Silence of the Hams

Name: Silence of the Hams
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 44 min
Rating: 4.9
Cast: Daryl Somers, Ernie Carroll, Rhonda Burchmore

TV Movie
1992
44m

IMDb RATING

4.9/10

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Comedy

The evil Fu has gained possession of a machine that can put himself in classic movies and destroy them in aid to dominate the worlds movies by only having his films available to the public. ... Read allThe evil Fu has gained possession of a machine that can put himself in classic movies and destroy them in aid to dominate the worlds movies by only having his films available to the public. Private eye Rick Shaw and his accomplices are out to investigate and put a stop to Fu and ... Read allThe evil Fu has gained possession of a machine that can put himself in classic movies and destroy them in aid to dominate the worlds movies by only having his films available to the public. Private eye Rick Shaw and his accomplices are out to investigate and put a stop to Fu and his men.

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Trivia
Plucka Duck is not a real duck. He is played by Simon Lefebvre, who at the time was credited on Hey Hey It's Saturday (1971) as "Plucka's Trainer".

Goofs
Molly Meldrum says he is touring with a hot new group called the Andrews Sisters who debut in the early 1940s. He then answers a question about a new up comer named Elvis Presley, whom shot to fame in 1956, making it at least 1954-1955 if Molly says he's only a rising star, all while Little Richard's 1958 hit Good Golly Miss Molly is playing in the background.

Quotes
Ossie Ostrich: Ah sow, ah sow, Confucios say, "girl who want big parts in movies, must have big parts"

Connections
References Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978)

Soundtracks
To All The Girls I've Loved Before
Written by Albert Hammond and Hal David
Performed by Julio Iglesias
Produced by Richard Perry
Courtesy of Columbia

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4/10

Ill conceived, funny moments.

Private investigator Rick Shaw must track down the evil Fu Manchu, who is doing something bad to the movie industry (though I couldn't exactly work out what ....)

It's as if the Somers Carroll production company was unexpectedly allocated time at Movie World & they thought - gosh, we'll just throw a script together using any random ideas we have had over the last 30 years, fly the cast & friends of Hey Hey up to Queensland, and whacko, we'll have an instant 40 minute movie (okay technically it's a 6 part serial).

There's a lot of strangeness in the storytelling technique; seems the director doesn't know that pantomime characters don't translate well to movies (well he knows NOW !)

Perhaps the first draft of the script was the only draft. Why is there a time machine ? There are many funny bits.

It's worth watching once, but you won't watch it twice.

If Terry Gilliam were given a $100 budget and 1 day, it's the kind of fun nonsense he might come up with.