Watchable List

Lets start with a couple films and their sequels.

The Complete Gidget Collection

These include the original theatrical release (not the TV show) with Sandra Dee in the title rule. They used other actresses for the second and third films in this set. Look for Cliff Robertson as the Big Kahuna in the first one. Though crooner James Darren appears in all of them. (He also appears in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" as Vic Fontaine.)

A tom boyish girl goes on a man hunt to the beach with her more buxom high school friends. They try and attract some surfer dudes but our tom boy just wants to play in the water. The man hunters abandon Gidget and she falls for one of the surfers.

Mostly fluff, but it's cute in its quaint way. While all three films are alright, I missed Sandra Dee in the title role. Find the DVD set of three in Myrtle Point and individually on VHS. Gidget in Coos Bay and Lakeside, Gidget Goes Hawaiian and Gidget Goes to Rome both in Lakeside.

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Gidget
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
Gidget Goes to Rome

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The Complete Gidget Collection (Gidget / Gidget Goes Hawaiian / Gidget Goes to Rome)

Cocoon
Cocoon: The Return

Ron Howard directed the first one and it's the better of two. I guess the Stonecutters really did make Steve Guttenberg a star, because I can't figure out how else he's working in Hollywood. Don Ameche and Wilford Brimley made up for it I suppose.

I'm a big science fiction fan so I give the benefit of the doubt to a lot of logic errors but dang this whole plot has holes you can drive a freight train through. Oh well, it's worth a once through. Some laughs and some tears.

Look in Myrtle Point and Bandon for the DVD of Cocoon. VHS copies in Coos Bay, Dora, Coquille, North Bend and Bandon. The Return DVD is in Bandon and VHS copy in Coos Bay.

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Cocoon
Cocoon: The Return

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Cocoon / Cocoon - The Return

Cinderella

This old live action TV version of the Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers musical stars a young Julie Andrews. I love the song "in my own little corner," though the story is a bit rushed to fit into the musical format.

Andrews does it justice as do all of them. It's in black and white and so gets a little lower rating from me. I prefer other version of the story.

Coquille has the only copy of this DVD.

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Cinderella

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Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1957 Television Production)

Cheers for Miss Bishop

A rather sweet story of an independent woman who dearly wants to go to college and ends up running the department she works in. She falls in love with a married professor who's wife wont divorce him. While sometimes I think that kind of behavior makes the woman look cheap, the way they handle this story showed class and style.

It stars Martha Scott and many nice performances by William Gargan and her love interest Sidney Blackmer.

Look in Bandon for this black and white story of independence.

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Cheers for Miss Bishop

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Cheers For Miss Bishop