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To: Scoutmaster
4 Int. Mail room.

The pod has been opened. Piles and piles of mail are lying around. The arm of a skutter takes one from the John Wayne fan club addressed to "The Skutters, Red Dwarf, Deep Space, RE1 3DW" and disappears.

RIMMER: There's everything here, all the mail, entertainment cassettes, a new batch of movies.
LISTER: Oh! The new Friday the 13th movie -- Friday the 13th part one thousand six hundred and forty nine.
RIMMER: Look, Casablanca! They've re-made Casablanca!
LISTER: Philistines. I mean how can you re-make Casablanca? The one starring Myra Dinglebat and Peter Beardsley was definitive.
HOLLY: I saw that one -- knockout! "Of all the space bars on all the worlds you had to re-materialize in mine."

1,652 posted on 01/25/2012 10:32:32 AM PST by null and void (Day 1100 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: null and void; Silentgypsy; Darksheare; Monkey Face; Tax-chick; NicknamedBob; ColdOne; HKMk23
I mean how can you re-make Casablanca?

They tried, with David Soul of Starsky and Hutch. 1983.

Although that wasn't as bad as the two 'punishment' movies Bogart made for Jack Warner. When actors were 'under contract' and were stars, most contracts allowed them to turn down two scripts a year. However, if you turned down the second script, then the third script you were given was a punishment script and a real dog. That's why you'll see a film with a prominent actor or actress from MGM and say "why in the world was his or her talent ever wasted in that trash?"

Bogart's best, or worst, punishment movie was Swing Your Partner.

It was made during the Little Abner craze and after the Gold Dust Trio (Ed Lewis, Billy Sandow, and Toots Mondt) had popularized professional wrestling.

Its . . . a hillbilly professional wrestling musical. The best of its genre. Because it's the only hillbilly professional wrestling musical ever made.

Bogie's a wrestling promoter driving across country with an incredibly dumb, super strong wrestler and his wise-cracking female assistant when his car breaks down in Appalachia, in a town where a super-strong hillbilly woman lives.

And the rest is Hollywood gold. Dancing. Singing. Wrestling. Brand-new overalls with jagged, freshly cut hems and bright patches sewn on with huge stitches. General store signs that say "You-uns leave yer shootin' irons on the porch."

And Bogart.

*Shiver.*

His other punishment film was The Return of Dr. X - a sci-fi where Bogie has a white skunk-streak in his hair.

1,659 posted on 01/25/2012 11:33:34 AM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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