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If One Can Overlook...

posted 16 years ago by antpaste
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...Hugh Herbert's irritating giggles and Alan Jenkins' histrionics, this is not a bad little comedy/mystery. There are many, many changes of focus, but the ending of the film explains them all quite nicely.

I thought the revealing of the true identity of "The Octopus" was genuinely scary. When I was a small child of about five (many, many, MANY years ago) I remember watching this film* on our old black-white DuMont TV. As I child, I understood some of the humor, but for the most part it scared the dickens out of me.

*or one very much like it. Not knowing the title, I had searched for over fifty years (yes, you read that right) for the film but it was only when I actually SAW "Sh! The Octopus" that I realized the two films were one and the same.

[–] Godfrey2 13 years ago

What I loved was the ending - SPOILERS - when she gets it!

As a child, it seriously scared the begeezus out of us.

As an adult, I really enjoyed it and laughed.

As you said, as long as you sit back and don't expect it to be an Oscar winner, it's a lot of fun.