WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:03.600 The Projection Booth podcast is sponsored by Scarecrow Video. Try 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:07.160 out Scarecrow's rent by mail service. Choose from over one 3 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:10.400 hundred and fifty thousand films and get Blu rays, four 4 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:14.480 k's and DVDs delivered directly to your door. Visit scarecrow 5 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:15.359 dot com today. 6 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:23.440 Oh gez, folks, it's showtime. 7 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:26.079 People say good money to see this movie. 8 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:29.039 When they go out to a theater. They want clothed sodas, 9 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.679 pop popcorn in. No monsters in the projection Booth. 10 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:34.679 Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring. 11 00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:36.359 Got it off? 12 00:00:56.399 --> 00:01:00.520 What did strongholds? Millions are made here and not a 13 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:04.439 single dollar has ever been lost until one day. This 14 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:07.599 bright young man makes an innocent mistake that erupts into 15 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:16.000 unbelievable consequences. 16 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:18.920 Fifty thousand dollars. 17 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:25.040 Fifty thousand dollars. Turn yourself in, boy, before someone asks 18 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:29.480 who's minding them in. We're going through the sore at night. 19 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:30.200 Start up. 20 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:33.760 The presses run off the fifty thousand impossible. The plates 21 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:37.319 are locked in the vault, So we get one more partner, 22 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:44.519 somebody who can open safe A safe cracker ridiculous. Where 23 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:47.439 do you find a safe cracker? The open A safe 24 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:49.760 I got to hear it close. 25 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:52.359 I need the hearing age. 26 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:55.480 A safe cracker who can't hear this one is a 27 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:57.799 solid value blocked with a school teacher. 28 00:01:58.719 --> 00:01:59.879 She used it only on weekend. 29 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:02.599 You didn't mentioned who was going to get you into 30 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:05.519 the sewer system. Dean drains in that part of town 31 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:06.560 are awful deep. 32 00:02:07.799 --> 00:02:08.360 We need what. 33 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:14.680 A boat? A boat to sail a seward. Wait a minute, 34 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:17.439 no problem, I get just the guy to build this 35 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:23.759 a boat. Oh no, not a captain of a kiddie park. 36 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:29.360 Next you'll get a blonde who also cuts money. In 37 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:35.919 an operation like this, there are a few complications, like 38 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:46.439 a close call with an electric eye, a nosy little 39 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:57.240 dog who insists on getting into the act, a vanishing captain. Genuine, beautiful, wonderful, 40 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:00.199 real money and all tax free. 41 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:03.080 Four and a half million. 42 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:03.560 Dollars so far? 43 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:10.000 Four and a half. Can you make it go faster, Harry, 44 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:13.240 make it go faster? The most impossible cast of lawbreakers 45 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:19.919 ever put together. Jim Huffy, Dorothy Proline. I didn't do 46 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:30.960 this for money, Milton Brow, Joey Bishop, Bob Denver, Victor Bote, 47 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:43.000 Jack Guilbert, and Walter Brenham has popph. 48 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:59.400 You said, Welcome to the projection booth. I'm your host, 49 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:01.840 Mike Waite me once again as mister Otto Bruno. 50 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:04.439 Good day, mister White, how are you? 51 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:07.680 I'm good. Also back in the booth is mister Tim Madigan. 52 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:11.479 I've worked out a little philosophy for myself. I've learned 53 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:14.560 to eliminate the necessities and live for the luxuries. 54 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:19.120 Buono Palooza concludes with a look at Howard Morris's Who's 55 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:22.040 Minding the Mint? Released in nineteen sixty seven. The film 56 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:25.000 stars Jim Hutton as Harry Lucas, a worker at the 57 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:28.879 US Treasury who accidentally pill for his fifty thousand dollars. 58 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:31.040 He needs to get it back and uses the help 59 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:34.639 of a handful of colorful characters, including Verna Baxter played 60 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:37.079 by Dorothy Provine, who needs to learn how to make 61 00:04:37.120 --> 00:04:40.439 better brownies. Otto, When was the first time you saw 62 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:42.439 Who's Minding the Mint? And what did you think? 