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!
The only one I saw of these was "Being There"....loved it!
ReplyDeleteYes, 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...
ReplyDeleteWasn't Truman Capote in that, too? "The Fiendish Plot," that is.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
B-d'oh! I was thinking of Murder by Death, another, earlier sucky movie: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0018403/
ReplyDeleteHe also appeared as a Truman Capote lookalike in Annie Hall. Ain't that clever!?
Truman Capote, that is.
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Yep, he was Lionel Twain in Murder by Death (address: Two Two Twain). And P. Sellers played 'Sidney Wang'.
ReplyDeleteBut 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).