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Last week, I claimed that Jaws (1975) is a nearly perfect movie. Now, since it’s shark week and seems like a good time to do it, I’m going to go ahead and put my money where my full-of-razor-sharp-teeth mouth is and share some of the reasons why. Interestingly, few of them feature the shark. If…
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Writers | David E. Durston, Manya StarrDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | May 1, 1953 How would you explain a sudden overpowering unnatural urge to destroy everything you love? In a variation of the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, Anne (Margaret Phillips) accidentally consumes a serum when a glass vial of it breaks and drips…
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We’re back to the drive-in for a 1963 double feature of troubled productions involving the likes of Roger Corman, Jack Nicholson, and Francis Coppola: The Terror and Dementia 13. Listen what happens when a 57-year old child is careless with his words. Out of the resulting turmoil appears podcasting royalty: Chris Franklin of the Fire…
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Writer | Mann RubinDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | March 27, 1953 Here’s a switch: a wife supports her husband during hard times instead of nagging at him to get a job. Joan (Gaby Rodgers) encourages Bert (Leslie Nielsen) to keep writing his novel rather than take a paying job. After answering a newspaper ad…
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It was a hot summer afternoon in Enid, Oklahoma as I stood in line outside the Chief Theater to see Jaws (1975.) This would not have been my first time, although I don’t remember my first time. I saw it repeatedly, but there’s something about this particular day that sticks with me. I don’t remember…
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Writer | Frank De FelittaDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | March 6, 1953 Famous last words… At the end of “The Cocoon,” Professor John Blanforth said he couldn’t help but rejoice that he’d seen the last of the hideous invisible creature that he and his niece, Susan, discovered in the jungle. We then saw another…
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The queer content of Hide & Go Shriek (1988) is clear from the opening shot. As the camera slowly enters what looks like an old warehouse, a man shaves… and then puts on makeup. We don’t know the exact nature of his orientation, though. He looks at both the male and female prostitutes as he…
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Writer | Frank De FelittaDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | February 13, 1953 Another Tales of Tomorrow character… “Another Chance.” Harold Mason (Leslie Nielsen) finds himself in the kind of trouble you invite when you steal a priceless brooch. He accuses his wife, Carlotta (Virginia Vincent), of talking him into committing the crime, and she…
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Witchboard (1986) is somewhat well known in certain circles as a love story between two men. Sure, Brandon (Stephen Nichols) used to date Linda (Tawny Kitaen) and blames Jim (Todd Allen) for stealing her from him, but the tension between the two male characters is palpable. Childhood friends, they grew up together and were inseparable…
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Writer | Nelson BondAir Date | January 2, 1953 “The Mask of Medusa” doesn’t have the look and feel of a “regular” episode of Tales of Tomorrow. Although most of the action takes place on a set, it includes exterior scenes that are seamless in transition. Plus, the quality is better. Perhaps it was just…
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