During that time period, I had a paper route, and one of my deliveries was to the front office of a Motor Inn...the daughter of the owner was incredibly sexy, 16 years old, and was our High School baton gal...In the summertime, she would lie just outside the door of the office, sunning herself in her bikini...my knees would get rubbery whenever I had to make that delivery!..This movie brought back that memory...hope I don't have a stroke now!..lol.
@@revhead5420 My Mother always claimed 'I don't know how he got it, but it wasn't me!' She also said that I was hatched that way! I'm not being sarcastic, really!
Otherwise everyone would have quit watching just a guy tinkering unsuccessfully on a car, within a few minutes. Even a woman would rather watch baton twirling than that! Lol!
I was 8 when this came out. I remember going to the drive in when I was little and we were allowed to watch the kids movie and cartoons and play on the playground in front of the screen before the movies started. We were supposed to go to bed in the car while my parents watched the adult movie. A lot of B movies were shown sometimes when three movies were available. I snuck and watched a few. I do not remember seeing this one before. I thought it was much better than some I saw. Very interesting plot and the acting did get better during the movie. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this as it brought back many memories of this time. Thank you so much for sharing this one with us all. Much love and appreciation from California.❤️🍀🌈🙏🏻😇❣️
> Michele Lane Wow, drive-in movies - haven't thought about them in a long time. When I was a kid in Florida, one of our local drive-ins had air conditioning! It was a huge tube attached to the post where the speaker was attached - you'd close all the windows and left the driver's window open just enough to balance the A/C tube on top of the window and cold air came pumping outta the tube! It was actually pretty effective and would cool off the interior of the car quite nicely!
I don't know about whiskey, but I had a Doc back in the 80's when I was kinda running a ER, would come in for his 24hr duty with a cooler full of beer, drank all day but was the best surgeon for stuff. For regular BS, I got screwed with kids, nuts, and everything in between, shit, I wasn't even a Dr or PA, but I had to figure out what the hell was wrong with ER pts. that didn't belong in the ER, back then there was no acute care, so I somehow got stuck. Long ago and far away, Good Night
Not just the sixties ; things were much more free with people making their own choices , you could smoke anywhere and the federal government was restricted , not the people .
Chuck Berry, more likely, who was a huge influence on Keith, though it could have been some lesser known player to avoid copyright fees. "Hail Hail Rock and Roll', the musical documentary, has great scenes of Keith and Chuck together, playing and chatting. I'm sure countless fuel pumps have been replaced to a rock and roll beat since then.
I love the way the Doctor asks the reporter if he was working before poring him a drink yet he said he was swamped with his work then pores himself a drink.
Mr Pete , just think how long he would have lived if he did not smoke. But my father died a week before he turned 62 in 1982. I remember as a young child in the early 60's I would ask him to quit smoking. He would take the cig out of his mouth say about three words cough and say "there no edivence that.. Cough cough that smoking is bad cough cough for you."
Can't say one way or the other. Got to see my dad ( heavy smoker and drinker) have his second heart attack which he died from. Our doctor(heavy smoker) suffered and died of a heart attack in his office with his nurse out in the reception area.When found they could see he was trying to give himself an injection.
What a GREAT movie! Thanks for posting! Bad acting, low budget, beautiful gals, and a cheesy story line....LOVE IT !! And, the very talented twirling of the lovely Ms. Linda Jenkins...wow.
This movie, without a single known actor, just based on pacing and a decent plot, is literally better than 50% of the movies out today. Low rech, large portions WOS, and still better than most movies.
Actually, Tim Holt was a well known B-Movie western cowboy star, 46 title roles. He occasionally was cast in A-listed films, such as opposite Humphrey Bogart in "Treasure of the Sierra Madres." He had to come out or retirement to do this film, probably as a favor to someone.
Isn't it funny... Unfortunately, you're about 99.5%, correct {only in my opinion of course} but, the film 🎞 as filled with WOS moments as it is > still does 'Purdy darned well'; as compared to flood of contemporary mindless goobly-gob that gets written, produced > acted, directed, shot & potentially released. Actually 💯 percent agreed with you Zendean 5_ _ 😊
I feel like I’ve just been honored to watch an academy award movie. The acting was top notch. Especially the girl with the baton. The mad professor was great too. They just don’t make movies like that anymore.
@@geezermann7865 🤔 Yeah, his performance was accurate when compared with real, "historical" Nazis. But nowadays, the term Nazi has been "redefined" by politicians, activists, and so-called "journalists" in the mainstream "news" media, for partisan political purposes. It used to be frowned upon to falsely demonize political opponents by calling them Nazis. Intelligent people saw it for what it really was/is, a desperate slur used by sleazy, irresponsible partisan activists. But since about 2018, the left have "redefined" the term, and now they falsely demonize their political opponents as "Nazis" or "fascists", as an intimidation and coercion tactic. If the democrats lose significantly in the 2022 mid terms, expect them and their mainstream "news" media lackeys to start throwing around the terms "Nazi" and "fascist" to describe those who democratically defeated the democrats.
