Comments on: Super Sisters On Cycles! http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/ Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:53:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: cinebeats http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/#comment-368 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:53:23 +0100 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/#comment-368 Witney's last film was actually Showdown at Eagle Gap (1982) according to online sources which was made after Darktown Strutters. A lot of the best blaxploitation films were, strangely enough, made by white guys. I'd like to see a few of Witney's earlier serials. They sound really entertaining! Witney’s last film was actually Showdown at Eagle Gap (1982) according to online sources which was made after Darktown Strutters.

A lot of the best blaxploitation films were, strangely enough, made by white guys.

I’d like to see a few of Witney’s earlier serials. They sound really entertaining!

]]> by: Marty McKee http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/#comment-367 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:09:17 +0100 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/#comment-367 I find DARKTOWN STRUTTERS' humor to be too juvenile for my tastes (and I'm a MONKEES fan, which should tell you something), yet there's no question that it's a truly bizarre, entertaining movie that must be seen to be believed. The cast is delightfully energetic. It's so odd that this racial satire was directed by an old white dude, who, by the way, never directed again. Several William Witney programmers have been recently airing on Encore Westerns, some of them starring Roy Rogers. Witney's serials for Republic are among the best ever made, including THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL, SPY SMASHER and DAREDEVILS OF THE RED CIRCLE...highly recommended! I find DARKTOWN STRUTTERS’ humor to be too juvenile for my tastes (and I’m a MONKEES fan, which should tell you something), yet there’s no question that it’s a truly bizarre, entertaining movie that must be seen to be believed. The cast is delightfully energetic. It’s so odd that this racial satire was directed by an old white dude, who, by the way, never directed again. Several William Witney programmers have been recently airing on Encore Westerns, some of them starring Roy Rogers. Witney’s serials for Republic are among the best ever made, including THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL, SPY SMASHER and DAREDEVILS OF THE RED CIRCLE…highly recommended!

]]> by: cinebeats http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/#comment-366 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:13:37 +0100 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/#comment-366 Robert - Thanks a lot for the nice words about my blog! An altered state of mind + Darktown Strutters = Dangerous! I felt like I was on drugs when I was watching it and I had only had one glass of wine with my dinner that night. I've never seen the Fu Manchu series but it sounds really interesting! Joe - Thanks much for the kind comments Joe! I'm glad you enjoy my reviews. Darktwon Strutters is totally an adult cartoon version of The Banana Splits. If I didn't know better, I would have to the assume that the movie was a Hanna & Barbera or Sid & Marty Krofft production. Robert - Thanks a lot for the nice words about my blog! An altered state of mind + Darktown Strutters = Dangerous! I felt like I was on drugs when I was watching it and I had only had one glass of wine with my dinner that night. I’ve never seen the Fu Manchu series but it sounds really interesting!

Joe - Thanks much for the kind comments Joe! I’m glad you enjoy my reviews. Darktwon Strutters is totally an adult cartoon version of The Banana Splits. If I didn’t know better, I would have to the assume that the movie was a Hanna & Barbera or Sid & Marty Krofft production.

]]> by: Joe Valdez http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/#comment-365 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:02:30 +0100 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/#comment-365 Great post, Kimberly. You're by far one of the most intricate working time machines on the Internet. I enjoy how you can write about these movies lost in time with both clarity and brevity. Kudos again on how appealingly your site is designed. <em>Darktown Strutters</em> reminds me a little too much of something like <em>The Banana Splits Adventure Hour</em> or <em>Wonderbug</em>. Childhood psychedelics. I get weirded out just thinking about them. Great post, Kimberly. You’re by far one of the most intricate working time machines on the Internet. I enjoy how you can write about these movies lost in time with both clarity and brevity. Kudos again on how appealingly your site is designed.

Darktown Strutters reminds me a little too much of something like The Banana Splits Adventure Hour or Wonderbug. Childhood psychedelics. I get weirded out just thinking about them.

