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Bradley (Jim Backus), judge and "manly man" (by 1950s
standards of course), wants to go on a camping, hunting and fishing trip
with "the boys" - but his scatterbrained wife Joan (Joan
Stevens) has made her mind up that she wants to go with them. And since
it's the 1950s, women on a camping trip are a big no-no, so Bradley does
everything in his power to dissuade her - but Joan's not one to give up
(even if she tends to fail miserably), so she pretents to be a top camper
and takes riding lessons (both with embarrassing results), all before
trying to prove to Bradley that she's just as tough as he is - but he's
got a few tricks up his sleeve as well ... Well, from today's
point of view, this episode of I Married Joan will probably
viewed as rather sexist, as most of the views portrayed in this one are
totally out of date in 2018, and even if the story as a whole is presented
as a comedy it lacks any self-aware irony ... and that all said, today's
rules didn't apply all these years (66) back, and whatever's viewed as
oldfashioned today was totally the norm (at least in TV, back then a
conservative bastion) in the 1950s - and taking that into account, the
episode is quite entertaining and interesting from a historical point of
view, and some of the stuff in there, including some slapstick sequences
(like Joan learning and failing to ride a horse) are rather well done for
sure. So in all, a worthy trip down nostalgia lane, as long as you leave
today's (well-justified) political correctness at the door.
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
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