63 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:46.160 The first time I saw was a long long time ago, 64 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:49.920 So I don't remember, So Tim and I because this 65 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:53.680 is one of doctor Tim's favorite movies, So I sought 66 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:57.720 it out maybe about five years ago or so, five 67 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:02.480 or six years ago and watch again for me, and 68 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:06.360 we've talked about this before. All you gotta do is 69 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:09.279 look at the cast list, and I know I'm going 70 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:12.439 to enjoy watching it, whether it's the greatest movie ever 71 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:17.759 written or not, because there's just so many fabulous character 72 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:23.040 actors and actresses in it. So I'll let Tim make 73 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:26.519 the comparison to It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World. 74 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:31.000 Obviously it's not up to that level, but it's that 75 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:34.519 type of film, and it's just a lot I think. 76 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:36.680 I don't remember if all three of us had talked 77 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:39.360 about this yet, or if maybe Tim and I were 78 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:41.680 talking about this the other day when we watched it again. 79 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:46.199 But unfortunately, it's one of those movies like It's a Mad, Mad, 80 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:52.360 Mad Mad World, that if you're too it's almost impossible 81 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:55.160 to enjoy it or appreciate. You have to have some 82 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:58.959 kind of relationship as a viewer with all the actors 83 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:03.040 that in order to be able to really enjoy it. 84 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:04.360 But maybe I don't. 85 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:07.240 But that's just how I feel about it, and Tim, 86 00:06:07.279 --> 00:06:08.000 how about yourself. 87 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:11.959 I saw this movie countless times when I was a 88 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:15.639 kid back in the Stone Age, when there were only 89 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:19.800 three channels, and for some reason there were four movies 90 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:23.199 that I remember being on all the time, and I 91 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:28.399 would always watch them, The out of Towners, the Producers, 92 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:32.360 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World, and Who's Minding 93 00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:37.519 the Men? And I loved all of them in part because, 94 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:42.279 as Otto said, they all had actors, character actors, people 95 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:46.079 that I just enjoyed. But another reason was I watched 96 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:49.680 them with my father, and he loved these movies and 97 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:55.000 he would laugh uproariously. And I probably started watching them 98 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:57.199 when I was too young to even know what the 99 00:06:57.279 --> 00:06:59.920 humor was. But if my father thought it was funny, 100 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:05.680 it's funny. And Otto, as we know, did a book 101 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:09.360 on the Barney Miller TV show, and Mike You had 102 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:12.519 a podcast on it, that too, was something I would 103 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:16.759 watch with my father, was his favorite show. And just 104 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:20.000 having rewatched this movie with Otto a few days ago, 105 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:25.160 it really was like traveling back in time. I happen 106 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:29.079 to coincidentally be teaching a course. I'm a professor of philosophy, 107 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:32.680 so I'm teaching a course this summer on metaphysics, and 108 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:36.240 one of the topics we've been looking at is time travel. 109 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:40.319 And I don't know literally we'll ever be able to 110 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:44.319 go back in time, but movies and TV shows and 111 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:50.319 other popular culture aspects can allow us to do so. 112 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:52.439 I felt like I was a ten year old again 113 00:07:52.519 --> 00:07:53.480 watching the Spree. 114 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:57.560 I had never heard of this film before we set 115 00:07:57.639 --> 00:08:00.360 up this month. So when you guys chose the four 116 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:04.319 films with Victor Bono, I said, okay, sure whatever this 117 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:07.560 Who's mine the Mint movie is. So this was a 118 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:10.600 brand new watch for me. Hadn't heard of it, hadn't 119 00:08:10.639 --> 00:08:13.560 seen it, didn't know anything about it before I walked in. 120 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:16.319 I really didn't want to know anything about it before 121 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:19.560 I sat down and watched this and was pretty delighted. 122 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:24.879 I was getting a lot of Buena Vista type vibes 123 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:29.040 from it, those live action Disney movies. It felt like 124 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:31.839 there could be magic in this movie at any moment. 125 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:36.480 Flubber could be on the table at some point, but no, Instead, 126 00:08:36.519 --> 00:08:39.840 it's a comedy heist movie, which I love heist movies 127 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:42.519 and I love comedy heist movies as well. So this 128 00:08:42.759 --> 00:08:45.000 really scratching it for me that I didn't know that 129 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:48.440 I had. And then yes, the cast for this is 130 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:51.559 just amazing and the way that the plot plays out, 131 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:53.919 and not to jump too far ahead already, but the 132 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:57.240 way the plot plays out where it's okay, in order 133 00:08:57.279 --> 00:08:59.639 to do this thing, I need to get this guy 134 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:03.039 and he needs something and we need another piece of 135 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:05.159 the puzzle, so we go to another person and he 136 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:07.399 needs something else, we go to another piece of the puzzle. 