Return of the "reverse remakes" thread.

Richard wrote:
> Avoid normal situations. wrote:

>> Tapestryhej wrote in an article in the summer of 2002:
>>
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>>>Hypothetically/if you could: Would you like to see certain modern/post-
>>>studio system (or, more pertinently, post- ratings system) films remade in the
>>>old studio style, perhaps with the Production Code rules and regard for the
>>>more of the time enforced, perhaps with the limits on special effects ability
>>>current then, perhaps as if with no foreknowledge of historical,
>>>technological,etc., events as they have since occurred?

> 1938 Star Wars
> Mickey Rooney as Luke Skywalker
> Buster Crabbe as Han Solo
> Judy Garland as Princess Leia
> Lewis Stone as Obi Wan Kenobi
> Johnny Weissmuller as Darth Vader
> Paul Robeson as the voice of Darth Vader
> Basil Rathbone as Governor Tarkin

Now there's a concept. I love Judy Garland's voice (speaking and singing),
and I would be delighted to see her say, "Somebody has to save our skins!"
as she fires off her blaster. Rathbone looks Tarkin quite well, but if we're
going to have him in here I insist that the script is rewritten so that he may
pick up a light saber for a protracted period as well.

> 1942 Jaws
> Humphrey Bogart as Chief Brody
> Spencer Tracy as Quint
> Mickey Rooney as Matt Hooper

Hmmmm. I saw _Captains Courageous_, but Tracy IMHO seems too civilized to be
Quint. How about Mike Mazurki?

> 1938 Raiders of the Lost Ark
> Clark Gable as Indiana Jones
> Katherine Hepburn as Marion
> Conrad Veidt as Belloq
> Alan Hale Sr. as Sallah
> Peter Lorre as Toht

I buy Gable as Jones the brash adventurer, but not as Jones the professor
who deals so shyly with those co-eds. Harrison Ford did very well with both
sides of that character, IMHO. (Yes, Mr. Tiernan. Please.) OTOH Lorre is
perfect for Toht, and I bet the character was inspired by him in the first
place.

> 1955 Se7en
> Humphrey Bogart as Detective Somerset
> James Dean as Detective Mills
> Grace Kelly as Tracy Mills
> Montgomery Clift as John Doe

Brilliant! Not a thing should be changed here!

My turn, I guess...

1943 _Bubblegum Crisis_ (A serial, you see. With real bubblegum.)

The Andrews Sisters as The Knights Saber (must have musical numbers, natch)
Karloff, Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, et al. as various bad guys

1948 _Beetlejuice_

Danny Kaye as Betelgeuse
Charles Coburn as Adam
Marjorie Main as Barbara
Margaret O'Brien as Lydia
Creative Consultant: Dr. Seuss

1935 _Necronomicon_

Dwight Frye as H. P. Lovecraft (the real Lovecraft would be offered a cameo
but would turn it down cold)
David Manners as Edward De LaPoer
Boris Karloff as Dr. Madden
Virginia Bruce as Sarah (let's make her a reporter)
Robert Mitchum as Paul
Henry Travers as Mr. Benedict

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