May 27 - June 2:
If a Man Answers (1962)
Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin
It's like a Doris Day-Rock Hudson film without Doris Day and Rock Hudson! Fabulous technicolor tale of comedic newlywed angst. When the honeymoon is over and her fashion photographer hubby is no longer besotted with her, Chantal (Dee) brings him back in line by employing the tips in a book about training puppies. It works like a charm, but zany mayhem ensues.
Joe (1970)
Dennis Patrick, Peter Boyle, Susan Sarandon
Is it or is it not okay to kill hippies is the question put forth in this tale of a father's love run amok. The scumbag, drug-dealing hippie he offed really had it coming and he was only defending his daughter, yet we've all seen enough films to know you just can't get away with murder, no matter how not premeditated or well-intentioned.
Gidget (1959)
Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson
I've seen this film approximately 100 times and wasn't planning to watch it, but I wanted to watch a few minutes of something before heading to bed and ended up watching the entire thing. Guess I can't get enough Sandra Dee this week!
May 20 - May 26:
We were so busy working on our film this week that our TV wasn't even ON for about eight straight days. However, I did make it to the Museum of Television and Radio, where I saw the first nighttime episode of The Dating Game, featuring Robert (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) Vaughn as Bachelor #3, who got chosen by the blonde runner-up Miss America bachelorette, and Sally Field as the other bachelorette, who was whisked away by helicopter with her date as the show ended. This was pure 1966 television bliss. I also watched two shows from 1965, the episode of Gilligan's Island where the rock group The Mosquitos turns up on the island, and an episode of Gidget (more Sally Field!) where two of her school friends were played by Bonnie Franklin and Barbara Hershey.
May 13 - May 19:
High School Confidential (1958)
Russ Tamblyn, Mamie Van Doren
I started off hating this "dangers of drugs" exploitation film, since Russ Tamblyn was so obnoxious as the new kid in school that I wanted to hit him. Turns out he was an undercover cop and had to act that way to be accepted as a "bad" kid! After realizing that I loved it, since it's got everything you could want from a picture of this type: faulty medical science, jitterbugging, drag races, great '50s fashions and it was directed by Jack Arnold, best known around the Lounge as the director of Creature from the Black Lagoon, Revenge of the Creature and the three-part Brady Bunch Hawaiian extravaganza, "Hawaii Bound," "Pass the Tabu" and "The Tiki Caves."
May 6 - May 12:
Bride of the Monster (1956)
Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson
More Ed Wood goodness, this time involving a creepy old house everyone in town is afraid to visit. It turns out they have good reason to be scared, since a psychotic old doctor lives there with his mute henchman, doing experiments on all who have the bad luck to end up in his lab and tending a giant squid who likes to eat people. The best parts are when the squid is killing someone, because it's painfully obvious that the squid isn't moving at all and the actors were directed to flail about violently. That's entertainment!
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