Never seen it – old or new. So watching bits of it tonight (looks hokey) as I do tasks reminds me of a movie I saw in the condemned theatre of my hometown, the theatre which only opened for a children’s Christmas show and drawing for a new bicycle one Saturday in December.
I think for a few years my sister, brother and I were allowed to enter the hallowed halls of the defunct movie theatre – did I mention it was “condemned?” Some philanthropic organization in town hosted the movie and bicycle drawing and we got to go, most presumably to get us out of our mother’s hair. The movie? It was some scary thing about a ghost ship which had absolutely nothing to do with the holidays, let alone Christmas! It was the same movie each year. No creativity whatsoever in the management of this activity. That reminds me of another show, “Jason and the Argonauts.” It always aired around Easter! The dead skeletons rising up were enough to inspire resurrection stories, I guess? It, too, was a scary movie for a young overactive imagination.
Well, times were tough in childhood. We took what we could get!