Tonight's Stinker: The Sea God (1930)

Tonight's Stinker The Sea God (1930) https://youtu.be/F73oGXfnplU?si=rW1_snRFTnNRbE6P Opens by zooming in on a fat guy's rear end in tight white pants... Won't get that image outa my head any time soon!!! So anyway, A down on his luck smuggler has just lost all his money in a craps game to a landowner... The sailor & his partner go outside for angry banter... He's still fuming over a girl who left him for the landowner, who can't stop gloating.... The landowner overhears the banter, & after a cocky exchange, the sailor bets his boat in a smuggling race.... The race starts of in the sailor's favor, but goes south when he has to stop to rescue a man adrift in a canoe.... The sailor loses his boat, & makes some hurtful exchange with the girl.... The castaway, who's been out in the sun too long, catches up to the sailor & gives him some pearls, & tells him where he got them.... The sailor is able to buy his boat back, but the landowner catches on.... Blah, blah blah... So anyway, they find the island, cannibals kill the crew, but spare the girl & the first mate, then the sailor shows up in his diving suit, & the cannibals think he's a god.... The landowner, who's in a sour mood finds them & blah, blah, blah.... Really drags out, even for the short runtime, & pretty predictable.....

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.....

Tonight's Stinker: The Terror of Tiny Town (1938)

Tonight's Stinker The Terror of Tiny Town (1938) https://youtu.be/6dX9Yw6nX8M?si=_HybVlj6n_HkC6B0 Starts off with an announcer telling you about the movie you're about to see, then a midget comes out from back stage saying he plays the hero, then another midget comes out & says he plays the villain.... The two get to bickering, and the announcer suggests we just watch the movie.... Role opening credits & the movie opens with midgets doing a musical number..... So anyway, Bat Haines - The Villain has been stealing cattle from the Lawsons & the Prestons while convincing them that one has been stealing from the other, and the sheriff is ion on it.... Bat later tries to rob a stagecoach, but Buck Lawson - The Hero saves the day, along with Nancy Preston.... Tex Preston & Pop Lawson try to keep the two apart, but they meet in secret.... Buck also starts to wise up to the sheriff's inability to catch criminals, & why bot his family & the Prestons are losing cattle... Employs pretty much every western cliché of the mid 1930s, but with midgets, with most of the gags being about midgets walking under tall things, climbing to reach high spaces & crawling into tight spaces, while pretending take it's self seriously, and a few goofy characters..... Still, it maintains a good pace......

Another Cartoon short: Die Schlacht um Miggershausen(1937)

Another Cartoon short Die Schlacht um Miggershausen(1937) https://youtu.be/qPGfduok7hw?si=x38KY6USoCCZ-IPv A cartoon records office learns a small rural town is underperforming, so it sends a radio to investigate... After getting the boot everywhere it goes, the radio calls on an army of radios to invade the town & show the people better farming techniques, with a little Nazi propaganda telling people to buy radios..... Amusing.....

Tonight's Stinker: Der Schneeman 1943

Tonight's Stinker Der Schneeman 1943 https://youtu.be/aQuR0RTKIH0?si=eoeV4M7BUakFCb5O Cartoon short, in which a snowman comes to life, gets chased by a dog, then goes ice skating... At the midmark, he finds an abandoned house & finds a calendar... He wants to see what July looks like, so he hides in a refrigerator... Busy night, just enough time for a cartoon short... Not bad...

Tonight's Stinker: Atomic Rulers (1965)

Tonight's Stinker Atomic Rulers (1965) https://youtu.be/eLcJupntrhk?si=MhMmDephrDg4vqcu Japanese Superhero Starman is back, this time to stop an evil empire from using nukes to hold the world hostage... Starts out saving a commuter plane from crashing, then gets in a fight with a pair of thugs carrying atomic dust... Meanwhile, a group of orphans steals the suitcase with the dust, and while Starman goes to get it back, the thugs kidnap one of the orphans.... Drags most of the way, but has a goofy brawl about fifty-five minutes in....