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The Private Lives of Adam and Eve

  • 1960
  • Approved
  • 1h 26m
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4.4/10
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Mickey Rooney and Mamie Van Doren in The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960)
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Eight travelers on a bus to Reno Nevada have to stop overnight, where they have a dream about the Garden of Eden.Eight travelers on a bus to Reno Nevada have to stop overnight, where they have a dream about the Garden of Eden.Eight travelers on a bus to Reno Nevada have to stop overnight, where they have a dream about the Garden of Eden.

  • Directors
    • Mickey Rooney
    • Albert Zugsmith
  • Writers
    • George Kennett
    • Robert Hill
    • George Beck
  • Stars
    • Mickey Rooney
    • Mamie Van Doren
    • Fay Spain
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.4/10
    168
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Mickey Rooney
      • Albert Zugsmith
    • Writers
      • George Kennett
      • Robert Hill
      • George Beck
    • Stars
      • Mickey Rooney
      • Mamie Van Doren
      • Fay Spain
    • 14User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    Martin Milner in The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960)
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    Mickey Rooney, Theona Bryant, Phillipa Fallon, Donna Lynn, Ziva Rodann, Nancy Root, Sharon Wiley, June Wilkinson, and Miki Kato in The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960)
    Martin Milner in The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960)
    Tuesday Weld and Mel Tormé in The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960)
    Tuesday Weld and Mel Tormé in The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960)
    Tuesday Weld in The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960)
    Tuesday Weld in The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960)
    Tuesday Weld and Mel Tormé in The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960)
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    Martin Milner and Mamie Van Doren in The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960)

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    • Directors
      • Mickey Rooney
      • Albert Zugsmith
    • Writers
      • George Kennett
      • Robert Hill
      • George Beck(uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      The film was refused a UK cinema certificate in 1960 by the BBFC.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Million Dollar Movie Week 5 (2009)
    • Soundtracks
      The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
      Written by Paul Anka

      Sung by Paul Anka

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    Ah, the good old days!
    This is a VERY strange movie, co-directed by cult director Albert Zugsmith and actor Mickey Rooney, that was barely released back in the day and has never appeared on legitimate home video. The "frame" story involves a motley assortment of characters taking a bus trip to Reno, Nevada when they're cut off by a flash flood and have to take refuge in a church. The movie then slips (for no apparent reason) into a long "Wizard of Oz"-type dream sequence where two of the characters, conveniently named "Adam" () and "Eve" (Mamie Van Doren), re-live the Garden of Eden adventures of their namesakes, with two other passengers, a loud-mouth promoter (Mickey Rooney) and his sultry wife (Fay Spain), becoming, respectively, "Satan" and his consort "Lilith". (Va-va-voom actress/model June Wilkinson also appears as another female minion of Satan).

    The Garden of Eden story is a lot more goofy than funny, the heights of the (mostly unintentional) hilarity reached when Rooney appears in a snake costume, which kind of looks like a bad papier-mache snake has unsuccessfully tried to swallow a chubby, washed-up child actor. What's particularly strange though is that the Garden of Eden sequence only utilizes four of the eight passengers on the bus. Paul Anka is apparently only there to warble a couple of lame songs. But "the Velvet Fog" himself, Mel Torme, is completely wasted both as an actor and a singer. You wouldn't think you'd really need a sixteen-year-old Tuesday Weld (playing a teen runaway) when you have Van Doren, Spain, and June Wilkinson in the cast, but even in an abortive role, the vixenish Weld manages to out-sexy--and definitely out-act--all of her older, more voluptuous co-stars (SHE should have played Eve). Then there's the elderly but lecherous bus driver who narrates everything (and says at one point of Weld's character, "They used to call her 'bobby socks', but now they call her 'baby sex'").

    I didn't find this completely un-entertaining just because of the unusual cast and just because it's so damn weird. It's definitely a throw-back to a bye-gone era when the mostly male movie audience was an unapologetic mixture of chauvinists, big-breast fetishists, and dirty old men. Ah, the good old days!
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    • Jul 13, 2011

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    • Release date
      • January 20, 1960 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Prywatne życie Adama i Ewy
    • Production company
      • Albert Zugsmith Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 26 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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