Movie review - "Who was that Lady?"

Movie review number 20

PLOT
This stars Tony Curtis as a University Chemistry professor, Janet Leigh as his on screen wife (they were married in real life at the time, too!) and Dean Martin as Tony's best friend, a scriptwriter for a TV company CBS.  The movie starts in the Chemistry lab, and a female student walks in and starts kissing Tony Curtis.  Janet walks in and discovers them and then demands a divorce and stomps out.  Tony runs after her but she's left...... he then calls his best friend Dean Martin and says "Get me out of this mess!!!"  Dean Martin then invents a story that both he and Tony C work undercover for the FBI as Secret Agents, and takes Tony Curtis to the TV company's props department and gets an FBI ID card with Tony's name and picture on it!!! They show it to Janet Leigh and convince her they're both FBI undercover agents and Tony was kissing that woman because she's being investigated as a KGB agent!!!!  AND Janet Leigh buys the story!
THEN!!!  The Real FBI discover that Tony Curtis has had this FBI ID card made and start investigating him!!!  A real FBI agent turns up at Tony's apartment and questions Janet about Tony Curtis.  Janet and the real agent follow Tony and Dean to a Chinese restaurant (where they've gone to chat up two blonde girls with big....... blonde hair!) and they all get mistaken for secret agents!!!  They all rush outside, and Janet pulls out Tony's FBI gun and shoots it into the air, and Tony faints!!!!!   Then the TV cameras turn up, and start interviewing Janet about Tony being an FBI agent!!!!!
Tony and Dean eventually get hauled into the real FBI offices for "A Talking To"..... meanwhile, the real KGB agents ring up Tony's home to arrange a Special Meeting!!!  Tony and Dean meet the KGB agents at the Empire State Building (followed by the real FBI to try and kidnap the KGB) only to have Tony and Dean get kidnapped, taken to the basement, and injected with Truth Serum to try and find out some Secrets!  (which Tony and Dean don't have!!!)  When Tony comes round from the truth drug, he thinks he's in a submarine bound for the USSR and sets about trying to sink it!!!!!!!!!
It's all very slapstick humour at the end, and quite funny!!

RECOMMENDED
This is a good movie, so if you want something to watch and not have to think too hard, this is the one!!!!
(Andrea calls it "bubblegum for the brain"!)

SCORE 

Beanie says 7 squeaks out of 10!!

RECOMMENDED SCOOBY SNACKS
Chinese take-away.
(there's a link to the movie!)

Movie Review - "The Vikings"

Movie review number 15

PLOT

This movie stars Janet Leigh as an English Princess, and Tony Curtis, Kirk Douglas and Ernest Borgnine as Maurauding Vikings!!
Ernest is "Dad" and TC and KD are - unknowingly - half brothers.  It starts with a Viking raid on northern England, leaving the King dead and the Queen raped by the Viking Chief, Ernest.  The Kings nearest relative takes over the Kingdom, not knowing that the Queen is pregnant.  Nine months later, the baby is put on a ship bound for Italy with monks to keep him safe - the baby is given a stone from the handle of the King's Sword, on a piece of cord worn as a necklace.
Many years later, in the Viking fjords....... Ernest Borgnine, the Chief and Kirk Douglas, Chief's son, plan a raid on England.  One of the English lords has been banished to Norway after annoying the new King  and helps draw maps of England for the raid.   KD shows him round the Viking village and then shows off his "Killer Attack Bird" - which turns out to be a bit of a wimp.  They then see another "Killer Attack Bird" that really DOES attack and kill, and it belongs to Tony Curtis.  KD accuses TC of stealing the bird, so TC has the bird attack KD and it takes one of his eyes out!  TC is then sentenced to death.  During sentencing, TC's necklace is ripped off and the English Lord recognises the stone as coming from the English King's sword.... and realises who TC really is!!!  TC is then sentenced to death by drowning, except the wind starts up and the tide changes so he doesn't drown at all!!!
 Anyway, the Raid On England is planned to kidnap Princess Janet Leigh, who is about to be married off to the horrid new English King.  KD takes a boat over and does a successful kidnapping of Princess Janet and brings her back to the Viking village.... and then both he and TC fall in love with Princess Janet!  TC then plans a reverse kidnapping and takes Princess Janet back to England...... but Kirk D discovers the escape and there's a big chase across the sea!  King Ernest's boat crashes in the fog, but TC drags him out of the sea and takes him to England, where he's pushed into a pit of hungry wolves and eaten alive.  Tony C has his arm cut off by the king for giving King Ernest a sword so he can die like a true Viking.
Meanwhile back at the Viking village, everyone thinks King Ernest drowned.  Kirk D wants to do another raid on England but nobody will go with him.  All of a sudden, Tony Curtis arrives back at the Viking village and tells them what really happened, and then everyone joins the new raid on England to kill the english King that killed the Viking King.
Meanwhile back in England, Princess Janet is told who Tony C really is - half brother to Kirk D and heir to the English Throne!!!  When the maurauding Vikings arrive back at the castle, Kirk decides to go get the Princess and tells her he's madly in love with her.  Princess says I'm in love with Tony C and actually he's your brother.  Kirk and Tony have a sword fight at the end on top of the castle - but who will win the Princess???!

