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In this classic (1963) sci-fi/monster movie, a weatherman keeps reliving the first 24 hours of

the Earth's invasion by flesh-eating plants after a meteor shower brings them to

Earth and blinds most of the humans.Stars Howard Keel, Carole Ann Ford, and Andie Mac Dowell.

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The first part is probably "Groundhog Day." but I'm not getting the old sci-fi flick.

George

Well, you're halfway there. I figured, since I'd heard of the old movie despite

never seeing it, you guys would know it at least as well.

It had a tv series in 1981 and another in 2009 as well as the movie, and the book they

were all based on (I didn't know there was a book....) There were even radio dramas,

which makes sense since the book was out in the 50s and the BBC does radio dramas

even now, AFAIK, but that usually makes me think 1940s. Not a clue, just me musing.

Someone's floating the idea of a 3D version for theaters now, so it's not like this

is THE most obscure movie out there.

I guarantee the linking word is NOT a type of animal (nor part of the name of a

type of animal, that wasn't a trick.)

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OK, then, "Groundhog Day of the Triffids"

Now that it has been revealed, the title does seem vaguely familiar. I don't recall either TV series, though.

A secretary, whose idea was stolen by her boss, pretends to be the boss after the boss is injured. For this, the secretary is put in a mental hospital.

George

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9 to 5 1/2 weeks

Interesting guess, although there was never a 5 1/2 Weeks movie.

A secretary, whose idea was stolen by her boss, pretends to be the boss after the boss is injured. For this, the secretary is put in a mental hospital. Starring Melanie Griffith.

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At least I know who the interdimensional traveler is. ("Lost in a world he never made" was the comic-book tagline.) The European country part escapes me. Does that title come first?

George

The titles are in order.

You will have to think a bit to recall the musical comedy with the

President of the little European country.

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In this musical comedy, an interdimensional traveler ends up displaced from home and on Earth-

where the humans make him the President of the tiny European country of Freedonia.

Stars Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins, Margaret Dumond, and Julius, Adolph, Leonard

and Herbert Marx.

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Ah. :)/>

"Howard the Duck Soup"

George

That's it.

Margaret Dumond was the actress who worked in a lot of Marx Brothers movies.

Some people dubbed her "the fourth Marx Brother."

Some people have short memories.

I understand they didn't know Gummo, who was never in the movies, just the stage-act,

but Zeppo was in several movies, the last of which is this one.

This before-and-after actually links 2 movies that bombed.

Duck Soup wasn't popular until decades later, when college students began

screening it while protesting the Vietnam War. It's possibly the purest

Marx Brothers movie, which makes it the zaniest- not everyone likes their comedies

that madcap. This movie, when released, did poorly enough that Zeppo considered

this the right time to leave show business, so it's the last one to feature

the original 4.

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I actually would have had a shot at remembering "Warehouse 13"

(you've mentioned it before). "13 Ghosts" was a 1960 movie that had

a REMAKE in 2001. If you'd mentioned that, I would have remembered a

few movies that were remade around that time, that among them.

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I actually would have had a shot at remembering "Warehouse 13"

(you've mentioned it before). "13 Ghosts" was a 1960 movie that had

a REMAKE in 2001. If you'd mentioned that, I would have remembered a

few movies that were remade around that time, that among them.

Well, EXCUUUUUUSE MEEEEE! :lol:

George

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