Review of Shack Out on 101 (1955) by Michael T — 25 Jun 2010

Terry Moore vs. the Commies. . .campy fun.

This review of Shack Out on 101 (1955) was written by Michael T on 25 Jun 2010.

Shack Out on 101 has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 06 Oct 2013

For such a short movie packed with so much incident, Shack Out On 101 devotes an awful lot of its time to folks simply hanging out and shooting…

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This movie confuses me. Somtimes it plays off as serious, and others it tries to be a comdey, then a romantic film…

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Trimmed with a plot about spies that seems incidental (if not entirely disposable) while filled with plenty of incidental conversation, The…

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By Brad G (899) on 10 Oct 2013

You are my heart, but I'd cut you out if you were a traitor! An exceptional but forgotten gem of Cold War cinema…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 13 Apr 2005

A snappy entry into those Red Scare movies from the Cold War paranoid period of the 1950s in America…

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By Mike M (2,387) on 19 Jul 2011

Snappy, hip dialogue (sexy lead female is referred to throughout as the tah-mehta) and a top-flight old Hollywood cast make this rarity a real…

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By Mike P (1,383) on 15 May 2009

Heres a really wacked out film about a diner thats a front for communist spies. A very young Lee Marvin plays a cook named Slob…

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