Post #52849 by AquaZombie on Fri, Sep 26, 2003 3:53 PM

I just brought this subject up in Beyond Tiki but thejab suggested I move it here since it fits the bill. Sometimes certain folks (none that I know by name) around here can get just a tad touchy and I don't want to step on any tiki-toes by breaking the rules, inspiring anarchy and creating chaos.

Anyway, this is a narrower topic than "Tiki in Old Movies" and what inspired it was my screening last night (at the Parkway) of Sam Fuller's "Underworld USA" (1961) which includes a random incidental tiki statue on Cliff Robertson's coffee table in his bachelor pad while being grilled by gangsters. Other noir/tiki sightings include "711 Ocean Drive" (which I showed last year), with a scene in a Palm Springs tiki bar, and thejab reminded me of "Where Danger Lives" which has, I believe, a scene in an Oakland tiki bar (Hinky Dink's? Zombvie Village?). He mentioned one more but I already forgot it, it's on the old thread in Beyond Tiki.

I also wanted to give a shout out to the excellent limited comic book series "Hawaiian Eye" which came out earlier this year and should be released in an omnbius soon. It's excellent supernatural PI/crime stuff set in Hawaii in the 50s, sort of a cross between "Hawaiian Eye" (TV tiki noir) and "Twilight Zone" with a little voodoo thrown in for good measure.

I also dig Otto's regular "Tiki Noir" section of "Tiki News."

Okay, that about covers it, I think I've "moved" the topic successfully. I don't know how to delete the old one so please forgive me if I've inadvertently snubbed established chat room protocol.