Type in "Lee Remick, Baton Twirler, Face In the Crowd" in your UA-cam search engine. There's an entire scene of leggy baton twirlers but Remick is unbelievable, and doing her own twirling too!
Hey, As a high-school sophomore we were doing the twist in '63. The one dance everyone could do. And we dressed a lot better than the students now. Memories....... Thanks!
This is the best film I have seen in years - thank you Pizza Flix for uploading it and sharing it with us all here on UA-cam. It had me at that opening baton-twirling scene - what a delightful film! The scene of those folks doin' the twist was hilarious - definitely a must-watch film.
Yes, Glen, he did. And I think he would have approved of this movie. I'm halfway through it, and stopped to read some comments. I nearly turned it off after the opening bs, but stuck with it, and was surprised at how well-written and acted this was, albeit, by local thespians.
Well, I'm an old grandaddy, but now I know, after seeing this movie in 2020, why my son came home late from his date at the drive-in theater in 1964 & had to get married 9 months later! What the heck? NO teenager - or you! - could resist such a movie/temptation!
This is a gem! So glad I watched it. You just have to shake your head at the mystery of the choices and the production. It feels like a movie we could all make. Isn't that a blow for democracy and equality?!
Wow. At about 55 minutes in, The mad scientist goes into an impressive level of scientific detail for a 1960s B movie. I am starting to think he really does have a time machine.
Amazing to see how different the pacing is from anything today. I can see at least 20 scenes - including the opening one - which, like it or not would have been cut to less than half this duration in anything produced today, whether for big screen or small.
for 1963? low budget? a film 55 years ago? this is a masterpiece!! liked the movie. am older so I know/remember what I am viewing. yeah way back 'there'.
The hair back then wouldn't dream of moving. So much hairspray! Helmet hair! All that teasing amd spraying! I was born in 1957 and had 3 older sisters. There were rollers, rat-tail combs, Dippity Dew, bobbie pins and hair dryers everywhere in my childhood. I went the hippie route. Long, straight, center part and NO HAIR SPRAY! (The Bundy preferred hairstyle, in fact. In the Pacific NW we came of age in serial killer territory.)
This is a remarkable job considering the small budget and crew. It gives hope to those who dream of making a full length movie with their friends on a micro-budget.
I thought I would never find this movie again, not remembering the name. But the search "50's science fiction movie with girl twirling a baton" brought me to the right place. This movie is so bad it is good.
@@26TptCoy Yes. But I politely think not as extreme as you suggest. Diet had a lot to do with the aging. So did the fact that many actors in teen movies were 30. So did the fact that make-up experts were still making women up like Joan Crawford. Before Crawford, they were doing Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford. Not drag queens. Gish and Pickford needed no make-up.
James Roberts cause they where REAL women....not the credit card,mall rat,kardashean types n real housewives crap.. how do they wipe there snappers w them 500$ long nails...dirty self centered new women, forget em. take ya to the cleaners .
When the cop is destroying the time machine I like the way they put the sparklers on top ! This movie must have been produced around the 4th of July and someone stopped at one of those roadside fireworks places and picked up some extra special effects. Sparklers were probably 10 for a nickel back in those days. Right within the budget !
I also have to add - that looked like an authentic supper club from the early 60's. And whoever sang that song was actually a very talented artist. Anyone remember dancing The Twist back then? And I loved seeing those brand new vintage cars.
Wow, when I saw that both Tim Holt AND Jack Herman were in this flick, I just knew it was gonna be a knockout blast. Now if Ed Sanders, Herb Wilberforce and Eileen Bishop had been in the cast I would be besides myself.
This is a great movie! It just needs a few things, writers, plot, budget, and actors. I'll finish watching this when I have more time, quantum time, that is.
@Allis Chalmers We can no longer think that science fiction will not come true. Some one and some places are many years ahead of us technologically and psychologically that makes the majority of people the example of the new dark ages.
@@juless3568 I thought so too. Glad to see others think so. A film of this low budget kind can still bring home the goods with the scientist revealing a very interesting theory - extremely.
imagine that. You walk into a doctor's office without an appointment, light up a cigarette, he pours you a drink, then starts talking to you about this latest patient. Medicine used to be so informal.
@@joelonzello4189 TBH, I'm pretty sure that behavior in the diverse areas in the 50's/60's was pretty much the same. It's just that we had separation from it so it did not affect us. And the media was not allowed to glorify and endorse it.
@@magmasunburst9331ut first they have to be rejected from receiving the Nobel Prize (any category) three times. And then locate a deserted island where they can build their lab. Sometimes they’ll have a super hot daughter, still innocent and unclear what boys are for.
I was born in 66 and I was just thinking while watching this that my mum would have been wearing clothes just like that and back-combing her hair. My dad had the same hairdo as the reporter.
They were starting to look all the same even then, especially if they were from the same major company. God I was only nine years old when that movie was made.
