# Name that Flick ?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 18, 2011, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-flick/589496 "2011-07-18T21:19:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-flick/589496/1 "2011-07-18T21:19:16Z")
I’ve lost a movie name. I also can’t think of the name of either the leading lady or the leading man. :rolleyes: I’m fairly certain it would have been a late 70’s movie. It’s a comedy. The leading man is a famous comedian, so much so that you will mock me when his name is revealed. In it a man is kidnapped by some semi-lunatics in a Think Tank. They put him in a sensory deprivation tank for an insane period of time and then try to convince him he’s a genius. His very grounded girlfriend (who I think was in “The Electric Company”) sneaks into the place trying to get him back to reality. At one point he falls in love with the computer that runs the place. The computer looks like a big white cell phone. Quotes I seem to recall: “I do not know what I do not know” Her: “You are not from Out of Space! ! !” Him: “Out-ER space, Out-ER Space.” Anybody know it? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-flick/589496/2 "2011-07-18T21:23:06Z")
[Simon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081518/)? ---
**Author:** ![charmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/53a042/32.png) [@charmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/charmstr)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-flick/589496/3 "2011-07-18T23:42:22Z")
That was my guess as well. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-flick/589496/4 "2011-07-19T15:28:14Z")
I love you guys. thank you! Seriously, Four. minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-flick/589496/5 "2011-07-19T15:35:26Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > The leading man is a famous comedian, so much so that you will mock me when his name is revealed. Alan Arkin? Really? _Well that was a lame mocking. Next!_ ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-flick/589496/6 "2011-07-19T16:38:57Z")
Can anyone ask about a different movie title? (Or should I start a new thread?) I’m looking for a “big” movie from the 1960’s (about 1968) that was set in a large city, focusing on some kind of cover up about an abortion doctor (it must have been illegal to perform abortions there). It starred some famous actors, but I have no names to go on. I remember my mother taking us kids to it, thinking it’s a family movie, but she whisked us out about 3/4 the way through when the topic came up. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-flick/589496/7 "2011-07-19T16:58:14Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Alan Arkin? Really? > > _Well that was a lame mocking. Next!_ In my defense, he had hair in this movie, which threw me off. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-flick/589496/8 "2011-07-19T17:44:32Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > Can anyone ask about a different movie title? (Or should I start a new thread?) > > I’m looking for a “big” movie from the 1960’s (about 1968) that was set in a large city, focusing on some kind of cover up about an abortion doctor (it must have been illegal to perform abortions there). It starred some famous actors, but I have no names to go on. > > I remember my mother taking us kids to it, thinking it’s a family movie, but she whisked us out about 3/4 the way through when the topic came up. > > Any ideas? Maybe [The Carey Treatment](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068337/)(1972) which I believe was partly based on the Michael Crichton book _A Case of Need._ ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-flick/589496/9 "2011-07-19T17:52:24Z")
And for a looooong shot: [Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting (1969)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064209/) ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-flick/589496/10 "2011-07-19T17:53:26Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > Maybe [The Carey Treatment](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068337/)(1972) which I believe was partly based on the Michael Crichton book _A Case of Need._ Yes, that’s it - thanks, I’ve been trying to find the name for years. Now, who’s next? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-flick/589496/11 "2011-07-19T19:46:04Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > [Simon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081518/)? The line I remember from that otherwise-forgettable movie was, “The Richard Nixon who went to China was not the Richard Nixon who came back.” ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-flick/589496/12 "2011-07-21T02:50:38Z")
And the “Electric Company” prediction was spot-on, too…Judy Graubart was a cast member for the entire run.