Playing at the Newly Re-Opened Boomtown Drive-In

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The TV That Time Forgot: Crusader Rabbit
The history of made-for-TV cartoons is not a particularly glorious one. The overriding concept from the beginning has been to see how cheaply they can be made, not how entertaining or artistic they can be.…
Now Playing at the Boomtown Drive-In: Night Tide (1961)
If you’re looking for a fantasy film that’s well off the beaten path, give Night Tide (1961) a view. Often marketed as a “horror” film (its original distributor was American International, the same people who…
1960s Saturday Mornings
Baby Boomers were not just the first generation to grow up with television, we were first to experience the magic of Saturday mornings. Back in those dark days of no cable and no home video,…
Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
One of the great movies of our adolescent years was Bye Bye Birdie, the film version of the successful Broadway musical. It’s one of the rare instances when the changes Hollywood inevitably brings to Broadway…
The TV That Time Forgot: Love That Bob!
Imagine a TV series where Miss Hathaway from Beverly Hillbillies, Alice from The Brady Bunch and Dobie Gillis all hung out together. There was such a series in the 1950’s, originally called The Bob Cummings…
8 Things You Didn’t Know About "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid"
One of the best films of the sixties came at the very end of the decade. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, a hybrid of the buddy comedy and a Western, was a huge hit…