137 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:10.159 It reminds me of one of my most favorite episodes 138 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:13.559 of Mash Ever, the one where Hawkeye orders those ribs 139 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:16.840 from Chicago and he has to keep making deals with 140 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:19.799 people and getting this guy this thing in order to 141 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:22.080 get to here, to get to there before they can 142 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:25.120 order Adam's ribs and have them delivered to the four 143 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:25.960 oh seven seven. 144 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:28.399 It's a place in Chicago. You're the Dearborn Street station. 145 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:30.519 I don't know the name of it. They served ribs 146 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:34.480 the best in the world. Get a barbecue sauce with it, 147 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:41.200 a flamboyant devil may Care yet introspective sauce, spare ribs ambrosia. 148 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:42.799 The guys on o lipus. 149 00:09:42.840 --> 00:09:44.240 When I got tired of PG they sent out for 150 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:44.799 these ribs. 151 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:46.519 Hah, yum yum. 152 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:48.480 I think he's going to have an accident. 153 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:51.879 Get him the barbecue ribs, Henry. I gotta have those 154 00:09:51.960 --> 00:09:53.200 ribs so. 155 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:57.120 I get ready to go into labor I'll get them somehow. 156 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:01.600 I love that episode, and I really like a movie 157 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:04.840 like this where it's, oh, here's this person and he 158 00:10:04.919 --> 00:10:07.320 needs this thing. And of course when we get to 159 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:12.279 Victor Bono and he's obsessed with boats and dresses as 160 00:10:12.279 --> 00:10:14.759 a captain and what was it. He's like one of 161 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:17.919 the youngest guys in this whole movie, but he looks 162 00:10:17.960 --> 00:10:21.240 like he's the oldest guy, maybe only second to Walter Brennan. 163 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:25.559 I mean, this is like a classic plot device, right, 164 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:28.919 I mean, I'm not a classicist and does this like 165 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:31.679 Shakespeare or something, because I think. 166 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:33.240 It goes back to Alcibiades. 167 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:36.519 Actually, you can just tell that you've seen it in 168 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:40.919 different ways in different vehicles before. It doesn't always work 169 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:44.120 as well as I think it. Definitely, I remember that. 170 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:47.480 I'm not a big mash person, but I definitely remember 171 00:10:47.559 --> 00:10:49.720 that episode of Match. 172 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:52.720 I always have said to my kids. 173 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:58.039 Fires is one of the hardest type of comedies to 174 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:03.200 pull off. When it's good, it's really really good. But 175 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:06.279 when it's bad for me, at least personally, it just 176 00:11:06.519 --> 00:11:10.879 falls so flat that it's hard to watch. I know, 177 00:11:10.919 --> 00:11:14.759 you get frustrated along with Jim Hutton in this movie 178 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:18.759 Hutton basically is the star. He has to Well, I'm sure, Mike, 179 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:21.159 you're gonna give the plot of the movie. It's just 180 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:25.000 interesting because he makes you the viewer relate to him 181 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:30.039 in that way, just sing it the myriad implausibility of 182 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:30.840 this plot. 183 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:33.879 Yeah, we're not going to talk about serial numbers on 184 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:38.200 these bills at all, because that would immediately just blow 185 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:38.759 up this home. 186 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:41.360 I didn't say it right away. It took me a 187 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:43.879 few minutes, and then I finally turned him and I said, 188 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:47.639 wait a minute, aren't the bills gonna be counterfeit anyway 189 00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:50.759 because they all have serial numbers? Don't those have to 190 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:51.879 be registers. 191 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:56.480 Another reason I've loved this movie and loved it when 192 00:11:56.480 --> 00:12:00.000 it was on is because of its star, Jim Hutton. 