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Now that I think about it, she also appeared on Love American Style, often in those quickie skits between the night's episodes. She was usually showcased in a bikini - can't imagine why.

I agree. I've always been a fan of Ben Manischewitz.

The film was on youtube a few years ago, but I remember seeing it on Showtime (or some cable channel) back in the early 80s. Before then, I had only see Phyllis Davis as a regular on the tv show Vega$.

There are several versions of the trailer, some more explicit than others.

People just don't appreciate fine art when they see it.

Can't post the trailer here because it's a little too over the top, but the narration by Paul Frees is hysterical. You can find it on youtube.

There was an interesting dress code on that plantation.

Sweet Sugar Phyllis Davis and some other chicks as prisoners on a sugar plantation. Trashy fun, except for the cats flying through the air.

They should have tossed in Eegah just to confuse the hell out of everybody.

At WCBS in NYC, they used "The Syncopated Clock" by Leroy Anderson as The Late Show theme.

EERIE, I'd say.

An Unseen Enemy (1912) youtube Entertaining but somewhat silly short from D. W. Griffith, of some significance because it features the screen debuts of Lillian and Dorothy Gish. The plot has the sisters being held at gunpoint while their soused maid and a thief (Harry Carey) try to blow the safe containing the girls’ inheritance. Elmer Booth, as the older brother, and Robert Harron, as the boyfriend of Dorothy Gish, come to the rescue. The silliness comes from the maid pointing a gun through a hole in the wall, which scares the crap out of the girls. There is no way the maid can aim at them, since she can’t see them. But that’s silent film melodrama. The Gish sisters are charming, as is Harron as the smitten young lad. Booth overacts terribly in one big scene, where he is on the phone with Dorothy Gish and hears a gunshot. Judging by his expression, you would think he was having a prostate exam. Unfortunately, he was killed in an accident three years after making this film. Carey, as the thief, is menacing and has a charcoal beard. Future star Antonio Moreno can be glimpsed in a scene where Booth and some rescuers are trying to make it over a floating bridge. After viewing the film, I found this bizarre review in The Anaconda Standard of September 11, 1912: “The Unseen Enemy” is a diverting comedy which will please. Here the housegirl, always a subject of mirth on the screen, makes a thousand laughs, while the two maiden sisters, in a terrible predicament, are a big part of the play. Hey, who knew Griffith was a comedy genius? Fortunately, this early treatment for hemorrhoids never caught on.

I wouldn't buy any set of "Legends of Hollywood" stamps that did not include Tor Johnson.

In the original script, Gallagher was going to smash a watermelon over her head.

I saw this on cable way back when, and considered it kind of a dark comedy. I don't remember that much about the film, except Bruce Willis' spoof of his action-hero image near the end. The moral of the story seemed to be that you could be a rat, but still end up rich, and with the good-looking woman.

This looks interesting. The film was banned in Chicago because it showed politicians as crooks ... fancy that. Supposedly, eight actual Chicago racketeers appear in this film, probably in bit parts.

That scene took a lot of guts.

A word to the wise is deficient.

I must have missed those episodes where he competed in marathons.

Oddly, Belly Up to the Barf is the English title for Porco Mondo.

Harve Presnell, a Keel-lookalike.

No, but while making the film, Griffith was known to have yelled at his actors "you guys think I know ef nothing."

I didn't get that impression.

The Massacre (1912) youtube Thirty-minute western flick from D. W. Griffith about cavalry vs Indians, with an uninteresting romance on the side. Blanche Sweet chooses Charles West over Wilfred Lucas (probably because Lucas wears lousy duds), so Lucas goes off to become a scout for the army. A few years go by, and Lucas takes part in a raid on an Indian village. Meanwhile, Sweet and West join a wagon train, and eventually run into Lucas. The Indians decide to get even by attacking the wagon train. Who will survive? There are some good shots of the fighting. Although the camera is mainly stationary, there is one scene where the camera pans slightly, but maybe it’s because cameraman “Billy” Bitzer hiccupped. As white men die, they throw their arms into the air, which only happens in silent films. One guy is actually picked up by an Indian and knifed several times, so that caught my attention. The most ridiculous scene is when the settlers are surrounded. In the background, you can see the Indians riding around in circles … away from their intended victims. The second most ridiculous scene is early on, when Sweet and West embrace … and West gets his hand caught in a bush. This was obviously not planned, since we see West swatting at the bush as the scene fades out. Can someone explain why an Indian would throw a bearskin over himself while trying to sneak up on a white man? I mean, if the guy really think it’s a bear, isn’t he gonna blow its brains out anyway? Lionel Barrymore is supposed to be in this, but I couldn't spot him … unless he was under the bearskin.