Balladeer’s Blog resumes its shoutout to the FORTIETH anniversary year of The Texas 27 Film Vault, one of the many Bad Movie Shows since the 1950s. The program debuted on Saturday February 9th, 1985.
From cast interviews to research through very old newspapers to recollections from fans of the show, I’ve put together whatever information became available to me over the years.
Starring All Kinds of People Who Died Before Your Grandparents Were Born
MOVIE: Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
ORIGINAL BROADCAST DATE: Saturday July 6th, 1985 from 10:30pm to 1:00am. Broadcast throughout Texas and Oklahoma. Special thanks to my fellow T27FV fan Roberta for the date.
FILM VAULT LORE: With 2 1/2 hours to work with each week Randy and Richard, as machine-gun toting “Film Vault Technicians First Class (EO6)”, would usually present and mock episodes of old Republic serials, then still had time to follow that up with a bad or campy movie AND their comedy sketches.
Those sketches centered on their fictional Film Vault Corps, “the few, the proud, the sarcastic”, the men and women who “protected America’s schlock-culture heritage” in the form of the Golden Turkeys beloved by bad movie buffs. Such flicks were staples of late-night movie shows all over the country, hosted or not hosted.
Star Spangled Rhythm was so long that, with commercials plus Randy and Richard’s comedy sketches, there was no time for a serial before the film for this episode of The Texas 27 Film Vault.
STAR SPANGLED RHYTHM was a quaint, schmaltzy, light-hearted morale booster for the United States, which at the time of its release had been involved in World War Two for less than a full year. Continue reading
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