193 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:03.039 That was one of the glue for that series of 194 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:08.360 Hal Lyndon didn't really get the laughs, but that allowed 195 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:11.200 all the other cast members or the Andy Griffiths show. 196 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:15.960 And in a sense, he's the figure here at the beginning, 197 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:19.039 he's a playboy. That line I said at the beginning, 198 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:22.440 it comes from him. Early on he's living this playboy life. 199 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:27.879 But very early on he's the serious one. And as 200 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:32.080 the characters get more and more absurd. He's the one 201 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:37.159 who helps it stay together. And he also appeared in 202 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:40.039 what was my favorite TV show when I was a kid, 203 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:44.200 The Ellery Queen Show, because in addition to my father 204 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:48.360 loving those movies, he loved mysteries and he would get 205 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:52.000 the Ellery Queen magazine and we had all kinds of 206 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:56.080 Ellery Queen novels. So soon as I learned how to read, 207 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:59.519 in addition to Sherlock Holmes, I read so many Ellery 208 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:03.080 Queen's stories as I could, and suddenly there's a TV 209 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:07.639 series with Jim Houghton and David Wayne as his dad, 210 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:11.759 and it was only on one season, so it broke 211 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:14.919 my heart when it went off the air. But seeing 212 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:18.320 him again brought back memories of that show too. 213 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:22.000 Whendn't he break the fourth wall and say do you 214 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:24.879 know how they did it? Towards the end of every episode? 215 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:27.919 Yeah? That was fun. And of course some of them 216 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:30.679 I think were based on stories I had read, so 217 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:33.799 that gave me a leg up. But I would read 218 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:37.440 the Accual Parrots stories and the Miss Marple and then 219 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:40.840 I stopped after a point when I realized I was reading. 220 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:44.000 When I said, I've read this before, I still can't 221 00:13:44.039 --> 00:13:46.879 figure out who did it, but I said, maybe it's 222 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:47.720 time to move on. 223 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:51.919 Yeah, I think that was what Levinson and Link moved 224 00:13:51.919 --> 00:13:54.399 on to. Right after Columbus. I think was Ella Queen. 225 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:58.480 I think it came out in seventy six. 226 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:03.120 I believe seventy six seventy seven, So sadly, even if 227 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:07.000 it had not gotten canceled, it wouldn't have lasted much 228 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:10.360 more than three years because poor Jim Hutton died very 229 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:14.279 young in nineteen seventy, so. 230 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:15.440 I was wondering if he had lived to see the 231 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:18.320 success of his son, Tim, because as soon as I 232 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:20.000 see the name Hutton, I was like, Oh, I wonder 233 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:22.320 if he's related to Tim Hutton. And of course he's 234 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:25.000 the spitting image at times. There are a lot of 235 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:27.240 moments in this movie where I'm like, oh, he looks 236 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:29.559 a lot like Tim Hutton. But then there are other 237 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:31.799 times where I think he looks like Dean Jones, which 238 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:34.519 I think adds to the disney ness of this film 239 00:14:34.519 --> 00:14:34.799 for me. 240 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:42.639 I just watched on YouTube Timothy Hutton's Academy Awards speech, 241 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:47.159 and of course he thanks all the cast members of 242 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:50.919 Ordinary People, and Mary Tyler Moore is one and Jack 243 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:55.399 Lemon give him the awards. So somebody in the description 244 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:58.399 said they finally got to kiss Mary Tyler Moore because 245 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:01.360 in the movie she was just and wouldn't kiss him. 246 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:04.960 But it's very poignant because at the end he says, 247 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:07.240 I want to thank my dad, who I wish was here. 248 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:12.320 He died just before his son won the award. Yeah. 249 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:14.840 I really like him as this straight man, but he's 250 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:18.000 a very flustered straight man through so much of this. 251 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:21.279 And yeah, like you said, he is this playboy living 252 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:25.639 this life where he's got deals that he is testing 253 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:29.240 out limos and he's basically a scam artist and he's 254 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:32.279 just getting all these free clothes and he's got a 255 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:35.159 neighbor who comes over and brings him din din. And 256 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:38.679 I love his distinction between dinner and din din, and 257 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:42.360 that dinner means that you've got obligations. You know, there's 258 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:44.600 going to be kids involved at some point. You know, 259 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:48.120 it's basically throwing the shackles around your arms as dinner, 260 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:50.320 but means there's a little bit of fun. 261 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:56.080 Afterlud he kind of unravels because, like Tim said, starting out, 262 00:15:56.200 --> 00:15:59.639 he's like the cool cucumber and he's you know, I 263 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:02.480 