“I will not have my son grow up to be a capitalist.”
“When he’s 18 he can make his mind up whether he wants to be a capitalist or a rich communist.”
I remember that one. Hollywood attempting to show communists as young, hip, attractive and appealing while contrasting the stuffy Mammon-worshiping communist stereotype of a Yank . . .
This is a masterpiece!
My all-time favorite movie!!!!
I remember seeing this at the drive-in when i was a kid. I LOVED it!
“Naked as a Jaybird, with “Yankee Go Home” tattooed across her chest!”.... LOL
This is a very funny movie and captures (maybe in a not too realistic way) a strange moment in time.
I love Billy Wilder and his movies.
Sadly, I need a translator for his own peculiar form of English!
great film....very funny even thought it’s dated...
Actually, “Compulsion” on TCM from 2-4 EDT wasn’t bad either - tells the story of the Leopold-Loeb murder case back in the ‘20’s - two supposedly brilliant college students murder a young boy for the thrill of it, and because they’re convinced they’re so smart they’ll get away with it (prototypical leftwingers) - best line was from Orsen Wells playing their lawyer Clarence Darrow - the KKK has burned a cross on his lawn because of his supposedly atheistic beliefs, and the nest morning he is being chided by a bunch of journalists because his clients’ parents are so rich - did he believe in the case or did he take it because he’s going to get paid a lot of money? “To believe that the rich don’t deserve as good a defense as the poor just because they’re rich is to engage in the same kind of thinking that burned that cross”, he snaps.......