They simply kept to their original for mature audiences label on advertising and at theaters. Toklas im gonna change your name to mine red velvet trees and lions. 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 golden gardens, morning gardens for leanda. With peter sellers, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung, joyce van patten. Peter sellers, the incomparable master of comedy pink panther series, portrays a. Find movie and film cast and crew information for i love you, alice b. Toklas is a comedy about a mans midlife crisis during the countercultural revolution of the 1960s. Elmer bernstein soundtrack music from i love you, alice. Heres the second in a brief survey of peter sellers films i revisited while recently laid up with the flu. Repeat this ad nauseam heavy on the nauseam, toss in some flutes for good measure, give the whole thing to that buytheworldacoke choir on the hill, and stand back.
Hopelessly conservative and unadventurous, harold fine sellers is a motherdominated mensch, sitting passively by as mrs. 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. But please, we rely on you, bob, so much so that we think our admiration merits your highest level of integrity on our behalf. 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. Through a fluke, harold is obliged to drive a station wagon emblazoned with. 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. Film is not heavyhanded in its approach either to hippie life, or to what is considered normal modes of behavior. Original warner brothers window card 14x22 for the hy averback romantic comedy, i love you alice b. But of three swinging 60s satires recently released on dvd, only 1968s i love you, alice b. Elmer bernstein soundtrack music from i love you, alice b.
Were sorry but jwapp doesnt work properly without javascript enabled. Toklas 1968 making groovy brownies watch i love you alice b. The film opens with harold fine peter sellers, a respectable lawyer in. Toklas starring peter sellers and directed by hy averback. Peter sellers stars as harold fine, an impossibly square litigator who grows weary of the conformity and hypocrisy of modern life. 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. 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. Peter sellers stars in the wacky sixties comedy, i love you, alice b.
October 10 barbarella us october the subject was roses. Rewind that feeling by a handful of decades and you get the poorly dated 1968 comedy i love you, alice b. Prime members enjoy free delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, tv shows, original audio series, and kindle books. May 06, 2008 14 videos play all i love you, alice b. For sellers fans interested in scorekeeping the upanddown work during his late60s blue period, i love you, alice b.
Engaged to the equally straitlaced joyce joyce van patten, harold wistfully dreams of having a more exciting lifestyle. The next, you chuck it all for beads, bellbottoms and free love. Toklas 1968 dvd joyce van patten, leigh tayloryoung new. 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. 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. 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. Toklas authentic original 14 x 36 folded movie poster. Just pleading for a return to real quality, and thanking you in advance. Its unfortunate that peter sellers should be making his comeback just at a moment when american movie comedies are not. The movie pokes fun at the american hippie counterculture of the late 60s, and shows that the grass is not. By the end of it i was feeling a certain amount of resentment at having been had, along with alice b.
Toklas peter sellers plays the character of harold fine, a lawyer. Toklas apr 04, 2012 i think this must be my favourite peter sellers movie, its really hilarious and very 60s, i really liked it. 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 is a 1968 romantic comedy film starring peter sellers, directed by hy averback with music by harpers bizarre. This film is not currently playing on mubi but 30 other great films are. Big rental films of 1968, variety, 8 january 1969, pg 15. This time around the focus is on the 1968 film i love you, alice b. 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.
Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of i love you, alice b. The cast includes david arkin, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung in her film debut and a cameo by the scripts cowriter paul mazursky. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing i love you, alice b. This is the third installment in the turn me on, dead man series of posts on movies with psychedelic themes.
The film is set in the counterculture of the 1960s. On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost. Toklas, whose name, apparently, is to become an automatic laugh, like smog and girdle. How is berlin returning in money heist season 3 street street street. Toklas, and so does gertrude stein i love you, alice b. His life changes when he falls in love with nancy, a freespirited, innocent, and beautiful young hippie. A thirtysomething square falls in love with a hippie and decides to drop out himself. Sticking with a chronological order here, this one follows the party by six months, opening in october 1968.
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