| RACE WITH THE DEVIL - 1975 'Race with hotlips' by: scottmcdonald.geo (08/02/2001) 2 couples head off for a holiday in really chunky mobile home with motorcycles strapped to the back.everything is cool till they stop for the first night and get the deckchairs out. Unfortunately they have parked reasonably close to a creepy tree which seems to be the hangout for the local satanist brigade who turn up and off some poor virgin in the firelight. They dont seem to notice the giant mobile home, with the 2 goggle eyed witnesses a couple of hundred yards away, who only seconds before had been swapping the binoculars in a voyeuristic frenzy. HOTLIPS (there she is!) from *MASH* puts paid to that by appearing at the 'RV' door to holler that soup is good or something equally inane, and oops...the cats out the bag and suddenly they are being pursued all over the place by these faceless satanic f**kers. I really like this cheese. I seen it when i was a nipper, and could still remember the creepy 'ring of fire' finale, well ripped off by 'The Crow'. Warren Oates rocks in this. Bizzarly enough I once saw an episode of the FALL GUY which had almost every action/stunt scene from this movie edited into it. Lee Majors careering about in an RV with not a satanist in sight. Now that is scary. Talk about recycling! SOB - 1981 by: http://www.littleman.com/movies/films/5/000046295.html The film stars Richard Mulligan as Felix Farmer, a once-successful director whose career is on the slide because of the colossal failure of his $30 million G-rated musical. In desperation he hatches a plan to revive his career: Buy back the film and remake it, adding new pornographic footage to render it a more marketable box-office commodity. He believes that the key to the film's success will be the willingness of his ex-wife, Sally Miles (Julie Andrews), to dispense with her sweetly wholesome image and bare her breasts onscreen. To reach his goal, Farmer has to wade through a river of egomanical producers, wildly pretentious directors, knife-wielding industry gossips, sneaky editors, and even a dissipated doctor--or quack, as he prefers to be called. A broad, hugely entertaining attack on the hand that fed him, Edwards's film is among his best, with hilarious scenery chewing by William Holden (in his final film appearance), Loretta Swit (that's our gal!), Larry Hagman, Richard Mulligan, Robert Preston, Robert Vaughn, Robert Webber, Robert Loggia, and no other Roberts among its seeming cast of thousands. Whoops Apocalypse - 1981/1986/1988 (take your pick!) by: Channel 4 Film British madcap satire that falls flat on its face despite its excellent cast. When the US president, a former clown(!) dies after getting someone to punch him in the stomach to prove how strong he is, the seat of power is passed to incompetent vice-president Barbara Adams (Loretta Swit) - (We still love you!). Meanwhile, a British Caribbean island has been taken over in a coup and Prime Minister Sir Mortimer Chris (Peter Cook) orders it to be seized back by force. The Caribbean rebels in turn kidnap a royal princess (Joanne Pearce) and much farce ensues as fingers quiver over the button. Beer - 1985 by: Keith Phipps A brilliant female advertising executive working for a cheap beer company develops an ad campaign in which three ordinary guys are transformed into "macho superstars." They encourage other men to "whip out their Norbeckers." Though the essence of the pitch might be eternal, advertising must struggle to reinvent itself with the times, a fact discovered the hard way by the executives of Norbecker Beer, "the beer of kings." Jealous of competitors employing ingenious, presumably inimitable spots featuring anonymous attractive young people engaging in leisure activities to the tune of ingratiating jingles, the head of the company (Kenneth Mars) threatens to switch advertising firms. Rising to the challenge, ad whiz Loretta Swit (YAY!) begins a search for a "man for the '80s." She soon finds not one, but three, when William Russ, David Alan Grier, and Saul Stein unwittingly thwart a robbery in a New York bar. Swit recruits the new national heroes for a series of ads, then coaxes legendary director Rip Torn out of retirement. (Torn, a recovering alcoholic, understandably sees a series of beer ads for a struggling company as a chance to stage a comeback.) After achieving initial success--symbolized by a montage sequence alternating between a fleet of beer trucks and shots of the boys on the covers of such beer-ad-concerned publications as Life and People--the Norbecker campaign takes a controversial turn. Adopting the slogan "Whip Out Your Norbecker," Swit launches a series of ads in which Russ, Grier, and Stein harass, fondle, and otherwise molest scantily clad women. An appearance on It's Controversial, a talk show with an energetic white-haired host (Dick Shawn), does little to calm matters, but a plane crash stranding Torn and his actors in the desert causes each to rethink his priorities. Meanwhile, Swit, in what may be a satirical touch, concocts schemes to profit off their supposed deaths. The matter is forced to its conclusion, as such matters often are, by a rowdy gay-bar finale featuring veteran little-person performer Charles Bolender. |
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