RECOMMENDED
Yeah, this is a really good yarn!! (that means it's a really good story!!)

SCORE 
Beanie gives this 7 squeaks out of 10!

RECOMMENDED SCOOBY SNACKS
Boiled eggs and soldiers.
(those are toasted bread, with butter on top and then cut into "fingers"!!)

Movie Review - "Psycho"

Movie review number 14!!
(I put a cover over the bottom half of the DVD box as it's a 2 movie set and I haven't reviewed the other movie on it yet!!)

PLOT

This movie stars Janet Leigh as a secretary in a "Real Estate Agent's" office (called Estate Agents in england)..... the movie starts with her surreptitious liason during a Friday lunch break, in a hotel room with her recently divorced boyfriend.  Janet moans that they don't live together and wants to get married.  He says that he's spending all his money on divorce payments, and can't give Janet a good life.  She goes back to work just before her boss walks in with a Very Rich Texan who's just paid lots of cash for a house.  The Boss tells Janet to take the money to the bank straight away because he doesn't want it in the office over the weekend.  Janet then says she'll go straight home because she has a migraine coming on.  She takes the money home.... and then packs a suitcase, and gets into her car and starts driving out of town!!!  With all the money!!!  And her boss sees her in the car!!!
She drives across country to where her boyfriend lives..... and sleeps in the car overnight, to be woken up by a Policeman!  She makes excuses, and drives off..... and at the first car dealership she comes to, she changes her car for a different one, paying the difference in cash!!!  And the same Police Officer sees her from across the road!  Janet drives on, and the second night, discovers completely by accident the Bates' Motel and decides to stay there for the night.  Uh-oh!!  Later, as Janet takes a shower before bed, somebody goes into her motel room and stabs her to death!!!!!  OH NO!!!!
A few days later, Janet's sister (who Janet shared an apartment with) returns home and gets worried that she's not there - and hasn't been seen at work!  They also discover that the money she should've put in the bank on Friday has gone missing, along with Janet!!  A private detective is hired to try and find Janet, and later, Janet's boyfriend is also informed that she's missing. The detective, sister and boyfriend then trace Janet to the Bates' Motel, and the detective goes to speak to Norman..... and his mother!!!  But he never comes back!!!  So the sister and boyfriend go to the Bates Motel and rent a room to do Some Snooping, and then go to the Police.  They're told that Norman's Mother died 10 years ago under Strange Circumstances..!!
OOooohhh....!  It's getting creepy!!!  You'll be hiding behind the sofa by the end of THIS movie!!!  (I won't tell you the ending though!!)

RECOMMENDED
Oh yes indeedy!!

SCORE

This is a 10 squeaks out of 10 scarey movie!!!!

RECOMMENDED SCOOBY SNACKS
Sliced ham, salami and pepperoni.  And a thick Icecream Milkshake!!!

Movie Review - "The Manchurian Candidate"

Movie review number six!!

PLOT

This is set just after the Korean War of 1952, when the army has returned back to the USA.  It stars Frank Sinatra as one of the returning Army chaps and Janet Leigh as his (later on in the story) girlfriend.  Frank and his unit return to the US as big heros having rescued the unit, allegedly, from The Opposition in a big fight.  When they're home, they start having nightmares..... but the nightmares are about Russian interrogations and mind control!  It turns out that one of the US unit has been brainwashed into being The Ideal Assassin for the Russian Communists, set up to murder a US Senator!!!  His contact in the US turns out to be....... his own overbearing mother (played by Angela Lansbury)!!  And her husband, another senator, wants to win the next election and they need the Army chap has been brainwashed to kill!!  Frank Sinatra has to try and stop the assassination from happening at a televised political debate at Madison Square Gardens in New York.... but will he get there in time???!!?!  (The ending of this got recycled in one of the Star Trek movies!!  I'll have to look up which one though - I think number 6, The Undiscovered whatsit)

RECOMMENDED??
Oh yes, indeed!!!  This is a really exciting story!!!

SCORE 
Beanie gives this one 9 squeaks out of 10!!! 

RECOMMENDED SCOOBY SNACKS
M&Ms, large packet, peanut style.