Friday was basically (not entirely) my day, since we thought–incorrectly–we’d get more people attending on Saturday. Nope, not a one. Anyway, I opened with Fearless Fighters (on Amazon Prime), a truly wonky kung fu flick that has so much action that this was my running bit:
[Ten seconds after last fight ends.] I yell “Boring!!” [Ten seconds later when new fight starts] “Finally!!”My second film, which really pushed the borders of what we watch, was WC Fields’ surrealistic gem Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. It just made me sad to realize that some people had never seen a WC Fields movie. Of course, again, small crowd. And the kind of crowd where six of the eight people HAD seen a WC Fields movie before. Still, two of them hadn’t, so mission accomplished to some extent. Everyone seemed to like it.
Finally the third movie was kinda of a monster movie, 1978’s The Bees. Made to cash in, somewhat ironically, on the then upcoming large budgeted The Swarm, the film is charmingly smaller and thankfully nearly as dumb. It starred John Saxon, who passed away recently. Also on hand is John Carradine as “Uncle Ziggy” (!), with a now-you-hear-it now-you-don’t German accent.
