The Cobalt Club Screening Room

Look! Up In The sky! It's a t*rd! It's a pain! It's. . . TurkeyMen!

Holy Crow and The Board Of Health! Space, you have created a new nadir that at first glance seems impossible to sink any lower. In the words of The Temptations, it's "so low you can't get under it, uh huh."

And though I fear my contribution will not sink to your newfound depths, it's still pretty awful. And it's by Ed Wood, so you know it's received the Wheel Of Limburger Seal Of Bad Housekeeping. I give you. . .

Like Del Shannon, I'm still searching, searching. . . .
Jeff

And this one is just a step above. But some great watchpoints to enhance your pleasure:
*Most of the actors walk like they have timber in their crotches;
*And the Oscar goes to the Gog-Go Girl in black for most seductive voice and demeanor;
*Check out the menacing/longing glances the suited hoods exchange when Khigh Dhiegh trades philosophical and cultural observations with Michael (Mr. Barbara Eden) Ansara;
*And the treacherous Ruby Macguffin seems to have been lifted from *Lost In Space*.

I give you. . . *The Destructors* (1966), which gives new meaning to "dead air" between quips.


Jeff

Things round here begin to feel familiar. Just a bit. But familiar.

I like it.

I thought about doing a tribute to Lizabeth Scott this week. But then I picked up a small stack of classic comedy movies and decided to go comedy instead.

The Palm Beach Story - 1942

Starring Joel Mcrea and Claudette Colbert.

A New York inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire with a capricious high-society sister.

Sitting Pretty - 1948

Starring: Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara and Clifton Webb.

A family that hires a live-in babysitter is surprised when he turns out to be a man who's a quirky genius.

A personal favorite.

Monkey Business - 1952

Starring: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers and Marilyn Monroe.

A chemist finds his personal and professional life turned upside down when one of his chimpanzees finds the fountain of youth.

Deliciously Cheesy

The Phantom Planet

This is the realm of nutso theory Sci-Fi but a hoot.

I am staying solidly in the cheese or shall I be fancy and say the Fromage.

Hangar 18

Darren McGavin in total UFO mania conspiracy galore movie.

This is cheese but the best kind of cheese. Well acted good script. Kolchak had some soon to be famous writers on it. This is the first Tv movie that did very well in the ratings.

And of course the brilliant Darren McGavin

Kolchak The Night Stalker

The follow-up Kochak Tv movie. Very good.

Kolchak The Night Strangler

Final Darren McGavin Tv movie for today that was directed by young Steven Spielberg. A house a family and evil. Ah smell the cheese.

Something Evil

Folks, lets stay on course for cheese. Checkout the costumes in this one. Skull cap and cargo shorts are all you need to get to the moon. The script is terrible the acting a crime. All in all a cheesy hoot.

Project Moon Base

And now for something brilliant. We had two seasons of this amazing rendition of Nero Wolfe. Maury Chakin was Wolfe. Timothy Hutton was not only Archie he was also the producer of the show. I loved how it used the same cast for all the episodes playing different characters.

Nero Wolfe The Golden Spiders

Of course we always need a cheap detective. Just gag after gag. Falk is brilliant. A laugh fest. What a cast and every gag you can think of from movie Detectives is tossed in along with the kitchen sink.

The Cheap Detective

Boss, I'm a firm Peter Falk fan. If there was ever a deader deadpan delivery, I have yet to find it.

This week, I'm gonna mix things up. Starting with what is considered to be the original disaster film. This movie was believed to have been lost. But a complete copy was discovered in 1981. The special effects for 1933 astound me. Other than the obvious miniature ships, the actual destruction portrayed would require a few decades and many movies to be surpassed. Then there's the post-apocalyptic aspect which is explored. Pretty edgy stuff for the era.

Deluge - 1933

Starring: Peggy Shannon, Lois Wilson and Sidney Blackmer.

A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massive flood that threatens to destroy the East Coast as well.

Now, let's lighten things up with some classic Bud and Lou.

The Time of Their Lives - 1946

Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello and Marjorie Reynolds.

A psychiatrist stays in a mansion haunted by prankish ghosts from the Revolutionary War.

And taking it around yet another bend...

This Above All - 1942

Starring Tyrone Power and Joan Fontaine.

Although she comes from an aristocratic family, beautiful Prudence Cathaway defies convention by joining the WAAFs and becoming romantically involved with an AWOL soldier.

Well, why not a melodrama?

The Lost Moment - 1947

Starring: Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward and Agnes Moorehead.

A publisher insinuates himself into the mouldering mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet to find his lost love letters.

Yeah, I was all over the place today. Next time, I'll stick to a theme. Maybe some swashbucklers...

Wow, Space, I owe you a real debt here. Until your disaster movie post, I thought deluge was an Olympic bobsled-type thing.

I'm going to check to see if Youtuba has *Fatal Instinct*--it falls right into the comedy gap of *The Cheap Detective* with Armand Assante.


Really guilty pleasure, but I love it.
Jeff

ghemrats wrote:I'm going to check to see if Youtuba has *Fatal Instinct*--it falls right into the comedy gap of *The Cheap Detective* with Armand Assante.

It amazes me what you can find on Youtube. Oh LOOK. MORE CHEESE!!!