Tonight's Stinker: Planet Outlaws(1953)

Tonight's Stinker Planet Outlaws(1953) https://youtu.be/mGmHqnZZVeE?si=GqxEIGgU6_xuIEfe Buster Crabbe as Buck Rogers So Buck Rogers & Buddy Wade are circling the arctic when their blimp crashes... Preserved by an experimental gas the blimp was using, they're revived five-hundred years later & taken to The Secret City, where they learn that the Earth is ruled by the despot Killer Kane.... The only chance for survival is to ask for an alliance with Saturn... But when they get there, they are captured along side Kane's men, and the leaders of Saturn take short banter at face value & decide to ally with Kane.... Buck has to get back to Earth in time to stop it..... Re-edited from the late 1930s Buck Rogers serials, they took four hours of shows & mashed 'em into this seventy minute matinee.... It leaves a few plot holes you could drive a truck through, but leaves in all the action sequences, so it never lags or gets dull....

Tonight's Stinker: Irma Vep(1996)

Tonight's Stinker Irma Vep(1996) https://youtu.be/IfhgwUBVgkQ?si=wFyMXOWsHgCwxCZV A French director has been tasked with doing a remake of Les Vampires(1915), and he's hired a Sino/English actress known for a string of low budget kung fu movies... The first thirty minutes is all about behind the scenes chaos, as the actress can't speak French... About thirty minutes in, the real drama unfolds, as a lesbian Costume Designer gets a crush on her, & the director has a nervous breakdown... A lot of hand-held wobbly cam trying to catch the panorama of the room, which gave me a headache while trying to read the subtitles.... To be honest with you, I've seen more than my fair share of "behind the scenes chaos" films at local film festivals, particularly at 48hr film festivals, and I couldn't stop thinking about that, even after some of the characters were fleshed out & rumors & gossip about them where revealed.....