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WISHCRAFT-2002-This is a typical slasher film with a small dose of the supernatural thrown in. A nerd (Micheal Weston) uses a magical bull's penis that grants three wishes to get a cheerleader (Alexandria Holden) to go out with him. Meanwhile a slasher in a raincoat kills people. Broadway actor/director Austin Pendleton plays his high school teacher (he must have needed vacation money). Meatloaf (using his real name Micheal Aday) is the investigating cop. Little Zelda Rubenstein is a coroner. In a unique (?) twist the hero defends himself with a lawn jockey. Gee! Jackie Chan never thought of that! The cast also includes Joseph Ruskin, Sam McMurray, Luis Avalos and Hamilton Camp. I think parts of this were suppose to be intentionally funny.
An oldie: O'SHAUGHNESSY'S KID-(1935)-This standard '30's tearjerker reunited the two stars of THE CHAMP (from 1931) Wallace Beery & Jackie Cooper.
Beery portrays a lion tamer who loses an arm (to a tiger) after his wife and son leave him. The infant son is played by future "Our Gang" member (and "Little Rascals" leader) Spanky McFarland. After several years Beery returns to society a broken man. He does manage to get temporary custody of his son (now played by Cooper) despite the intrusions of a trouble making aunt (Sarah Haden). Eventually father and son learn to love each other and Beery's well meaning, big lug personna (which dominates the movie despite Cooper's pouting and crying) overcomes his fears.
From what I've read when Beery is sharing some tender moments with Cooper he's REALLY acting! Clarence Muse is also featured as Beery's kindly (but racially stereotyped) assistant.
Director Richard Boleslawski (from Warsaw) also helmed RASPUTIN AND THE EMPRESS, the only movie to feature all three Barrymores....
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Posted by CavedogRob on 2008-05-07 22:14:04 | Rating: | Views: 42
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I'd like to know where you usually get these movies. Some I recognize and others I didn't know existed. Another great review!
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Posted by SubTomato
on 2008-05-08 11:36:49
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The irony here is that in this movie Cooper replaced McFarland, while in the our gang comedies Cooper was replaced by, you guessed it - Spanky McFarland!
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Posted by tonyaldr
on 2008-05-26 16:20:28
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