Movie Ad of the Week: STOOGE-A-RAMA (1982)

This compilation of Three Stooges shorts played midnight shows in six Atlanta area theaters in 1982. Remember, no explicit sex is shown!

Movie Ad of the Week: The Fred Williamson Triple Threat Festival

Here's a Fred Williamson triple feature that played the Loews Teck action theater in downtown Buffalo in 1978. DEATH JOURNEY (1975) and NO WAY BACK (1976) were the first two films in the Jesse Crowder series, while MR. MEAN (1977) was mostly shot in Italy. Fred produced, directed and starred in all three of these films for his Po' Boy Productions company. DEATH JOURNEY is our favorite, but all three include some great music: An instrumental version of "Do It Any Way You Wanna" by The People's Choice (#11 Pop, #1 R&B) gets overplayed in DEATH JOURNEY, while The Dells handle theme song duty for NO WAY BACK and The Ohio Players actually show up in MR. MEAN to perform the title song during the opening credits.

For Whom The Krells Toll

The luvva my wife called home today to ask me if we had watched FORBIDDEN PLANET last night because Anne Francis had died. First I knew about it. I'm devastated, yet at least there's now, truthfully, reason to believe there will indeed be Honey in heaven. When I met Ms. Francis, a high point in my life and quite possibly in anyone else's she so graced, she was sweet, funny and charming, and the interview went so well nothing on the tape had to be Altair-4'ed publication. May the article that came from it help ensure that her present and far-flung future fans remember her work and her self happily Anne fondly. -- Terry Blass

Read one honey of an Anne Francis interview HERE.

Movie Ads of the Week: newer crap that passed through New York

We haven't seen any of these yet. Feel free to leave reviews in the comments section.

One-Sheet of the Week: EL GOLFO (1969)

Because the lighting is so lousy in the Temple, we usually photograph our one-sheets outside in natural light. Unfortunately, there's 2 feet of snow on the ground, with no thaw in sight, so we're going to have to do something different with our "One-Sheet of the Week" feature. The way we got around the bad weather bullshit last year: we picked out the sheet we wanted to spotlight from our collection, and then we right-clicked the scan of it from the Wrong Side of the Art. Well, we don't want to do that again this year. We'd rather put up something that can't be found anyplace else on the 'Net, 'cause blowin' your mind with goodies from the archives is what we're all about. So until the weather gets better and we can take our toys outside again, this column will be renamed "Movie Ad of the Week." Cool? We'll put up one or two or a few ads and try to write a couple of sentences about the movies represented. Here goes...

One year before THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY premiered on ABC, Shirley Jones co-starred with Spanish pop singer Raphael in EL GOLFO (1969). Here's the ad for its opening in eleven New York area Spanish-language theaters in September of '69. Never saw it, but we'd like to. Is there an English dub available?

One-Sheet of the Week: MISSION KISS AND KILL (1980)

ZHAO JI ZAI DA HENG HANG (1979)

U.S. release in 1980 as MISSION KISS AND KILL

Jean Rollin drive-in double feature - August 1977

Jean Rollin's LES DÉMONIAQUES (1974) and LES FRISSON DES VAMPIRES (1971) on a double bill at a New Mexico drive-in theater, August 1977. Rollin died yesterday at age 72.

This Week on 42nd Street -- 1974

Here are the double and triple features that played the Deuce thirty-six years ago this week. Theaters are listed in east-to-west order.

NORTH SIDE OF THE STEET

Rialto I: Schedule unavailable

Rialto II: Schedule unavailable

Victory: Schedule unavailable

Lyric: THE KLANSMAN / BLACK BELT

Times Square: MANDARIN MAGICIAN / BAMBOO BROTHERHOOD / CHINESE MECHANIC

Apollo: COMMUTER HUSBANDS / SUBURBAN WIVES

Selwyn: SUPERSTOOGES VS. WONDER WOMEN / BAMBOO GODS AND IRON MEN


SOUTH SIDE OF THE STREET

New Amsterdam: AMAZING GRACE / I ESCAPED FROM DEVIL'S ISLAND

Cine 42: DEATH WISH / HELL UP IN HARLEM

Harris: THE MODELS / THE RUNAWAY

Liberty: BLADE / THE NARCO MEN

Empire: Schedule unavailable

Anco: KATO AND THE GREEN HORNET / KARATE KILLERS

One-Sheet of the Week: SLAVES IN CAGES (1971)

"SLAVER I BURO" / SLAVES IN CAGES (1971)

Advertised as being "New from Denmark," this legendary B&D/S&M roughie is actually one of three micro budgeted, non-sync-sound softcore quickies that director Lee Frost and producer Armand Atamian made using short-end scraps of film and then passed off as Danish productions through their Phoenix International Films. Go HERE for more info.

One-Sheet of the Week: WILD WHEELS (1969)

WILD WHEELS (1969)

Rated X by the MPAA, then edited for re-rating of R

World premiere held at the Berlin Drive-In, Hartford, CT on July 2nd, 1969 with the stars and the director in attendance

Random Movie Ads: The Martial Arts Edition, Volume 2

The Endangered List (Case File #93)

TOKE (1973)

a.k.a. JOINT CROSSING and ESPERANZA

Starring
Joe Renteria
Shelly Novack
Deirdre Daniels
Bob Comfort
Carmen Zapata
Ed Faulkner
Fred Lerner
Bob Hoy
Alan Gibbs

Produced and directed
By
Don McDougall

Story by
Joe Renteria

Screenplay by
Frank Chase

Cinematography by
Al Francis

Assistant Director
Ray DeCamp

Production Manager
Wally Samson

MPAA rating: R