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   From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Doug Elrod  writes:   
      
   >On Mar 7, 4:21=A0pm, nebu...@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:   
   >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 After the cool title sequence to Rat Pfink=   
   > a Boo Boo   
   >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 (legend has it that the title designer forgot to spell out=   
      
   >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 "And," only adding "A", and since there was no money left   
   >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 to fix the mistake, Steckler left the title as is), ...   
      
   >So, Rat Pfink a Boo Boo was a Boo Boo?  Yet, Pfink *wasn't* a typo,   
   >but a spelling carefully chosen.  The viewer is invited to start his   
   >or her ennui even BEFORE the film unspools! ;-)   
      
   	You know, I thought Ray Dennis Steckler made weird movies   
   before, but after seeing Rat Pfink a Boo Boo ... man, that was a   
   *really* weird movie.  If it had stuck with its beginning, a slightly   
   slow but not incompetent suspense/chiller about a woman receiving no   
   end of threatening calls and suspicious behavior lurking around the   
   corners of her eyes ... or with its end and the not-quite-fast-paced   
   enough Adam West Batman pastiche ... it would have been ordinary,   
   but together it's a jaw-dropping exercise.   
      
   	It's got some good spots, though, and I particularly like an   
   early scene where whatsisname (Lonnie?) steps around a corner and   
   they cut right away to a carousel ride.  It's good cinematic motion   
   there.   
      
      
   >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Also starring Titus Moede, who was in The Skydivers as ...=   
      
   >> he's listed as ``Frankie Bonner''. =A0I think he was in a dark shirt.   
      
   >And also as a hobo, evidently, in "The Incredibly Strange Creatures   
   >Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?"  He was also the   
   >auteur behind "The Last American Hobo" (1967)!   
      
   >-Doug Elrod (dre1@cornell.edu)   
   >  *and* the sound mixer on "The Beast of Yucca Flats"....   
      
   	Man, the Ed Wood-Coleman Francis-Ray Dennis Steckler world was   
   such a weird one.  There's going to be someday whole research departments   
   trying to figure out the connections, links, and biographies of the   
   inhabitants.   
      
   --   
   								Joseph Nebus   
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   	And it comes to an end with an abrupt cut, the editing in of   
   some unrelated footage, and a voice-over explaining there was no movie.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)