A day off, waiting for interviews to be shot ... and Savant kicks in with two quick reviews -- an old musical, and a pair of exploitation quickies.

Columbia brings out a pristine copy of a vintage musical, Pennies From Heaven starring Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong. The depression-era plotline is pretty thick, but Bing is good as an aimless troubadour who finds a family and makes good.

The latest slice of top-quality exploitation sleaze from Something Weird is a kooky caveman double bill of When Women Had Tails and 50,000 B.C. (before clothing). They're a pair of oversexed comedies, one a nudie effort from 1963, and the other an Italian opus from 1971. With tons of extra short subjects.

Not a bad day ... a trip to a Studio City used DVD store turned up a nice copy of FRENCH CONNECTION II, and a CD of the the great Elmer Bernstein soundtrack to ZULU DAWN. That 1979 sequel to the original ZULU would be a great movie for everyone to see right now. On the thinnest of pretexts, an English politician and his general start a war with the Zulu chief Csetzwayo, claiming imminent danger and atrocities, while all the while hoping to make their careers as expanders of the Empire ... old stories aren't really old at all. Thanks for reading, lots of top titles coming up. Glenn Erickson