]]> by: robertmonell http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/#comment-364 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:12:13 +0100 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/#comment-364 I was in an altered state of mind at the time but I think I saw part of this at the drive in with several other action flicks back in the days. It has that Surreal Seventies look to it. And that bright tacky color! Two of my favorite serie Z directors, Ray Dennis Steckler and Jess Franco told me that William Whitney was one of their main inspirations for getting into directing when I interviewed them several years ago. I love his old serial work like SOS COAST GUARD and the TV FU MANCHU series. Great blog, Cinebeats! robert monell www.robertmonell.blogspot.com/ I was in an altered state of mind at the time but I think I saw part of this at the drive in with several other action flicks back in the days. It has that Surreal Seventies look to it. And that bright tacky color! Two of my favorite serie Z directors, Ray Dennis Steckler and Jess Franco told me that William Whitney was one of their main inspirations for getting into directing when I interviewed them several years ago. I love his old serial work like SOS COAST GUARD and the TV FU MANCHU series. Great blog, Cinebeats!

robert monell
www.robertmonell.blogspot.com/

]]> by: cinebeats http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/#comment-363 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:00:47 +0100 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/#comment-363 Anna - It's a great satire and sadly still very relevant today. StinkyLulu -I'm glad I could make your head explode! ;) Peter - It must have been a blast to see Darktown Strutters on the big screen! I'm sure George Armitage probably had a lot to do with the humor in the film. I didn't realize he had also written Gas-s-s-s until now, which would make a good double bill with Darktown Strutters. A lot of the comedy in the film was very action based, slapstick and old fashioned. I suspect that the director's long history working in films from as far back as the '30s definitely had some baring on the movie's style of humor too. Joe - I'm not surprised that Tarantino is a big fan of the director. The Witney retrospective he put together would have been fun to see. I hope you'll get the chance to see Darktown Strutters soon yourself! Anna - It’s a great satire and sadly still very relevant today.

StinkyLulu -I’m glad I could make your head explode! ;)

Peter - It must have been a blast to see Darktown Strutters on the big screen! I’m sure George Armitage probably had a lot to do with the humor in the film. I didn’t realize he had also written Gas-s-s-s until now, which would make a good double bill with Darktown Strutters. A lot of the comedy in the film was very action based, slapstick and old fashioned. I suspect that the director’s long history working in films from as far back as the ’30s definitely had some baring on the movie’s style of humor too.

Joe - I’m not surprised that Tarantino is a big fan of the director. The Witney retrospective he put together would have been fun to see. I hope you’ll get the chance to see Darktown Strutters soon yourself!

]]> by: Joe D http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/#comment-362 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:40:48 +0100 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/#comment-362 Quentin Tarantino is a champion of Willian Witney. I believe he put on a retrospective at the Seattle Film Festival a couple of years ago. I've seen some of his Westerns but not Darktown Strutters, I'm looking forward to it. Quentin Tarantino is a champion of Willian Witney. I believe he put on a retrospective at the Seattle Film Festival a couple of years ago. I’ve seen some of his Westerns but not Darktown Strutters, I’m looking forward to it.

]]> by: Peter Nellhaus http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/#comment-360 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:40:42 +0100 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/#comment-360 I actually saw this in a theater with another New World production, a Philipino action film by Cirio Santiago. Much of <b>Darktown Strutters</b> sense of humor and absurdity can be better attributed to screenwriter <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000786/" rel="nofollow">George Armitage</a>. I actually saw this in a theater with another New World production, a Philipino action film by Cirio Santiago. Much of Darktown Strutters sense of humor and absurdity can be better attributed to screenwriter George Armitage.

]]> by: StinkyLulu http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/#comment-359 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:42:20 +0100 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/#comment-359 Oh. My. Goodness. I think you just made my head explode. (But in a good way.) Wow wow wow. Oh. My. Goodness.

I think you just made my head explode.
(But in a good way.)

Wow wow wow.

]]> by: Anna http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/#comment-358 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:07:05 +0100 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/06/29/super-sisters-on-cycles/#comment-358 Wow - sounds like quite a blistering social satire of both its own time and now. Well done post. Wow - sounds like quite a blistering social satire of both its own time and now.

Well done post.

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