Just watched "Beginning of the End" for what might very well have been my first time ever. What a hoot! I especially love movies like this which they didn't hesitate to place in a real, specifically named non-L.A. or California locale, this one being Chicago and the Joliet area. (I need to think of other examples.)
It's wonderful to know there are still such movies to be discovered...on nice DVDs, even! Will listen to the commentary in a little while. Thanks and a tip o' the hat to whichever one of you fine DRs gave me the heads up on this one last week!