So, I don't know who this guy is who plays the mad scientist, but he should have got an Oscar. He plays it perfectly. Calm, cool and even friendly, until he finally becomes unhinged when Jim starts dissing his buddy, Hitler. Then he goes completely over the top. It's like Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein. Skip to about 44 minutes if you cant get through the first part. It's worth it.
Back then, all you needed to make a "classic" movie like this was: 1. Your grandpa's farm 2. Your 40 year old neighbor who still had his letter sweater 3. And $3.12
I pretty much knew the minute she opened her mouth and said anything she was gonna have a southern accent because no self respecting girl from the South would admit she did not know how to twirl a baton. My husband my boys and I moved to Houston from Chicago when I was in my late thirties and immediately we got pregnant. I still wasn't used to the different southern customs so when they had my baby shower I didn't get why almost every single package had a little tiny baton of one sort or another and it was at that point that I was told that since I was positive I was having a baby girl the next thing I need to be positive about was that she was gonna learn to twirl a baton. She never did I'm sure that she would have used it to beat someone up anyhow so best to keep that out of her hand. thanks so much for this up load I love these very hard to find movies with actors and actresses never seen before and probably never seen again.
My older sister was a majorette in high school. She was really good at it. I remember I was always getting in trouble for playing with her baton. Yes we live in the south. She is 65 and still has the baton😁
A beautiful car the 1960 Buick... everything GM made from oh say 1954 to 1964 is in my book, the best of styling, very tastefully done automobiles, especially the ones all loaded up with chrome!
Am I surprised. The acting and the story are far better than I had expected from a low-budget film of this vintage. Then there are such implausible moments, such as at 38:33, when "Jim Crandall) leaves a potential witness on the ground and beats it.
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I haven't seen such bad acting since my honeymoon.
Hehehe!
michael beams How quickly did you get divorced?
Awesome comment! 👏
Yikes!!! Heee heee heeeee!!
I choked on that one.
They struck gold when they found a talented actress who could twirl a baton too. Genius I tells ya, pure genius.
Did you like that British-style 'Aaohh, bloody 'ell' accent?
During that time period, I had a paper route, and one of my deliveries was to the front office of a Motor Inn...the daughter of the owner was incredibly sexy, 16 years old, and was our High School baton gal...In the summertime, she would lie just outside the door of the office, sunning herself in her bikini...my knees would get rubbery whenever I had to make that delivery!..This movie brought back that memory...hope I don't have a stroke now!..lol.
Tell ya what, it's harder than you think.
> mysterioso 100 And that scene of the folks dancin' the twist!
@@mikkimikki5376 That’s so true!
Of all the movies that open with a baton twirling routine, this is by far my favorite.
Do you have another example?
I love sarcasm :-)
@@revhead5420 My Mother always claimed 'I don't know how he got it, but it wasn't me!' She also said that I was hatched that way! I'm not being sarcastic, really!
Alberta Driftwood ____ I prefer Badlands.
Ya, I'll give this one a whirl! :P
The baton twirling lets you know you’re in for a truly fine even epic science fiction movie.
Well, at least one person caught the humor in your remark.
@@SuperIliad ah! Now 30!
lmao
@@kennethmartin1300 and climbing.
The baton twirler is actually Linda Jenkins. And Ann Pellegrino plays her older sister.
The opening scene of the girl twirling the baton is priceless. You don't see things like that in movies very often.
Otherwise everyone would have quit watching just a guy tinkering unsuccessfully on a car, within a few minutes. Even a woman would rather watch baton twirling than that! Lol!
"Twistin' and Twirlin'"
By Chubby Checker
Tarantino fodder
nice legs
Today, she could do maybe 20 seconds of her baton routine, then on to the next scene.🎥 Different times.
I was 8 when this came out. I remember going to the drive in when I was little and we were allowed to watch the kids movie and cartoons and play on the playground in front of the screen before the movies started. We were supposed to go to bed in the car while my parents watched the adult movie. A lot of B movies were shown sometimes when three movies were available. I snuck and watched a few. I do not remember seeing this one before. I thought it was much better than some I saw. Very interesting plot and the acting did get better during the movie. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this as it brought back many memories of this time. Thank you so much for sharing this one with us all. Much love and appreciation from California.❤️🍀🌈🙏🏻😇❣️
> Michele Lane Wow, drive-in movies - haven't thought about them in a long time. When I was a kid in Florida, one of our local drive-ins had air conditioning! It was a huge tube attached to the post where the speaker was attached - you'd close all the windows and left the driver's window open just enough to balance the A/C tube on top of the window and cold air came pumping outta the tube! It was actually pretty effective and would cool off the interior of the car quite nicely!
Cali, huh? What drive in? I was in Simi valley
That awesome baton twirling was so great to see. Priceless.
The skills of that baton twirling teen in the high heeled cowboy boots are already letting me give this film a thumbs up.👍
Thanks. I was thinking the same thing.
At least she does not have " girl's softball thighs " know what I mean!
