Last night while watching The Thing From Another World I had to rewind one scene several times to make sure I heard a line of dialogue correctly. As an alien tries to break into an Arctic research station the scientists start running around with makeshift weapons. Radio operator "Tex" enters and says, "What's goin' on? Looks like a lynchin.'" Now I know that it was 1951 and such racial throw-away lines were acceptable back then, but DAMN! No wonder Sci-Fi was a B-movie genre for so long.
Posted by wrjacobs at June 8, 2005 02:52 PM | TrackBack