# Faux movie reviewer from the Sixties? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-movie-reviewer-from-the-sixties/817127 "2018-07-02T01:06:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-movie-reviewer-from-the-sixties/817127/1 "2018-07-02T01:06:57Z")
Perhaps you all can help me. I remember reading once about a horror movie reviewer from, I think, the Sixties, who wrote reviews of movies no one had ever heard of. Eventually people started to get the idea that those movies never existed at all, and the “reviewer” was making stuff up. I seem to recall his name was rather flamboyant; can any of you tell me who this guy was? ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-movie-reviewer-from-the-sixties/817127/2 "2018-07-02T01:36:03Z")
Well, if it really was the 60s, that would rule out [Joe Bob Briggs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Bob_Briggs) … (Not sure if you mean that the movies really didn’t exist or were merely obscure.) ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-movie-reviewer-from-the-sixties/817127/3 "2019-01-21T06:28:00Z")
Figured this out; it was F Gwynplaine MacIntyre, who frequently claimed to have seen “lost” movies and whose bogus reviews “litter” imdb, according to the folks at the Nitrateville forum: [F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre - NitrateVille.com](https://nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7175) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-movie-reviewer-from-the-sixties/817127/4 "2019-01-21T07:06:21Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > F Gwynplaine MacIntyre You call that flamboyant? ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-movie-reviewer-from-the-sixties/817127/5 "2019-01-21T07:11:52Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > Figured this out; it was F Gwynplaine MacIntyre, who frequently claimed to have seen “lost” movies and whose bogus reviews “litter” imdb, according to the folks at the Nitrateville forum: [F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre - NitrateVille.com](https://nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7175) Well if he’s the one, it obviously wasn’t from the 1960s. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-movie-reviewer-from-the-sixties/817127/6 "2019-01-21T08:06:22Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > Figured this out; it was F Gwynplaine MacIntyre, who frequently claimed to have seen “lost” movies and whose bogus reviews “litter” imdb, according to the folks at the Nitrateville forum: [F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre - NitrateVille.com](https://nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7175) Did you remember him because [he’s mentioned in today’s Straight Dope rerun column](https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2764/napoleon-complex/)? Cecil seemed to believe that his review of the Stan Laurel film was legitimate, but from what those people on the Nitrateville message board said, he probably was just making it up. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-movie-reviewer-from-the-sixties/817127/7 "2019-01-21T10:36:29Z")
He wrote a lot of things: > **[F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Gwynplaine_MacIntyre)** > > Fergus (also Feargus) Gwynplaine MacIntyre (1948 – 25 June 2010), also known as Froggy, was a New York City-based journalist, novelist, poet and illustrator. MacIntyre's writings include the science-fiction novel The Woman Between the Worlds and his anthology of verse and humour pieces MacIntyre's Improbable Bestiary. As an uncredited "ghost" author, MacIntyre is known to have written or co-written several other books, including at least one novel in the Tom Swift IV series, The DNA D On 25 Ju... ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-movie-reviewer-from-the-sixties/817127/8 "2019-01-21T14:32:44Z")
Since the OP has been answered, this is probably a good place to mention [this book.](https://www.amazon.com/perfect-vacuum-Stanislaw-Lem/dp/0151716978/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&keywords=a+perfect+vacuum&link_code=qs&qid=1548081015&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1&tag=mozilla-20) I read about it in Future Life magazine. “Reviews of non-existent books.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-movie-reviewer-from-the-sixties/817127/9 "2019-01-21T16:46:17Z")
I knew Froggy; he was quite a character. [His death was a truly bizarre incident](https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/nyregion/12froggy.html). ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-movie-reviewer-from-the-sixties/817127/10 "2019-01-21T17:35:42Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Since the OP has been answered, this is probably a good place to mention [this book.](https://www.amazon.com/perfect-vacuum-Stanislaw-Lem/dp/0151716978/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&keywords=a+perfect+vacuum&link_code=qs&qid=1548081015&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1&tag=mozilla-20) > > I read about it in Future Life magazine. “Reviews of non-existent books.” Damn. I have a book like that from an American author. It’s wonderfully done, but I can’t remember the name or title. Now I’m going to go crazy until I hunt it down. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-movie-reviewer-from-the-sixties/817127/11 "2019-01-21T19:29:42Z")
This may also interest you: [David Manning (fictitious writer) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Manning_(fictitious_writer))