*  Much of the movie is languidly paced, even for the time. Nobody seems to think that it is at all that big of a deal. One would think the cops should have seen the giants on the drive up. (That last little gem was from the ‘good’ guy Mike). Cozy up to Mike and Nancy and kiss the secret formula right out of them. Starring: Beau Bridges, Joe Turkel, Johnny Crawford, Joy Harmon, Ron Howard, Tommy Kirk, Genius (Ron Howard) invents a substance which gives off a fume, that when breathed, makes whatever is enlarged go back to normal size. In the next scene they are cooking the ducks on a spit for an outside bbq. “It’s either pancake mix… or an octopus.”, “Baby, you make me wish I was your size again.”, “I don’t like (good girls); they talk too much… so, stop talking too much,”. *  An absolute lack of ANY diverse casting. What’s supposed to be ‘David and Goliath’ comes off more like a half-asleep me at 3 am trying to kill a pesky fly. Despite those moments throughout that are intentionally or unintentionally amusing, there are large stretches of the movie that are quite dull. Edit them in the Widget section of the. "The Spider", and "Beginning of the End. This also goes for later, when he is lying on the ground and the townspeople are trying to tie him up. More trivia for Village of the Giants. Add more and vote on your favourites! Not many pics exist of Rance on the film, but he did make it into this keybook still. I still dig that nitty gritty, and you’re my ‘genius’ ! Village Of The Giants ... Then two giant ducks show up in a dance hall and start dancing (no I'm not making this up). The opening scene of Village of the Giants features the group of delinquents piling out of their wrecked auto after crashing on a mountain road during a rainstorm. Would it have really put the casting department out to cast at least one non-white person somewhere in this movie? I realize this was a common thing with movies of the time, but this was only a year away from 1966’s Star Trek and its multiracial crew, as well as a few other pioneering movies and TV shows at that time. It’s no surprise that latter-day exploitation filmmaker Quentin Tarantino actually used Nitzche’s VOTG main theme as the title music to his 2007 Grindhouse epic, “Death Proof”, and it fit like a charm. Anyway, the kids finish their spastic dancing and decide to raise a bit of hell in the nearest town, Hainesville (which looks like every neighborhood in every sitcom made in the ‘50s and ‘60s). When the girl on the motorcycle is trying to tie Mike's legs together by driving around them in circles, his legs are obviously props. The car isn’t full of injured passengers, but rather eight lily-white rebel ’teens’ (each of whom looks to be about 25 or so) who fling open the doors of their wrecked car and immediately take to wild dancing in the rain & mud (which is usually my first reaction in a car wreck, of course…). With Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Ron Howard, Joe Turkel. We see early on that the only thing on Mike’s mind is to exploit and make money off of the goo. In search of kicks, the Bad Teens head into the village of Hainesville, populated by Good Teens, most of whom seem to be in their early 30s. Choreography by Toni Basil. The whole duck-dancing sequence in Village of the Giants was just creepy and wrong in SO many ways. *  Lots of song numbers that just stop the movie dead in its tracks. Village of the Giants is a 1965 American teensploitation comedy science fiction film produced, directed and written by Bert I. Gordon.Based loosely on H. G. Wells's 1904 book The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, it has elements of the beach party film genre. Fred then cuts the Play-Doh into eighths, and after a bit of taunting, each of the teens takes their slice and eats it…. The episode: “Village of the Giants,” ep. Wells story Food Of The Gods, Village Of The Giants is more likely inspired by the popular generation of beach movies. These include: scenes leading up to the car crash that opens the film, with the teens riding on two cars rather than one; growth scenes for all the giants (in the film, only Elsa, Fred and Merrie are seen growing); Georgette (Vicki London) dancing with Horsesy rather than Merrie (Joy Harmon); the giants toppling telephone poles and smashing the sheriff's car, to cut off communication from the outside world; Mike … All rights reserved. The other two being "Earth vs. …and I’d safely bet that the scene that follows is the sole reason this movie was made. After his friends free Nancy and the sheriff’s daughter, Mike takes to shooting at giant-Fred with a slingshot (really!?) Mike immediately decides they will patent the goo, market it, sell it and make…. 