Wednesday, December 30

Part Two! Movies Foulard saw in their initial theatrical runs, 30 years ago

A TV-movie dressed up as a real film. That didn't stop me from seeing it (twice?).

More quality. With Mickey Rooney!

Quality again. Funny, if maybe a little over-rated.
Then Peter Sellers made Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen, and died.



Topical! Cheesy!

As you may have noticed, I was pretty omnivorous in my tastes--especially if something had a vaguely science fictional element, and was rated PG--R-rated films were a bit trickier!

6 comments:

  1. The only one I saw of these was "Being There"....loved it!

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  2. Yes, it *was* good! Incidentally, I made a boo-boo--it was The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu that Peter Sellers did as his unfortunately-last movie...

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  3. Wasn't Truman Capote in that, too? "The Fiendish Plot," that is.

    I saw The In-Laws as part of a double feature (remember those?) at the Northgate Theatre (remember that?) with my dad when it came out; if I try really hard I might be able to remember the other half of the bill. It was a big, big deal to see a movie in a theatre when I was a kid... just something we rarely did.

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  4. B-d'oh! I was thinking of Murder by Death, another, earlier sucky movie: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0018403/

    He also appeared as a Truman Capote lookalike in Annie Hall. Ain't that clever!?

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  5. Truman Capote, that is.

    Signed,
    Not used to commenting on blogs

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  6. Yep, he was Lionel Twain in Murder by Death (address: Two Two Twain). And P. Sellers played 'Sidney Wang'.

    But who was in Charlie Chan & the C.o.t.D.Q.? I'm going to look it up now. Ah! It was Peter Ustinov, who had already played mock-chinese in One of Our Dinosaurs in Missing...

    It's too bad your family didn't do movies that much when you were a kid :(--that was one of the few fun diversions available at that age (in that time period).

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