I think the most unusual political element of this movie is its level of faith in improv comedy as a transformative force to reshape the hearts and minds of skeptical non-hippies.

On the plus side, Christopher Plummer’s going to kill it on this season of SNL.

Yep! I’ve been craving a Race with the Devil rewatch for awhile now anyway, so just ordered a combo set with Dirty Mary Crazy Larry for my own Peter Fonda memorial service at home. 

The DM had a pic from 1963 I thought was striking.

“Time? I dig time, man...”

Well, there is a movie in which Elvis and JFK fight a mummy in a nursing home. And Elvis is played by Bruce Campbell. It's gonna be hard to top that.

Or Tarantino’s. Which of course wouldn’t end with Elvis dying on the toilet in 1977, but living on to foil John Hinkley’s Jodie Foster obsessed attack on Reagan in 1981.

Excellent review, particularly this: “It acknowledges that killing will haunt you, maybe ruin you even, while also wondering aloud if there’s some evil so deep and oppressive and destructive it must be met with violence.” There is a lot of Peckinpah in this movie and that boils it down well. There’s a haunting moment…

Far from “trying to retain relevancy,” the TV variety show was kind of at its peak in 1969, and the variety show format stayed relevant even all the way through the disco era. The. genre was probably second only to cop/PI shows. Everyone had one in the late ‘60s early 70s -Glen Campbell. Dean Martin. The Captain and…

That ocelot always looked like it was half a second from tearing Honey’s face off.

“cruising around in a bitchin’ convertible Shelby Cobra with her pet ocelot.”

Babou! Serpentine!

Worth noting too that Sam Wanamaker was a Shakespeare devotee (though at best an adequate Shakespearean actor) who was the catalyst for the restored Globe Theatre in London.  I think his brief appearance gestured at this part of his career.

I’d say he looks like the bassist in the band I joined that got fired for selling all the microphones, but that’s a story so common as to be cliche.

Charade is such a great movie. The plot is a bit of a nonsense but there’s so much good dialogue.

The Carry On films are very up and down (and there’s reactionary attitudes in some of them which are obviously tiresome) but there are some very funny ones - as a general rule, the historical ones are the best.

I think it’s telling that so many of us AV Clubbers mention that fact.

Infamy! Infamy!

No need to watch this when you can just watch Carry On Cleo instead

It’s the Parliament/Funkadelic collective. They’re the only band that could get my non-dancing white ass to boogie.