February 16 movie: Age of Assassins. Oh. My. God. This was an early 60s movie about an assassination plot by a Nazi and a Japanese megalomaniac who runs a bizarre Art Nouveau insane asylum. Their organization is called Population Control Corporation and they target an antisocial college professor seemingly at random. There's also a spiritualist who dresses like a dominatrix, and a guy named "Automo Bill" (except the subtitles call him "Automo Bile."), and an obsession with an Italian restaurant and raw meat. It's funny, suspenseful, full of action, and so fucking weird. Every movie should be like this.
And that's not even the weirdest part: the weirdest part is the actor who plays the evil genius head of the insane asylum was also in What's Up, Tiger Lily? He was the old guy who wore big rubber gloves and had a snake who was marrying a chicken. After I made the connection, whenever the megalomaniac showed up on screen I heard in my head, "I always cry at weddings!"
We saw this as part of Duke's Cine-East series. Free! We ran into Phil L. from the radio station, a couple of friends of his, and our old friend Walt. A fun evening indeed.
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