A-Z GUIDE TO MOVIES AND TV SHOWS PARODIED BY MAD, CRACKED, CRAZY, ETC. UP TO 1996. THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS. SPOILERS AND OTHER NON-SEQUITURS, TOO. SOMETIMES THESE THINGS HAVE WORDS OR SITUATIONS WE DON'T USE ANYMORE. YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE THEY'RE OLD.
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Showing posts with label CRAZY MAN CRAZY. Show all posts
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UNDER THE WATERFRONT
MAD #21, March 1955
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Wallace Wood
One of the few pieces from MAD's Kurtzman era to be lettered by the artist and not bt regular letterer Ben Oda, as it says, the lettering is probably different to simulate the effect of nervousness from having seen a violent movie.
Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) is a longshoreman that tells co-worker Joey Doyle (Ben Wagner) he's found Joey's lost pigeon and will return it to his roof, but it is all a ruse to lure Joey to the roof so he can be pushed off by corrupt union men so he won't be able to testify against them. Terry goes to the bar where Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb), the union boss with mob ties to collect his reward for participation in the dirty work.
Johnny Friendly kids around with Terry about his old boxing days. Terry has a guilty conscience about what he's been doing and his brother Charlie (Rod Steiger) sets him straight.
Kayo Dugan (Pat Henning) is another longshoreman who has agreed to testify, and Friendly's men perform a hit job on him as well, cutting a rope being used to haul boxes of liquor amd making it look like it broke accidentally.
In scenes not used, Joey's sister Edy (Eva Marie Saint) is trying to get to the bottom of the murder of her brother and seeks the aid of Father Barry (Karl Malden). Terry has a crush on her, they begin dating, and it's broken off when he confesses his part in the murder. He runs back to her when he agrees to turn Johnny Friendly in.
The movie still is of Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire.
Friendly's men go after Terry knowing he will be a witness and he runs from them when they try to kill him. Terry has ratted Johnny Friendly out in court (another scene they didn't use), and pressured by Edy and Father Berry to do the right thing, he has a climactic fight at the docks.
All the other longshoremen stick up for Terry and refuse to work, ruining Johnny Friendly once and for all.
One of the many scenes not used is the big monologue Marlon Brando gives when he's kidnapped by his brother who promises a cushy job if he sides with Johnny Friendly, and he accuses his brother of ruining his boxing career and leading him into his life of organized crime.
SWITCH TO WATERFRONT
From Here to Insanity (Crazy, Man, Crazy) volume 3 #1, April 1957
a: Joe Pena
This parodies the movie sticking to the plot more inclusively but being more of a commentary about how much product placement exists in the world, nothing compared to now.
BLOODSHOT ALLEY
Crazy, Man, Crazy #2, June 1956
a: Jack Kirby
I know I go off too much about some of the material being politically incorrect by today's standards, but this is why that disclaimer was created. Not for the movie as much as some of these drawings. But, hey, I try to be a completist and this is Jack Kirby.
Adventure movie about Tom Wilder (John Wayne), a sailor escaping being a prisoner of war after his ship was seized by Chinese communists and falling for Dr. Cathy Grainger (Lauren Bacall)
THE BLACKBOARD JUMBLE
MAD #25, September 1955
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Wallace Wood
One of the first issues of the magazine, not in the format of sequential art but as a movie review.
Then on the next page it has this double-page spread:
THE BLACKBOARD FOREST
Snafu #1, November 1955
w: Stan Lee
a: Russ Heath
From one of the many shell companies of Magazine Management Company before it became Marvel Comics and Stan Lee was actually writing things.
Dadier (Glenn Ford), who actually is called “Daddy-O” by his students, begins teaching at a public inner-city high school which is for some reason all-male, even though it is a public school. Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock is the background music. The students are played by Vic Morrow, Sidney Poitier, and Rafael Campos.
He first realizes there's trouble in the school when a teacher is attacked in the library.
There's a lot about female teachers coming on to him that's not actually in the movie, and not much of him being attacked by his students while after a nightcap with co-workers.
BLACKBOARD JUMBLE
From Here to Insanity (Crazy, Man, Crazy) #12, October 1955
a: Art Gates
More about a critic going to see the movie than the movie itself.
