# Lost Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 30, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-movies/708531 "2014-12-30T13:54:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-movies/708531/61 "2015-01-03T00:05:14Z")
This is lost in the sense that no one has probably ever seen it, but **Sweettalker** is fairly obscure. It is set in Australia, and is about a con man. We saw it because Richard Thompson did the music, and we own the soundtrack. We wanted to find out what the damn movie was about. I’ve seen worse. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-movies/708531/62 "2015-01-03T01:28:13Z")
Speaking of Australia…I lived “Dogs in Space” one summer…except the part with someone ODing. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-movies/708531/63 "2015-01-03T04:47:46Z")
I noticed one playing on TCM tomorrow: [Nothing Lasts Forever](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Lasts_Forever_%28film%29) Never released in the theater, or any home video version. I’ve never heard of it. It has a SNL pedigree, and sounds seriously weird. Or stupid. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-movies/708531/64 "2015-01-03T05:11:09Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I noticed one playing on TCM tomorrow: > > [Nothing Lasts Forever](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Lasts_Forever_%28film%29) > > Never released in the theater, or any home video version. I’ve never heard of it. It has a SNL pedigree, and sounds seriously weird. Or stupid. I just programmed my TiVo. We shall see if it was shelved for a reason! ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-movies/708531/65 "2015-02-19T05:20:39Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I just programmed my TiVo. We shall see if it was shelved for a reason! Did you get to see it? I just watched it tonight. It plays like an extended Schiller film from SNL (which it sort of is). More like a collection of disconnected vignettes rather than a cohesive movie. Not as stupid as it sounds, not as good as it could have been (best comparison - it’s a low budget _Brazil_). But it was right that it was never released in the theaters - it would have made about a hundred bucks. But I think it could have a life if it were released on DVD. I’ve paid to see worse movies, that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-movies/708531/66 "2015-02-26T20:36:12Z")
[Fear, Anxiety, and Depression](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169895/) - Todd Solondz’s first movie it was a lot of fun and not as bleak as it’s name, and his other material, would have you believe [Deathtrap](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169895/) - A great adaptation of the play starring Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve - looks like it is now available streaming [The Pope Must Die](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102691/)- Later changed to The Pope Must Diet - a not so high quality religious spy spoof movie with Robbie Coltrane as the titular pope. [Modern Problems](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082763/)- A really cheesy film about a schlub (Chevy Chase) who gets supernatural powers and uses them to pull wacky hijinx. This recently started showing up on movie channels after many years hidden. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-movies/708531/67 "2015-02-26T20:48:59Z")
**Let’s Get Lost** , a ca. 1988 documentary about Chet Baker **Ben Webster: Tenor Sax Legend** , a more recent biopic, but I’ve never seen it shown on TV ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-movies/708531/68 "2015-02-26T21:15:45Z")
Scavenger Hunt. I remember Richard Benjamin in a light blue suit trying to get a fox tail of a motorcycle gang members bike. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-movies/708531/69 "2015-02-26T23:05:02Z")
I was going to mention _Cold Turkey_ and _If It’s Tuesday This Must Be Belgium_, but others beat me to it. I think they’ve both been on TV, but I haven’t seen them since they were in the theaters. I saw _Harry in Your Pocket_ on TV at least 30 years ago, but not recently. My contribution to the list is _What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?_ with Mary Tyler Moore and George Peppard (of all people) as a pair of nihilistic beatniks. I actually found it online and rewatched it last year, so it must have been on TV or released on VHS or DVD at some point. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-movies/708531/70 "2015-02-26T23:19:37Z")
Two of my favorites that only I apparently ever saw are _Heartbreakers_ and _Up the Creek._ _Heartbreakers_ starred Peter Coyote and Nick Mancuso in a story about friendship and love in the LA art world in the 1980s. _Up the Creek_ was a _Porky’s/Animal House_ ripoff starring actors from both films that was **much** wittier than you would give it credit for. Both sank without a trace and haven’t been seen or heard from since. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-movies/708531/71 "2015-02-26T23:23:59Z")
> [@](#): > > Lieutenant Robin Crusoe, USN – Van Dyke is a castaway on a South Pacific Island with a chimp. Later he meets Nancy Kwan, whom he names Wednesday. Akim Tamiroff (a Armenian actor) plays her Polynesian father. This film has apparently come out on VHS and DVD, but I suspect more modern sensibilities to native people have encouraged this one to keep a low profile. Disney himself contributed to ther screenplay, and is credited as “Retlaw Yensid” > > Fitzwilly – another van Dyke film, but not from Disney this time (1967). Van Dyke plays a butler who goes to great lengths to keep from his employer that she’s ac tually virtually broke. The household staff robs Gimbels on Christmas Eve to raise money. A lot of the cast was appearing on various TV shows at the time, including “Get Smart”'s Barbara Feldon (for whom this was a first movie role). Score by a very young John Williams. Check Amazon. Booth exist on DVD, but at a high price. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-movies/708531/72 "2015-02-26T23:26:38Z")
