Oddly I own a low budget DVD of it. I’ve watched it twice.
I think many fans of the 80s movie are aware of the Corman movie, it helps that is was a early Jack Nicholson movie.
Did he name it The Antichrist?
Saw it when it first came out. At the time I didn’t know Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles was a real place.
The Monitors (1969), not available on any streaming service, but posted on YouTube.
Staring journeyman actress Susan Oliver, whose life is recounted in the documentary The Green Girl, (on Tubi), and who gets to use her aviator skills here. Also Guy Stockwell, Dean’s lesser-known and more Shakesperian-inclined brother, also in the interesting, forgotten movies The War Lord and Santa Sangre. Also Avery Schreiber (though I’d prefer Marshal Effron) and Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen - the kinds of Republican that once served in a lost, lamented political system.
This movie was filmed guerrilla fashion on the streets of Chicago, denied to film makers by Mayor Richard J. Daley because that’s how he wanted it. There’s more footage of the Vasquez Rocks than of the US’s second largest city in the 1960s.
Tapeheads is such crazy fun. I remember seeing it as a kid–probably because my older sister rented because of Cusack (I’m certain she didn;t care for it). I recently watched it again for the first time–it made me miss Roscoes (I moved from LA two years ago) and love the tiki bar scene just because… hey, tiki! (apparently filmed at the old Kelbos which is now a strip club)
Max Dugan Returns was a quiet little movie from 1983, Neil Simon’s last film with Marsha Mason as lead. Jason Robards played the title character, with Matthew Broderick and Donald Sutherland in supporting roles. I mostly remember it because it was on HBO all the time while I was young.
Also has one of those “sequel-sounding” titles as cited above by @CalMeacham and @Robot_Arm - I had a guy tell me once he liked the film and was looking around for the orignal Max Dugan on VHS.
Could it have been that he didn’t have the time? He published over 100 books, using over a dozen pseudonyms. He is like Stephen King and Elmore Leonard in that I’ll happily read anything he wrote.
I love this film. I think it’s the first animated cartoon where they went out of their way to get noted singers to do the voices *-- in this case Judy Garland, Robert Goulet, and Hermione Gingold. Paul Frees, not noted for his singing (although a great voice) got to sing alongside them. And Thurl; Ravenscroft has a part, too. Red Buttons also sings.
It’s also the movie that cost Chuck Jones his place as an animation director at Warner Brothers. When Warners saw that Chuck Jones had produced this movie for a rival company they fired him. Jones’ later weork – Mowgli’s Brothers, The White Seal, etc., not to mention How the Grinch Stole Christmas were done elsewhere.
- I’m serious – Disney didn’t get famous singers for its cartoons. Ed Wynn and Jerry Colonna in Alice in Wonderland were comics who sang, not singers.
Would the original She Devil (1957) count as forgotten? Not to be confused with the Meryl Streep and Roseanne Barr film by the same name, it was one of those so-bad-it’s-good B movies. As a kid, I was fascinated by the idea of turning your hair blonde by sheer willpower.
How about The Horse’s Mouth, starring Alec Guinness, who also wrote the screenplay? I liked the movie, loved the ending.
…my god was this on HBO everyday when I was 8 years old? It was this and that bank robbery movie with Art Carney and George Burns.
I know its not true, but I remember someone telling me years and years ago that “Max Dugan Returns” could have been a secret sequel to an earlier movie with Robards where he played a criminal. This was pre-imdb so there wasn’t an easy way to check an actor’s past movies unless you went to the library and found a “movie book.”
No biggie. Go in peace.
“Doodle! I know you’re out there!”
He wrote a bunch of screenplays. He didn’t ignore Hollywood. Maybe he was happy to just sit back, take the money, and let others tackle the near-impossible challenge of adaptations.
Lawrence Block is another one. He’s also a master of every mystery genre, with the tightest plots of anyone, taking every passing detail and fitting them in so that they’re important.
His famous comic series is The Burgler Who… One of them was made into a movie just called Burgler. It starred Whoopi Goldberg and it’s known mostly for being the flop of flops.
“here will be no apple juice with breakfast today due to a problem in urology.”
Sounds a little like Where Does It Hurt? with Peter Sellers and JoAnn Pflug. A hilarious and grossly unappreciated movie.
After Sellers is caught diddling a nurse in a storage room:
BoD MATRON: Aren’t you ashamed of such childish behavior?
SELLERS: Oh, there was nothing childish about it, I assure you!
Loved that one. Gloriously shambolic with some great one-liners (“Not THE Bonnie Raitt?” kills me every time). Some of it hasn’t aged well, admittedly.The soundtrack is also super hard-to-find. I got a copy for the Swanky Modes songs.
Scarecrow (1973) - Gene Hackman and Al Pacino
Start The Revolution Without Me (1969) - Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland. Second best movie ever featuring Orson Welles getting shot and falling into water.
Island at the Top of the World was my favorite movie when I was a kid. Still have the LP soundtrack from the film. You can’t go wrong with a good airship.
The nuns showed the latter at school when I was in grade 4.
One got up and blotted out the image in front of the projector with a notecard during the bra-shopping scene, so as to not contaminate our impressionable little minds.
I recall Freebie and the Bean, mainly due to my confusion as to not seeing Orson Bean in any of the trailers.