Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect sought to ban bussing. Supporters of the bill called the vote a victory for the "neighborhood school concept." But Brooklyn's Negro Assemblyman Bertram Baker, chairman of the Education Committee, who bottled up a similar bill previously, pronounced that the senate version "does not have a ghost of a chance" of getting to the assembly floor for a vote...
Hollywood has created two original film genres in the last ten years: the horror comedy and the beach picture. As its title suggests, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini is an attempt at reconciliation...
Having assembled this odd lot, Ghost makes no claims about its originality. The storyline, believe it or not, involves a boy and a girl who go to a haunted house in order to hear the reading of a will (Karloff's). Rathbone tries to scare them off with all kinds of fake monsters who emerge from all kinds of fake walls. Then the beach angle is introduced as a bunch of leftovers from Muscle Beach Party set up camp around the swimming pool, and a motorcycle gang finds its way into the haunted corridors...
From these inauspicious beginnings, Ghost goes wonderfully haywire. Maybe I should explain just who is this ghost in the invisible bikini and what does she want? Susan Hart plays her; her task on earth is to make sure Karloff's money finds its way to his proper heirs...
Anyway, the house at length becomes overcrowded with monsters and beach people, until a chain reaction sets in and Ghost spirals down to a groovy finish. In the interim director Don Weis proves himself no cigar, but a half-decent movie and a promising new genre emerge in spite...