Glassy Eye
By Dave Meile
Friday 1:30 p.m. ETV Ch. 12.
‘ ‘Six of a Kind, ” (1934) Burns
and Allen, W.C. Fields.
Burns and Allen as well as husband
wife comedy team Charlie Ruggles and
Mary Boland pile into a car (with a
Great Dane) for a sweltering cross
country trip. There’s far too much shrill
Gracie comedy but the film is redeemed
by Fields’ bits as Sheriff Honest John
Hoxley.
"Tell me, how’d you get the name
Honest John?" says longtime Fields
antagonist Tammany Young.
"I’m tending bar up at Medicine Hat.
A guy used to come in there with a glass
eye," bleats W.C. as he downs a pint of
rye and embarks on one of his famous
billiard routines.
W.C. on hangovers: "1 feel as though
the Russian Army has been walking
over my tongue in their stocking feet."
Director Leo McCarey was fortunate
enough to have worked with some of
the screen’s greatest comic talents such
as The Marx Bros. ("Duck Soup") and
Harold Loyd. McCarey won the Oscar
for best director for the 1937 screwball
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before moving on to real sappy stuff
like ‘‘Going My Way.”
Saturday 1 p.m. WGN Ch. 2.
“Tarzan's New York Adven
ture, ” (1942) Johnny Weissmul
ler.
Weissmuller, the famous non-acting,
swimming kinda guy had to kick a lot of
butt through the years. He fought big
spiders, Nazis, guys in gorilla suits,
white guys pretending to be black guys,
and pygmies, so for the last MGM
Tarzan Hick they all go to the Big Apple
because Boy has been kidnapped. Tar
zan rides on the subway, does some
cool double somersaults off the Brook
Ivn Bridge, and goes to court because
he and Jane have been living in sin.
With Chill Wills (the voice of Francis
the talking mule) and black comedian
Mantan Moreland in another of many
demeaning roles.
Saturday 3:25 a.m. WOWT Ch.
6.
"It Came From Outer Space, ”
(1953) Richard Carlson.
Amateur astronomer John Putnam
(Richard Carlson) and his fiance Ellen
(Barbara Rush) are out in the eerie
California desert discussing life in ’50s
America when a tremendous meteor
crashes nearby. Naturally all the fuss
budgets in town don’t believe this
eccentric scientist until sweaty towns
people are taken over by aliens. The
professor from “Gilligan’s Island" shows
up as a telephone company worker and
like most employees of the phone
company it turns out his mind is
controlled by fuzzy, gaseous, one-eyed
aliens from another galaxy. Soon the
beasties duplicate a bunch of the
locals and stash them in a nearby cave
where they work to repair the damaged
spacecraft.
Director Jack Arnold ("Creature from
the Black Lagoon”) has long been a
favorite among sci fi film fans despite
the fact that much of his work is rather
uninspiring. "It Came from Outer
Space,” his first sci-fi film, has some
striking images. The meteor crash is
impressive and the scene of Putnam
descending into a crater to observe the
mammoth alien spacecraft is one of the
most famous scenes in '50s science
fiction films. This film, along with
"Tarantula,” (1955) and "Monster on
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