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You’ll be sorry you missed this one.
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So bad it was good.
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Mad scientists at work.
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They were attempting to shrink some shrews, but something went wrong.
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Terribly wrong.
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Which is why this fellow bellied up to the bar.
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The shrew’s poisonous saliva killed this guy.
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So our hero shot it.
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But look!
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Another one is chewing through the wall.
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Yeah, sure. The couch will stop it.
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That fellow is now behind the bar and I don’t blame him. Drink up boyo, they’re coming.
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An escape plan is hatched with welded together oil drums.
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Our heroine looks out but doesn’t like what she sees.
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( The giant shrews? Skinny dogs with glued on tails and bizarre fur.)
Low budget cinema at it’s best.
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Only the hero, heroine and mad doctor manage to duck walk the drums to the water’s edge.
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Where they swim for the boat…
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And prattle on about over population of a species that had absolutely nothing to do with the plot.
The shrews?
They’re left behind on the island to eat each other until none are left.
There’s a moral there somewhere….
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James Best was also the guitar player on The Andy Griffith Show and the Sheriff on Dukes of Hazzard…
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He was also in three Twilight Zone episodes — “The Grave,” “The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank” and “Jess-Belle.” All very good. Maybe even better than this movie 😏
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I set a very low bar.
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Yes, but they didn’t have mutant shrews.
Need I say more…?
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They are just dogs wearing carpet, after all…
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Exactly! Andy Griffith only has Goober.
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Oddly enough, I woke up this morning with the theme to “Gomer Pyle, USMC” in my head, this morning…
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You have my sympathies. Theme songs to vintage sitcoms are terribly hard to shake.
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Her unappealing fiance Jerry (Ken Curtis) ???
Festus is unappealing??????
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He was a total schmuck in this film.
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WHAT????
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Never heard of this film, until now that is. And I’m kind of glad about that, lol.
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It was really, really bad… which means it was really, really fun!
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Okay kid, stay off the Margaritas for at least a week!!
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Every Friday is creature feature on TCM. I’m making no guarantees…
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This version of The Taming Of The Shrew appears a bit Shakey.
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Not quite what Willy had in mind, no.
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So was this shown from 8mm? Had to have been. Conversion to CD would have not been worth the disc space.
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The quality was a little sketchy now that you mention it…
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Overpopulation of what species? I wonder if there were too many edits. Or maybe not enough!
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The only thing I can figure is.. the mad scientists were trying to shrink shrews so if they over populated they wouldn’t take over the planet. When it comes to vintage horror plot lines.. you just have to go with it.
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Oh my…cinema at its worst! And you sat there through all of that…just to amuse and entertain us? LMBO
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I’m nothing if not dedicated.
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I think I would have to be drunk to watch this. Like fall asleep early on in the piece type drunk.
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But then you would have missed the best parts…
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I’ll cope with the loss…
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The only moral I could find was that shrews can’t swim…
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That works too.
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Are you sure this isn’t a documentary about the goings-on at Mar-a-Lago?
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Ridiculous hair and absolutely no idea what’s going on? By God, you’re right.
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