There are two movies that I remember seeing as a kid that their identities have been bugging me for years. I think I saw them around 1967, give or take a couple of years, and I want to say I think they’re Disney movies.
For the first one, all I really have is a line from a song. I remember a guy dancing and singing and the catch phrase of the song was, “put it in your family album.” I remember asking my mom after the movie who this Al Bum guy was that they sang about. I want to say that the setting was the early 1900s but I’m not sure. I thought it might be Disney’s Happiest Millionaire, but after buying it on video, I learned that one was more of a western setting. It may be that I saw it at a double feature with “Happiest Millionaire.”
The other movie had a more modern setting, I think it was set in the then present, the mid 60s. It had something to do with a guy who had an olive farm, maybe in Greece. Somehow, he became the owner of several chimpanzees which he eventually used to pick the olives from the trees. I think I may have seen this one backed with The Gnome Mobile, and I can remember Jiffy Pop popcorn had iron on transfers from the movie in their packages.
The first movie of your mystery pair was Half a Sixpence, based on the stage musical of the same name, which in turn was based on Rudyard Kipling’s book Kipps. In the musical, Arthur Kipps (played by Tommy Steele) becomes a photographer (IIRC), and the show’s biggest number is “Flash Bang Wallop”, which contains the line that you remember, although in fact it’s “stick it in your family album”.
The second movie appears (with the aid of some Googling) to be Monkeys Go Home starring Dean Jones and Maurice Chevalier.
Both movies came out in 1967, are set in Europe (England and France respectively), and involve inheritance of property as a crucial plot point. Only the olive farm / monkey one was a Disney movie, however.
Thanks! I should have known the “Monkeys Go Home” title. DUH!
As for “Half A Sixpence,” The title rings a bell now.
Thanks again!
Reading the IMDB info about Tommy Steele, it shows he was also in “Happiest Millionaire,” both made in 1967. Interesting how I got those two confused. Even though I have that one, I’ve only watched it once and can barely put a face with the name. He’s a little less fuzzy to me in his next movie, “Finian’s Rainbow.”
As for “Monkeys Go Home,” I should have known that was a Dean Jones movie. Seems he was in all the Disney movies back then,