Another part of my body is up.
HOT LEGS
I agree. Amazing twirling skills!
Only in the 60's could you walk into a hospital smoking a cigarette, go visit a Doc and he breaks out the whiskey in his office bar! "PRICELESS"
🤣
Drs used to prescribe cigarettes to stressed patents
I remember when people smoked anywhere, stores, restaurants you name it and the kid swept the butts off the floor! It was acceptable back then.
I don't know about whiskey, but I had a Doc back in the 80's when I was kinda running a ER, would come in for his 24hr duty with a cooler full of beer, drank all day but was the best surgeon for stuff. For regular BS, I got screwed with kids, nuts, and everything in between, shit, I wasn't even a Dr or PA, but I had to figure out what the hell was wrong with ER pts. that didn't belong in the ER, back then there was no acute care, so I somehow got stuck. Long ago and far away, Good Night
Not just the sixties ; things were much more free with people making their own choices , you could smoke anywhere and the federal government was restricted , not the people .
That baton-twirling opening was like a Keith Richards signature guitar riff at the start of a Stones song - instant classic!
Chuck Berry, more likely, who was a huge influence on Keith, though it could have been some lesser known player to avoid copyright fees. "Hail Hail Rock and Roll', the musical documentary, has great scenes of Keith and Chuck together, playing and chatting.
I'm sure countless fuel pumps have been replaced to a rock and roll beat since then.
I love the way the Doctor asks the reporter if he was working before poring him a drink yet he said he was swamped with his work then pores himself a drink.
I am definitely sharing this with my film club of the strange & unusual. The soundtrack is killer, the baton twirling supurb. The comments are golden.
The best baton twirling scene of all times, and I loved her hair style!!!
Smoking cigarettes and drinking in the Dr.`s office, Driving all over the place without seatbelts. Ah, the good ole days
And listening to the top 40 on a 9v pocket AM transistor radio.
how did they survie, whith out the government telling them how to live?
I remember my first Doctor's office always smelled of tobacco smoke. He lived until he was 95!
Mr Pete ,
just think how long he would have lived if he did not smoke. But my father died a week before he turned 62 in 1982. I remember as a young child in the early 60's I would ask him to quit smoking. He would take the cig out of his mouth say about three words cough and say "there no edivence that.. Cough cough that smoking is bad cough cough for you."
Can't say one way or the other. Got to see my dad ( heavy smoker and drinker) have his second heart attack which he died from. Our doctor(heavy smoker) suffered and died of a heart attack in his office with his nurse out in the reception area.When found they could see he was trying to give himself an injection.
What a GREAT movie! Thanks for posting!
Bad acting, low budget, beautiful gals, and a cheesy story line....LOVE IT !! And, the very talented twirling of the lovely Ms. Linda Jenkins...wow.
but was it worthy of Mystery Science Theater 3000 review?
With all respect to due Werner Herzog and Mel Brooks, this is the greatest opening scene ever.
Hi Phil 🍕that is a really great opening. 🍕🍕🍕
This movie, without a single known actor, just based on pacing and a decent plot, is literally better than 50% of the movies out today. Low rech, large portions WOS, and still better than most movies.
Actually, Tim Holt was a well known B-Movie western cowboy star, 46 title roles. He occasionally was cast in A-listed films, such as opposite Humphrey Bogart in "Treasure of the Sierra Madres." He had to come out or retirement to do this film, probably as a favor to someone.
Just avoid violating the conscience of the moviegoer and bringing them to a new lower moral standard allows one to make a better movie.
Isn't it funny...
Unfortunately, you're about 99.5%, correct {only in my opinion of course} but, the film 🎞 as filled with WOS moments as it is > still does 'Purdy darned well'; as compared to flood of contemporary mindless goobly-gob that gets written, produced > acted, directed, shot & potentially released.
Actually 💯 percent agreed with you Zendean 5_ _ 😊
I feel like I’ve just been honored to watch an academy award movie. The acting was top notch. Especially the girl with the baton. The mad professor was great too. They just don’t make movies like that anymore.
Thank god
Actually, the dialogue delivered by the actor playing the nazi professor was well written and probably accurate.
The best one was the rookie copper at the end, scratching his head and trying to look confused. Brilliant acting right there.
@@philhuber7493 You're Welcome.
@@geezermann7865
🤔 Yeah, his performance was accurate when compared with real, "historical" Nazis. But nowadays, the term Nazi has been "redefined" by politicians, activists, and so-called "journalists" in the mainstream "news" media, for partisan political purposes. It used to be frowned upon to falsely demonize political opponents by calling them Nazis. Intelligent people saw it for what it really was/is, a desperate slur used by sleazy, irresponsible partisan activists.
But since about 2018, the left have "redefined" the term, and now they falsely demonize their political opponents as "Nazis" or "fascists", as an intimidation and coercion tactic.
If the democrats lose significantly in the 2022 mid terms, expect them and their mainstream "news" media lackeys to start throwing around the terms "Nazi" and "fascist" to describe those who democratically defeated the democrats.
