Washington Psychotronic Film Society: Hello Down There

June 15, Washington Psychotronic Film Society presents undersea bubblegum pop comedy HELLO DOWN THERE (1969) upstairs at Stoney’s on P (1433 P St NW, Washington, DC), trailer:

WPFS is all wet

• 6:30pm: Short Films & Videos

• 7pm: HELLO DOWN THERE (1969, USA, 88m)

Directed by

JACK ARNOLD (Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Incredible Shrinking Man, It Came from Outer Space, Tarantula, Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch)

Screenplay by

JOHN MCGREEVEY (Night Crossing, The Waltons, My Three Sons)

and FRANK TELFORD

Story by

IVAN TORS (Flipper, Daktari, Sea Hunt, Gentle Ben)

and ART ARTHUR (Daktari, Sea Hunt)

To test his experimental undersea dream home, inventor TONY RANDALL (The Odd Couple) packs up his wife JANET LEIGH (Psycho, Touch of Evil, The Manchurian Candidate), his kids and their rock and roll band and takes the plunge. While the band tries to get their groovy new single into the hands of a top record producer, greedy prospectors, hungry sharks, a hurricane and a battle-ready U.S. Navy threaten to turn the family’s happy underwater home into a real bummer!

Also featuring RODDY MCDOWALL (Planet of the Apes, Fright Night), JIM BACKUS (Gilligan’s Island), RICHARD DREYFUSS (Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind), and MERV GRIFFIN (The Merv Griffin Show, Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune).

poster: https://i.imgur.com/4JZGvnd.jpg

large poster: https://i.imgur.com/pwAkSKO.jpg

No Cover. Mature Subject Matter for Immature Adults (Ages 18+).

https://moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/hello-down-there-1969.htm

https://willmckinley.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/dive-into-the-1960s-with-hello-down-there-on-dvd-from-warner-archive/

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/HelloDownThere

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