One More Movie Trivia as We Move Toward Long Underwear Season!

Take a close look at these scenes from a popular film a few years back, Union Suit Fans, and give us your best answers to the questions below:

From what movie are these scenes taken from?  

One character wears only long underwear for pajamas. Who is the boy in his union suit pj's?  

Why is his face partially covered in bees in the first photo?

Why did the kids don gas masks?

Name three peculiarities of any three of the kids? 

One of the three main characters in this film is a 16 year old boy? Who is this young actor, and what is the name of the character he plays?

Speaking of BVD Underwear  

(And I was if you paid attention to my last three postings) You can still purchase, wear and enjoy underwear similar to BVD's, the type of suits your relatives wore a mere 100 years ago, and as did Lucius in the film, The Reivers. 

Take a look at summer one-piece, short underwear that Retro Jeff and Buckeye Mike have resorted to these past smokey, sweltering, dog days of summer:

And, how about these "short johns" that Retro sports on warm days...

Let me know if you if you follow their course by purchasing some "BVDs" of your own.

  

Simply shop on line today to get yours... 

....And tell them Retro and Buckeye sent you!

A YesterYear Boy in Summer Underwear, Part Three 

Hearing all the shouting between Ned and Lucius, Boon came running to the open window to see what all the commotion was about. When he realized Ned was outside holding the reins of a horse down in the dark, he raced down the stairs and out into the garden: 

   

But where was Ned?

Surprised and now wide awake, Lucius ran out of the house in just his BVD underwear, accompanied by the entire household, to confront Ned, a most unexpected night visitor: 

Sure enough there stood Ned with a horse. But Why? 

Bewildered and not too happy, Boon confronted Ned and seeked to understand why he brought them a horse in the middle of the night!!  

Stunned beyond words, Boon had to sit down, sighing and holding his head.  This couldn't be happening!  Could it??

 

Lucius, now wrapped warmly in a blanket covering him in his BVDS's on this cold night, approached Ned and was given the low down... 

 

What Ned told the boy was a humdinger! 

But rather than spoil the second half of the film, I recommend you rent, buy or stream The Reavers!  You won't be disappointed. You really will want to get your hands on the book too!  There is so much more to this story than the movie could depict unless it had been made into a mini-series. 

Again, Special Thanks to William Faulkner, Mark Rydell, Director, Irving Ravetch, Producer, and the Production Companies: Cinema Films, Duo Films, Solar Production, and National General Pictures. And also to the outstanding cast and crew! What a joy....Chris 

A YesterYear Boy in Summer Underwear, Part Two

  

Lucius was awakened from having just dozed off by an intruder. Well, not exactly an intruder. But rather another boy, Otis, who was related to one of the young women (his aunt) who worked at the boarding house. The boys were to share a room for the night. Otis knew of a floor peep hole where he could watch and listen to action in the room below. 

 

  

  

 It was late, so Otis began to undress to crawl into a second bed in the boys' assigned bedroom. After getting his coat off, he asked for help with his tie. As Lucius reached to assist, Otis insulted his own aunt, calling her a very uncomplimentary name for the "work" she did. 

    

This infuriated the younger boy who took issue with the name calling. Lucius became so insensed, he pounced from bed in his underwear and began beating Otis. 

 

After the initial surprise, Otis, being older and bigger, quickly gained the upper hand, subduing easily the smaller boy.

During the encounter, Otis reached for a knife from his pants pocket and was able to slash Lucius' hand. 

 

Boon had heard the commotion from downstairs and came rushing in. He quickly broke up the fight between the boys before Otis could severely injure Lucius. 

Boon separated the boys and took Lucius into the bathroom to stop the bleeding and bandage his hand while Otis ran out of the bedroom.  

  

After the older boy ran out, Boon was able to get the younger boy settled down and back into bed. It was very late and it had been a long day.

 

Minutes later, Lucius was comforted by Boon's sweetheart, Otis' aunt....

After things had quieted down, Lucius finally fell asleep. But he was soon awakened by loud shouting outside his open window. Will this boy ever get some rest?  

 

Getting back out of bed and going to the window, Lucius discovered it was Ned, who had earlier stowed away under a tarp in the backseat of the automobile on the adventure to Memphis! 

 

He had something important to tell Boon. Something sure to make Grandpa Boss, back home, very unhappy. 

A surprised Lucius is now wide awake!

Be sure to join Union Suit Fans in the Limelight next week for Part Three of "A Yesteryear Boy in Summer Underwear."