ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

If you're not a member of All Sci-Fi, registration is easy. Just use the registration password, which is —

gort



Attention members! If you've forgotten your password, just email me at brucecook1@yahoo.com.
____________________________________________________________________

I swear to God I did NOT pick three movies who titles begin with M!

This sort of thing has happen three times recently, and each time it's purely coincidental. I periodically create a long list of posts for the Featured Threads, and then I simply take the top three from the list to create each day's FT posts.

Anyway, here's today three "M" movies.

~ Mouse on the Moon (1963 England) is the sequel to The Mouse that Roared, and it's equally funny — which could be describes as "not very".

~ Murderers' Row (1966) is the sequel to The Silencers, and it's equally sexy and exciting — which could be described as "not much of either".

~ Mutiny in Outer Space (1965) isn't the sequel to anything — and thank God is will never spawn one!

But it does have an unintentionally funny scene of guy with a girl hanging onto his back while he pretends to cling to a beam and hand-walk across a room to avoid the dreaded alien fungus on the floor.

Naturally there's not really any fungus of the floor. He and the girl are obviously just walking along slowly with their feet out of frame while the man pretends to cling to the beam above.

Priceless!



____________________________________________________________________

Mouse on the Moon (1963 England)

______

More surprises from the modest little European country called the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, that "mouse that roared" four years earlier. Again faced with economic problems, the little country's only profitable export is an inferior wine that turns out to be a superior rocket fuel.

David Kossoff plays the comic scientist again, piloting a wine-powered rocket to the Moon and beating the much-embarrassed bigger nations. Peter Sellers is absent from this one, but the cast is still excellent. It includes Terry Thomas, Margaret Rutherford, and Ron Moody. Directed by Richard Lester ("Superman II", "The Three Musketeers").

____________________________________________________________________

Murderers' Row (1966)



The second Matt Helm movie tries to be a little more serious (just a little more) and a little less sexy.

Both attempts are big mistakes.

The plot involves a kidnapped scientist whose sexy daughter (Ann-Margret) teams up with Helm (Dean Martin) in a daring rescue. Karl Malden is the villain, Camilla Sparv is his henchwoman, and James Gregory is Dean's boss. Watch for a swell guest appearance by the rock group Dino, Desi, and Billy (the son of Dean Martin, the son of Desi Arnaz, the son of nobody famous).

The joke weapon for this episode is a gun which fires after a five second delay. Recommended use: let the bad-guy capture your weapon, provoke him into shooting you, then watch the fool peer down the barrel to see why the bullet didn't come out.

Bang.

Directed by Henry Levin.
____________________________________________________________________

Mutiny in Outer Space (1965)

__________

A slightly misleading title; it isn't really a mutiny, it's an infection by an alien fungus which turns the crewmen of space station X-7 into monsters. It's filmed in black-and-white, of course, so don't be fooled by the colorful poster.

Just for the record, there is a scene in which one of the guys sort of "swings" across a room with a gal clinging to his back, but he isn't holding a tentacle, and no tentacle is holding him. It looks like this.



Good luck trying to keep a straight face while you watch this guy pretend to have a firm grip on that thin beam above him (plywood probably, because it wobbles) while he and the girl keep their feet planted on the floor (out of frame) and walk across the room!

All in all, this is just a poor job from director Hugo Grimaldi and stars Glenn Langan, Pamela Curran, Richard Garland, William Leslie, and Dolores Faith.


_________________
____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)