Today's Video Link

Here's a link you won't want to watch all of right now. It's the entirety of the original, black-and-white Little Shop of Horrors starring Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles and a small but famous appearance by Jack Nicholson. I remember a time in the late sixties when this movie was practically unknown. It turned up every now and then on Channel 9, usually commencing at Midnight or later and my friends and I thought we were the only people on the planet who had ever seen it.

It was, of course, infamous not only for its bizarre humor but for the fact that director Roger Corman shot the whole thing in two days of interior shooting and one long night of exteriors. For some reason, that's not impressive enough and I've seen people claim it was shot in two days or even one.

Mr. Corman usually says he decided to shoot a movie in two and a half days as a lark. He'd previously made Bucket of Blood (with many of the same people) in five days and wanted to see if he could halve that time. Others who were involved have suggested that it was just a matter of Roger being cheap. A lot of the films he directed or produced are nice triumphs of creativity over budget.

You don't want to click on it now because it's an hour and thirteen minutes long and you have better things to do at the moment. But it's here if you want to watch it now or you can go to this page and download a copy to your hard disk or iPod. Don't say I never gave you anything.