don't know if I want to say, he's serious about it, 264 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:07.080 But it's one of those jobs ideas just the same 265 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:10.600 day in day out. They don't film it this way, 266 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:14.039 but it's a kind of job that I picture if 267 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:17.039 you remember that opening shot of the apartment where Jack 268 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:20.679 Lemon comes into the office, that vast sea of desks 269 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:23.360 all lined up in a row. So it's this kind 270 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:27.600 of mundane job that he just does every day to 271 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:30.519 make some money. But out when he's away from the job, 272 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:34.320 he's a cool, swinging playboy, having a good. 273 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:35.440 Time, no worries. 274 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:40.600 And then he accidentally takes fifty thousand dollars out of 275 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:43.480 the mint by mistake. He doesn't even realize he does it, 276 00:16:43.559 --> 00:16:47.879 and then, to add insult to injury, grinds it up 277 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:50.879 in the garbage's photal. So he's got to figure out 278 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:54.399 a way to not steal money, but to just make 279 00:16:54.600 --> 00:16:59.240 enough fifty thousand dollars to replace it so that he 280 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:00.600 doesn't get in trouble. 281 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:02.080 And trying to do. 282 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:08.559 That, he has to hire the surfaces of all these lunatics, 283 00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:12.759 and as you said, each one keeps getting goofier and 284 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:13.680 goofier than the. 285 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:16.480 One before them, And now all of a sudden. 286 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:19.319 He's the ring master of this service, which is not 287 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:21.920 something he was cut out for. 288 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:25.039 No, and he is very much under the microscope of 289 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:28.319 his boss, who is I can't remember his first name. 290 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:30.400 A Link is the last name, so he keeps calling 291 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:33.920 him the missing link and all of these different sausage link. 292 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:35.680 I don't know any type of link that you can 293 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:38.920 possibly think of. And he's great. I really like the 294 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:41.599 actor of the Place's Boss, And unfortunately I think he 295 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:44.680 died right after this, because this is his last movie 296 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:47.559 and his state of death is in nineteen sixty six, 297 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:51.079 so probably right after the wraps shooting for this one. 298 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:56.160 The casting is great because we have the name actors 299 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:59.240 who we love, but even the bit actors as Otto 300 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:03.279 and I were watching James, Oh that guy that, by 301 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:07.519 the way, is jumping to the end. Paul Winfield plays 302 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:11.400 the garbage man at the end. Witch great seeing him. 303 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:14.240 I'm sure when I saw the movie on TV long 304 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:17.400 long ago, I know that was before Sounder, I probably 305 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:20.200 hadn't seen Sounder yet, so I wouldn't have drawn that connection. 306 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:23.319 Yeah, he's not even in the credits, I believe. 307 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:26.839 Yeah, that's why it's always fun to go be for me. 308 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:30.759 To look at the people who are in the movie 309 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:33.279 but are uncredited. Like at one point Tim and I 310 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:35.119 are watching it in the place and I turned to 311 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:38.200 Tim I said, I look like a Meal Sitka and 312 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:40.640 Tim said no, really, I said it looked like it. 313 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:43.720 So I immediately, you know, check it up on IMDb 314 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:46.319 and I said, yeah, that's who it was. Emil Sitka 315 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:51.160 was the janitor. Uh yeah, Johnny Silver is in it 316 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:52.400 but not credited. 317 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:53.920 Donald A. Miliar. 318 00:18:54.119 --> 00:18:56.279 A lot of familiar fits, some of these, some people 319 00:18:56.359 --> 00:18:58.400 I love. Once in a while you can find people 320 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:03.400 who's entire your career is like four hundred credits, and 321 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:06.960 three hundred and eighty eight of them are on credit. 322 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:09.240 I love the guy who plays the accountant that comes 323 00:19:09.279 --> 00:19:12.000 in and is telling him how much he loves his 324 00:19:12.079 --> 00:19:14.440 bookkeeping and loves his fours. 325 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:16.599 That's Brian O'Byrne. 326 00:19:16.920 --> 00:19:17.880 Oh so good. 327 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:20.319 I love that a lot of Yeah, he was in. 328 00:19:20.319 --> 00:19:22.640 A lot, a lot of stuff when we were young. 