma three , to prepare for the task at hand ; re - acquainting himself with former comrade and best friend commander vince elliott ( jaeckel ) , who is now in charge , and old love - interest dr . lisa benson ( paluzzi ) , who is now engaged to elliott .

maybe if we think about zubaz at the same time as we remember old episodes of pete & pete , we ' ll come out of our reverie with a clearer picture of our nascent years . were the 1990s kind of slimy ? sure , but as lori beth denberg told me on the phone , " don ' t hide from the slime , embrace it . "

gamma 3 on fire is one of the films funnier sights . the special effects guys really overdid it here : the whole station looks like its engulfed in flames . for all that , the airlock door confining the slime guys remains undamaged . impressive . using the " monitor car " , it is discovered that some of the slime guys are actually dead . it is concluded that although they can absorb most energies , intense heat will kill them . however , there are only a few slime guys there . most of them , to rankin and elliotts chagrin , are on the outside of the station , calmly healing themselves in the rays of the sun . rankin tells lisa to get her patients together and ready to be moved ( again ? ) , then announces that the entire station will be evacuated , and the station itself destroyed . elliott goes berserk , and rankin has him put under arrest . elliott snaps and swings an almighty punch at rankin  and misses ! ( aaarrgh ! vince , you useless , useless - - - ) everyone starts being loaded into the cruisers in which they will return to earth , but it is discovered that the escape hatch wont open . why ? because its covered in slime guys ! rankin orders a team with lasers to go up and blast a few . overhearing , elliott  not in any kind of confinement , you notice  decides hes the man for the job and takes captain martins place . when lisa begs him not to go , he abuses her , accusing her of still being in love with rankin . lisa looks deeply wounded ( though not wrinkly ) and fiddles with her stethoscope . anyway , elliott and co . go outside , and much blasting of slime guys ensues . the escape hatch is opened , and the first evacuees can leave . elliott goes on blasting until his gun runs out of power , and then , of course , he throws it at a slime guy . and here , oh gentle readers , we must pause for a moments awed silence  because it works ! the laser gun impales the slime guy through its eye and it drops on the spot ! all hail vince elliott ! ! not content with this minor miracle , elliott scoops up a wounded teammate and carries him to safety . on gamma 3 , a watching rankin , secure in the knowledge that vince cant see him , shakes his head with an admiring , rather than smug , grin . ( well  actually , its still pretty smug . )

in its opening reels , the film also prefigures elements of michael bay ' s star - studded , disaster epic armageddon ( 1998 ) , which sees a mixed team of astronauts and deep - sea oil drillers sent to stop a comet that will collide with earth . using advanced drilling equipment , they plan on burying a nuclear weapon that will cause the comet to break away into two pieces that will avoid the planet . the green slime starts with this same basic scenario , except their drilling equipment doesn ' t look particularly advanced – a flimsy looking moon buggy with a large drill bit attached to a movable arm .

when an asteroid is detected on a collision course with earth , with only hours left to prevent a catastrophe , the retiring head of space station gamma 3 ( see space stations ) , jack rankin ( horton ) , is recruited to lead an expedition to the asteroid to plant explosives there and destroy the asteroid before it strikes earth . while there , an astronaut picks up a piece of strange green slime found on the ground , and when he returns , insufficient decontamination allows the small blob of green slime to begin growing into a small army of one - eyed , tentacled monsters that are soon menacing the crew of the space station by electrocuting people and apparently feeding upon the station ' s energy sources . at first , new station commander vince elliott ( jaeckel ) , also the fiancé of rankin ' s ex - girlfriend , dr lisa benson ( paluzzi ) , resents rankin ' s insistence upon destroying the creatures and wishes to preserve them for study ; but soon , everyone recognizes that these virulent monsters must be exterminated before they reach earth . now asserting his authority , rankin orders the evacuation and destruction of the space station , though these plans are complicated by monsters lurking outside the station . when other efforts to kill them prove insufficient , rankin decides to stay behind and fight them , vince chooses to join him , and vince is killed fighting the monsters . but rankin survives , ready to reconcile with benson , while the station falls into earth ' s atmosphere and burns up , destroying the monsters .

gamma one producers ivan reiner and walter manley ( the man behind the u . s . iterations of the super giant films ) were keen to perpetuate this model by making the green slime as an unofficial fifth entry in the series . however , the only link it has to its italian predecessors is the name of the space station – changed slightly to gamma three – which features a similar design to the one seen in margheriti ' s films . a completely new cast was assembled , fronted by american tv star robert horton ( alfred hitchcock presents ( 1956 - 60 ) ) , italian glamour goddess luciana paluzzi ( thunderball ( 1965 ) ) and prolific american supporting actor richard jaeckel ( the dirty dozen ( 1967 ) ) . minor roles were ' comprised of various amateur and semi - professional caucasian actors living in japan ' [ 2 ] .

this place was very basic . not a resort . rude staff . a bar but with warm beer and not selling until 7 pm ( not that we are big drinkers but like one cold drink in the afternoon . the pool is filthy , green and slimy ( see photos ) . the tvs have no reception . the staff are rude and unhelpful and they . . .

no doubt you ' ve encountered this cranky critter before — in any one of three animated feature films which have been dreamworks goldmines . this is his first outing as a broadway musical - comedy star , and there was a lot of wearing of the green among the first - nighters to make him feel relatively at home in the big city .

, with papier - mache models of space craft and warty green space monsters that are all too palpably little men in rubberized monkey suits , the whole thing would be laughably naive if caught at a saturday matinee . the laughter stops , though , when one releases that it comes from once - mighty metro . "

considering the amount of interaction occurring between japanese studios and u . s . distribution companies over the preceding decade , it was only a matter of time before a fully - fledged co - production was on the cards . space - set science fiction / horror the green slime ( 1968 ) was one of the first of these co - productions ; a joint venture between mgm in the u . s . , who provided the money and script , and toei , who provided the crew and their shooting facilities in tokyo . it was a business model that potentially made a lot of sense : utilising the genre expertise of the japanese to realise a project sympathetic to american sensibilities , without the need to dub or re - edit , or put up anymore with questionable inclusions – lest we forget the " wally the walrus " incident from gorath ( 1962 ) . an all - western cast was also an added bonus , meaning that the film could be better integrated into mainstream circulation with other u . s . releases .

as a guide as much as tsuburaya ' s work . some sequences are very imaginatively conceived , but others are too ambitious for what money and time allowed . one shot of the green slimes clinging to the hull of the space station looks as if it were done with finger puppets . for the record , the picture ' s visual effects were done by japan special effects movie co . , ltd . ( nippon tokusatsu eiga kabushikigaisha ) , the same people who did

a giant asteroid is heading toward earth so some astronauts disembark from a nearby space station to blow it up . the mission is successful , and they return to the station unknowingly bringing back a gooey green substance that mutates into one - eyed tentacled monsters that feed off electricity . soon the station is crawling with them , and people are being zapped left and right !