Spring Fever USA, which IMDB has renamed Lauderdale, is one of a number of college kid Spring Break films. These all feature the same plot elements, including lots of breasts, a college student who shouldn't be there but is, Strange evil adults who are after one or more of the kids, wet T-shirt contests, belly flop contests, and lots of slapstick. This one has all of the above elements, but is not one of the better films in this genre. A UCLA student falls instantly in love with a girl who walks by, and moments later, rescues her from kidnappers. The rest of the film has the student following the girl across country and trading possession of her with the kidnappers.

Seems the young woman is from a wealthy family, and has a huge block of family stock. The kidnappers are attempting a hostile takeover, and are trying to force her to sign a proxy. She just gets irritated that they are interrupting her partying. The young woman is played by Janine Lindemulder in her first role. She went on to become a Penthouse Pet, a porn star, and half of Blondage. You may also remember her as the lesbian camp director in Private Parts. After 67 films, she has reportedly given up porn this year. As she is in her early 30's, I would guess that she will continue to make films of some sort.

I suspect that many of the Unknowns are minor porn actresses based on the fact that Ron Jeremy played a small role as a motorcycle creep. You need to be really bored to watch this one.

OK, I haven't seen it. I capped the pictures of Liz Hurley from a trailer, which you can find here. Are you happy now? Silly thing is rated PG-13 anyway.

I don't know if a movie starring Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley could really be that good, but the original version was very funny. It came out in 1967 with Dudley Moore in the Brendan Fraser role (Is it possible that Dudley Moore and Brendan Fraser could play the same role? Well, I guess it wasn't based on height.)

Peter Cook played the Elizabeth Hurley part. In this case, you can understand how Cook and Hurley could play the same part, except that Hurley is quite a bit more masculine.

If you think that Dudley Moore has about as much comic talent as a plate of lumpy potatoes, then you never saw him work with his partner, Peter Cook. They were magnificent together, geniuses at comic timing the equal of Cleese and Palin, or Bob and Ray, Seinfeld and Alexander, or anyone else for that matter.

In addition the very funny Peter Cook wrote the script, and the very musical Dudley Moore wrote the score, and Raquel Welch played one of the deadly sins. Guess which one.

I suppose the pacing would seem slow today. Old comedy always does. The frenetic pace of today's comics has made it difficult for us to stay patient with the Bob & Ray's and the George Burns's and Jack Benny's. But I'll bet it's still funny. I guess I'll rent it when I see the new Bedazzled, and compare them.

These links refer to the 1967 version, which they are going to re-release on VHS when the new version hits the theaters in a few weeks. (So the new version has already served some purpose, even if it isn't worth seeing!)

IMDB summary: 7.1 out of 10 (1967 version).

VHS info from Amazon (1967 version).

What makes this one really special to me is that one of my best friends was one of the executive producers. I'm trying to twist his arm to do some exclusive commentary for the Fun House, but the jury is still out on that one.

Speaking of stock footage...I recently saw the absolute worse use of stock footage I think I have ever seen! Courtesy of our good friend Fred Olen Ray I might add.

The movie is being shown on cable this month under the title "The Capitol Conspiracy", (IMDb lists it as "The Prophet".) It's just another horrible Don "The Dragon" Wilson flick, I strongly advise against watching it.

Regardless...the stock footage I'm talking about happens at a point in the movie when "The Dragon" is supposedly flying from D.C. to LA. When they cut to the 'plane in flight' sequence, they show a clip that must be at least 20 years old! How could I tell? Well first of all, the film looks like it's bee abused. Some of the home movies Sr shot of the family back in the 70's look better! Second...the plane they show is an Eastern Airlines jet. Didn't they go out of business like 10 years ago?

Now here is a question for the movie buffs. Now that Michael Caine and Gene Hackman aren't doing as many movies, combined with the increased number of cable and satellite channels. Can the Caine-Hackman theory still be proven? If not, is there a new theory that needs to be tested?