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Today in the CBO

Settlements Today

by Nat Wright-Kowalski

11 August 2296 - A Diversion: Back to Starlight Drive-In

Each Tuesday for the upcoming weeks through the playoffs, we will feature one of the settlements, teams, and owners of the Commonwealth Baseball Organization. This is meant to tell you more about life in the Commonwealth, as well as give you more information about the teams and their owners.

Instead of featuring a different settlement this week, I returned to Starlight Drive-In this week to meet up with Irish Cait and my sister, Piper Wright. One thing I did not realize was that Piper and Cait had been on their own duo quests to different drive-ins and movie theaters throughout the New England Commonwealth.

Their search? Movie reels.

Their searches, along with promoting BpsCom's TV stakes, have turned up several usable movie reels found near Nuka World and as far away as Mount Desert Island.

Now Starlight Drive-In is sure to attract more visitors when they can show several movies. Here are some of the latest movies they have, with accompanying movie posters:

Night of the Fish Men's Revenge

According to the promo, "Out of the mist and slime, of a time before the history of man, birthed from the deep of Earth's unexplored oceans, comes an abomination science cannot comprehend, to menace the Earth! And attack!"

Starring Carl Dickson and Synthia Marsh, featuring Kit Denning, Anton Collins, and Mae Whitley, with Nikolai Barsuvian as The Fish Men, this movie in Terrorvision sees fish men from the deep take over a peaceful seaside resort. Like the Mirelurk Kings of the wastes, these fish men desire two things: men's flesh and beautiful women's bodies. Hold on to your loved ones, the Fishermen from the Deep are coming!

This reel was found at Eden Meadows Drive-In on Mount Desert Island. The harbormen that settled there had more than one reel of each movie, so they allowed Piper and Cait to take one of each.



The Fightin' Furies: Last Stand at Fort Mcgee

According to the promo, “Keith McKinney and Stanley Van Robb star as The Fightin' Furies in Last Stand at Fort McGee, a Western from the makers of Aces and Eights. Grab your pistols and get ready for a[sic] old fashioned stand off[sic] as the Fightin' Furies return in Last Stand at Fort McGee. Time to saddle up and circle the wagons as The Fightin' Furies take on bandits, Apache braves, and even the Confederate Army in Last Stand at Fort McGee.

The film starred Keith McKinney, Stanley Van Robb, Angela Lucio, and Molly Ryder as "Polecat Polly." It was produced by Alberto DeLeone and directed by Sergio Amore. The film was advertised as being produced in gorgeous "PanaLuxe" color. When the film was released it topped the box office.

This movie was also found at Eden Meadows Cinema.



Love Sets Sail!

Love Sets Sail! is pre-War romance movie produced by Andrew Levine and written by Shane Velloric and published by OEI Motion Pictures. It stars Vera Keyes, Mike Berlyn, and Vince Natali. Love Sets Sail! performed well at the box-office when released, drawing the largest crowds of any of Vera's other movies; however, because of its poorly written script, it was panned by critics and reviewers.

Love Sets Sail! was believed to have been lost; however, Nate supposedly found a working copy in a closet in Beaver Creek Lanes on Mount Desert Island and gifted it to Cait.

Cait describes the movie as "a bunch of lovey-dovey love triangle manure, if you ask me. But are you asking?"

Keyes was the beautiful star of the movie, and Nate said he learned som information about her from old Vegas. According to information gathered from Gilda Broscoe, "Using the stage name 'Vera Keyes,' the young starlet made a name for herself in Hollywood for her impeccable beauty and for appearing in a number of poorly-written romances that drew large box office crowds regardless of critical reception, such as Love Sets Sail!." Broscoe does not care much for Keyes, though.



Another Day in the Monster Factory

Another Day in the Monster Factory was a pre-War 3D monster horror movie released around 2077, starring Grout Piroshkin, Jimbob Johnster and Grit Cobb. It was directed by Ivan Pelinski.

The promo simply states, "They fight monsters!! Someone has to!"

This movie, filmed in 3-D which requires using 3-D glasses, was acquired by Piper and Cait at a movie dinner theater at Nuka World. They also were able to find several boxes of 3-D glasses to watch the campy monster movie with lots of jump scares of the monsters "jumping through the screen."



Communists from Space!!

Communists From Space!! was a pre-War sci-fi movie released around 2077, starring Chett Bolder and Petunia Belle. No details on the plot of the film or other information are known, except for what is on the poster. According to the poster, "They are coming for our country . . . from the stars!!"

Cait viewed the film once and gave this as her summary: "It's Chinese from space and some other people too, and they keep calling them the 'Red Death from Space.' The two heroes, named Max Spaceman and Belle Starhopper go to space to fight them, but Belle only screams and holds on to Max while he blasts away all the red death people. It's got good action but I just don't understand why you have a woman that just screams and gets in the way. Either take a laser gun and blast them or get the **** back to Earth and find someone who can. At least Max kills every last one of them and then gets to kiss the girl."

This movie reel was already at Starlight Drive-In in a pile of movie reels. Copies were sent to Nuka World and Eden Meadows Cinema.