Named after the popular E ticket attraction at Disneyland (California) and the Magic Kingdom (Florida), HAUNTED MANSION opened in the New York City area 40 years ago this week (October 6-8, 1973) as another kiddie matinee from Larry Joachim's Trans National Film Corporation. During a recent interview with Mr. Joachim, the veteran producer-distributor revealed to us that HAUNTED MANSION was actually a reissue of WHO KILLED DOC ROBBIN (1948), the second of two attempts by Hal Roach & Robert F. McGowan to revive their OUR GANG kids comedies as 55-minute color b-features.
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3 comments:
oh this is cool, I would have freaked it I saw this as a kid in NJ, love seeing confusing out of date movies in a theater and people's confusion ....I still remember the Kato/Bruce Lee/Green Hornet tv series episodes edited down to a feature that had people in the audience scratching their heads trying to figure out what the hell was going on, because there was no continuity and old old old.
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