tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post2000631582082947543..comments2024-01-16T03:55:13.051-05:00Comments on MONDO 70: A Wild World of Cinema: Now Playing: APRIL 11, 1962Samuel Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post-61763903817186767862012-04-13T12:00:36.501-04:002012-04-13T12:00:36.501-04:00Brilliant review, Wild Bill! You definitely make m...Brilliant review, Wild Bill! You definitely make me want to see this profoundly strange picture. All memories of '62 classics, however defined, are most welcome here.Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post-60602019573327929342012-04-12T02:17:15.183-04:002012-04-12T02:17:15.183-04:00I managed to catch SEX KITTENS GO TO COLLEGE under...I managed to catch SEX KITTENS GO TO COLLEGE under its alternate title, BEAUTY AND THE ROBOT, via a mangled print several years ago at B-Fest. Several sizable chunks were missing. There had to be. Otherwise, if it made that little sense to begin with ... Still, you get Mamie Van Doren as Mathilda West -- a/k/a the two-gun-toting-tassel-twirler from Tallahassee (in un-tongue-tied English, an ex-stripper), trying to escape her seedy past by becoming a college professor, who discharges firearms in public as not to draw attention to herself ( -- so make that DOCTOR Mathilda West, pilgrim.) Meanwhile, there's a refrigerator box robot handicapping the horse races, and then Tuesday Weld breaks her bra strap to seduce Norm Grabowski, and then there were these two bumbling gangsters with a Thompson hidden in a violin case, but as far as I can tell they're pretty much irrelevant to the plot (so forget I mentioned them), and don't forget the monkey banging on a typewriter (-- I assumed he's working on the script), and then Uncle Fester showed up, and John Carradine danced the Charleston with Louis Nye, and I think I saw Vampira, and oddly enough, Conway Twitty was there summing it all up in song. In other words, yeah, SEX KITTENS definitely deserved an Oscar for SOMETHING.W.B. Kelsohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06488705562652550244noreply@blogger.com