Re: SHACK OUT ON 101 (1955) TCM Fri 3/13
Posted: October 10th, 2009, 9:47 pm
Hi there Folks.
With permission from dual citizen Bronxgirl who posts here and over at TCM City...she put out this funny review of Shack Out On 101". I thought it was spirited and funny and sounded like something Criswell would say during a trailer. Hope you enjoy...and thank you for allowing me to re-print this Bronxgirl.
"I just caught this for the first time tonight and I now think I'm in LOVE, lol! Could this be one of the greatest American movies ever made? Is it an intelligent, self-aware satire of B-movie anti-Communist propaganda? An Ed Wood-ish treatise on the American dream turned nightmare amidst existential dread? Or both? But how could that be? Is this Lee Marvin's greatest performance?
Oh, the humanity! See: Terry Moore's breasts swelling with the incoming tide, in the opening sequence! Keenan Wynn and Lee Marvin comparing body parts! Civil Service exams as foreplay! Shells! Clams! Exploding neon fish! Poultry truckers (one of whom is none other than Donald Murphy of 'FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER") with suspiciously soft hands! Timepieces inside hamburgers! Short order cooks who may not be what they seem! Snorkeling equipment! Nuclear secrets! Federal agents!
Whit Bissell!"
-http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.j ... 5&tstart=0
With permission from dual citizen Bronxgirl who posts here and over at TCM City...she put out this funny review of Shack Out On 101". I thought it was spirited and funny and sounded like something Criswell would say during a trailer. Hope you enjoy...and thank you for allowing me to re-print this Bronxgirl.
"I just caught this for the first time tonight and I now think I'm in LOVE, lol! Could this be one of the greatest American movies ever made? Is it an intelligent, self-aware satire of B-movie anti-Communist propaganda? An Ed Wood-ish treatise on the American dream turned nightmare amidst existential dread? Or both? But how could that be? Is this Lee Marvin's greatest performance?
Oh, the humanity! See: Terry Moore's breasts swelling with the incoming tide, in the opening sequence! Keenan Wynn and Lee Marvin comparing body parts! Civil Service exams as foreplay! Shells! Clams! Exploding neon fish! Poultry truckers (one of whom is none other than Donald Murphy of 'FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER") with suspiciously soft hands! Timepieces inside hamburgers! Short order cooks who may not be what they seem! Snorkeling equipment! Nuclear secrets! Federal agents!
Whit Bissell!"
-http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.j ... 5&tstart=0