Posted on 10/09/2004 6:51:06 PM PDT by neverdem
Mein Furher, I can valk! (Last line of movie.)
Look closely - Vegas was dubbed in. The original phrase was 'Dallas', however, the movie was released the year after JFK was assasinated, so they re-dubbed the city.
Anyway, the planners figured that having a famous entertainer appear on all broadcasting stations after an attack would ease panic.
Obviously, this would be taped. They picked Arthur Godfrey.
So, if war broke out in 1985, Arthur Godfrey wearing a 1960s suit would appear in black and white on your TV screens and say "I'm Authur Godfrey and everything is going to be OK.
He was good, but I think he came in a close forth to Peter Sellers.
I was unaware of the pie fight. Thanks for the pics!
Thanks for the link.
If you want to see Slim Pickens steal a movie from a bunch of fine actors, watch "Rancho Deluxe" from the Seventies. It's a comedy set in the modern West involving modern cattle thieves. It's a classic in its own way.
I speak only of the name, Merkin Muff----ley.
Never saw that one. Is it rentable?
I'm sure it is somewhere.
Thanks.
This is my all-time favorite comedy.
I adore this film.
Saw the same thing today...my husband and I couldn't even bear to watch Edwards with the sound off! Interesting how TMC as much as forced you to watch Edwards...Usually they do the interview AFTER the movie. A special Ted Turner moment.
Welcome.
What was REALLY funny about the coke machine "shooting" scene (in order to get change, to use a pay phone to relay the call-back code, in order to avoid an all-out thermonuclear war), was Major Guano's deadpan reply to being quite literally ordered "to shoot that machine"----
"Ok, but you'll have to answer to the Coke-Cola Company for this..."
The checklist scene has long been amongst my all-time favorites, as others here also have mentioned.
I can see and hear it in memory, not having seen the film in twenty years or so...
I think Sellers played at least one more role in the movie.
Early on in the film, (in the first minute?) he was a flower deliverer.
Curtis LeMay was our dangerous doberman, selected early on in the cold war, to "send a message" to the roos-kies, along the lines of "don't even make us think you're attempting to pull something, and if you do actually "commit", this dog of ours will bomb the shi-ite out of you, without hesitation..."
He lives breathes dreams bomb 'em bomb em bomb em!
No joke, that.
True. When he wanted to turn the novel into a comedy, he turned his script over to Terry Southern (although the great Sellers improvised a number of scenes).
I don't know. Every time I see this move, I think they are making fun of the men that were defending us from the Soviet Union (a real threat).
The things you do to ensure success seem silly to liberals especially when taken out of context.
It surely helped our enemies then. Why would we applaud such a thing?
It was Terry Southern who transformed the movie into a black comedy. He was at the height of his creative powers then.
And James Earl Jones, Dennis Hopper.
John Wayne would not take the role that went to Slim.
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