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Weekend of
December 6th
(B&W) 1950
Did you know there is a Christmas Squirrel? He is called “The Great Rupert!” This holiday gem stars Jimmy Durante, and was produced by George Pal, famous for several sci-fi classics. This was also published as a children’s book under the title “Willie the Squowse.” The story revolves around a little animated squirrel, who with much charm, accidentally helps two economically distressed families overcome their obstacles during the holiday season.
Weekend of
December 12th
(B&W) 1935 NEW
The beatniks serve up some Figgy pudding with this one! “Scrooge” is a 1935 British film centered on the Christmas classic starring Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. This is the first sound version of the Dickens classic, “A Christmas Carol.”
Weekend of
December 20th
(Color) 1964
Zelda, Bird, and Theo serve up a “Bird” family tradition this Christmas! “Santa Claus Conquers The Martians” is a science fiction fantasy starring John Call as the Jolly Old Man in red! Plus, see an eleven year old Pia Zadora as Girmar, one of the martian children. Even Mrs. Claus gets into the act with Doris Rich. Why did the martians kidnap Santa? Will he be able to return to earth and make merry for all the world? Watch and find out!
Weekend of
December 29th
(B&W) 1957
As the New Year approaches, this is our annual showing of one of the worst movies ever made! Plan your holiday party around “Plan Nine!” This was the brainchild of Director Ed Wood, one of the patron saints of OBC. Greg Wolcott and Mona McKinon star – along with former wrestler Tor Johnson, and “Vampira,” Maila Numi. Even psychic Criswell gets in on the act. Plus it is the last movie the great horror icon Bela Lugosi appeared in. Will the aliens that land in California stop humanity from creating a doomsday machine, or will they simply become fans of the Kardashians? Keep Watching the Sky!
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Off Beat Cinema is a two-hour hosted movie show that airs on television stations throughout North America on the retroTV Network along with a series of independent stations. Off Beat Cinema promises to show you “the movies that must be shown” – the good, the bad and the foreign (in their original languages, of course!)
Off Beat Cinema began on October 31, 1993 as a diversion from the flood of late night infomercials that seemed to consume the available airwaves of television’s last cool frontier: late night! Once a hip haven for insomniacs, second shifters, beatniks and kids who would sneak back to the TV when their parents were solidly in dreamland, late night television had become a vast wasteland of hucksters hawking everything from cooling systems to spray-on hair in a can.
The show is filmed in the Hungry Ear Coffee House, a whacked-out poetry basement located somewhere in downtown Buffalo, NY. The Hungry Ear Coffee House is a mad pad, Dad… and the kind of place where Boris Karloff could sit with Ed Wood and discuss the transcendence of the ego and how that applies to Moe Howard getting a cream pie in the face. A comfortable pad where former Beatle Pete Best could sit with the Goo Goo Dolls and discuss the merits of 3D giant insect fear films. I think you get the picture.