The baton routine was the best part of the movie.
How did I miss this one after all these years? Great B-Movie Sci-Fi! Love it.
Young people were a lot older back then.
Old people were a lot younger too. At least I was.
@@Gribbo9999 ha ha ha!
Some wise guy back then said "Oh, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."
SilverStrike
ha ha - now kids don't grow up. They don't want to work and are spoiled.
mick j . . . "Good and bad,
I define these terms,
quite clear, no doubt, somehow,
I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now"
I'm in love with this girl twirling the baton!
She should have gotten a special Academy Award for "Most Photogenic Baton Twirler in a Motion Picture".
Type in "Lee Remick, Baton Twirler, Face In the Crowd" in your UA-cam search engine. There's an entire scene of leggy baton twirlers but Remick is unbelievable, and doing her own twirling too!
Best baton twirling opening scene ever.
Her voice twanging..lol
She can twirl my baton anytime she likes.
@@leelarson107 hahahahhaa so as mine too!!! she had very hot legs!!!
@@leelarson107 😆
To think, she probably got the part because she knew how to twirl the baton.
I knew it was going to be good when I saw it was Written, Produced, and Directed by the same guy.
In his living room and back yard in Mississippi.
@@SFVnative With 'location shooting' in his basement.
At least we know that means that there is a certain consistency to the endeavor!
If he had also been the male lead, this movie would have been perfect.
you were so fooled all of you! It was a hypnotizing wand. From then on you were compelled to keep watching!!!🙃😀😃
Hey,
As a high-school sophomore we were doing the twist in '63. The one dance everyone could do. And we dressed a lot better than the students now. Memories.......
Thanks!
I was doing the twist in '63, too. But I was 4.
Wasn’t Chubby Checkers pretty popular? I’m 79.
@@philhuber7493 He was a star as the popularizer of the twist!
They should have just had an hour of the baton twirling....
I'm with you on that. And her legs are sweet.
I would watch that for an hour... Seriously I would... 2 hours even...
I'd watch that
You can see her again on another You Tube video:
ua-cam.com/video/5eRuvLCCkt0/v-deo.html
Those gams, though.
This is the best film I have seen in years - thank you Pizza Flix for uploading it and sharing it with us all here on UA-cam. It had me at that opening baton-twirling scene - what a delightful film! The scene of those folks doin' the twist was hilarious - definitely a must-watch film.
What a hoot~!! Brings back so many memories to have been a teenager in the 60's. Thanks for putting this one on the air.
Ed Wood dreamed of having the budget to make a movie this good.
tom kat - I think that car was a Rambler American. I remember the round headlights.
@@flyshackerlo
lol low, lower, lowest ...basement budget lmao
@@flyshacker Wrong, It's a sixty Buick.
Yes, Glen, he did. And I think he would have approved of this movie. I'm halfway through it, and stopped to read some comments. I nearly turned it off after the opening bs, but stuck with it, and was surprised at how well-written and acted this was, albeit, by local thespians.
The mad scientist in this movie isn't just mad, he's furious.
And he's got a magic chalkboard... Amazing!!!
The acting and dialogue was unintentionally hilarious.
Not enough to save it from being extremely boring.
I'm a little stunned to see that Tim Holt grew up to look like Jackie Gleason.
MST.3000 material. Hey, the cheer leader is back!!! Please do some more baton twirling!!!. Brighten up this dull flick.
Well, I'm an old grandaddy, but now I know, after seeing this movie in 2020, why my son came home late from his date at the drive-in theater in 1964 & had to get married 9 months later! What the heck? NO teenager - or you! - could resist such a movie/temptation!
The Academy should be ashamed of ignoring this masterpiece.
Otherwise they have so much else to be ashamed of.
“The car’s broken... it’ll be shorter through those woods... the flashlight isn’t working...” He did NOT deserve to survive.
Thanks now we know he made it.
What a set up
If you think about it, the nazi secret time machine base was located on a u bend of a road. LOL
I was through with him for trying to fix a car in his school sweater.
#STOP IT! 😂🤣😂🤣😂
This guy is the greatest mad scientist ever. I wish I had him as a teacher in high school
I agree he was the best!
Yeah, I mean, except for the whole "Nazi" thing.......
@@scottstewart9584 the problem is nazi scientists are the only real scientists, everyone else is pretending.
@@l337pwnage You're Mom is a Nazi scientist.
This is a gem! So glad I watched it. You just have to shake your head at the mystery of the choices and the production. It feels like a movie we could all make. Isn't that a blow for democracy and equality?!
Wow. At about 55 minutes in, The mad scientist goes into an impressive level of scientific detail for a 1960s B movie. I am starting to think he really does have a time machine.
That's ridiculous. There's been no time machines since the terrible time-wreck of 1152.
Only Tesla knows the truth ...and those running HAARP.....whoever they are?
He just trying to get crowd funding.
It’s literally operation paperclip! Told in a dumb way!
