82% (2) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 121 min, Approved, [Comedy, Musical] [David Swift] [09 Mar 1967]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, Rotten Tomatoes: 92%, External Reviews
Awards: 2 nominations.
Actors: Anthony 'Scooter' Teague, Michele Lee, Robert Morse, Rudy Vallee
Writer: Abe Burrows (book), Jack Weinstock (book), Willie Gilbert (book), Shepherd Mead (novel), David Swift
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Plot: Twenty-seven year old New York window washer, J. Pierpont Finch, believes he can be a success in the corporate world after he impulsively picks up the book "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying". The book promises its reader that he can climb the corporate ladder simply and quickly. The Worldwide Wicket Corporation, the business in the office building whose windows he washes is, according to the book, the perfect type of business. There he meets secretary Rosemary Pilkington, who sees in Ponty (as she calls him) an unassuming man who she believes the corporate world will eat alive. But Ponty, memorizing what the book tells him, does quickly climb the corporate ladder but not by doing any real work. Ponty has a few obstacles along the way such as: Bud Frump who sees Ponty as a rival and is the nephew by marriage of the company president J.B. Biggley; Hedy La Rue, a curvaceous but simple woman who has a secret or not-so-secret tie to someone important in the company; Mr. Ovington, an executive who Ponty can't figure out; and Ponty possibly making a fatal error by not reading far enough ahead in the book. Ponty ultimately has to decide if climbing to the top of the ladder is worth stepping on all those along the way and risk losing the love of Rosemary. In the end telling the truth may set him free.
Rotten Tomatoes: Robert Morse recreated his Tony-winning stage role in this 1967 film version of Frank Loesser's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical. A humble window washer at the New York offices of World Wide Wickets, J. Pierpont Finch applies the lessons he's learned from a book called How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying to wangle his way to the top of the executive heap. Though advised by the mailroom supervisor (Sammy Smith) to keep a low profile and play things "The Company Way," Finch follows his own skewed set of rules, endearing himself to bombastic company president J. B. Biggely (Rudy Vallee) by posing as a graduate of Grand Old Ivy, Biggely's alma mater. As he climbs to the top, Finch manages to dispose of an over-amorous rival by arranging a tryst between that rival and curvaceous secretary Hedy LaRue (Maureen Arthur)--who happens to be Biggely's live-in girlfriend. Finch also gets rid of the troublesome Mr. Ovington (Murray Matheson) by exposing the latter as an alumnus of Old Ivy's hated rival university. Graduating to vice-president, Finch feels secure enough to sing the show's one genuine love song "I Believe In You"--to himself! Actually, he's really in love with true-blue secretary Rosemary (Michele Lee), but won't admit to this until he suffers a career setback. Most of Loesser's songs survived the transition from stage to screen, with the exception of "Paris Original," which is heard merely as background music.
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62% (2) The Loved One 122 min, Approved, [Comedy] [Tony Richardson] [11 Oct 1965]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, Rotten Tomatoes: 53%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination.
Actors: Anjanette Comer, Jonathan Winters, Robert Morse, Rod Steiger
Writer: Evelyn Waugh (novel), Terry Southern (screenplay), Christopher Isherwood (screenplay)
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Plot: Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.
Rotten Tomatoes: The satire in Evelyn Waugh's darkly comic novel The Loved One was originally double-edged. The book was not only an attack on the Southern California funeral industry but also a lampoon of Hollywood's "British colony," those clannish, cricket-playing English actors of years gone by who bemoaned the artificiality of Tinseltown while eagerly accepting the demeaning and insignificant movie roles they were offered. The film version of The Loved One, anxious to live up to its ad-campaign promise of containing "something to offend everybody," downplays the British-colony business (save for the presence of the magnificent Robert Morley) and pumps up the "death" gags. Innocent British poet Dennis Barlow (Robert Morse) falls in love with funeral-home cosmetician Aimee Thanatogenos (Anjanette Comer), who in turn is loved by prissy funeral director Mr. Joyboy (Rod Steiger). The latter lives with his obese mother (Ayllene Gibbons), whose eating sequence is far more hilarious (and more tasteless) than many of the film's calculatedly "black" jokes. A huge guest-star cast is headed by Jonathan Winters in a dual role as a funeral home manager and his covetous twin brother, who operates an elaborate pet cemetery. Musician Paul Williams is also on hand as a 13-year-old aeronautics genius who develops a method of sending corpses into "eternal orbit" (a plot device that Waugh neglected to include in his novel). Film historian William K. Everson has commented that The Loved One is one of the best and most underrated comedies of the 1960s. For others, especially those who might feel guilty chuckling at the sight of Anjanette Comer committing suicide with an embalming needle, it's purely a matter of taste...or lack of same.
