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Movie Info

While owner George Bater (Keenan Wynn), cook Slob (Lee Marvin) and waitress Kotty (Terry Moore) go about their workday, their diner near the highway becomes a haven for international espionage during the Cold War. One of the diner's regular customers is professor Sam Bastion (Frank Lovejoy), who works at a local laboratory as a nuclear physicist. Although Kotty and Bastion are dating one another, she has no idea what he has gotten himself involved in -- but she is about to find out.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Edward Dein
Producer:

Mort Millman
Writer:

Edward Dein, Mildred Dein
Release Date (Streaming):

Oct 1, 2015
Runtime:

1h 20m

Cast & Crew

Terry Moore
Kotty

Frank Lovejoy
Prof. Sam Bastion

Lee Marvin
Slob, Mr. Gregory

Keenan Wynn
George

Whit Bissell
Eddie

Jess Barker
Artie

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Critic Reviews for Shack Out on 101

All Critics (2) | Fresh (2)

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.

October 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.

April 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