@@Oxxyjoe Rod Taylor?
Disclaimer..... No talented actors were harmed in the filming of this movie.
And today....no talented actors are used in the filming of a movie
No talented actors were HIRED in the making if this movie!
Another disclaimer: Any similarity to persons living is purely coincidental.
YOUR REPLY IS ACTUALLY THE FUNNIEST REPLY TO ANY MOVIE ON U-TUBE I'VE READ. BRAVO 7 TIMES!
Do ya mean because there were none present?
I love how cigarettes were an important prop back then. Also everyone was so dressed up even going into the woods.
This is an excellent B rated sci-fi movie. The type of movie we used to watch in the Drive in movies at 2 am.
You actually watched the movie.
We didn’t watch any movies.
We remember those days ...ah, yes!
"I'm not paid to have opinions. I'm paid to put Jig Saw puzzles together." Screenwriting gem.
Glad we could find a spot for the director's niece to show off her baton twirling talent and crazy accents.
Amazing to see how different the pacing is from anything today. I can see at least 20 scenes - including the opening one - which, like it or not would have been cut to less than half this duration in anything produced today, whether for big screen or small.
for 1963? low budget? a film 55 years ago? this is a masterpiece!! liked the movie. am older so I know/remember what I am viewing. yeah way back 'there'.
I was born six years later .
@@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 .. Your a 69' kid huh? Good one .. .
Wow. This movie practically has it all: baton-twirling, hysterics, insta-love, and high-maintenance hair-dos that stay perfect through everything.
Zabel Zoo Plus all the bad science and accents!
I can still smell the stuff women sprayed on those rock hard hairdo's years ago lol
The hair back then wouldn't dream of moving. So much hairspray! Helmet hair! All that teasing amd spraying! I was born in 1957 and had 3 older sisters. There were rollers, rat-tail combs, Dippity Dew, bobbie pins and hair dryers everywhere in my childhood. I went the hippie route. Long, straight, center part and NO HAIR SPRAY! (The Bundy preferred hairstyle, in fact. In the Pacific NW we came of age in serial killer territory.)
and a jazzy soundtrack
Bet ms baton twillers parents are glad they spent her college fund on baton lessons and hairspray
They sure knew enough to put their best minute and 15 seconds right at the beginning.
These B MOVIE'S were the BEST NO FLUFF just bad acting which made them GREAT along with the music they used.
True. Check out Common Law Wife and Shanty Tramp from that era.
Movie opens with a hottie twirling a baton while Mitt Romney works on the car.
This is a remarkable job considering the small budget and crew. It gives hope to those who dream of making a full length movie with their friends on a micro-budget.
The movie was great until the baton twirling stopped. Then, it just went downhill!
David LaBroad 😂
You win the Best Comment award! 👍👍👍
Hahaha! You didn’t stick around for the nazi scientist!
David LaBroad gotta di
Gotta agree it was great until Baton Girl opened her pie hole!!!
I liked how the German scientist tried to explain time travel. It was very interesting and made this movie fun to watch.
Read Dean Koontz's ''Lightning''
It's a novel about a nazi scientist discovering time travel.
@@Charlesputnam-bn9zy We couldn't get that lucky..
@@l337pwnage
Fortunately.
@@Charlesputnam-bn9zy remember that when the food and fuel runs out, lol.
@@l337pwnage we can always return to plentifoul yesterdays
Why didn't Mystery Science Theater 3000 or RiffTrax ever use this movie? It's perfect for them!
The mst3000 guys would have been going nuts during that long story about time travel theory
Karla Schmiedlin LOL
Too much material to work with.
MST 3000 is groovy baby
Wow, a year later I made the same comment. I keep expecting to hear from Joel Crow and Tom Servo.
Whenever your car breaks down on a country road it's always wise to leave the road and go into a creepy forest marked Warning Keep Out.
That whole scene seemed a bit date Rapey at first!
Bwahahahaha funny
But not before you do some baton twirling. Once you twirl the baton it becomes much safer to enter the creepy woods.
I thought I would never find this movie again, not remembering the name. But the search "50's science fiction movie with girl twirling a baton" brought me to the right place. This movie is so bad it is good.
These are the oldest and most sophisticated teen-agers I've ever seen.
^^^@Aodh .. Not as old as the ones from Tri-ology of terror .. .
He looks more like her father.
The era of BIG BUDGET extravaganzas!
they look older because they all smoked cigarettes and we know now that smoking causes premature aging
@@26TptCoy Yes. But I politely think not as extreme as you suggest. Diet had a lot to do with the aging. So did the fact that many actors in teen movies were 30. So did the fact that make-up experts were still making women up like Joan Crawford. Before Crawford, they were doing Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford. Not drag queens. Gish and Pickford needed no make-up.
"c'mon it'll be shorter through the woods" famous last words
2nd shortcut..!!!!
Now trespassing
Dudes a rogue
Well, to be fair, it WAS much quicker going back to the car LOL. Some shortcuts only work one way ;)
" The first shortcut didn't work." "I know let's try this one!"
