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To: fieldmarshaldj
LOL! It's been years since I've seen the original movie, I don't remember the elderly bank president dying. I'm sure they'll find some loophole around it.
45 posted on 09/17/2018 11:06:16 AM PDT by BillyBoy (States rights is NOT a suicide pact.)
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To: BillyBoy

The son of Van Dyke’s bank chairman (the next morning when they were flying kites) told Mr. Banks his father died laughing after he pondered the joke Banks’ told him about a man with a wooden leg named Smith (when Banks was fired after being summoned at night to the board). Since it bumped the son up to chairman, he was able to rehire Banks, and with a promotion (although baffling why he’d hire the man who “killed” his father - but it was a fantasy, after all).

Of course, as was pointed out, P.L. Travers hated the original film, felt Uncle Walt screwed her over, and so much so that she refused to allow any very lucrative sequels at the time. I’m amazed they were able to make this one, as she was adamant about no sequel films (she lived to 1996 just to make sure they wouldn’t).


86 posted on 09/17/2018 1:05:45 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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