523 The riff: Sung by Crow as a very awkward kid attempts to dance and chew gum at the same time. One of the girls in Fred’s gang, Elsa (Gail Gilmore) is sunbathing nearby and decides to woo the 10-year old boy (yikes, Mrs. Village of the Giants Teens part 1. Basil also choreographed the dance scenes for the movie. Wells’ classic novel “Food of the Gods”…, Okay, seriously. And of course, after the giants revert back to their normal sizes, their makeshift curtain-material clothing still fits far too snugly, considering these kids were previously the size of buildings…, *  The movie’s opening credits state that Alan Caillou’s screenplay is based on H.G. ( Log Out /  Missed riffing opportunity: there’s no response from Mike and the Bots when Tommy says, “You don’t have to be. He was a character…. in one of the slowest fight scenes ever filmed. The biggest mistakes you never noticed in Village of the Giants (1965). And busty Joy Harmon would help kickstart a lot of youngsters (including myself) into puberty. Add to Favourites. The explanation: This is a multi-tiered riff that primarily is a reference to the 1958-1963 ABC western series “The Rifleman.”The main character, Lucas McCain, lived on a ranch with his son Mark McCain. Mike clocks a dazed Fred as soon as he’s man-sized again. Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback. Thank you Sebastian! The most interesting aspect of the film is the sexuality portrayed, especially as normal sized teens cling to the enlarged bikini top of a girl, a scene which the rest of the movie seems based around. X Join the mailing list. To know when people like your submissions, answer your questions, reply to you, etc., please, When the girl on the motorcycle is trying to tie, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring mistakes, 30 Biggest mistakes in the Star Wars movies, The biggest mistakes in the Harry Potter movies, The 20 biggest mistakes in The Wizard of Oz, 25 mistakes you never noticed in great movies, 40 biggest mistakes in The Big Bang Theory. Most of the kids in attendance seem strangely unfazed by the sight of car-sized ducks having their tails yanked by unseen wires (no movie animal protection in those days). This is one of the three movies directed by Bert I. Gordon to be featured on "Mystery Science Theater 3000." They boast of their power and dance a lot, mostly for the heck of it. In the next scene they are cooking the ducks on a spit for an outside bbq. Even today, that soundtrack works. There’s even a bit of social satire attempted, as giant-Fred announces to the sheriff that the townspeople all have “freedom of speech… so long as we approve of what you say.”   Nice try, but I sincerely doubt that first amendment rights are the first thing on the rebel kids’ minds, and more like the screenwriter’s. Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. The sheriff and the townsfolk run the delinquent octad out of town…, On the way out of town, the teens come across their wrecked T-bird and are met by an unseen, deep-voiced male who asks them if Hainesville is “the place with the goo?”  Fred assures them that it is (even though the goo is gone). …which amounts to crashing an outdoor party, and several LONG minutes of slow-motion dancing to Jack Nitzche’s musical score. ( Log Out /  Soon the sheriff (“Blade Runner”’s Joe Turkel) and his deputy (Rance Howard;  Ron Howard’s real-life father) arrive and demand that the giant teens keep it down (haha) and return to the theater. Design and text © 1996 - 2021 Jon Sandys. My … Nitzche would go on to score far better movies such as “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975), “An Officer and a Gentleman” (1982) and many others (including some incidental music for 1973’s horror classic, “The Exorcist”). The teens bursting out of their clothes, for example; it’s almost like an embarrassing Freudian nightmare of what younger children fear a growth spurt will be like. Though questionably credited as being 'inspired' by the H.G. At this point, we’re supposed to bear in mind that this opportunist, exploitative, hyper-capitalistic little creep is one of ‘the good guys.’  