Splice Advent Calendar 2009: And Behind Door Number Seven Is.........

Gabby Hayes



You may be asking yourself who is Gabby Hayes, and frankly, i dont blame you. I know of Gabby Hayes for the oddest of reasons. When I worked as a barman in a local Bowling Club there was one member who called another member Gabby Hayes as he felt that he looked like him. So event hough i had no idea what Gabby Hayes looked like, it was a name which has stuck with me until this month when i did some searching and found some photos, then did some more and found the gem of a pic that i posted above.

Gabby Hayes is a movies star of yesteryear and starred in old westerns, which is a genre which is pretty much disregarded on Splice (maybe worth addressing this in the new year), and all in all has 192 film credits to his name. Well according to the bible that is imdb he does.

The reason he features in this the Splice advent calendar for all things festive and Christmassy is that what is invariably in your stocking come Xmas? A calendar! And what sort of calendar do you usually get? Hollyoaks babes? Jackie Degg? The Manchester United one where the players featuring in the months of october and November have been sold in the July? All decent enough choices but what about treating the movie lover amongst you to one of these:

http://dvdcalendars.com/

If your not wishing to click on links, what it is see, is five calendars. And each month of the calendar features the poster for a movie of a bygone age of a particular genre. And in this bundle of lovely posters to see you throught he year is four DVD's featuring 3 movies each and for nayone missing the point of where im going, yes its the twelve movies of which there are posters!

There is classic Sci-Fi featuring gems like Teenagers From Outer Space. The Amazing Transparent Man, Metropolis, The Giant Leeches and The Wasp Woman. There is Classic Horror featuring White Zombie and Dementia 13 oh you get the idea, there is also calendars of Musical classics, romance ones and Western ones! And thats where Gabby comes into it, I think the Western one would be my pick.



So there you have it, the perfect Christmas gift.

And one last thing. yes he looks very much like Gabby Hayes after all. Who'd of thunk it.