_FILMTOPIA_: June 2023

Sunday, June 11, 2023

THE OPPOSITE SEX (1956)

Directed by: David Miller

Based on the stage play "The Women" by: Clare Boothe Luce

Starring: June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann Sheridan, Ann Miller, Leslie Nielsen, Jeff Richards, Agnes Moorehead, Charlotte Greenwood, Joan Blondell, Sam Levene, Bill Goodwin, Alice Pearce, Barbara Jo Allen, Sandy Descher, Carolyn Jones, Alan Marshal, Jonathan Hole, Harry James, Art Mooney, Dick Shawn, Jim Backus, Barrie Chase, Gordon Richards, Dean Jones, Leslie Parrish, Juanita Moore, Dolores Fuller

117 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Kay Hilliard, a former nightclub singer, discovers that her husband, theater producer Steven, is having an affair with showgirl Crystal Allen. Kay is the last to find out among her circle of gossiping girlfriends. Kay travels to Reno to divorce from Steve who then marries Crystal, but when Kay learns that Crystal is not faithful to Steve, she starts fighting to win her ex-husband back.

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Saturday, June 3, 2023

McHALE'S NAVY (1997)

Directed by: Bryan Spicer

Based on the television series created by: Edward Montagne

Starring: Tom Arnold, Tim Curry, Ernest Borgnine, Dean Stockwell, Debra Messing, David Alan Grier, Bruce Campbell, French Stewart, Brian Haley, Danton Stone, Henry Cho, Tommy Chong

108 minutes

(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, some violence)

PLOT:

Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in the old PT-73 selling homebrew, ice cream, and swimsuit calendars. He's brought out of retirement when his old nemesis turned the second best terrorist in the world, Major Vladakov, takes over the island of San Moreno and starts building a nuclear launch silo on it. With help from his old crew and hindrances from Captain Wallace B. Binghampton, who sank a cruise liner a while back, McHale tries to put Vladakov out of business.

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