Up Your Alley

This is Bob Logan and Murray Langston aka The unknown comic's. Attempt at adding a little social commentary to they're low budget comedy. Thiss film came out around the same time as Mel Brook's Life Stinks. Both films are set in the homeless community's and for me both films have plenty of laughs.

But strangely, I would give Up Your Alley the edge over the larger budgeted Brooks film.

This is due to the fact that Logan and Langston actually have a rather nice storyline that has to do with a reporter played by the ever likeable Linda Blair who goes under cover as a homeless person to get a story on a serial killer who has been killing members of the street community.

But where's the comedy I hear you ask? Well, that's where Langston and Bob Zany come in. Langston plays David, a washed up drifter who takes a naïve young guy Sonny (played by Bob Zany)under his wing. They team up With Blair and encounter a bunch of eccentric and sometimes hilarious characters. Ruth Buzzi's Marilyn, a nutty middle aged street woman who believes she's very desirable and Johnny Dark as Nick the Crazy street cowboy are stand out turns.

But what I really like about this film is that these are ultimately tragic characters. The film never shy's away from this, and although they make us laugh , we also know that there's a lot of truth to them.

Up your alley is a low budget affair , so don't expect it to be as polished as a big studio picture. But it does have a certain amount of heart which many big budget comedy's lack. I just hope it gets a re-release on DVD or Blu-ray.