329 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:23.960 I remember him. 330 00:19:24.359 --> 00:19:28.000 You know, sometimes those fours can look like nines at 331 00:19:28.039 --> 00:19:30.400 rank crewe to me because I have terrible handwriting, and 332 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:31.960 my fours do look like nine. 333 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:34.880 So when I can, if I write a number down, 334 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:37.359 then later, so I can't read it. What is that? 335 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:39.319 I can vouch for the fact that Tim has some 336 00:19:39.359 --> 00:19:41.160 of the worst handwriting I've ever seen. 337 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:44.400 In my wife, the hunting character is doing his job 338 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:47.839 so well that instead of there being a figure missing, 339 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:50.759 we've got the overseer coming in and telling him how 340 00:19:50.839 --> 00:19:54.720 neat a s handwriting is, just how wonderful he is, basically, 341 00:19:54.759 --> 00:19:58.279 and that just drives his boss into even more apoplectic behavior. 342 00:19:59.079 --> 00:20:01.400 And yeah, there's this whole thing in here. Why I 343 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:03.799 brought up the brownies at the beginning. One of his 344 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:08.559 office mates keeps making brownies, and apparently they are horrible, 345 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:12.240 absolutely terrible, but she gives them out like crazy, and 346 00:20:12.279 --> 00:20:16.480 he accidentally swipes a couple brownies into a brown paper bag. 347 00:20:16.519 --> 00:20:18.400 He's going to try to pawn them off to one 348 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:20.960 of the security guards, which is a nice little bit 349 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:24.680 of business because not only does he sweep the brownies 350 00:20:24.759 --> 00:20:27.039 in there, but he also sweeps this big old bundle 351 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:28.920 of bills in there, and you think he's just going 352 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:31.279 to hand that over right to that security guard, but no, 353 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:35.119 security guard's wise. No more brownies, please. I had them 354 00:20:35.160 --> 00:20:36.440 yesterday and they were awful. 355 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:41.400 Not again, please, No, Well, I think he's also going 356 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:43.920 to put it in a trash can and then it 357 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:47.480 comes out and stops. He doesn't want her to see 358 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:50.720 he's throwing away or brownies. I love that. 359 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:53.319 Yeah, when he meets Bob Denver, who's the first one 360 00:20:53.319 --> 00:20:56.720 of these lunatics that he gets to meet, and Bob Denver, 361 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:00.960 God bless him. I watch a lot of Gillis and 362 00:21:01.319 --> 00:21:04.200 of course Gilligan's Island when I was growing up. I 363 00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:07.079 love his face. I just love how expresses his face 364 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:10.119 is like when he his eyes get really big and 365 00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:12.720 sometimes a little cross eyed, and he just is so 366 00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:16.000 earnest in his delivery all the time. I just love 367 00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:18.680 watching him. And yeah, that little bit of business with 368 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:21.200 the brown paper bag, how he's about to throw it 369 00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:23.599 in and then throws it behind us back and Bob 370 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:24.799 catches it and then hands it it. 371 00:21:26.039 --> 00:21:29.160 I admit I like Bob Denver and stuff like this, 372 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:32.680 And even in Adobe Gillis more than I did Gilligan. 373 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:35.279 I was never a Gilligan fan. I did them in 374 00:21:35.279 --> 00:21:36.160 in Dope. 375 00:21:36.599 --> 00:21:39.799 He was great manner. Chid Krebs was a great, great character. 376 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:43.119 And it's kind of neat that he gets get paired 377 00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:46.839 up with Jackie Joseph in this movie, Big Joseph, Tim 378 00:21:46.839 --> 00:21:49.480 and I were saying, she's gotta be It's her and 379 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:53.920 Jamie Farr certainly the only two of the main casts 380 00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:56.799 that are left, but maybe the only two except for 381 00:21:56.880 --> 00:21:59.359 some of the kids that we saw who weren't credited 382 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:01.920 in there, who might still be around. But she's still 383 00:22:01.960 --> 00:22:04.960 a right sounds well, she's a Facebook friend and we 384 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:07.960 have other freshs you know, that know her better. 385 00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:09.440 It sounds like she's. 386 00:22:09.200 --> 00:22:12.119 In great shape Knockwood, so that's nice that she's going. 387 00:22:13.079 --> 00:22:16.119 I grew up with her mostly knowing her as Missus 388 00:22:16.160 --> 00:22:19.680 Futterman from Gremlin's and I love that she kind of 389 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:23.440 fell into that Joe Dante camp and probably was in 390 00:22:23.559 --> 00:22:25.359 that camp because she was all the way back in 391 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:28.359 Little Shop of Horrors, So she ended up being in 392 00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:33.079 things like Small Soldiers and just these other Dante things 393 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:35.799 that he did because he loved those old movies. Of course, 394 00:22:35.880 --> 00:22:39.480 Walter Paisley, the name shows up in so many of 395 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:40.680 the Dante stuff. 396 00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:44.880 I remember her as Rowena from the Andy Griffiths Show. 397 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:48.319 Yeah, there's a lot of connections to the Andy Griffith Show. 398 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:50.440 We should probably talk a little bit about the director 399 00:22:50.480 --> 00:22:54.680 of this Howard Morris, who was Ernest T. Bass on 400 00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:58.680 the Andy Griffiths show. My God, that guy's hilarious. And 401 00:22:58.799 --> 00:23:02.240