An extremely clever, funny farce. It is very artificial, and rather in the British style, although set in New York. There is a great deal of dashing about, hiding under beds, and similar business, but it is saved from tiresome silliness by the charm of the main characters, and the sense that everybody in the cast is having a wonderful time. I saw it in a theater with a very small audience, and one of them walked out. I had a good time and laughed heartily as did a few other people, but I got the impression most of the audience was a little confused.
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Mermaids of Tiburon
(1962)
A low-budget SF flick that just misses being a true classic.
6 January 1999
With just a shade more imagination, this could have been a truly beautiful piece of work. It is very effective and thought provoking despite its surface appearance of cheapo trash. Its details have been very carefully worked out to the point where you can almost believe in the existence of the mermaids. The story is a simple but believable conflict of good and evil set against a gorgeous background. It's also a story of nature threatened by greed. If the mermaids had been just a little more mysterious and less obviously girls in mermaid costumes, it would have been perfect.
Rocketship X-M
(1950)
An early anti-nuclear war film done with imagination and style.
21 September 1998
Despite what we would now consider laughable scientific goofs, this science-fiction film carried itself well as a dramatic film. The actors were all solid professionals. The Martian settings were believable. The sentiments, while a bit pretentious, were sincere and laudable. It was an early attempt at mature science-fiction and succeeded better than many more polished, but cynical efforts that came later on.
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