I just looked a film up in Halliwell’s (To Have and Have Not, which is on TCM at the moment, I decided against watching it, though), and suddenly remembered a couple of other things I had meant to check (when did The Philadelphia Story get made? (1940) and when did they do the musical remake, High Society? (1956) The Halliwell reviewer hates the latter, but I like it – mainly for “Well, did you eva’?”, but whatever) and while I was flicking through I came across one review that made me laugh out loud (not very unusual as far as Halliwell’s goes, one of the reasons I like it is the reviews are quite often more amusing than the films). The film is called Viking Women (I have no idea why I started reading about it, I mean, you can tell immediately that the film’s not worth seeing, really, can’t you?), and the synopsis is “A group of Viking women set sail in search of their men, who went on an expedition three years before.” Doesn’t sound very promising, does it? Or realistic, for that matter, but I suspect that wasn’t the plan in any case. Anyway, this is what the reviewer has to say:
This claims to be ‘The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent’. Viking women, it turns out, are all leggy, slim blondes who wear skin-tight leather and plenty of eye-liner, and look incapable of even fixing their own make-up.
Gotta love ’em, really.