Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title (1966)

A man is mistaken by foreign agents for a defecting cosmonaut and must prove his identity while evading capture.

Director:

Harmon Jones

Writers:

Morey Amsterdam, John Hart,

Stars:

Morey Amsterdam, Rose Marie, Richard Deacon

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Morey Amsterdam	...	Charlie Yuckapuck
Rose Marie	...	Annie
Richard Deacon	...	Mr. Travis / Police Chief
Joey Adams	...	1st Digger
Andy Albin	...	2nd Digger
Henry Corden	...	Professor Lerowski
Michael Ford	...	Jim Holliston
Jack Heller	...	Mr. Big (as Jackie Heller)
Tim Herbert	...	Seed / Samu
Peggy Mondo	...	Fat KEB agent
Carmen Phillips	...	Olga
January Jones	...	Magda Anders
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom	...	(scenes deleted)

Storyline

Charlie Yuckapuck is mistaken by Klavashian intelligence agents for a defecting cosmonaut named Yascha Nudnik. Charlie works in a diner with his friends Annie and Magda. When Magda inherits a bookstore, Charlie and Annie go to work for her, unaware that the bookstore is crawling with spies seeking to recover secrets stolen by the missing Nudnik.

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Plot Keywords:

bookstore | cosmonaut | spy | diner | cigarette holder | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

May 1966 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Desilu Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Courageous Films, Courageous-Kam Productions, Kam Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

83 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Did You Know?

Trivia

Final film of director Harmon Jones.

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Quotes

Annie: Hi, Charlie, how'd you sleep last night?
Charlie Yuckapuck: No good. I was up all night trying to get the window open.
Annie: But there's no window in that room.
Charlie Yuckapuck: No wonder I couldn't get it open!

User Reviews

Buddy and Sally at sea

Even by the dismal standards of mid-1960s spy spoofs (others have titles like "The Last of the Secret Agents?" and "The Maltese Bippy"), this is a forlorn little comedy, shot on Desilu sets and looking like a quickie TV show. Every Desilu TV star on the lot that day puts in a witless cameo (Irene Ryan, Danny Thomas, Carl Reiner); the rest is Rose Marie and Morey Amsterdam, Buddy Sorrell and Sally Rogers in all but name, exchanging lame repartee as a bumbling pair of friends to a nubile bookstore owner (the conspicuously untalented January Jones), all of them caught up in labored international intrigue. Amsterdam co-wrote the screenplay and thus has only himself to blame, but he and Rose Marie look distinctly unhappy amid the low-budget surroundings, and the movie's reputation as a legendary stinker is well deserved. Harmon Jones, who actually has a good movie or two to his credit, directs in a grab-the-paycheck-and-run style that's winceworthy.