WAC Double Features: Big Hearted Herbert/Merry Frinks "Monogram Pictures"

WAC Double Features: Big Hearted Herbert/Merry Frinks "Monogram Pictures"Talented, sad eyed Aline MacMahon excelled in maternal and sisterly roles, giving them comedic grace or soulful earnestness as the situation required. Both qualities are showcased in this twinbill of MacMahon starrers. Blustery and domineering pop (Guy Kibbee) gets his comeuppance and goes from narrow minded patriarch to Big Hearted Herbert, thanks to his loving wife (MacMahon). In The Merry Frinks, the comic tale of a whack a doodle family that has

Floradora girl Peggy Martin has found a life she could only dream about

The film's portrait of a fascinating (and a bit frightening) breed of young women who match men drink for drink and vice for vice was so popular it bred two similarly themed movies: Our Modern Maidens and Our Blushing Brides

The ship's computer tech (Jim Hutton) confesses that the computer can also tell where a roulette ball will land

played by Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner) is no less turbulent

and Rabbit of Seville

has news of an edible beer bottle he's inventing

George Tobias and

Edgar Buchanan and Henry Daniell

transformed by desire and willing to pay any price for his passion

the movie won for Best Sound Recording

killers and cowgirls

who helps him try to track down the Stingray before it gets away for good