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Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), starring Richard Thomas, John Saxon, Morgan Woodward, George Peppard, Sybil Danning, Robert Vaughn directed by Roger Corman

Battle Beyond the Stars

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Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), starring Richard Thomas, John Saxon, Morgan Woodward, George Peppard, Sybil Danning, Robert Vaughn directed by Roger Corman

Review

In short, Battle Beyond the Stars is Roger Corman’s cheesy rip off, trying to cash in on the popularity of Star Wars. Cross Star Wars with The Magnificent Seven, and this is what you get. Frankly, Robert Vaughn effectively plays the same role in both films.

Blondie’s Holiday

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Blondie’s Holiday (1947) starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake

Normally, it’s Dagwood that causes the trouble. But in Blondie’s Holiday, it’s Blondie’s turn. She lets her pride cause the trouble. She lets her old high school friend Paul Madison think that Dagwood’s getting a $250/week raise — when it’s only $2.50. And when they “volunteer” Dagwood to pay for the entire high school reunion …. She doesn’t want to make Dagwood look bad.

The Lady is a Tramp [song lyrics]

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Song lyrics The Lady is a Tramp, (1937). Music by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics by Lorenzo Hart. Written for the musical Babes in Arms.

The Lady is a Tramp is a classic song. It deals with the singer, rejecting the hoi polloi of the upper crust. She rejects their values for traditional, middle class values and living.

The Ballad of Cat Ballou [song lyrics]

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Song lyrics to The Ballad of Cat Ballou, Written by Mack David and Jerry Livingston. Performed by Stubby Kaye & Nat ‘King’ Cole in Cat Ballou.

Well now friends just lend an ear
For you’re now about to hear
The ballad of Cat Ballou-ou
It’s a song that’s newly made
And Professor Sam the Shade
And the Sunrise Kid are singin’ it for you
Cat Ballou
Cat Ballou

Doctor Who: The Daleks

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Doctor Who: The Daleks (1963) starring William Hartnell, Carole Ann Ford, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill

In Doctor Who: The Daleks, the TARDIS lands in an alien, petrified jungle. Beyond it lies a mysterious, deserted city. The Doctor insists on exploring, but soon the crew begins suffering from radiation sickness. Then, they discover the city isn’t deserted …

The Country’s in the Very Best of Hands

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Song lyrics to The Country’s in the Very Best of Hands, from the musical Li’l Abner. Music by Gene de Paul . Lyrics by Johnny Mercer

Them city folks and we-uns
Are pretty much alike
Though they ain’t used to living in the sticks
We don’t like stone or cement
But we is in agreement
When we get started talking politics

The Premature Burial

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The Premature Burial (1962), starring Ray Milland, Hazel Court, directed by Roger Corman

In The Premature Burial, an artist grows distant from his newlywed wife. His father was a cataleptic, who was mistakenly buried alive. And so he’s terrified of the same. And step by step he grows more distant from his wife, more obsessed …

Lulu’s Back in Town [song lyrics]

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Song lyrics to Lulu’s Back in Town, written in 1935, lyrics by Al Dubin and music by Harry Warren.

Lulu’s Back in Town” was performed in the 1935 film Broadway Gondolier, where it was sung by Dick Powell and The Mills Brothers.

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