There is a certain genius for disaster that visits those who continue fumbling through creative endeavors well into the hours they should be sleeping. Early this morning, with drowse clouded mind, I swung the door wide open and welcomed in this guest of grief. With an unfortunate pressing of a single key, I erased the 10/22/08 post from existence.
This is a reconstruction:
Pictured are the elastic visaged Stevie D'Imitazione and the arm of Earl Michaels; no other images of these individuals are known to exist -----
What we have here is the only remaining image from STRAIGHT ARROW & THE THANE OF SPACE vs THE MARTAIN ARMADA.
Aside from these few anecdotal tidbits that follow, no more information is available for this lost obscurity:
Conceived as a vehicle for the nightclub comedy/singing team of Michaels & D'Imitazione ( a sort of bargain basement Petrillo & Mitchell ), it was supposed to launch their film careers, but instead jettisoned them into cultural oblivion.
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Produced by Semi-DeLux Studios, it was financed using money from the sale of spoiled sardines to the Chicago Public School System.
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Shot in b&w, the filmstock was hand tinted by Bolivian artisans in exchange for Civil War era rifles and S&H Green Stamps.
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The film was so bad, that the rating board (through a special act of Congress) actually revoked the citizenship of everyone involved in the production, and had them deported.
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The only existing print of SA&tToSVtMA was destroyed when the abandoned insane asylum in which it had been stored burnt to the ground.
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On Sunday, I'd been by the majestic towers of Downtown/River East AND the scrap piles of west Lincoln Park...
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