I just saw one of these the other day, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying from 1967. So I sat down to watch it. I thought the best song was close to the beginning, The Company Way, and the worst song was the one that was popular at the time and you might recognize, I Believe in You. Frankly, it seemed to be losing steam, and I couldn’t stand the bimbo character (Hedy LaRue), so I didn’t see the last hour or so.
In that case, I recently stumbled across Future '38. It’s only a few years old, but I was surprised I hadn’t heard of it. It presents itself as kind of a screwball comedy made in 1938, of a character travelling to the far future of 2018. A lot of the jokes come from the half-accurate, half-absurd predictions of the future. Characters have smart phones, but still talk to an operator to place calls. There’s an internet cafe, but the shared terminal prints its answers on tickertape. It’s quite low budget, but there are a few actors to recognize.
I only saw the second half of it; have to stream the whole thing one of these days.
Our local cinematheque had a Harold Lloyd retrospective a few years back and I was very impressed. Fun movies, great stunts, and unlike most men in the silent-film era, he could really act. His body language, eyes and facial expressions did exactly what the role required, either subtly or over-the-top. A remarkably talented guy.
It was on the night before last on TCM. I decided to watch it, thinking it would be a great NYC time capsule film from the late 1960s, in color to boot. When the protagonist, who looked curiously kinda’ like Jerry Lewis broke out into song, the movie blew its cover as a musical.
I stopped watching.
I agree, Lloyd was remarkably talented. I wish we had some comic actors today willing to put their “all” into films as he did. The liability insurance would most likely be prohibitively high, though.
I guess I’m in the minority. I quite liked How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying when it was first released and still like it many years later. But, I’ve always been a Robert Morse fan (J. Pierrepont “Ponty” Finch). More recently, he did a fine job playing Bertram Cooper in Mad Men (he sang and danced in that, too).
Which explains why, despite their frequent attendance at Broadway shows, not a single character in Mad Men ever mentions having seen How to Succeed in Business.
Scenes from Destination: Moon were used in one of the few Time Tunnel episodes set in “the future.” That series saved a fortune by using stock footage from historical- and SF-themed pictures.
I caught 1938’s Jezebel starring Bette Davis and Henry Fonda for the first time on TCM early this morning. I had to get up early to make it to an 09:00 appointment and had a few hours to kill before leaving home.
A pretty good flick. I give it four thumbs up. 
I really like Hope and Glory but it is one of those movies that is just about impossible to stream. Sort of like Breaker Morant and Prizzi’s Honor…
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Will she do the Fandango?
I was 24 the first time I saw The Thing (From Another World) [1951, James Arness as the blood drinking carrot man from outer space] and I was expecting it to be total cornball. It had one fantastic jump scare and was quite riveting throughout. My brother thought so, too – he jumped the same time I did.
Very similar to Run, Lola, Run in ways is the 1996 film Non-stop (at least in English translations), by Sabu. It’s very light on spoken dialogue, so even without subtitles it’s easy to watch the 88 minute film.
I originally came across it reading a review of a showing in a weekly alt paper in the early 2000s and finally watched it years later. It got me quite interested in the rest of Sabu’s filmography which I have also enjoyed.
Hop hop hop hippity hop!
Everyone is great in this movie. Josephine Hull. Jesse White. Cecil Callaway. Virginia Horne, And Jimmy Stewart, of course.
Just so sweet, with just a tiny touch of creepy.
I got around to watching From Here to Eternity on TCM the other day. Completely forgettable film.
Hey, Burpo! Casablanca ain’t worth the effort. Snooze-fest.
I’m partial to Mildred Pierce with Joan Crawford.
I’m a huge Mad Men fan, but didn’t realize til recently that Morse was the star of The Boatniks, an early 1970s G-rated comedy. He plays a slightly bumbling sailor named Tom Garland Jr. whose commanding officer tolerates him (because his father was a hero, “Torpedo Tommy” Garland) but is constantly about to boil over with the kid’s Maxwell Smart-like antics.
The kid is concurrently trying to catch a ring of smugglers, and to that end, peeps into the wrong window, and is arrested.
The CO is livid: “NEVER have I had to deal with a sailor who was a peeping Tom. Let alone one named TOM!!”
I didn’t want to be the first one to say it, but yeah.
We’re Rebels! I don’t have a cause, do you? Oh, that kinda sucked too.
Johnny! Johnny! Oh, Johnny!
For fuck’s sake, Johnny.
I’ve managed to cut down to two drinks a day. Daytime Drink and Nighttime Drink. Was gonna post this in the thread, but since The Dope has had it sense of humor surgically removed, thought better of it.
The Rehab people want to jail poor Beck for about a month. More to come on this…