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MUCH better than the Fonda/Redford version!
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(Credited cast) | Bess Armstrong | ... | Corie Bratter |
 | Dick Arnold | ... | Delivery Man |
| Barbara Barrie | ... | Mrs. Banks |
| Hans Conried | ... | Victor Velasco |
 | James Cromwell | ... | Harry Pepper |
| Richard Thomas | ... | Paul Bratter |
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Hans Conried previously essayed the role he has here when the play became the basis for a TV series pilot, "Love, American Style: Love and the Big Leap/Love and the Former Marriage/Love and the Good Deal (#1.9)" (1969), specifically, the segment "Love and the Good Deal."
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Version of "Barefoot in the Park" (1970)
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I saw this when it first aired on HBO - and found it MUCH funnier and more entertaining than the bland, drab, and, in my opinion, un-funny Fonda/Redford film. Perhaps it was the fact that it was a stage production with a live audience, but the acting and chemistry are far superior. Hans Conreid and Barbara Barrie are delightful, and Richard Thomas and Bess Armstrong give Neil Simon's material the comedic flavor it deserves. (Look for James Cromwell in a memorable small role as the telephone repair man).
The "fight" scenes alone have twice the energy and comedy than the film version. Example:
Corie: "You're very nearly perfect!" Paul: "That's a rotten thing to say!"
The delivery of this in the stage version is SO much more fun than Redford's ho-hum delivery of the same line. (anyone having seen both will know what I mean . . . ) I would HIGHLY recommend this version over the more "famous" Fonda film. I only wish that whatever studio owns it would put it out on DVD! I'd watch it again and again . . .