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No chickens and no Frank, but one of my all time favorite movies.
Vincent Price with Charles Bronson as his mute assistant terrorize the town first snatching bodies from the morgue and then killing people to turn them into wax figures.
It was originally in 3-D and watching it at the Dreamland Theater, it looked great and semi 3-D.
Knights Of The Round Table in Cinemascope! All the glory and splendor of King Arthur's Court!
I can just imagine the audiences back in 1953 going to see this and being amazed by the huge battle scenes with hundreds of horses all dressed up and galloping into the opposing army. Yowza! No special effects, just lots of horsies and men running around a golf course in Ireland and a couple of castles. The special effects they do have are very funny - lots of invisible ropes & strings - ropes to yank people of their horse and strings to move the arrows into an apple on the top of a knight's head.
The music is fantastic and every action and character had their own musical voice. I loved the poison music when Morgan La Fay (played by Anne Bancroft) got rid of the nosy Merlin.
I watched with my friend Lee-Anne and I wasn't sure she was going to like it, but with some commenting back and forth, we made it way fun. There was just one chicken, but about 4 of the Holy Grail bunch of Knights went off to chase it cuz they were big time hungry. I didn't expect that. There were also some medieval bongo drums.
There were some funny groups - they had a big meeting in a Stonehenge like rock circle and the Picts were kind of like cave men in furry outfits and then there were some guy with big Horn Helmets who liked to fight with hammers & axes. King Arthur is giving a big speech and his horse takes a giant loud whiz, which made us laugh!
I'm adding a new thing to look for in movies - the extremely rare quicksand, which I never figured would show up in a movie about King Arthur, but when Lancelot goes over the cliff into the quicksand, he calls for his 'orse, Eric. I think it's really Barrick, but if you make it Eric and also yell for Eric the 'orse, the movie is a lot funnier!
Ava Gardner as Guinevere and Robert Taylor at Lancelot steam up the place, well not really, this was 1953. There wasn't a kiss until 3/4 of the movie was over, but they did hold hands...
This is a fun movie and I highly recommend it. I just moved Monty Python & the Holy Grail to the top of my Netflix list. Should be a great contrast!
What can I say about one of the all time movie classics, The Wizard of Oz that hasn't already been said?
It's on BluRay DVD now, it's got a whole mess of chickens and they are running from a tornado and the same tornado kicks up a bunch of tumbleweeds. I doubt if there's been any review over the past 70 years that have mentioned those two important items...
It was a lot of fun to see it after watching it every year on TV for many, many years. The extras are excellent with some deleted scenes showing an amazing dance routine by Ray "Scarecrow" Bolger. No Frank characters, but a movie based on books by L. Frank Baum and the Wizard of Oz played by Frank Morgan, counts in my book.
See it again, it's a blast!
No chickens and no Frank, but one of my all time favorite movies. 
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