Colin Richmond's design cleverly makes the anti-prison point, setting preposterous, colourful action (including a riot of a riot) against black-and-white footage of a Victorian prison, the walkways stalked by female shadows.
The result might also have been different in the St James's Palace Stakes had Stormy River not been set a preposterous amount to do against the favourite, Araafa.
During his extraordinarily prolific five-decade career, Mr. Kuchar (pronounced KOO-char) stayed true to a style of demented, do-it-yourself movie production whose amateur acting, fractured narratives, ludicrous sets, preposterous dialogue, murky sound and all-around squalor expressed a core sensibility of cinematic sophistication, psychological acuity and moral urgency.
This endlessly inventive family comedy, set in a preposterous fantasy kingdom, follows Debbie as she battles to save this endearingly daft place from the encroaching forces of darkness – namely Negatus, a hapless pantomime villain who wants to dominate Yonderland simply for something to do.
It's all very preposterous, set in a playwright's fanciful (i.e., politically incorrect) China, but the music absolutely demands Pavarotti and Callas, along with extravagant production values and the biggest venues you can afford.
But that never occurred to us as we set about turning a preposterous idea into our first full-length dance film.
But he trod water in television dramas such as Playhouse 90 and movies including Gaby (1956, opposite Leslie Caron), a poor reworking of Waterloo Bridge, and The Vintage (1957), a preposterous thriller set in a French vineyard.
A quarter of a century after headlining at Donington for the first time, they send a rabid crowd into raptures with renditions of their greatest 80s hits, while an upgraded version of 1988's endearingly preposterous stage set ensures their mastery of the big occasion is maintained.
Bubba got all the credit for whipping the crowd up but really most of the early palaver was down to the 2011 US PGA champion, who set about sinking a preposterous number of putts on the opening day and running around like Marco Tardelli in the 1982 World Cup final.
The scenes of Mendez swanning through Los Angeles, across a rooftop party at the Beverly Hilton and a studio lot, where Chambers and Siegel set up shop, are enjoyably preposterous.
