Just like Bunny Bixler!
I remember seeing it in the theater when I was a kid (more like a young teen) and loving it. Does it hold up? Has anyone seen it recently?
How old is that movie. Kelbo’s has been gone a looooong time. There was another longtime tiki bar in the San Gabriel Valley – Bahooka’s – that we used to go to for lunch when I worked out that way. It’s been gone a while, too.
I (and my g/f at the time) loved Kelbo’s! This was in the '80s and '90s when it was well past its heyday, so it was deliciously tacky. 
Overheard one night at Kelbo’s: ‘We could have a midget [sic] roasting a nun over an open fire.’
A film (perhaps, best left forgotten) I recently rediscovered and (inadvisably) streamed on Prime is Candy (1968). I last saw it when I was 14 or 15 on SelecTV (a special antenna and scramble box precursor to CATV).
I recalled it being a fun sex comedy with a lot of familiar faces and a sexy leading lady. Alas, with adult eyes and 21st Century sensibilities, it’s an unfunny exploitation film about a (likely underage) high school girl sexually ogled, pursued, and assaulted by a range of lecherous older men played by the likes of Marlon Brando, Ringo Starr, Walter Mattheu, John Huston, James Coburn, and John Astin (the latter, incestuously). I fast forwarded through the cringy parts and finished the 2-hour movie in about 20 minutes.
Rotten to the Core (1965), a caper movie that was on a twin bill with Jolly Bad Fellow, which had Robert Morley in it.
Here’s the beginning with a very odd jazzy theme song that I never forgot.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icehpG2Rhd8)
Joe’s Apartment from 1996. An MTV production, known as the “all-singing, all-dancing, all-cockroach musical.” Joe moves into a slum, gets a girlfriend, and is aided by 50,000 cockroaches in fighting the evil slumlord. The animation actually won awards.
It’s streaming now.
As I remember, that was based on a commercial for MTV starring the same cockroaches.
A New Leaf (1971) Walter Matthau; Elaine May.
The World of Henry Orient (1964) Peter Sellers; Paula Prentiss.
The Man in the White Suit (1951) Alec Guinness; Joan Greenwood; Cecil Parker (the British Paul Ford).
The following may not be considered “forgotten”…but you be the judge:
A Thousand Clowns (1965) Jason Robards; Barry Gordon; Barbara Harris; William Daniels.
The Out-of-Towners (1970) Jack Lemmon; Sandy Dennis.
The In-Laws (1979) Peter Falk; Alan Arkin.
Eh, maybe none of these qualify as “forgotten.” I dunno.
Oh, I just remembered another fun one - Harry In Your Pocket. Starred James Coburn in his prime and was about a team of professional pickpockets. I remember as a kid this movie made a big impression on me because any time we visited a ‘big city’ afterwards I was concerned about becoming the target of pickpockets (because god knows 9 year old boys are prime targets for pickpockets!).
I heard about this as a kid, but, of course, it was an adult movie. I finally got to see it on DVD about a decade ago.
I was underwhelmed. It’s supposed to be a modern Candide (“Candy” = “Candide”, get it?) as written by Terry Sothern, but the correspondence with Voltaire’s satire isn’t close enough, and the “types” she encounters are too cartoony and stupid to make watching it worthwhile.
Watch the 2004 PBS production of Leonard Bernstein’s musical version of Candide instead. It’s on DVD, and stars Kristin Chenowith and Patty Lupone, and has a Donald Trump parody i it.
The former was remade with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn, the later was remade with Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks…I guess they’re remembered but more contemporary filmmakers figure they can improve on the with an update. Those (the originals) are both from that weird period in American comedy that’s lionized by many (The In-Laws got a Criterion Collection release in the past couple of years, even), but I find utterly baffling, as people running around in medium shot yelling and being frantic for long stretches without a comedic payoff in sight isn’t remotely funny to me. But to each their own.
What constitutes “forgotten” is a funny thing.
Back in the day, before commercials, they used to show slides before movies of upcoming releases. Not trailer, no information, just a picture of the poster, or a frame from the movie. Despite being shown for up to a year, some of these never seemed to make release. We’d always wonder, did they suck so bad that the studios gave up? This was before wiki and imdb, so sometimes we’d never know.
So whatever happened to Solarbabies? 
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*I looked it up.
OK, I get why that doesn’t tickle your funny bone… but what have you got against medium shot? Is it too static? (Just curious.)
I remember watching trailers for upcoming movies, but I don’t remember those still slides. If you don’t mind me asking (not to date oneself), which decade are you talking about?
Ah yes, Solarbabies. Nice callback. Well, if that’s the standard for “forgotten,” I was way off!
Arizona theaters, circa maybe 1986 to somewhere in the late 80s or early 90s. I don’t remember exactly when they started putting up ads, but I know I complained. Ah, even those days were better than now.
Another “lost” film that was shown for a year and never seemed to arrive was What About Bob? I read the wiki; that film had some problems for sure. People are still upset at Bill Murray.
Re: Top Secret:
That was (and still is) a cult classic in my generation of Germans (I was born in 1968), I saw it in the theater at the time and later it also became a VHS classic that we watched again and again. Maybe it was so popular in Germany because of the hilarious take on the GDR (hint: life and people in the GDR were nothing like in the film), and it is still the best exemplification of the trope of the commie-nazis. Years later, I first watched Hitchcock’s “Torn Curtain”, which was a similar, but unintentionally laughable depiction of East Germany, and I still wonder if this was the inspiration for “Top Secret”.
ETA: it’s also still shown regularly on TV here.
That appeared on TV at some point, though I can’t remember if it was broadcast or cable. But it definitely was released. I may even have seen it once, perhaps on a flight.
Yeah, it’s just the static quality of so many of the movies from the 60s and 70s. The style of many directors from that period seemed to just be, plant the camera in the room and have people do stuff in front of it. Hal Ashby, Blake Edwards, Alan Pakula, Arthur Hiller…it took a Scorsese or a De Palma to really make the camera move and do something interesting with editing.
Is One, Two, Three (1961, directed by Billy Wilder, starring James Cagney) known in Germany?
It definitely came out and was a modest hit. I still see it referenced on social media… especially on tiktok and reels.
Nowadays it certainly is, but it only made a revival about 30-40 years ago. The film is fantastic and one of Wilder’s classic comedies, but it had one major problem, especially in Germany: it was based on the state of Berlin before Aug 13 1961, when the borders between West and East Berlin were still open. Between the making and release of the film though, the East Germans had closed the borders and built the Wall, which was a national trauma for Germany. Of course nobody at that time wanted to watch a comedy about the Berlin situation, and the film vanished. As I said, decades later it was rediscovered and since then has been considered a classic.