Dumb fun, and almost no racist caricatures! PJ Soles plays a high school student. She was 30 when she made this, but she really manages to look like a teenager being played by a 35 year old.
This poster is a little jankier than usual, but I think that fits the vibe of the movie.
Well, this isn’t very good. Just over an hour long with probably twenty minutes of not-compelling stock footage, and lots of weak dialogue and stiff performances. One thing I was glad it do not do: it didn’t have any racist “jungle tribes.”
I really only watched this for one thing:
Anita Page had a weird career. She started in Silents, was a co-star with Joan Crawford, and apparently at one point second only to Greta Garbo at MGM. She worked sound movies for about a year and retired, then came back for a film in the sixties (that didn’t get released until 2001!) and retired again, then came back in the late 1990s/early 2000s to make a few low budget shot on video movies.
Jungle Bride is a pre-code film, and has some nudity: about a tenth of a second of exposed breast. The fake poster is based on another shipwreck movie that featured controversial nudity.
A woman falls in love with two men, so they all live together? Where man has sex with a laundry woman so he can have a clean shirt for a date with someone else? Pretty wild for 1933.
Will Hays had nothing to do with this move. He never starred in a movie. He never wrote, directed, or produced a movie. He was a politician and chairman of the Republican National Committee before becoming the first chairman of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. He’s best remembered for the Hays Code, a set of moral rules that films were required to follow. I thought there could be no better way to celebrate him than to watch a film that gleefully breaks a bunch of those rules.
Lucky for us, the Hays Code was abandoned, and no Republicans ever try to censor any one any more.
This fake poster is based on the incredibly clever idea that the opposite of “living” is “dead.”
What if seeing a stranger murder someone made you CRAY-ZEE??? And the only doctor who could help you turns out to be the murderer??? If this happens to you, you’re probably a character in a film noir.
Wikipedia says Lynn Bari “specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers.” She’s more of a “get a man to be a killer” here, but close enough. Her real name is Marjorie Fisher, and I can totally see a parallel world where Marge Fisher specializes in playing the sassy friend to the romantic lead. She worked on at least 113 films over 20 years, so she kept busy.
It’s hard to find posters to mimic for titles as generic as this. I ended up making something that matches the layout of the original, but that’s about it.
Now that’s what I call a sticky situation!
Here, a poster for you:
It was a pleasure to sit a room full of strangers and laugh at something that was intentionally made to be funny. And they nailed the most important requirement of any Naked Gun movie: a Weird Al Yankovic cameo.
For today’s poster I thought “What’s the opposite of naked?”
A classic “we have a great idea for the first half of a story” movie. No bad performances (and some really good ones), but they can’t charm the movie into having an ending that both makes sense and sticks to the tone of the first two thirds of the film.
Not my best fake poster. The only people who will know what movie is referenced are true film freaks.
Why are all the other characters in this movie smitten with George (Montgomery Clift)? He’s handsome, but he’s a lunkhead. George’s uncle gives him a job where one rule is explicitly given as unbreakable: Don’t date employees. If George had just followed that one rule, everyone ends up happy. Grow up, George.
George is played by Montgomery Clift, who I knew stories about but mostly knew through the Clash song about him. He played a lot of aloof, sensitive men. I won’t get into it here, but he had a rough, short life.
There are only two motion picture Walk of Fame stars at 6104 Hollywood Boulevard. Next up: 6116!
The dumb thinking for today’s poster: This movie is called “A Place in the Sun,” and the sun shines, so…
Orson Welles plays a Nazi who is so smart that he’s destroyed all evidence of who he is and passed himself off as not German to a small town in the middle of America, but still buries bodies in shallow graves within walking distance of his house. Lots of strong performances make the nonsense of the story work.
Also: Loretta Young and Edward G. Robinson seem to be having an eyebrow contest. Loretta is winning. And speaking of Loretta:
This is exactly the kind of person that made me start this Walk of Fame project. An Acadamey Award winner who was in over 100 films, and I’d somehow seen none of them. But what you probably want to know is “did she have a recipe for chicken curry?”
This movie officially finishes 6100 Hollywood Boulevard on the Walk of Fame! It’s my first step eastward, and it only took three days! At this rate I’ll be done in less than a couple of decades!
Today’s poster doesn’t quite make sense, but I loved it and the movie it came from so much that I forced it to work. Mostly.
This is a movie I’d seen referenced a million times but never bothered to see. What a mistake- this thing is a hoot and a half! Bette Davis is made of fire and acid.
Why would you put this guy on the same corner as Gregory Peck? Sure, the guy was a big producer and director, but a much less famous actor than Peck. In All About Eve he plays something he played a lot: a producer. Big stretch, buddy!
Okay, this fake poster made me chuckle.
