By Lee Pfeiffer
Remember that scene in Mel Brooks' The Producers when the first performance of Springtime for Hitler has just been performed for an opening night crowd on Broadway? The camera pans around the silent audience to show people sitting slack-jawed, mouths agape at the travesty they have just witnessed. I had a similar experience watching Sextette for the first time. Mind you, as a long time retro movie analyst, I was well-aware of the film's reputation as a notorious misfire. However, no criticism can quite prepare anyone for the experience of actually watching this bizarre spectacle unfold before your eyes. Scorpion Video has made that possible with a special edition DVD release of the 1978 musical comedy that was to be Mae West's second attempt to make a big screen comeback. (The first, the notorious 1970 bomb Myra Breckenridge, outraged her when she saw the final cut.) Sextette...
Remember that scene in Mel Brooks' The Producers when the first performance of Springtime for Hitler has just been performed for an opening night crowd on Broadway? The camera pans around the silent audience to show people sitting slack-jawed, mouths agape at the travesty they have just witnessed. I had a similar experience watching Sextette for the first time. Mind you, as a long time retro movie analyst, I was well-aware of the film's reputation as a notorious misfire. However, no criticism can quite prepare anyone for the experience of actually watching this bizarre spectacle unfold before your eyes. Scorpion Video has made that possible with a special edition DVD release of the 1978 musical comedy that was to be Mae West's second attempt to make a big screen comeback. (The first, the notorious 1970 bomb Myra Breckenridge, outraged her when she saw the final cut.) Sextette...
- 1/22/2013
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
A Doctor Who adventure that pits a militant plant hugger against our favorite Timelord? Where.s Al Gore when you need him? The adventure finds Tom Baker in fine form and a compost heap full of special features to fertilize our imaginations. Two alien seed pods are found buried in the Antarctic permafrost by scientists Charles Winlett (John Gleeson) and Derek Moberly (Michael MsStay). Botanist John Stevenson (Hubert Rees) confirms that the pod is vegetable based and has been buried in the ice for twenty thousand years. Back in the UK, Richard Dunbar (Kenneth Gilbert) of the World Ecology Bureau is advised of the find. Sir Colin Thackeray (Michael Barrington), his superior, is also made aware of the discovery...
- 4/6/2011
- by Jeff Swindoll
- Monsters and Critics
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