What’s that you say? A Doris Day movie couldn’t possibly be 100% Weird? Oh contrare. Doris Day is our title character, the stewardess on a commuter flight. Louis Jourdan, our favorite MonsterVision villain from Swamp Thing and Octopussy (a James Bond movie - the title refers to a pet octopus and shame on you for what you were thinking), costars as her psycho husband, who has already strangled her first husband. Now, he’s gotten into the cockpit and shot the pilot. The passengers help overcome him, but who will land the plane? Why, Julie, of course! With help from Frank Lovejoy of the 100% Weird movie Hitch-Hiker (directed by Ida Lupino of The Devils Rain), in the control tower to give her instructions.

I know what you’re thinking. Doris Day movie, must be lots of singing. Oh contrare again! “Julie” doesn’t burst into song at the drop of a hat, and there’s no Technicolor splashy dance number either. Perhaps that’s the main reason critics weren’t crazy about this one. When it comes to Doris Day, they want singin’ and lots of it.

Leonard Maltin calls it, “Overbaked soaper... sometimes tense, but too often unintentionally funny. Also shown in computer-colored version.” Of course, Leonard wasn't crazy about the remake either, "Airport 75" (1975), with Karen Black as the stewardess who has to fly the plane

After “Julie,” Doris Day went back to musicals and light comedy like It Happened To Jane (with Jack Lemmon & Ernie Kovaks).

Julie (1956)
Most recently scheduled on TCM (Turner Classic Movies)

Doris Day movies including "Julie" are available on video and on DVD

Now, could Jimmy Stewart ever be 100% Weird? Tune in 9-18-99 after MonsterVision and see. That’s when Jimmy, his pilot Jack Lemmon, and a planeload of Hollywood’s finest fly into the Bermuda Triangle and disappear in 100% Weird presents Airport ‘77.

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