Girls, It Will BUG The Hell Out Of You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                              Finally, darlings, "Svengoolie" is showing a gem tonight.  Of all the giant bug movies made during the Fifties, "THEM," made in my birth year, 1954, was the best of the lot.

                               It has a spectacular cast--James Whitmore, James Arness and Fess Parker! Imagine---three iconic TV hunks in one film!  The special effects are superb; the giant ants seem genuinely real.

                               Then there is Sandy Descher.  She does not get much screen time, but her tragedy sets the film in motion.  And her 30 second hysterical scene was the gold standard of its day, not outdone until Nancy Kelly put her stage performance on film in "The Bad Seed," in 1956.

                              Come to think of it, dears, whenever one talks about America in the Fifties, it all seems to come back to "The Bad Seed."

                               As for "Them!," it has nothing to do with Joyce Carol Oates, who wrote a novel with that title in 1969.

                                "Them!" is certainly worth viewing, even if having seen it before, it is one of those films worth watching again.

                                   And how about those opening credits, with the title flashed on the screen, in flaming red??????????????

                                      Just fabulous, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                     See you all at 8PM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!