We watched it in high school as part of our Literature course as an example of the western genre. It’s a good movie.
Does anyone else remember The Coca-Cola Kid? It’s about a Coca-Cola marketer who goes to Australia to a little town where everyone drinks the local brew and not Coca-Cola. It came out in 1985 and I have no idea why I saw that movie as a nine-year-old kid.
Horse racing fans might remember Phar Lap; others, perhaps not so much. It a racehorse biography—think Seabiscuit or Secretariat—about a champion Australian racehorse whose racing career went from the late 1920s to the early 1930s. The movie was released in 1983, and seems to have been mostly forgotten now.
Wow, I missed that — cool.
Nearly every Christmas season, I remember a movie that the local rerun station played sometime in that time frame.
I will periodically sing Bubbles! Bubbles! Billions and billions of bubbles!
My favorite movie!
The first time I saw it, I was working at a pizza place, and we’d had The Evening From Hell, but I decided to catch the late show anyway. I arrived as the early show was getting out, and EVERYBODY was absolutely raving about the movie. I’ve never had an experience like that before or since.
And they were right! It may not be as well known on this side of the pond because it’s Danish.
I have also read the short story that inspired this movie. The movie followed it fairly well, except that in the story, Babette was elderly, and in the movie, she was middle-aged (although that might have counted as elderly in the 1880s, when the movie was set).
That one
Disagree. Unforgettable. When the dude steps on the ping-pong ball and sheepishly tosses it back on the table… Burned into my brain till the day I die!
Here’s one I remember from my partyin’ teen years, early '80s & the beginning of MTV (used 2b ALL music, ALL the time, kids! ) “Tapeheads” starring John Cusack and Tim Robbins. Totally killer satire on the music biz then, the $$, empty headed “stars”, etc. Also, produced by Mike Nesmith of The Monkees AND somehow 4free on Y**Tube for the past 7years. Funny as hell, checkitout, you will NOT regret it
A friend of mine at the time owned a Land Rover, and his dad owned two… As much as you may have laughed at that movie, they laughed more.
A girlfriend gave me this on DVD as a Christmas present because she knew I adore Juliette Binoche. Juliette blew me away (so to speak) when I saw her in Damage opposite Jeremy Irons.
I just finished watching Blackula, a true '70s classic!
I’m sure you are correct!
Lassiter is pretty forgotten too!
That was a peculiar movie. I only saw it once back in the 80s, but I still find myself humming hat stupid song every once in a while.
Something something where there’s no Coca-Cola?
Life by the throat when you’re drinking Coke.
I remember his sister, Virginia.
I haven’t seen the Flim Flam Man for a couple of decades. It’s funny how details like this can escape you. I’m sure you’re right about the make up. It seems like a detail of this nature, though, is just the type of thing that would jump out at a person like me who’s fascinated by movie production concerns, yet I have no recollection of that being the case. Now I definitely have to track this movie down.
Maurice Chevalier (beside Hayley Mills).
I thought that Jules Verne + Walt Disney was a match made in heaven, but as far as I know, Disney only adapted two of Verne’s novels – tyhis and 20,000 Leagues. They should have done more of them, but the closest they came was the Verne-esque Island on Top of the World.. Maybe they were discouraged by the poor box office performance of Castaways (which, I admit, appears to have mostly disappeared, unlike 20,000 Leagues, which has had a lot of video releases).
There was a popular Russian adaptation in 1936 (and a remake, using the same very popular music, in 1986, fifty years later), but you won’t see it in the US. I suspect thsat the Disney folks might have helped keep it in obscurity here, like the 1940 RKO adaptation of Swiss Family Robinson that they purchased the rights to, ostensibly to keep it from competing with their own version.
Zulu, Michael Caine’s first major role. The story of the Rourke’s Drift battle between a small British garrison and the entire Zulu nation. Caine got the role despite the director saying that it was the worst audition for a part he had ever seen, but that they were in a time crunch. Caine had to hide his Cockney accent to play a British officer.
I’ve seen Jabberwocky and Zulu quite often in TV broadcasting, but there are plenty of other movies in this thread I haven’t, and some I want to see now.
In Lassiter, you get to see Selleck’s bare bottom, too. For those that celebrate. 
I own High Road to China (a film made as sort of an appeasement because Selleck missed out on Raiders, and to cash in on the thirties period movie revival) but Lassiter is just too darned expensive on DVD for a fair to middlin’ movie. Someday I’ll find it cheap.
And the UFO episode “Survival”.
It may be a good movie, but let’s not get carried away! If it was more entertaining than Star Wars, it wouldn’t be forgotten.
I wanted to put it in the WTF were they thinking movies, just for the last title card.