Mary Tyler Moore in _What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?_ > **[What's So Bad About Feeling Good?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_So_Bad_About_Feeling_Good%3F)** > > What's So Bad About Feeling Good? is a 1968 American comedy film directed by George Seaton and starring George Peppard and Mary Tyler Moore. > The film was a box office disappointment. > Pete (George Peppard) is a former advertising executive living a Beatnik–Bohemian life, as part of a commune in a New York City loft. Since living in the commune, Pete has turned into a cynical, misanthropic artist. The members of the commune are seemingly aimless, indolent or melancholy while waiting for the world... ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-movies/708531/73 "2015-02-26T23:54:47Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Mary Tyler Moore in _What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?_ > > [What's So Bad About Feeling Good? - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_So_Bad_About_Feeling_Good%3F) I remember that one. How about **[A Fine Madness](http://www.amazon.com/Fine-Madness-Sean-Connery/dp/B000ERVK3K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1424994747&sr=8-1&keywords=a+fine+madness)**, with Sean Connery and Joanne Woodward, with a bit part played perfectly by Sue Ane Langdon? A pretty good film that faded to obscurity. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-movies/708531/74 "2015-02-27T13:42:04Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Check Amazon. > Booth exist on DVD, but at a high price. Well, that’s pretty much the point, isn’t it? I didn’t say they were unavailable. My point is that these flicks have virtually disappeared from public view. They’re not on cable, I haven’t seen them on streaming sources, they’re not on the shelves at Best Buy or in the Redboxes or even on the shelves at the disappearing ranks of DVD purveyors (like Newbury Comics here in Boston). And Dick van Dyke was a considerable and popular star in the 1960s. And two of the movies of his I list were Disney flicks, and Disney has a reputation for keeping a lot of its older stuff "in play"I’ve seen some relatively obscure Disney stuff easily available on VHS or DVD on store shelves, but not these films. Recently I’ve been looking for copies of some relatively obscure flicks from my childhood. I’m outraged at the prices for DVD copies. The Toho studios films _Matango_ and _The Mysterians_ cost an arm and a leg! Meanwhile, other toho films of the same vintage, and equally obscure, can be bought very cheaply. ---
**Author:** ![Nom\_de\_Plume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-movies/708531/75 "2015-02-28T03:42:46Z")
Under the Rainbow with Chevy Chase and Carrie Fisher solving a mystery while escorting the Munchkin actors from Wizard of Oz. I remember it being funny, but it has become hard to find. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-movies/708531/76 "2015-02-28T04:52:39Z")
> [@Cumberdale](#): > > Scavenger Hunt. I remember Richard Benjamin in a light blue suit trying to get a fox tail of a motorcycle gang members bike. How about _Saturday the 14th_? And regarding a different post, I also saw _Up the Creek_ It was funny in a _Making the Grade_ kind of way. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-movies/708531/77 "2015-02-28T14:31:50Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#): > > [Modern Problems](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082763/)- A really cheesy film about a schlub (Chevy Chase) who gets supernatural powers and uses them to pull wacky hijinx. This recently started showing up on movie channels after many years hidden. > [@Nom\_de\_Plume](#): > > Under the Rainbow with Chevy Chase and Carrie Fisher solving a mystery while escorting the Munchkin actors from Wizard of Oz. I remember it being funny, but it has become hard to find. I think the trend developing here is if it’s a Chevy Chase movie where he isn’t on vacation or playing golf, it’s obscure. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-movies/708531/78 "2015-02-28T16:12:56Z")
I just saw, on videotape, _Follow the Boys_ from 1944. I don’t believe there’s a legal region 1 DVD. It’s a breaking-an-arm-patting-yourself-on-the-back Hollywood salute to itself for providing entertainment to the troops in WWII. Worth watching only as anthropology, a collection of what worked as entertainment in a number of genres in 1944. I wanted it because it’s not only W. C. Fields’ last movie appearance but he reprised his famous pool game act from vaudeville. For completists only. You can’t imagine anyone ever laughing at this painfully slow series of silly gags. They added special effects for the movie to pep it up but balls flying out of screen aren’t themselves funny. Donald O’Connor, still a teen, was paired with Peggy Ryan, all of 20, as hyperactive, hypercute newcomers. They act like battling brother and sister, and hit, slap, and shove each other in a way that would destroy Twitter if shown today. Great dancing, though. Two different black acts were included, Louis Jordan and His Orchestra and the Delta Rhythm Boys, not merely presented uncondescendingly but allowed to sing a song about tolerance. The most amazing act was Leonard Gautier’s Bricklayers. Who did not lay bricks. That’s a dog act. It is the eye-poppingest dog act I’ve ever seen, which makes it the one segment that still holds up completely. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-movies/708531.md?page=3)