These good guys now have a giant cat, a giant dog and two giant ducks that somehow wander off the premises (they disappear only moments after they grew…you’d think they’d be rather difficult to lose track of, but I guess not). The giants’ plan: demand that the townspeople bring them fried chicken & soda, surrender all of their guns, and oh yeah, don’t tell the giant kids to turn down their music. The songs aren’t entirely horrible, they only serve to stall the hell out of an already unevenly-paced movie. Beau Bridges=seriously stoopid; Joy Harmon=seriously HOT! On that level is perhaps where the movie works best. It’s 45 minutes into the movie until we actually see the village’s giants (! I’m guessing the movie would clock in at just over an hour. By booman1 Watch. Delinquent teen-agers ingest a substance and grow thirty feet tall, then proceed to take over a small town. After a few minutes deciding what to do with the stuff, a grunting rebel named Rick (Bob Random), wants to eat the goo himself. His deep, slow-strumming, Dick Dale-style surf-rock guitar musings are actually quite hypnotic. So help me, everyone in this movie is related to someone a bit more famous. These techniques are all employed to convey the not-terribly convincing illusion that these kids are now 20-30 ft. giants living in a dollhouse-like theater. Odd morality mix from the writer and director Bert I. Gordon, who clearly didn’t ‘get’ the 1960s like he did the 1950s…. As kids, we used to watch this movie on Sunday afternoon television, for chrissakes (!). Ever. I remember seeing her in a “Night Gallery” episode a few years later (“Return of the Sorcerer”) as well as playing her mother Ann Sothern’s younger self in “The Whales of August” (1987). After a bizarre, psychedelic, color-wheel tinted credits sequence of giant teens dancing in slow motion, the story opens with a blue T-bird seemingly crashed into a phone pole during an oddly sunny rainstorm (?). TITLE: Village Of The Giants. They wouldn't even fit through the door if they could open it. but there are nagging issues even within the movie’s own silly, natural laws-defying universe: *  The scale of the giants is all over the place. We also see Ann Sothern and Robert Sterling’s daughter Tisha. The odd tonal mismatch  between science-fiction giant monster flick and beach party movie just doesn’t work. The teens drop a bombshell on the sheriff by revealing that they have his daughter as a hostage, and that her safety is dependent on the town’s cooperation. On stage, the Daft Punk music begin to play to the crowd, as a girl named Rose dances in one of the areas above the crowd. Robinson!) The dance sequences feel like interminable script-padding. You're right, "Last Race" was later used as the main title music for Death Proof, Quentin Tarantino's half of the 2007 double feature Grindhouse. "The Spider", and "Beginning of the End.". It’s also a movie that my younger self and my sisters used to watch on television at least once a year. Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. His music for the teen’s ‘growth’ scene has a nice undercurrent of menace to it, beginning with low strumming electric guitars segueing into loud brass as they become giants. The only conversation between two females occurs between Nancy and the sheriff’s daughter, and it’s about Fred. Was anyone else reminded of the WKRP episode where Herb was accused of making ducks dance in a store window by using a hotplate? ), and then rising back up into frame. The NIGHT CLUB The place is jumping with teenagers all over the dance floor. The biggest mistakes you never noticed in Village of the Giants (1965). Dressed in theater curtains as makeshift togas and bandeau bikinis, the gang assert their control over Hainesville. He rides in his bicycle to where the giant rebel teenagers are, they breath the fumes and they shrink back to normal. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. I’m guessing the movie would clock in at just over an hour. Village of the Giants takes place in fictional Hainesville, California. This song "Woman" by the Beau Brummels is used to the hilt, but that's why it's important to have good music!! The next day, the sheriff and Mike (was he newly deputized?) After the giants arrive at the party, two cops arrive on the scene and don't notice the giants until after they've exited the car, and the partygoers point them out. Maybe not the most uniformly talented troupe, but Beau Bridges would go on to legitimate fame in many movies and TV shows. ", Contact me | Privacy policy | Join the mailing list | Links. There is not one face in this movie that isn’t lily-white (and most of them blonde), even