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Sacre Bleu: a Comedy Dart Free FREE SACRE BLEU: A COMEDY DART PDF Christopher Moore | 416 pages | 27 Aug 2012 | HarperCollins Publishers Inc | 9780061779749 | English | New York, NY, United States Listen Free to Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d'Art by Christopher Moore with a Free Trial. Nevertheless, the film has a certain old-timey charm, helped tremendously by a funny Bela Lugosi, who sends a giant killer bat to off the people wearing his new aftershave. The Sacre Bleu: A Comedy DArt Bat. Directed by Jean Yarbrough. Written by John T. IMDb score: 5. Bela Lugosi grinning it up in The Devil Bat. Where to begin? In fact was something of a second coming of Lugosiwho, despite being broke, had made only a film serial in and not a single production in The film follows Dr. Carruthers is a kindly town doctor, who also happens to be employed by a family-owned perfume business who have become rich on his inventions. Feeling that he has been cheated out of his money, he secretly uses electricity to enlarge a bat to monstrous proportions a few feet wide, that isand teaches it to hate a certain potion that he has brewed. They follow leads here and there, and the police refuse to believe that Dr. Carruthers might be involved, despite him being close to all the victims, his aftershave is found with all the victims and he seems to have a motive. More people are killed. Bela Lugosi does his best parody of Sacre Bleu: A Comedy DArt and One-Shot and Layton crack bad jokes. Maxine lifts her skirt up to knee height. Carruthers is killed by his own Sacre Bleu: A Comedy DArt. Layton and Mary smooch. The end. It is the sort of horror comedy that proved so popular in the forties. As described above, the plot is paper-thin, and the developments outright daft. Would you not think perhaps, that a doctor who serves as a personal fysician to his victims would find a slightly easier way of disposing of them, than by first creating a Franken-bat, then somehow luring his victims to put on an aftershave that he has had to concoct for the purpose, make the bat kill at the smell of the aftershave, let the bat out and hope for the best? Perhaps he could just poison them or something? Not to mention the fact that his own lab bust reek of the aftershave, and it is next door to where the bat sleeps, making him the obvious Sacre Bleu: A Comedy DArt. And the further the film goes, it becomes harder and harder to believe that the police, the family and almost Sacre Bleu: A Comedy DArt involved balk at the idea that good old Carruthers could somehow be guilty. They basically catch him red-handed and still the script tries to find ways to make them reject the notion. The subplot is unnecessary and feels like it is there just to fill out time, which makes the film drag even at its short 68 minutes in length. As a publicity stunt the studio not PRC, mind you had her long legs insured for one million dollars. In the eighties she caused some hilarious controversy when she refused to move out of a building that Donald Trump wanted to demolish. Over ten years later Trump was able to buy her apartment for dollars. This is what you look like when attacked by a rubber bat. Despite Sacre Bleu: A Comedy DArt, she gives the best performance in the film. Donlan was in fact a very good actress, and went to some fame on stage, which brought her to Britain when spotted by Laurence Olivier. There she married director Val Guestappeared in some highly praised stage roles in London, and became a minor movie star in England. Val Guest wrote and directed eight films with her in the female lead, and she acted in several more, including a few in the States. Although she was best known for her cheeky and energetic performances in comedies, she also gave proof of her dramatic talents in some dramas and thrillers. She was married to Guest until his death inand sadly passed away herself in December 30,hardly two weeks before this review is written. May she rest in peace. I am happy to see that both The Guardian and The Independent have remembered her with lengthy obituaries. The rest of the cast is interchangable, although there is a supporting part by Arthur Q. Bryanthe original voice of Elmer Fudd. The film has a wonderful redeeming quality, though: Bela Lugosi. The thing that sets this film apart is that this time Lugosi is in on the joke, as opposed to many of the later films and appearences he made. Lugosi tows that line between being creepy and funny and does a subtle send-up of his previous roles, and in fact he plays a bit Sacre Bleu: A Comedy DArt a Sacre Bleu: A Comedy DArt version of his role in Black Fridaywhich he made around the same time as this film. He speaks his morbid double entendres with pure delight, stressing just the right words, giving his seemingly kind words an ominous sound. And in fact, there are moments when he even seems to almost get rid of his accent. But unfortunately, the direction of the film is hamfisted, and there is not nearly enough plot to stretch to 68 minutes. Neither is there a budget to make anything out of those stretched scenes. Thus we get Bela Lugosi in a dark basement lab wearing goggles and looking through a view hole at a flickering light out of frame, smiling his evil smile. For a long time. Cut to a bunch of Strickfadens. Cut back to Lugosi. Sacre Bleu: A Comedy DArt to the Strickfadens. Back to Lugosi. Then he enters the other room where an obvious rubber bat hangs immobile. He talks to it. Not that much is needed. Then we cut to a stock shot of the head of a real fruit bat. It looks nothing like he rubber bat. Then we cut back to a wide shot of Lugosi and the rubber bat. He talks to it some more. Then he walks out and puts his goggles on again. He turns the lever and there is more sparkling and blinking. For another long stretch of time. And so on. The bat in action looks just like a big rubber bat. Sometimes it flaps loosely as if obviously hung from a string. The studio was founded in and The Devil Bat was only its tenth film. As with most PRC pictures, it had a budget under dollars, and it shows. The music is fairly effective, but compiled from canned stock. Yet, despite all its shortcomings, the film has a certain charm to it, which springs from the fact that the lead actors are all Sacre Bleu: A Comedy DArt likeable, and that it treads a comforting line between comedy and thriller. Bela Lugosi gives it some star quality, and as mentioned above, does a great job within his limited acting range — his hilarious hamming is just right for the film, and he does it with a wink to the audience. Without him, this film would have gone on my list of awful movies, but as it stands it is a mildly enjoyable movie, especially if you are a fan of old B-films. It was remade the same year as The Flying Serpent. Art director Paul Palmentola thoroughly acquainted himself with B-movie sci-fi over the years to come. The Flying Saucersand last but not least, the film we love to hare here on the blog: The Giant Claw Art direction: Paul Palmentola. Production manager: Melvin De Lay. Sound: Ferrol Redd. Musical director: David Chudnow. 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