My most embarassing moment (for me then as a 12 or so year old, now a
somewhat wonderful memory some 45 years later) was going to see THE MUMMY
(the Hammer 1959 version) at an out-of-the-way fleapit in a distant suburb
that I had spotted as playing there in the reams of lists for the suburban
cinemas in Sydney.
My mother, THE movie nut from her own childhood and one of the original
poster hunters I guess, said.... "You are NOT going out there on your own...
I will take you..." and my slightly older sister was dragged along too.
Well, I had to put up with her Elvis obsession, and used to get her Elvis
posters and stills for her collection, so kind of payback I guess.
We got there and in this old 1930s once-picture-palace in the suburbs (the
standard 1500 seater falling apart art deco dream) there must have been a
couple of dozen people at most. We sat upstairs, front row of the balcony.
I was as wrapped in the movie as Chris Lee was in the bandages. So was Mum,
as I discovered. Because in the scene where Lee just about throttles Peter
Cushing, and shambles through the glass doors with Yvonne Furneaux.... and
Eddie Byrne as the cop comes in and tries to get some sense out of Cushing -
WHERE DID IT GO? - my Mum leaps to her feet points at the doors on the movie
screen and SHOUTS.... "He went through there!!!!"
Then she realised that the few people around her had had a bigger shock than
anything in the movie and her two kids were squirming under their seat in
complete embarrasment. My sister, then the complete early 1960s teenager,
said, "OOOhhhh MUM!"
So THE MUMMY holds an extra special place for me (as the movie itself does)
and years later at Bray, seeing THAT room which had been converted for the
set-up all those years ago, was an even more special treat that I was able
to relay to Mum.
Phil
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From: "Alan Adler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:14 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Share your most embarrassing moments at the movies:
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My most memorable - if not most embarrassing moment in about 55 years of
going to the movies -
Was when I went to see THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT! -
It was during Donald O'Connor or somebody's big elaborate dance number -
I tripped big-time walking down the aisle to my seat -
recovered with a handful of made-up dance steps -
ended up taking a round of applause from the audience -
then bowed to all, took my seat and laid low for the rest of the show.
Alan A
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