among the musical talent. They wouldn't even fit through the door if they could open it. Village of the Giants is a film that Bert I. Gordon is clearly not taking terribly seriously. They then begin dancing in the mud to the film’s rockin’ music score, which is heard throughout the movie. The other two being "Earth vs. Embassy Pictures Starring: Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Ron Howard, Joe Turkel, Beau Bridges Also Starring: Orangey Directed by: Bert I. Gordon Synopsis: A gang of teenage delinquents who love to dance and cause trouble grow to enormous proportions thanks to the formula created by a brainy kid they call Genius (Ron Howard) and proceed to hold a small town […] Howard is also directing Disney’s forthcoming “Han Solo” movie. The combination of listening to Jack's instrumental track "The Last Race" and watching those teenage giants dancing is surreal. Wells Music by: Jack Nitzsche, The Beau Brummels Cast: Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Beau Bridges, Joy Harmon, Robert Random, Tisha Sterling, Toni Basil, Ron Howard Berkeley Productions, Embassy Pictures, Joseph… Nancy, meanwhile, is with her boyfriend Mike, while her younger brother "Genius" plays wi… But then again, in a movie that’s all over the map-crazy like this, what’s off the table, right? “Village of the Giants” (VOTG) was one of Gordon’s more unusual films that was a bit outside of the director’s typical monster-movie stable. The teens proceed to fashion togas and bikinis out of a convenient nearby storage bin of curtain fabric, and then decide raise a bit of hell with the townsfolk…. Mike breaks an overhead water pipe (while hanging from it) and wets the floor the spider is standing on. Lots of ’60-isms like ‘groovy’ and ‘right, baby’ are sprinkled throughout in an effort to sound then-hip, but it doesn’t help. Revealing mistake: When the girl on the motorcycle is trying to tie Mike's legs together by driving around them in circles, his legs are obviously props. Trivia: This is one of the three movies directed by Bert I. Gordon to be featured on "Mystery Science Theater 3000." The result was a truly odd duck of a movie (and yes, it does feature giant ducks) that is more camp and far less serious than Gordon’s typical, scarier giant people/creature/spider flicks. It still feels like a middle-aged writer trying to emulate ‘these kids today.’. 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It’s the kind of movie that drive-in theaters were created for (you could walk to the snack bar during the incessant singing or dancing bits, for example). Soon Genius pedals up on his bike, holds up a jar of what looks like the pink goo, only to have it vanish in sunlight. We have definitely decided around here that "Village Of The Giants" is one of the best 'worst movies' ever made; so extra BIG, it's overflowing! And of course, we know that these so-called teens are bad apples because well, they drink Blatz beer, blast their car’s AM radio, and dance in the mud. After a few empty threats back and forth, the supersized kids meekly retreat… for now. Even one of the beach party movies had Chuck Berry, for god’s sake. Back in those days, if it had monsters, or giants or some other weird crazy thing in it, we watched; and we didn’t care about much else…. Add more and vote on your favourites! YEAR: 1965. At this point, Mike’s had enough of that; he smashes a chair across giant Fred’s  fiberglass-prop legs, and shouts, “Tell her to put him down, or I’ll beat the daylights out of ya!”  The next scene is arguably the best in the entire film as giant-Fred bitch slaps Tommy Kirk’s Mike into next week…. They consume the substance, and then use their new-found stature to take over the town.… VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS (1965) Article #140 by Dave Sindelar Viewing date: 8-3-2001 Posting date: 12-17-2001 Several juvenile deliquent teens steal a substance concocted by Ronny Howard, boy genius, that causes animals to grow to many times their natural size. