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Shack Out on 101

  • 19551955
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 20m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
742
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Frank Lovejoy, Terry Moore, and Keenan Wynn in Shack Out on 101 (1955)
CrimeDramaFilm-Noir
An isolated diner on California's 101 highway provides the backdrop of the story involving nuclear secrets, foreign spies and federal agents.An isolated diner on California's 101 highway provides the backdrop of the story involving nuclear secrets, foreign spies and federal agents.An isolated diner on California's 101 highway provides the backdrop of the story involving nuclear secrets, foreign spies and federal agents.
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
742
YOUR RATING
    • Edward Dein
    • Edward Dein(story)
    • Mildred Dein(story)
  • Stars
    • Terry Moore
    • Frank Lovejoy
    • Keenan Wynn
    • Edward Dein
    • Edward Dein(story)
    • Mildred Dein(story)
  • Stars
    • Terry Moore
    • Frank Lovejoy
    • Keenan Wynn
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 28User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
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    Lee Marvin, Terry Moore, and Keenan Wynn in Shack Out on 101 (1955)
    Keenan Wynn in Shack Out on 101 (1955)
    Terry Moore in Shack Out on 101 (1955)
    Lee Marvin and Terry Moore in Shack Out on 101 (1955)
    Lee Marvin in Shack Out on 101 (1955)
    Lee Marvin and Terry Moore in Shack Out on 101 (1955)
    Frank Lovejoy and Terry Moore in Shack Out on 101 (1955)
    Frank Lovejoy and Terry Moore in Shack Out on 101 (1955)
    Lee Marvin in Shack Out on 101 (1955)
    Frank Lovejoy and Terry Moore in Shack Out on 101 (1955)
    Shack Out on 101 (1955)
    Frank Lovejoy in Shack Out on 101 (1955)

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    Terry Moore
    Terry Moore
    • Kotty
    Frank Lovejoy
    Frank Lovejoy
    • Prof. Sam Bastion
    Keenan Wynn
    Keenan Wynn
    • George
    Lee Marvin
    Lee Marvin
    • Slob…
    Whit Bissell
    Whit Bissell
    • Eddie
    Jess Barker
    Jess Barker
    • Artie
    Donald Murphy
    Donald Murphy
    • Pepe
    Frank DeKova
    Frank DeKova
    • Prof. Claude Dillon
    Len Lesser
    Len Lesser
    • Perch
    Fred Gabourie
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      • Edward Dein
      • Edward Dein(story)
      • Mildred Dein(story)
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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      The title was supposed to be "Shack Up on 101", but star Terry Moore objected on the grounds that it was too suggestive.
    • Goofs
      Leading up to the final moments of the film, Perch (Len Lesser) is shot at whilst climbing some steps, and his hat falls off. Being pursued, he is unable to retrieve it. However, when he enters the diner, he is wearing it.
    • Quotes

      Prof. Sam Bastion: Slob's got an eight cylinder body and a 2 cylinder mind.

    • Connections
      Featured in Hollywood Remembers Lee Marvin (2000)
    • Soundtracks
      A SUNDAY KIND OF LOVE
      Written by Barbara Belle, Louis Prima, Anita Leonard and Stan Rhodes

      Credited and used in score but not vocally

    User reviews28

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    5/10
    Almost a genre unto itself: Red Scare Farce
    The shack out on Highway 101 just north of San Diego is an oceanside greasy-spoon hung with nautical bric-a-brac like a Red Lobster franchise. It's also the regional headquarters for an subversive spy ring and the claustrophobic setting for one of the oddest fish spawned during the Red Scare paranoia of the post-war years.

    Keenan Wynn owns the joint, with short-order cook Lee Marvin and waitress Terry Moore as his live-in help, an arrangement as uncomfortable for Moore as it is convenient for Marvin, who can't keep his hands or lips off her. Regulars include Frank Lovejoy (as an unspecified 'professor' romancing Moore), salesman Whit Bissell, an old fisherman making 'deliveries' right off the boat, and a couple of drivers for theAcme Poultry Company who come in for coffee and cherry pie. In this entrepôt big wads of cash get traded for tiny slivers of microfilm. And operatives losing their nerve or asking too many questions get dead.

    Few of those movies which the studios felt constrained to issue in testimony to their rock-solid Americanism were much good (and audiences shunned them like week-old mackerel). But they shared an utter lack of humor and a suffocating tone of moral urgency. This one is more perplexing. The prevailing tone remains light, at times veering toward farce, to an extent that the very real possibility presents itself that the whole thing is a very sly put-on.

    One morning when Wynn and Marvin, stripped to their waists, engage in some weight-lifting, Wynn insists that his chest muscles be referred to as 'pecs.' Marvin retorts 'I'm very happy with my pecs,' whereupon they call in Moore to judge which of them has the better legs. In another scene, Moore, lighted through the holes of a hanging colander, looks like she contracted some exotic contagion. But then the movie shifts abruptly into cloak-and-dagger episodes right out of B-movies of the international intrigue genre. Towards the end, the heart sinks as it becomes clear that the movie means us to take it seriously. But serious about what? Never is the word 'Communist' uttered.
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    • bmacv
    • Mar 22, 2003

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    • Release date
      • December 4, 1955 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Malibu, California, USA
    • Production company
      • William F. Broidy Productions
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    • 1 hour 20 minutes
      • Black and White

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