Aaaa, So let's take a shortcut through the 18th century.
OH, what could go wrong?
Love the batton twirling, havent seen that in years...you go girl!!!....
my god. How did I ever miss this epic!
This film cost hundreds of dollars to make.
Literally!
agreed good movie for rifftrax to make fun of
I flick - lol
@cinnamongirl3121 I think that was an inflated budget for tax reasons!
Mr22thou they couldn't even pay to wash the blackboard
The way she sways her hips and controls that Baton is very mesmerizing
yes. the best part of the flick.
'The accounting department is certainly coming up with some interesting figures'.
Couldn't agree more.
I've never fixed a fuel pump to anything other than a rock and roll beat.
A friend of mine once fixed a car battery by wacking it a few times with his girlfriend's high-heeled shoe.
He was Nowhere Close to that fuel pump ..
The closest thing I came to fixing a fuel pump was going to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters.
@@ThePiratemachine ...I cleaned my car windows with sweetheart's "unmentionables"
I like the fact that, in their day, my parents dressed well and had class even though they were not well off.
Dressing well, does not really reflect "class".
@@curbozerboomer1773 Depends on the occasian and location too.
Rock and roll destroyed everyone's sense of style and self-respect. But this fact won't be known for another 150 years according to my time travel.
Now THAT'S how you start a film
Still going to school at 35. He must have spent 20 of the best years of his life in Junior School.
When you get a ten-year sentence in Juvie and then they make you finish high school.
The film would have been much longer if he had to be the one getting the professor's explanation.
Most detailed time travel explanation ever in a movie.
"Yesterday should be left alone because today the world has enough problems just trying to make sure we'll have a tomorrow."
Yeah, and Jim is standing there listening so serious like, hanging on to every word!
Actually,...I am mulling over that statement!
Any woman with can run like she does in High heels and a tight skirt is ok in my book.
James Roberts cause they where REAL women....not the credit card,mall rat,kardashean types n real housewives crap.. how do they wipe there snappers w them 500$ long nails...dirty self centered new women, forget em. take ya to the cleaners .
Scott, you are correct. They should all be shot.
Except of course for the Beat Baton Twirler... I love her accent. I want to have her baby.
Catwoman does perfectly too!!! not in short skirt, but in a very very hot catsuit, you surely remember... hehehehee
@@scottconnors8419 Snappers? Did you Google to find that?
10 hour endless loop of the baton twirling girl. Must have it now!
Yes!...She is the perfect example of "that type of girl" from that era!...Incredibly cute, and she knows it!
An older movie with an actual plot Not a bad movie for the time it was made.
The girl with the baton is definitely the best part of this movie...she is freaking dynamite!!!
Mind you, watching her today might not be so hot...
Her name is Linda Jenkins and if she's still alive she must be at least 75 now.
She was also in 'Loose Ends' from 1975.
@@quidnunc2436 Yeah - picture *THAT* in a marching band outfit with the miniskirt & little tasseled cowboy boots. Ughhh!
@ I'll bet her own end was pretty loose by 1975...
literally time travel, for all of us . thank you loved it .
Yes, the baton twirling was the highlight of the film.
When the cop is destroying the time machine I like the way they put the sparklers on top ! This movie must have been produced around the 4th of July and someone stopped at one of those roadside fireworks places and picked up some extra special effects. Sparklers were probably 10 for a nickel back in those days. Right within the budget !
I also have to add - that looked like an authentic supper club from the early 60's. And whoever sang that song was actually a very talented artist. Anyone remember dancing The Twist back then? And I loved seeing those brand new vintage cars.
Well, well - if I were starting up a Time Tours agency, I think I know where to go for a guide to American Camelot! 🤭 🙂
When you think about it--the Twist was a highly sexual pantomime, quite shocking to see, even today, but even more so back then!
I always hated the twist.
Wow, kudos to the casting director. How they ever found so many bad actors really beat the odds.
🤣😅😂
Wow, when I saw that both Tim Holt AND Jack Herman were in this flick, I just knew it was gonna be a knockout blast. Now if Ed Sanders, Herb Wilberforce and Eileen Bishop had been in the cast I would be besides myself.
I loved her hair style and the baton twirling.
The opening sequence of this film made me realise that I had never tried to fix a fuel pump to a rock n' roll beat.
This is a great movie! It just needs a few things, writers, plot, budget, and actors. I'll finish watching this when I have more time, quantum time, that is.
The scientist is describing quantum physics ! Excellent !!
When the opportunity to time travel is offered, never refuse it. Science fiction can become a reality.
@Allis Chalmers We can no longer think that science fiction will not come true. Some one and some places are many years ahead of us technologically and psychologically that makes the majority of people the example of the new dark ages.
@@juless3568 I thought so too. Glad to see others think so. A film of this low budget kind can still bring home the goods with the scientist revealing a very interesting theory - extremely.
imagine that. You walk into a doctor's office without an appointment, light up a cigarette, he pours you a drink, then starts talking to you about this latest patient.