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61% (2) Jack Frost 48 min, TV-G, [Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance] [Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.] [13 Dec 1979]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, Rotten Tomatoes: 50%, External Reviews
Actors: Buddy Hackett, Larry Storch, Paul Frees, Robert Morse
Writer: Romeo Muller
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Plot: Jack Frost ushers in winter every year, but he is upset that he is unable to interact with humans, since they cannot see him. When he falls in love with the young peasant woman Elisa, he requests to be made human and his superior, Father Winter, who agrees to make him permanently human as long as he has a house, horse, bag of gold, and a wife by the beginning of spring. When Jack arrives in town and is introduced to Elisa and her family, he learns they are oppressed by a greedy Cossack, who has eyes on the peasants' income and Elisa. And Jack must also contend with Elisa's childhood sweetheart, Sir Ravenal. Will he decide to remain human in the end?
Rotten Tomatoes: The 1979 Rankin/Bass production Jack Frost is a made-for-TV stop motion animation feature. Buddy Hacket narrates the story as the voice of groundhog Pardon-Me-Pete. The spirit of winter, Jack Frost (voice of Robert Morse) falls for a young woman named Elisa (voice of Debra Clinger). He asks Father Winter to make him into a human so he can win her love. However, she is already engaged to the brave knight, Sir Danny. When the villianous King Kubla Kraus (voice of Paul Frees) kidnaps her, Jack has to turn back into his spirit form in order to use his powers to save her.
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57% (1) Quick Before It Melts 97 min, [Comedy] [Delbert Mann] [20 Jan 1965]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 57%, External Reviews
Actors: Anjanette Comer, George Maharis, James Gregory, Robert Morse
Writer: Philip Benjamin (novel), Dale Wasserman
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Plot: A reporter and a photographer become entwined with women, marriage, and a defecting Russian scientist while on an expedition to Antarctica for their magazine.
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56% (1) Honeymoon Hotel 89 min, APPROVED, [Comedy] [Henry Levin] [03 Jun 1964]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 56%, External Reviews
Actors: Jill St. John, Nancy Kwan, Robert Goulet, Robert Morse
Writer: R.S. Allen, Harvey Bullock
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Plot: Jay Menlow is jilted at the altar by his fiancée, Cynthia Hampton,and his pal, Ross Kingsley, persuades him to use his reserved-in-advance accommodations at the Boca Roca Hotel (...
Rotten Tomatoes: In this comedy two bachelors, Jay (Robert Morsel) and Ross (Robert Goulet) are on the loose at a fancy resort after Jay is left at the altar and they decide to go on the prepaid honeymoon that caters to newlyweds. Directed by Harry Levin.
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54% (1) The Boatniks 99 min, G, [Family, Comedy] [Norman Tokar] [01 Jul 1970]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 54%, External Reviews
Actors: Norman Fell, Phil Silvers, Robert Morse, Stefanie Powers
Writer: Arthur Julian (screen story and screenplay), Martin Roth (story)
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Plot: Young and awkward, The Coast-Guard's ensign Thomas Garland suffers from the comparison with his late father, a war hero. Which does not prevent him from falling for pretty Kate Fairchild, a young woman who runs a sailing school. Of course the way he expresses his deep sympathy for the lady leaves to be desired. And the situation does not improve when a trio of bumbling jewel thieves interferes.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this comedy, a bumbling Coast Guard ensign is assigned to oversee the boat traffic in Newport Harbor. The craziness begins when three jewel thieves use a boat to flee and end up dropping the loot in the drink. Try as they might, they cannot seem to get it back.
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50% (1) Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad 86 min, Not Rated, [Comedy] [Richard Quine, Alexander Mackendrick] [15 Feb 1967]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 49%, External Reviews
Actors: Barbara Harris, Hugh Griffith, Robert Morse, Rosalind Russell
Writer: Arthur Kopit (play), Ian Bernard (screenplay), Herbert Baker (narration for Jonathan Winters written by), Pat McCormick (narration for Jonathan Winters written by)
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Plot: A mother drops her son and husband off at a tropical vacation spot for a little rest and relaxation. The only problem is that the husband has been dead for quite some time, and his wife had him stuffed and carries him around with her. Complications ensue.
Rotten Tomatoes: A domineering mother and her sheltered son fly face first into love, murder, and the meaning of family in this black comedy based on Arthur Kopit's Broadway play. Wealthy Madame Rosepettle (Rosalind Russell) and 25-year-old Jonathan (Robert Morse) arrive at the Port Royal Hotel on a tiny Caribbean island with the man of the family in tow, literally; he's been dead for many years and his stuffed corpse travels with them in a coffin. Madame is the kind of woman who keeps piranhas and Venus Flytrap plants as pets, and controls her son's life down to deciding what meal he'll have for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (a hamburger and a maraschino cherry). Jonathan is kept indoors at all times and isn't allowed to mix with the outside world, though the hotel "babysitter," Rosalie (Barbara Harris), slips in through the window and flirts with the easily rattled young man. Madame is being courted by drunken millionaire Commodore Roseabove (Hugh Griffith), and while she welcomes his advances, her attention is diverted by trying to make sure that her son stays "pure." Rosalie isn't one to be put off by the meddling matriarch, so she doubles her efforts to get at Jonathan, who wants Rosalie too but might be pushed over the edge by the attention.
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