Quicksand Fans

Anyone familiar with this movie? Being it's from the golden age (1956) of cheesy movies, I would think quicksand would find it's way in somewhere.

You would think with movies of the 50's when Hollywood having a heyday with DID scenes would not have any quicksand - in a swamp, no less - AND A BUNCH OF WOMEN SCANTLY CLAD ROMPING AROUND IN THE SWAMP AT THAT! It would have been glorious to see those 2 girls catfighting roll into a pit of quicksand, the scene would have turned from comical into a scene of desperation when the other girls try to pull them out. Maybe have the captured man freed to help assist in the rescue1 ANOTHER MISSED OPPURTUNITY!

quickman wrote:Anyone familiar with this movie? Being it's from the golden age (1956) of cheesy movies, I would think quicksand would find it's way in somewhere.

That title was a like a beacon to many of us back in the day. Unfortunately it was the usual Roger Corman drive-in poster with a crap movie behind it. I'm also a big fan of just watching women swim and fight their way through natural wet stuff but even the water scene close ups appear to be shot in a back yard pool. It's been added to the list of remakes I'm going to produce when I win the lottery.

Many swamp woman, swamp girl or swamp-whatever books and movies exist, but none involve said character and quicksand or mud bog. In a few, a couple of men playing the bad guys may fall in, but no babes-in-bogs. Sad, isn't it?

BogDog wrote:Many swamp woman, swamp girl or swamp-whatever books and movies exist, but none involve said character and quicksand or mud bog. In a few, a couple of men playing the bad guys may fall in, but no babes-in-bogs. Sad, isn't it?

Maybe they figured it was too obvious. Or that quicksand is a Jungle thing, and not so much a Swamp thing. (no pun intended).

Or they were just lazy and/or on a skimpy budget.

dlodoski wrote:Or they were just lazy and/or on a skimpy budget.

BINGO!

I guess a quicksand pit would put them over budget

My assumption is that any woman (or man) raised in the swamps would be quicksand-wise and know how to spot and avoid. What we really want is "Lost In The Swamp Woman".....

May I suggest that a possible way to get such a flick, at least in the form of a scene or series of scenes from one or more of the producers here, as well as perhaps a fun exercise, might be to create a sort of rough storyboard.

I am not talking about a script. Rather, a series of sort of vignettes saying what the viewer sees and hears, but leaving the precise dialogue out EXCEPT in rare cases where some very specific sequence of words is critical. I would suggest that although focusing o the quicksand scene alone might be good enough to serve as a basis for a single quicksand video, it will require more than that to tie the sinking scene (or scenes) to a longer story.

If half a dozen people here want to try such a project I will be happy to provide some suggestions, and examples, of the writing format I am attempting to suggest.

You can actually watch this now on U-tube but you better hurry since they have been erasing old movies lately.

Enjoy and the main actors are Carole Mathews, Beverly Garland