"Did you ever hear of a fence for hot sugar?" What a line.
Incidentally here in Toronto we got a big sugar factory on the waterfront, I bike by it on the way to the east side. It smells, well, like burnt sugar going by. #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon βHot Sugahβ is a great drag name.
This guy has clearly never heard of the Sugar Mob.
thanks to all of our dracula movie watching, now i'm wondering what would happen if a giant flying queen ant boarded the demeter
That guy is TOTALLY in league with the ants. You can't fool these cops buddy!
Agatha Christie's The Mystery of the Sugar Train #monsterdon
#Monsterdon but fedi what kind of train
"You ever hear of a fence for 40 tons of hot sugar?"
did you ever heah of a fence for hot sugah?!
"he's got a sweet tooth."
i'm trying not to like this movie, but this writing is making it real hard.
#monsterdon
forty tonnes of sugar, whooeey #monsterdon
I hate... HATE the WIlhelm scream so much. It always takes me out of every movie. Might as well add a laugh track after it for how hard it kicks me out of any scene.
#Monsterdon #Them
It wasnβt broken in to. It was broken out of. #Monsterdon
Amazing Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe engine! #Monsterdon
The Great Sugar Theft of 1954
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That's one helluva sugar theft #Monsterdon
@blogdiva Where? Did I miss him? #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon ant ship?? a fucking ant ship?? god thats so fucking cool this movie has no right to be this good
~30 minutes left. #Monsterdon
telegraph from the ship. the ants have killed Captain Wilhelm, Chief Petty Officer Wilhelm and Midshipman Wilhelm
its odd with a warner brother's film shooting scenes in front of a giant american international logo painting
At sea? Them are crowding into Godzilla territory.
#Monsterdon #Them
I can see why this movie would do so well in 1954 America. Ants are eusocialists, and if there's anything America hates, is socialisms
In LA? Checking a lead? How conveeeeeenient.
also I just wanna say that my laundry finished and I was going to leave temporarily and go fold the laundry but I'm hooked!! #Monsterdon
@Taweret OMG! Meerkats are too cute! They canβt fight! That would totally ruin my image of them. #Monsterdon
@strangefour
It did seem a lot like Ripley ordering the colonial marines in that scene where they torched the queen's chamber.
#Monsterdon #Them1954
I already monitor all news for thefts of sugar syrups sweets.
#Monsterdon π !π !π ! π₯ π±
Wait they have a rubber stamp for "Strange Phenomena Flying Saucers" and it includes the quotation marks?
One of the queens landing on a boat is great.
This movie is Good, Actually, definitely in the #Monsterdon Hall of Fame.
Three days and four nights in Acapulco! That's the queen's honeymoon :D #Monsterdon
Wow, one little Wilhelm scream and #Monsterdon looses it's collective mind :)
Even back then, news would be flying. Better get out ahead of this now!
Skeleton crew Lolol #Monsterdon
Lots of semen talk⦠in front of a lady no less. #Monsterdon
At least 4 ashtrays. Big ones. Amazing.
Impressed with the focus of that guy sending the telegraph on that ship while everyone around him was getting eaten by giant ants.
#Monsterdon wilhelm dead
The captain tied himself to the wheel with a can of Raid in each hand #monsterdon
I believe ants and sea-men don't mix. #Monsterdon #THEM
RIP two Wilhelms, fallen in battle #Monsterdon
wilhelm? #monsterdon
Love the antique phone and typewriter. #monsterdon
The S.S. Wilhelm.
I don't have the fortitude to truly get Into ants. Spiders are virtually all solitary and see each other primarily as prey, and occasionally mates. Ants are just so much complexity and drama. Spiders are a one-act one-man show, ants are a fucking telenovela.
Was that a Wilhelm scream!? :O #Monsterdon
the scream! #monsterdon
#Monsterdon wilhelm scream
that boat was crewed by a buncha wilhelms
Wilhelm count: 1 #Monsterdon #THEM
THEY GOT ANT WHILHELM!
Ok apparently he was 6'7", wild #monsterdon #them1954
#Monsterdon was that like five ashtrays on the table or what
#monsterdon this typing, shooting, and telegraph montage goes hard
Wilhelm scream!
@futurebird Naturals in front of the camera!
cal-i-FOR-ni-a coast <3
@nev dammit to hell. I work Sunday evenings and always miss #monsterdon and this one looks really fun. Someday I will get to play with the giant ants.....
Seeing some UFOs man? Well that's crazy talk. What did the aliens look like mister? Ants? Suuuure buddy. Alien ants.
#Monsterdon #Them
I think this guy is just actually literally 9 feet tall #monsterdon #them1954
They just need some large
so in the 1950s, you apologize for mentioning pants, but then accidentally flash the lady with hardly a comment? okay. #monsterdon
"Scared me out of my pants! ..scuse me, ma'am." Mentions of pants in the presence of a lady?? #monsterdon
@Taweret To be fair, his pants are pretty offensive. #Monsterdon
#monsterdon True Movie Fact this is what Boomhauer sounded like before the "accident."
did he just apologize to her for mentioning the exitence of his pants?
@north he saw an ant flying saucer!!!!! #monsterdon
"Hey, would you all help get me out of here"
With all the hubbub they forget and the pilot dies in an institution
wait, I stepped away for 2 minutes, why is there a guy in a bathrobe?
#Monsterdon oh i love science pat's blouse
This guy looks like Charlie Sheen lol #monsterdon #them1954
"..you promise not to laugh at me?"
"Yes."
"And the cluckin? Will there be cluckin?"
Daniel Boone (Fess Parker) knows flying ants when he sees them #monsterdon
Note that not all ants are dulotic (slave-making). <https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Dulosis> Other ants are kind of likeβ¦colonizers? They just kind of move in to someone else's nest and take over. And that's just scratching the surface of the complexity of ant govermance and warfare!!!!
Sorry I know I'm using a lot of exclamation marks tonight, but in my defence, ANTSALKJSDFLKAJSDFLKASJ
I also am a chronic aggressor who has an instinct and talent for industry, social organization, and savagery.
"Unnatural things alive or dead"
#Monsterdon #Them(1954)
Oops, sorry pilot. Governments gonna do that.
"Those Texans. The biggest stories told, those Texans will tell 'em."
PLEASE, I'm trying to get away from election news.
Is that Davey Crockett? #Monsterdon
@apLundell Fun fact: Zombies are actually ants
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DC to Brownsville in less than 3 hours in the pre-jet era?
Well, *now* the movie is indulging in the truly fantastic
Wow, I wonder if Sully would've been as good as this pilot. Giany ants are worse than geese in a midair collision.
"Real TS stuff! You know, legal name changes, surgery top and bottom!" #Monsterdon
NIMOY! Boy he was a handsome man #monsterdon #them1954
One of the guys at the table in βWashingtonβ looked a little like Eisenhower, who was president when this was made. #Monsterdon
Watch out for these definite signs of ant activity!
oh man i'm missing the giant ants one
@Taweret "if i see a member of that other group it's on sight me or them" sounds like war and also predation #monsterdon
HI LEONARD! (uncredited) #Monsterdon #THEM
#Monsterdon when is the news NOT looking for unnatural things alive or dead
Good thing it wasn't an ant that crawled into that chamber with Jeff Goldblum.
holy shit nimoy's voice
UNNATURAL THINGS ALIVE OR DEAD
Oh, you flatterer :3 #Monsterdon