I found this interesting from an historical perspective. I like the 1960s clothing fashion - women in bright orange and lime green dresses, and the bank scenes are filmed at the Manufacturers Trust Bank, a 1954 glass masterpiece of architecture by Gordon Bunscaft. The film shows the bank as a bank as it looked at the time - it is now a protected building and re-purposed as a Joe Fresh clothing store on 5th and 43rd. The beautiful bronze Bertoia screen is still there and it is great to see all the scenes in this movie to see what it would have been like when it functioned as a bank. Nice cars and street scenes on New York City and Central Park at the time. I also spotted some Marimekko fabric in Angie Dickinson's store. On the cross country trip, Dick Van Dyke and his mistress stop in Wapokeneta, Ohio. No reason this would be on a drive to Las Vegas from New York. So therefore I must conclude the only reason it was used is because it is astronaut Neil Armstrong's home town - and the first moon landing would have been during or just before filming. Also has a lot of familiar character actors that appeared in 1970s TV shows. So this movie is a nice way to see some 60s atmosphere, though the plot drags on toward the end.
Review of Some Kind of a Nut
