Shack Out on 101

  • Crime
12/4/1955
80

Four men and a girl!

A greasy spoon diner provides a base for a spy smuggling nuclear secrets.

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  • John Chard

    Slob's got an eight cylinder body and a 2 cylinder mind.

    Shack Out on 101 is directed by Edward Dein and Dein co-writes the screenplay with Mildred Dein. It stars Terry Moore, Frank Lovejoy, Lee Marvin, Keenan Wynn and Whit Bissell.Music is by Paul Dunlap and cinematography by Floyd Crosby.

    An isolated diner on California's 101 highway provides the backdrop of for nuclear secrets, spies, federal agents and sexual boiling points.

    What a wonderful hot-pot of the weird and wonderful world of the era's "red scare" momentum. Often inserted into film noir dictionaries or "commie" thriller paragraphs, the truth is, is that it's a film very much of a kinky oblique niece section of film making. This is the kind of picture that will either ...

    December 15, 2019

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