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Writers:
Arthur Kopit (play)
Ian Bernard (writer)
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Release Date:
15 February 1967 (USA) more
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This motion picture will probably do as much for mothers as 'Moby Dick' did for whales...
Plot:
A mother drops her son and husband off at a tropical vacation spot for a little rest and relaxation... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Rosalind Russell ... Madame Rosepettle
Robert Morse ... Jonathan
Barbara Harris ... Rosalie
Hugh Griffith ... Commodore Roseabove

Jonathan Winters ... Dad (Narrator)
Lionel Jeffries ... Airport Commander
Cyril Delevanti ... Hawkins
Hiram Sherman ... Breckenduff
George Kirby ... Moses
Janis Hansen ... The Other Woman
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Runtime:
86 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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This film was completed in 1965 but Paramount didn't release it until 1967. In the interim, the understandably nervous studio hired 'Jonathon Winters (I)' to appear in comic inserts shot long after the regular cast had dispersed and principal photography was over. more

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You've seen the title, - don't see the movie, 14 October 1999
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Author: Spleen from Canberra, Australia

I've seen the film AND read the play, which I think makes me unique. It also makes me queasy. The word `queasy' is not a staple of my vocabulary, for some reason, but it leapt readily to mind as a precise description of how this miserable, grotty-looking, dull, funny-as-chloroform movie made me feel, and will make you feel, too, if you're not careful. The play was little more than a foray into a now extinct breed of artiness. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it has never been produced anywhere in the world since 1970 - and hopefully, the sun will grow cold before it is produced anywhere ever again. The film is a botched version of the play, AND a foray into extinct artiness in its own right. Moreover I think something was wrong with the film stock. The very colours upset my stomach.

Here is what remains of the plot synopsis, excluding that which has been so wittily summed up by the title: a widow has had her dead husband stuffed; she lugs his preserved corpse around wherever she travels; she has an idiot son who is sort of undergoing a sexual awakening (DON'T expect anything salacious); and that's about it. Every so often the dead father will appear in a little bubble in the top right-hand corner of the screen and comment on what, if anything, is going on. Sometimes he'll talk to his son. Sometimes he'll address the audience, with lines like, `Not much will happen in the next few minutes.' If he'd been honest, he would have added, `And not much will happen after that, either, so if you're thinking of walking out, cut your losses and do so NOW.'

Don't get me wrong - the 1960s was the tail end of Hollywood's golden age, producing delightful throw-backs like **** and stunning new masterpieces like ****. (I'm sorry - I simply couldn't bear to see the names of two of my favourite films associated in any way with this one.) But it was also the Decade of Floundering. If you want to see just how badly Hollywood was floundering in the 'sixties, by all means watch this movie - but you'll probably decide that you didn't really want to know, after all.

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