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Adios gringos

posted 8 years ago by James_Byrne
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This SECRET OF THE INCAS forum will, like the rest of the IMDb boards, cease to exist in just two weeks.

I want to thank everyone who has posted here, some, like hob, have become friends. It's all so very sad and strange that the IMDb have pulled the plug on us all, movie fans who exchanged opinions (and insults!) that allowed us to vent our feelings about the movies we love or hate.

I became a member of IMDb on 10 August 2004. I was visiting my sister and my niece was on her computer. "What's the name of that film you are always on about, Uncle James?" she asked me. I told her and she logged on to this forum. I had never even looked at a computer before, I wasn't the slightest bit interested in learning how to use one, but when my niece showed me this board in 2004, and with me telling her about all the untrue information that was on display, she persuaded me to join.

She asked me to quickly write a review of SECRET OF THE INCAS, and then she typed it out for me .... because I couldn't even type back then. A few days later, when I saw my review on display, I suddenly became hooked on the internet, and began to exchange opinions and facts on the movie with other fans of this terrific adventure.

If it wasn't for this board on IMDb I wouldn't have created my own website on the Heston movie, which in turn led me to be invited to Nicole Maurey's apartment in France. So I've got a lot to be grateful to IMDb for, and it was so good to be chatting away with hob, Gary, Haddock and Oswald for so many years.

Good luck everyone, I wish you all good health and eternal happiness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhSPcAyCgwE

[–] hobnob53 8 years ago

What a lovely coda, James. This site would have been nothing but for you. I don't think I ever had so much fun anywhere else on IMDb as here...not to mention the friendships. Luckily most of it has archived by you, so unlike the vast majority of posts on IMDb, most of these have been saved. (This thread too, I trust!)

Thank you for it all, from us all.

Oh, one last time, my favorite SOTI emoticons....

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Here's hoping for a proper R1 DVD some day.

And remember, everyone...Harry Steele is bigger than you are!

[–] James_Byrne 8 years ago

Thanks hob, I'm gonna miss all this.

I wonder if the 12 year old Donald Trump watched the western tv show called "Trackdown" on the 8th May 1958. It starred Robert Culp as Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman who travels the Old West tracking down killers, bank robbers, horse thieves and other assorted wrongdoers.

One episode should interest you, hob. Fittingly, it was titled The End Of The World, and featured a huckster called Walter Trump, played by Lawrence Dobkin. He's a 'high priest of fraud' who dresses in a magician's robe and sets up a stall to address the citizens, advising them that a meteorite is heading towards the town of Porter. Trump claims that with financial help from the townsfolk, he can prevent it by building a wall!

hob, you will like the ending of this episode, Trump is run out of the town by the townsfolk who catch on that he is a fraud.

Pretty incredible plot, huh?

I recognize some names in the cast from being a Heston film fan.

Lawrence Dobkin played Hur Ben Caleb in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, and Neyle Morrow is one of many who had double or triple bit roles in the DeMille epic. Morrow was a slave, a Hebrew at Dathan's tent and a Standard Bearer.

Richard Hale played Gaspar in BEN-HUR, and Gene Coogan was a pirate in THE BUCCANEER. Wilbur Mack was a Rally spectator in THE PRESIDENT'S LADY, and it is strange that half the cast of this tv western were in the Brando JULIUS CAESAR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhSPcAyCgwE

[–] hobnob53 8 years ago

That is amazing, James. I never saw Trackdown although one of the cable channels here that runs old TV shows has it.

Not to take this too far, but as I was mulling why Larry Dobkin's character was called Walter instead of Donald, it occurred to me that it may have been because of a famous character called Donald that might have made the name seem a tad un-serious to some viewers...whereupon I realized that that "Donald" was created by a man named "Walt"!

But Donald would have been appropriate anyway, since that TV Trump not only built a wall but, had he been called Donald, would have carried more authority to advise people worried about the meteor to "Duck and cover."

Which is how many of us here are coping with the present duck.

PS: Not to mention he could have sent Mexico the bill.

[–] James_Byrne 8 years ago

Reading your post hob, makes me realise how much I am going to miss these boards. I like the way your mind works ... not to mention the humour.

Where the hell are we all going to go in 9 days time, I wonder?

P.S. What's the weather like in New York? my daughter and son-in-law are heading your way in a few days time, hob.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhSPcAyCgwE