If you never heard of it, never read the one or two. Just pleading for a return to real quality, and thanking you in advance. Heres the second in a brief survey of peter sellers films i revisited while recently laid up with the flu. Toklas and so does gertrude stein i love you, alice b. Toklas 1 reply i bought my first gertrude stein book, the autobiography of alice b.
Toklas, im gonna change your name to mine see all the trees and lions, pretty lions maybe witches, playing pitchyme, spinning rainbows in light green moody. Toklas apr 04, 2012 i think this must be my favourite peter sellers movie, its really hilarious and very 60s, i really liked it. Square lawyer harold peter sellers, stuck with a borrowed hippie van, meets nancy leigh tayloryoung, while picking up brother herbie david arkin for the funeral of a family friend, in i love you, alice b. Toklas stars peter sellers, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung, joyce van patten the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr. Flower in the crannied wall i pluck you out of the crannies i hold you here, root and all, in my hand, little flowerbut if i. Big rental films of 1968, variety, 8 january 1969, pg 15. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing i love you, alice b.
The film opens with harold fine peter sellers, a respectable lawyer in. After harold and his family enjoy some of her groovy brownies, he decides to drop out with her and become a hippie too. Rewind that feeling by a handful of decades and you get the poorly dated 1968 comedy i love you, alice b. Toklas is a 1968 romantic comedy film starring peter sellers, directed by hy averback with music by harpers bizarre.
Toklas, and so does gertrude stein i love you, alice b. On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost. Toklas 1968 peter sellers, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung watch sold by pau. The movie pokes fun at the american hippie counterculture of the late 60s, and shows that the grass is not.
Find movie and film cast and crew information for i love you, alice b. Toklas was released to dvd by warner home video june 20, 2006, as a region 1 widescreen dvd and years later in 2011 as a dvdondemand title via warner archive. He plays a single man of about 35, a lawyer with a great respect for appearances, who finally agrees out of politeness to marry the girl hes been dating for several years. Toklas dvd, 2014 at the best online prices at ebay. A halfforgotten nearly 50 year old comedy from the peter sellers catalog that deserves another look. How is berlin returning in money heist season 3street street street. The movie is about changes people make, and is funny because of things that happen. Toklas is the closest a person can get to being in. Peter sellers stars as harold fine, an impossibly square litigator who grows weary of the conformity and hypocrisy of modern life. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free. One day youre a career 9to5er with a pending marriage the next, you chuck it all for beads. It isnt sarcastic or black humor or based on taking pot shots at characters.
Were sorry but jwapp doesnt work properly without javascript enabled. For sellers fans interested in scorekeeping the upanddown work during his late60s blue period, i love you, alice b. Elmer bernstein soundtrack music from i love you, alice. Toklas stars peter sellers, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung, joyce van patten the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 33 min, and received a score of out of. This graceless time capsule finds peter sellers done up in full hippie garb, handing out copies of the free press on street corners, sucking down hash brownies, and saying such random things as far out, groovy, or far out. The cast includes david arkin, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung in her film debut and a cameo by the scripts cowriter paul mazursky. The hot dog vendor from the carol burnett show full sketch duration. Having just finished a podcast series on charles manson, its kind of hard to.
Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of i love you, alice b. A thirtysomething square falls in love with a hippie and decides to drop out himself. Repeat this ad nauseam heavy on the nauseam, toss in some flutes for good measure, give the whole thing to that buytheworlda. Toklas is about a selfproclaimed square lawyer sellers who falls for a flower child leigh tayloryoung and decides to in the infamous words of timothy leary turn on, tune in, and drop out. The film is set in the counterculture of the 1960s. Toklas 1968 making a hash of it heres the second in a brief survey of peter sellers films i revisited while recently laid up with the flu. Flower in the crannied wall i pluck you out of the crannies i hold you here, root and all, in my hand, little flowerbut if i could understand what you are, root and all, and all in all. Toklas stars peter sellers as harold fine, a staid jewish attorney. By the end of it i was feeling a certain amount of resentment at having been had, along with alice b. The peter sellers vehicle explores the fantasy that a single toke or a roll in the hay with a groovy hippie chick is all it would. One of the few 1960s satires of the hippie culture that doesnt appear to be concocted by grumpy old men, i love you, alice b. Toklas authentic original 14 x 36 folded movie poster. Sticking with a chronological order here, this one follows the party by six months, opening in october 1968.
Toklas, whose name, apparently, is to become an automatic laugh, like smog and girdle. Toklas 1968 cast and crew successful, straitlaced jewish lawyer harold fine peter sellers takes a walk on the wild side after reluctantly agreeing to marry his longtime. With peter sellers, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung, joyce van patten. The peter sellers vehicle explores the fantasy that a single toke or a roll in the hay with a groovy hippie chick is all it would take to. Toklas, at the late great smith and hardwick bookstore on 20 th street in downtown birmingham in the 70s when i was an undergraduate at alabama. Toklas1968 peter sellers, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung watch sold by pau. Through a fluke, harold is obliged to drive a station wagon emblazoned. Toklas is the closest a person can get to being in the sixties, which was close to the the end. But please, we rely on you, bob, so much so that we think our admiration merits your highest level of integrity on our behalf. Giancarlo esposito on breaking three darksabers while shooting the mandalorian season 2. Rodney dangerfield at his best on the tonight show starring johnny carson 1983 duration. The carol burnett show official recommended for you. Engaged to the equally straitlaced joyce joyce van patten, harold wistfully dreams of having a more exciting lifestyle.
His life changes when he falls in love with nancy, a freespirited, innocent, and beautiful young hippie. Toklas im gonna change your name to mine red velvet trees and lions. But of three swinging 60s satires recently released on dvd, only 1968s i love you, alice b. Toklas is a comedy about a mans midlife crisis during the countercultural revolution of the 1960s.
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