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Frank Tashlin double-feature
I started reading the BFI’s excellent, thorough book on Frank Tashlin, and realized I’ve hardly seen any of his movies. Here’s a quick remedy. - Susan Slept Here (1954) A screenwriter with an...
View ArticleFrank Tashlin (1994, BFI)
This must be the best book I’ve read on the work of a director. It’s organized just how I’d like, with articles covering all aspects of Tashlin’s work (with little overlap), interviews with Tashlin and...
View ArticleChuck Jones program
Bunch of Chuck Jones movies on TCM accompanied their new documentary Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood by Peggy Stern, partially animated by John Canemaker, the duo who made The Moon and the Son. I’m...
View ArticleCaprice (1967, Frank Tashlin)
These were the waning years of Doris Day (her third to last film before retirement) and Frank Tashlin (his second to last before death). Doesn’t play like anybody’s final film, just a trying-too-hard...
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Son of Paleface (1952, Frank Tashlin)
“Let’s see ‘em top this on television.” Sequel to a flick where clueless Bob Hope goes west to make his fortune, kills some Indians and causes some chaos. Now Hope plays his own son, a Harvard-obsessed...
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Month of 121 Shorts: Frank Tashlin cartoons
Porky’s Romance (1937) Porky has barely been introduced and he’s already attempting suicide. First Petunia Pig short – she’s stuck-up and candy-obsessed, with a fancy dog – rejects our man, changes her...
View ArticleA Night in Casablanca (1946, Archie Mayo)
Weirdly slow, clunky and unfunny Marx brothers movie. It kinda stars Harpo, or at least he’s onscreen more than the others. No Zeppo at all. I’d think that would be a good thing, but he’s replaced by...
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The Private Navy of Sgt. O’Farrell (1968, Frank Tashlin)
A belated entry for… Initiated by Shadowplay “This war’s gonna have a head on it” Frank Tashlin’s final film as director is a Bob Hope picture, appropriate since Hope gave Tashlin his big break into...
View ArticleThe Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956, Frank Tashlin)
A pretty dire Tashlin movie. Sure you’ve got the color widescreen (ruined by the low-res letterboxed-SD presentation on our wide-HD monitor) and the humorous attacks on television, but the overall...
View ArticleOne Touch of Venus (1948, William A. Seiter)
Kind of a bad comedy, but it had its good points: Ava Gardner seemed awfully sexy for a late-40’s movie, and she and Olga San Juan had distractingly prominent breasts. Mostly though, we’ve got Robert...
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