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...insane, systematic brutality of Hitler's Third Reich.* As the shocked, uprooted prisoners arrived by rail at Auschwitz, Mengele, always impeccably turned out in a dress SS uniform, was the first person they saw. Placing himself between the rows of incoming prisoners, he decided their fate; a flick of a thin metal rod, held by a white-gloved hand, to the left meant immediate death in the gas ovens; to the right meant life-but what a life. Most of the prisoners would survive for only a few more weeks, doing hard labor on starvation rations or serving...
...press my dress uniform?" one redneck cop asks a policewoman. "I don't do sheets," she answers.) In its other entries, ABC takes to the sea: The San Pedro Beach Bums are five California boys on a rundown boat; Operation Petticoat, based on the old Gary Grant flick, unites a crew of sailors on a pink submarine and a contingent of bosomy nurses-war is swell, apparently. And in The Love Boat, Gavin McLeod of The Mary Tyler Moore Show steers a cruise ship down the California coast...
Inside each of us is a frozen êclair waiting to be microwaved, and this ridiculous flick, filmed on the cheap by Film Consortium of Canada Inc., does the job well. Hollis McLaren is winsomely demented. When Actor Russell puts on his show, the masquerades are expert and funny enough to let straights see the bent world in a way that will not threaten most of them. Normal householders walk out of the theater snuffling happily after his exit line. Liza, who has fled to Manhattan following the stillbirth, is acting like a zombie. She says she is dead...
...Universal Pictures plans to remake The Thing from Another World, originally directed by Howard Hawks in 1951, and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), which will star Lily Tomlin this time as an incredible shrinking woman. Even the Disney studios are joining the sci-fi follies with a new kid flick titled The Cat from Outer Space...
Does anybody know this flick has nothing to do with 1962 novel of same name, since Ian Fleming nixed sale of anything but title to movies? Does anybody care? All that's left of Bond formula here is 007 character, sexy starlets and gee-whiz gadgets. (Question: What else did it ever consist...