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. He’s stopped by Fred, who decides that they must ALL take a piece (“Nobody chickens out!”). Tisha Sterling, the very attractive daughter of Ann Sothern and Robert Sterling, had a Sharon Tate-vibe about her. Bert I. Gordon was a famous B-movie director who created a bunch of big monster movies such as Earth Vs.The Spider and The Amazing Colossal Man in the 1950’s, but by the early 1960’s that genre was dying a quick death. It all begins when a familiar–looking boy genius cooks up a formula that causes BIG trouble in what becomes the “Village of the Giants”! Nobody seems to think that it is at all that big of a deal. The Spider" aka. It’s pretty clear that about half of the movie’s budget went into this scene as well; as a variety of vintage FX are used, such as rear-projection, rapid-fire editing (to prevent any overly risqué exposures) and scale miniature sets. You can use a text widget to display text, links, images, HTML, or a combination of these. On "Village of the Giants," Rance was the guardian of his son Ron Howard (Genius), and had a few scenes as the unnamed deputy of the town sheriff (Joseph Turkel). There are scenes that try to make the audience feel some genuine dread of the giants, but they move so slooooowwwwly that they have all the menace of an approaching garbage truck from three miles away. Visitors Fred (Beau Bridges), Merrie (Joy Harmon), Pete (Tim Rooney) and pals, now huge, having ingested "Goo" and dressed in fabric they found at the theater, drop by to torment locals, especially Horsey (Johnny Crawford), in Village Of The Giants , 1965. ( Log Out /  After a not-so-careful break-in at Genius’ lab, followed by a bit of fisticuffs with the good kids, the bad kids retreat back to their theater hideout with the highly coveted goo. We love it & all the music is topnotch, and above all else, Boss!!! Elsa’s bikini top pops off, Merrie’s sweater bursts open, Fred’s shirt splits apart, etc. *  Not ONE person in all of Hainesville could’ve phoned, radioed or simply WALKED into the next town for help?? The group is led by big man off campus, “Fred,” played by a very young Beau Bridges (Lloyd’s son, Jeff’s brother) and his lusty, busty, crazy-eyed girlfriend “Merrie”, played by Joy Harmon (better known to movie fans of a certain age as ‘that car washing girl’ in 1967’s “Cool Hand Luke”). … observations from over a half century of geekiness. Then two giant ducks show up in a dance hall and start dancing (no I'm not making this up). Johnny Crawford then oh-so bravely volunteers to jump spider-like onto giant-Merrie’s boobs again (some might think Bert I. Gordon was a fetishist), and in a disturbingly post-Bill Cosby scene, he renders her unconscious with a giant cotton wad soaked in anesthetic, as he climbs down off of her makeshift bikini bra…. Actually, "Giants" is about smart alecky teenagers in tight clothing who eat some of Opie's goo and turn big (I know, that doesn't sound any more pleasant). ). Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. In the dance hall scene, you can see the … After crashing their car into a roadblock during a rainstorm, a group of partying, big-city teenagers (Fred, Pete, Rick, Harry, and their girlfriends Merrie, Elsa, Georgette and Jean) first indulge in a vigorous, playful mud-wrestling fight, then hike their way into town. This film is a weird hybrid of 1950s’ atomic-giants-on-the-loose movies with 1960s teenage beach party flicks. Village of the Giants (1965), by Peter Bebergal [ Video Link ] My parents were pretty good about indulging my obsession with monster movies. The rebel teenagers leave town and go back to their busted car (the one from the beginning of the movie) and a group of dwarfs passing by ask: "Is this the way to the town with the goo that makes you grow bigger?". The Spider" aka. Star Trek Discovery S1.10, “Despite Yourself”…, Trekker Treat? Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. But despite Fred and Tisha Sterling’s painfully awkward attempts at seduction, their plan fails. The Village of the Giants soundtrack is an example of his genius. Eventually, his gang steal the remaining hunk of goo, eat it and all become 30' giants. They seem to oscillate anywhere from 15-50 ft. (4.5-15m) in height, depending on the scene. Director Bert I. Gordon (yes, his initials make him Mr. BIG…haha) was a low-budget filmmaker in the drive-in, Jack Arnold-style who secured a reputation for himself making really BIG movies; movies about giant, bald, irradiated men in diapers (“Cyclops,” “Amazing Colossal Man,” “War of the Colossal Beast”), giant arachnids/insects (“The Spider” “Beginning of the End”), giant rodents (“Food of the Gods”) and in the one I remember all too well from my warped childhood, “Village of the Giants” (1965). Village Of The Giants -- (Movie Clip) Let's Dance! And while the rebel teens’ blatantly sexual nature is clearly desiderated by most, they’re also often admonished by the ‘law-and-order’ teens who only