A key point is raised more than once in this History Channel presentation that aired in February: Here was a guy who disliked being around people who then got into politics. Back story: Familiar stuff, but it never fails to appall and amuse, especially when we get audibly crisp sound bites from the tapes, their bile quotient still torridly high. Extras, extras: Though barely mentioned on the box, the bonus that makes this release is the 45-minute Inside the Presidency: Eisenhower vs.
This documentary material is rich: vast differential in president/vice president ages; Nixon the politician vs. above-the-fray Ike; Eisenhower s resentment of Nixon s 1952 Checkers mess. David Eisenhower and Julie Nixon Eisenhower are interviewed, providing the final word for perspective.
Zero Hour! 1.5 stars for content, 3.
5 stars for camp 1957, Warner,unrated, $15 on extras Only movie buffs know this one, and yet the masses know it more than they think. Fasten your seat belts for the clunky, played-straight original later adapted into 1980 s Airplane! Rams receiver Elroy Crazylegs Hirsch plays the same part Peter Graves does in Airplane!
minus Graves role as a pedophile, but Hirsch s pilot is still entertaining a boy passenger. So does the flight attendant s squeeze (Jerry Paris); imagine Patch Adams making stupid with a Seqor Wences-type hand puppet when the kid gets sick. Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell and Sterling Hayden star, and it s Andrews who s purging wartime memories to land the plane when the regular crew gets wiped out by the dinner s poisoned fish.
So in which cubbyhole do they stuff big-guy Crazylegs and his co-pilot? We never see them again. Also in stores: Attack of the 50-Foot Woman, 3 stars A tasty B cheese ball and a rare example from the giant whatever genre that s as much fun during its pre-rampage exposition.
For its day a feminist tract about a 50s wife pushed around by doctors and a cheating spouse, Woman headlines Allison Hayes in a role that Daryl Hannah reprised in HBO s 1993 remake. Portraying geographically barren luridness as capably as William Friedkin s recent and undervalued Bug, Woman gets a boost from cult hottie Yvette Vickers, who is cast as the booze-joint companion of a straying hubby. (Vickers appears on the DVD commentary.
) At just 66 minutes, the film never overplays its hand (although wait until you see Hayes overgrown hand). Inevitably, there was a 1994 porn variation: Attack of the 50-Foot Hooker. A key point is raised more than once in this History Channel presentation that aired in February: Here was a guy who disliked being around people who then got into politics.
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