Shack Out on 101

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Movie Info

In this thriller, diner waitress Kotty (Terry Moore) helps an undercover professor (Frank Lovejoy) to capture the traitorous cook Slob (Lee Marvin), who is engaged in an anti-government organization that is plotting to destroy a local laboratory.

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery & Suspense
Directed By:

Edward Dein
Written By:

Edward Dein, Mildred Dein
In Theaters:

Dec 4, 1955 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Aug 6, 1988
Runtime:

80 minutes
Studio:

Allied Artists

Cast

Frank Lovejoy
as Professor

Lee Marvin
as "Slob"

Terry Moore
as Kotty

Keenan Wynn
as George

Whit Bissell
as Eddie

Jess Barker
as Artie

Don Murphy
as Pepe

Donald Murphy
as Pepe

Frank de Kova
as Dillon

Len Lesser
as Perch

Fred Gabourie
as Lookout

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Critic Reviews for Shack Out on 101

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For such a short movie packed with so much incident, Shack Out On 101 devotes an awful lot of its time to folks simply hanging out and shooting the shit, and it's richer for it.

Oct 7, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Nathan Rabin
The Dissolve
A snappy entry into those Red Scare movies from the Cold War paranoid period of the 1950s in America.

Apr 14, 2005 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
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Audience Reviews for Shack Out on 101

Apr 12, 2016

Trimmed with a plot about spies that seems incidental (if not entirely disposable) while filled with plenty of incidental conversation, The Shack wins admiration for it's performances and theater-like presence. It doesn't always make sense ... but that was the 50's for you.

Kevin M. W Super Reviewer