Movies

Destination Inner Space (1966) I saw this at a Saturday matinee when it was new, and still enjoy it though its flaws are more evident. Undersea lab is attacked by amphibious alien from a flying swimming saucer, using the same background music as Angry Red Planet. Nice work on the functional swimming monster suit, not really thrilling but fun enough. James Hong plays the Chinese cook. 5/10

She Had to Say Yes (1933) Busby Berkeley had it in his contract that he could direct whole movies, not just dance sequences, and this is one he co-directed. Loretta Young and Lyle Talbot star in a lite melodrama about a garment manufacturer's use of its stenographic pool to entertain buyers, and the consequences thereof. Opens with a signature Berkeley montage of pretty secretaries and busy typewriters. Nothing to telegraph home about, but there is considerably more innuendo and implication than I expected, and nifty layered two-tone gowns by Orry-Kelly. Hugh Herbert plays it as straight as I have ever seen him, as one of the lecherous businessmen. 5/10