ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[southendmd]

From IMDb: "A filmed performance (in CinemaScope) of the highly popular Broadway hit [New Faces of 1952] that was basically a collection of skits, sketches, songs and dances built around a flimsy plot to meld them all together which, for the most part, worked..."

Includes skits written by Mel Brooks, performances by Eartha Kitt, Paul Lynde, Carol Lawrence, and Alice Ghostley (the funny "Boston Beguine").  It also includes a bizarre song called "Fall River Hoedown" which is about Lizzie Borden: 

"Oh you can't chop your Momma up in Massachusetts
And then blame all the damage on the mice.
No you can't chop your Momma up in Massachusetts,
That kind of thing just isn't very nice."

[Lumière]

==comment==

Cartoon Picture   

    *      Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
    *      Cartoon Characters:   Moe Hican, Butler, Moose.
    *      Directed By   Robert McKimson.

[memento]

[MaineWriter]

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Where Dana and Ginger Lamb intrepid explorers or complete frauds? You tell me--I never heard of them until I looked up this movie. Apparently they went off to the jungles to discover a lost Mayan city and this movie documents their exploration. They also wrote a book. Some people believe it is all true; others say it is complete hogwash.

Whatever, it makes a good Q movie for this round!

[Fran]

[Lumière]

==comment==

Plot summary [imdb]:
Based on an actual strike against the Empire Zinc Mine in New Mexico, the film deals with the prejudice against the Mexican-American workers, who struck to attain wage parity with Anglo workers in other mines and to be treated with dignity by the bosses. The film is an early treatment of feminism, because the wives of the miners play a pivotal role in the strike, against their husbands wishes. In the end, the greatest victory for the workers and their families is the realization that prejudice and poor treatment are conditions that are not always imposed by outside forces. This film was written, directed and produced by members of the original "Hollywood Ten," who were blacklisted for refusing to answer Congressional inquiries on First Amendment grounds.

[MaineWriter]

[Fran]

[oilgun]

[Lumière]

==comment==

Starring: Glynis Johns and Diana Dors...




[imdb]:
Frank "women in prison" story that sympathetically tracks several inmates through their imprisonment and subsequent return to society. Some are successfully rehabilitated; some are not.