Shack Out on (101) Movie Review

You haven't LIVED until you've seen the ultimate sleazeball classic of 1955: Ed Dein's Shack Out on 101. Yep, the Commies are it again and who is their recruit of choice but grungy Lee Marvin, cast to type as a slob, and warming up for his Academy Award acceptance speech some 10 years later? Female viewers can admire the gutsiness of Terry Moore's character as a waitress named Kotty (now THERE is a dame who knows how to handle sexual harassment!). Meanwhile, male viewers can sympathize with the dilemma of all those poor lonely men onscreen who have to live with the fact that the only women for miles around can't stand them. The climax of Shack Out is beyond belief; your jaw will either be nailed to your chin or you'll be in such uncontrollable hysterics that you may have to slap yourself. (Thanks, I needed that!) If the late, great Tex Avery had ever made a live-action feature, it might have looked like this one. Don't miss Shack Out, co-starring Frank Lovejoy as the Professor, Keenan Wynn as George, and the ubiquitous Whit Bissell as Eddie.

1955 80m/B Lee Marvin, Terry Moore, Keenan Wynn, Frank Lovejoy, Whit Bissell, Jess Barker, Donald Murphy, Frank De Kova, Len Lesser, Fred Gabourie; D: Edward Dein; W: Edward Dein, Mildred Dein; C: Floyd Crosby; M: Paul Dunlap, Louis Prima. VHS