Medicine used to be so informal.
in 2020/21 you can't even see a doctor because they are all afraid of a virus that's 99.7% survivable.
that was real living
The days when you waited for a guy to get up before you knocked him down again.
pre-diversity
@@l337pwnage Yup...pre-diversity. Much better now lol
Not
Now you get stomped to death and they steal your sneakers. Passerbys grab whats left...
@@joelonzello4189 TBH, I'm pretty sure that behavior in the diverse areas in the 50's/60's was pretty much the same. It's just that we had separation from it so it did not affect us. And the media was not allowed to glorify and endorse it.
@@l337pwnage I was around at that time. You're right.
Worthy of an Ed Wood award.
Heru- deshet sss
actually Ed Wood was better
This may be a B-Movie but that soundtrack is grade A
stimmt.
it was swingin'.
Yea..every time something stressful happens the swingin jazz kicks in. Bring back the drive-in theaters. Good ol time slips. lol
C-Movie and B soundtrack.
@LoveEverton John That's what I said too before I even saw your comment lol
Great writing, great lighting, great direction, great acting - just great.
And remember, no smoking!
Love the way she handles that baton
Many people fail to realize that a Mad Scientist not only has a duty to take over the world, but also to educate.
At least the best ones do!
@@magmasunburst9331ut first they have to be rejected from receiving the Nobel Prize (any category) three times. And then locate a deserted island where they can build their lab. Sometimes they’ll have a super hot daughter, still innocent and unclear what boys are for.
The year I was born.
A Cheerleader GODDESS! She could twirl MY baton!
I was born in 66 and I was just thinking while watching this that my mum would have been wearing clothes just like that and back-combing her hair. My dad had the same hairdo as the reporter.
Ahh the good ole days. When the gas was cheap, chrome was thick, and the girls were straight 😳
Not straight curvey 😊😊
No gay guys either
@Andrew Armand It was a phase.
And no damn tattoos !!!!
@Andrew Armand As well as my grandfather, dad and uncles and cousins that fought in the war. I was talking about the women !
A time before all cars looked the same.
Yes and the newspaper man’s Rambler two door nice car.
Jelly beans on wheels all look the same
They were starting to look all the same even then, especially if they were from the same major company. God I was only nine years old when that movie was made.
Longer, Lower, Wider. Enough chrome on one bumper to make hundreds of today's cars. 5,000 pounds of All-American Steel. The Golden Age of Grease.
ten times better than now.
So, I don't know who this guy is who plays the mad scientist, but he should have got an Oscar. He plays it perfectly. Calm, cool and even friendly, until he finally becomes unhinged when Jim starts dissing his buddy, Hitler. Then he goes completely over the top. It's like Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein. Skip to about 44 minutes if you cant get through the first part. It's worth it.
This just an amazing start for a movie.
Great "drive-in" movie, with just enough 'scary' parts for the girl to jump into your arms.
@brian bowes Naughty but true.
The whole purpose to this drive in thriller is for a boy and girl to ignore it and make out in the car.
made to order... lol my thoughts exactly!
Back then, all you needed to make a "classic" movie like this was: 1. Your grandpa's farm 2. Your 40 year old neighbor who still had his letter sweater 3. And $3.12
I pretty much knew the minute she opened her mouth and said anything she was gonna have a southern accent because no self respecting girl from the South would admit she did not know how to twirl a baton.
My husband my boys and I moved to Houston from Chicago when I was in my late thirties and immediately we got pregnant. I still wasn't used to the different southern customs so when they had my baby shower I didn't get why almost every single package had a little tiny baton of one sort or another and it was at that point that I was told that since I was positive I was having a baby girl the next thing I need to be positive about was that she was gonna learn to twirl a baton. She never did I'm sure that she would have used it to beat someone up anyhow so best to keep that out of her hand.
thanks so much for this up load I love these very hard to find movies with actors and actresses never seen before and probably never seen again.
My older sister was a majorette in high school. She was really good at it. I remember I was always getting in trouble for playing with her baton. Yes we live in the south. She is 65 and still has the baton😁
@@lindaallen9409 ..a girlfriend I had played with my baton on our first date !
This film actually has some semblance of a plot........along with the cheezy music! Like, cools-ville man!!
And occasionally some realistic dialogue.
That girl from ancient Egypt speaks English .
You Amerikans !!!.
Those crazy bongos and jazzy flute as Jim and the songstress run through the woods ! Cool Daddy O. .
@@johnbockelie3899 She explains why...
A beautiful car the 1960 Buick... everything GM made from oh say 1954 to 1964 is in my book, the best of styling, very tastefully done automobiles, especially the ones all loaded up with chrome!
Am I surprised. The acting and the story are far better than I had expected from a low-budget film of this vintage. Then there are such implausible moments, such as at 38:33, when "Jim Crandall) leaves a potential witness on the ground and beats it.