Victoria Silverwolf
Vegetarian Werewolf
Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965)
Hollywood-slick drama that wanders all over the place. Our oddly-named title character returns from serving in the Navy. The household consists of his mother and a couple of sisters. There's also a schoolteacher lodging at the place who objects to being in the same house as a man, I suppose for comic purposes. Ann-Margaret has top billing as his ex-girlfriend who has married a rich guy. She comes on heavy to him, and he sort of reluctantly goes along with it. Meanwhile, he gets a job selling atomic vacuum cleaners (?) in a cartoon-like subplot that seems to come out of another movie entirely. There's also his younger sister's best friend, who takes care of her alcoholic mother as if she were the parent. Mom burns down the house by smoking in bed, killing herself. The tragedy sends the seventeen-year-old bereaved daughter into the arms of Bus Riley. Not a great idea, as fooling around with underage Ann-Margaret was why he had to run off to join the Navy in the first place. Did I mention that the booze-loving mother came on to Bus Riley when he was trying to sell her an atomic vacuum cleaner? As you might be able to tell, the mood of this thing varies wildly, from melodramatic to satiric, and the music is often inappropriately happy-go-lucky. The story goes that playwright William Inge took his name off the screenplay because the film was changed to emphasize Ann-Margaret's role. I'm not sure that makes any difference, as the whole thing is just a bunch of scenes that don't lead to anything in particular.
Hollywood-slick drama that wanders all over the place. Our oddly-named title character returns from serving in the Navy. The household consists of his mother and a couple of sisters. There's also a schoolteacher lodging at the place who objects to being in the same house as a man, I suppose for comic purposes. Ann-Margaret has top billing as his ex-girlfriend who has married a rich guy. She comes on heavy to him, and he sort of reluctantly goes along with it. Meanwhile, he gets a job selling atomic vacuum cleaners (?) in a cartoon-like subplot that seems to come out of another movie entirely. There's also his younger sister's best friend, who takes care of her alcoholic mother as if she were the parent. Mom burns down the house by smoking in bed, killing herself. The tragedy sends the seventeen-year-old bereaved daughter into the arms of Bus Riley. Not a great idea, as fooling around with underage Ann-Margaret was why he had to run off to join the Navy in the first place. Did I mention that the booze-loving mother came on to Bus Riley when he was trying to sell her an atomic vacuum cleaner? As you might be able to tell, the mood of this thing varies wildly, from melodramatic to satiric, and the music is often inappropriately happy-go-lucky. The story goes that playwright William Inge took his name off the screenplay because the film was changed to emphasize Ann-Margaret's role. I'm not sure that makes any difference, as the whole thing is just a bunch of scenes that don't lead to anything in particular.
The cool guys have all the pretty girls as dates, and poor other guy, has to join a frat house to hope to be cool enough to merit one such girl. But, in performing the initiation, which involves stealing a corpse from the morgue, he, gets a frozen one with alien leach-like critters in it, that begin leaping into peoples' mouths, & possessing them.
