Fox Movie Channel and the Movies that Time Forgot
I'm sitting here on a warm wonderful Friday afternoon glued to the TV watching The Young Swingers (1963)--a train wreck of a movie on the Fox Movie Channel.....
Apparently, not everything with the Fox brand is all nonsense and Bill O'Reilly ;-)
I can't quite recall when the Fox Movie Channel hit my cable system, but when a movie network is run by one company, viewers get to view the gamut of the studio's catalog. From the sublime to the ridiculous, from the banal to the fantastic, from A-grade Oscar winners to the bottom of the B-grade barrel.
The one I'm watching now--the aforementioned Young Swingers--is about a night club frequented by the niece of a sour real estate developer who wants to shut the club down. The club, all faux wood panelling and crepe-paper streamers, looks more like Al's Drive-In from Happy Days than a swanky night club that might be frequented by youth-corrupting influences.
Then again, wasn't it "folk music" that later corrupted young people and made them protest the (unjust) Viet Nam War??
But I digress....
Here's a clip from the movie featuring those demonic Sherwood Singers doing the devil out of a youth-corrupting songs:
Last week, or the week before, I caught the super-saturated Technicolor spectacular Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943) starring Betty Grable as music hall singer Madeline Marlowe, who is trying to hide her past as burlesque queen Rosie O'Grady from her Duke of a fiance. Robert Young plays the Police Gazette reporter who reveals Madeline's racy Rosie past.
I couldn't find a clip from SRO'G, but here's one of Grable teasing some Stage Door Johnnies in Meet Me After the Show:
So, whether you have a hankering for some cheeze, want to bask in the glow of Technicolor splendor, or just watch Elizabeth Taylor get it on with Warren Beatty, make some time in your day for the Fox Movie Channel :)