want to protect the status quo. There is an embarrassingly silly scene where a giant-sized duck invades the dancehall and starts dancing too. Harmon later appeared in a memorable car wash scene, shown below, in 1967’s “Cool Hand Luke.” None of my neighborhood car washes offer this level of service The director of Village of the Giants (also the producer, and screenwriter along with Alan Caillou) was Bert I. Gordon. The dance sequences feel like interminable script-padding. After all, doing so would imply he was ever relevant to begin with. Comment. They now they have a four-alarm Orkin crisis on their hands. The Text Widget allows you to add text or HTML to your sidebar. I realize that the movie is a fantasy, so I won’t address the multitude of basic, 7th-grade scientific contradictions throughout (such as how the giants aren’t suddenly crushed by their newfound mass, etc.) The special effects are ludicrous, but the dance sequences—filmed in slow motion to Jack Nitzsche's puonding dance beat—are some kind of weird cinematic bliss. Sometimes a bottle of coke seems to fit between their fingers and other times, a child can fill their hands. Plan B (to break into Genius’ lab and simply steal the formula) is now good to go. Maybe that’s the audience for this movie; younger kids who feel threatened by older teenagers or adults screwing with their lives, as well as that dreaded fear of puberty encroaching on childhood. Ron Howard would go on to do “Happy Days” (VOTG was post-“Andy Griffith Show”) as well as direct a slew of terrific movies, including “Apollo 13” (1995), one of my favorite movies of all time. At the town’s local discotheque (shot in L.A’s historic “Whiskey A-Go-Go”), the young, would-be goo entrepreneurs meet the rebel teens, and the giant ducks also decide to crash the party. Woman Woman with Dialogue GENRE: Science Fiction and Comedy. Mike and his incompetent crew then try to take down Fred (or at least a pair of oddly-spaced fiberglass legs) using a motorcycle, lasso rope and a few George Barris custom surf wagons (WTF??). Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Directed by Bert I. Gordon. After the scene was filmed where the out-of-town teens eat the Goo and grow, the actors playing the giants insisted on eating another such cake before each day's shoot, to help them get into character. Later that evening, Mike and Nancy return home to find that a giant spider has apparently nibbled a bit of Genius’ goo. Other scenes have the giants leaving through the front doors of the theater simply by ducking down (!? When his legs are in shot, they look fake, and never moves an inch. 523: Village of the Giants I suppose it’s not fair to talk about Bert I. Gordon fighting to stay relevant into the 60’s. Tommy Kirk stars as Mike, a fairly average kid who likes to party, dance, and hang out with his friends. We Need a Distraction: Red volunteers to distract the giants with a dance, while the others rescue the hostages. Anyway, Genius concocts a formula he calls ‘goo’ that looks like a pink Play-Doh milkshake (and about as appetizing, I’m sure). Poor Beau Bridges…he looked so … Is such a guy really the right person to assume ownership of his girlfriend’s brother’s clearly dangerous invention? Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Fred (Beau Bridges) figures the giantism is a ticket to quick fortune. I met his brother, actor Clint Howard (“Gentle Ben” “Star Trek” “Apollo 13”), in Las Vegas about a year and a half ago. Rather than be startled, most of the teens join in and groove along with it. If those scenes, and the various non-sequitor musical numbers were cut? The movie then finishes with a cruel bit of physical mockery as the voice is revealed to belong to one of a group of little persons, who then file past the former giants on their way to Hainesville…. But have no fear; Mike the ex-Mousketeer is here! Change ), This is a text widget. Fred and his gang of rebels get it in their heads that Mike and Nancy must’ve supersized the ducks with some kind of “pill or something.”  Their plan? The Bots were right: Beau Bridges shouldn't shimmy. The cat appearing in this film was named Orangey (later renamed Minerva), and Village of the Giants was the second time he played the role of a cat larger than a human, the first being Scott Carey's (actor Grant Williams) pet in The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). In tiny shorts pet dog eats the formula and you ’ re my genius. 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