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| Laughing Gravy | Oct 18 2011, 02:28 PM Post #1 |
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Gene Barry is a nuclear scientist at Los Alamos, and his incredibly perky son is kidnapped by foreign agents (who speak perfect English) who are trying to make him cough up some secret bomb plans. Barry works with handsome FBI agents in fedoras and lots of 'em (lots of agents ANDS lots of fedoras) to thwart the agents and rescue the perky kid, who's being held captive in ancient Indian ruins(!). Meanwhile, the perky kid's mom, Mrs. Gene Barry, wails and gnashes her teeth and pretty much makes everybody miserable, including us out here in the living room watching this thing. Me, at one point during the film: "There's a thin line between 'suspense' and 'nothing going on', isn't there?" I'm quite certain that this Cold War thriller was plenty exciting during the, y'know, Cold War. The Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss and all that were in the news, and a Paramount picture with lotsa stock footage, nifty sequences of atomic blasts, and a perky kid running for his life through Indian ruins must've seemed like a surefire box office hit. That's the sort of surefire thinking, naturally, that gave us the Ford Edsel and Mars Needs Moms. There were five of us watching the film, and two of us fell asleep, a 40 percent ratio if my math teachers knew what they were doing. The film's been licensed by Olive for DVD release; the print is quite good and there's no bonus material, not even "Duck and Cover!" or episodes of Bat Masterson or anything. |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Oct 19 2011, 08:34 AM Post #2 |
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Olive's getting quite some reputation for themselves, aren't they? Those Cold War thrillers weren't so thrilling, although Fox made a few OK ones. Mostly I remember them for their general greyness, even the color pics. The most boring I saw was a Gregory Peck called Night People. The most fun were the Sam Fullers 'cause they were so loopy you weren't sure what you were supposed to believe: my kind of propaganda. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Oct 20 2011, 01:16 PM Post #3 |
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The prob is the price... $20 for three Corman Woman-in-Chains pictures on one Blu-ray set, or $25 for a DVD of Colossus of New York from Olive... See? |
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