This is the third installment in the turn me on, dead man series of posts on movies with psychedelic themes. Film is not heavyhanded in its approach either to hippie life, or to what is considered normal modes of behavior. Nov 10, 20 peter sellers, the incomparable master of comedy pink panther series, portrays a successful but supersquare l. Toklas is that it patronizes neither the hippies nor the establishment characters. Toklas is a 1968 romantic comedy film starring peter sellers, directed by hy averback with music by harpers bizarre. Tolkas leigh taylor young, peter sellers 1968 warner. Joyce van pattens films have included the goddess 1958, i love you alice b. 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. By the end of it i was feeling a certain amount of resentment at having been had, along with alice b. Toklas is a comedy about a mans midlife crisis during the countercultural revolution of the 1960s. Watch tcm is the convenient way to watch great classic films when you want, where you want uncut, commercial free. Toklas 1968 making groovy brownies watch i love you alice b. It sounds more like the brainy, funny dissections of california dreamin that mazursky carried out in three previous films, i love you, alice b.
Toklas pictures and movie photo gallery check out just released i love you, alice b. Toklas starring peter sellers in this comedy on directv. Toklas pics, images, clips, trailers, production photos and more from rotten tomatoes. Everyone in the theater was rolling in the aisles with laughter. Toklas, who published a cookbook in 1954 that contained the first printed recipe for hash fudge.
Toklas and so does gertrude stein i love you, alice b. Toklas has a feel similar to that of jacques tatis mon oncle, in the way it looks at contemporary society and social interactions. This material, so far, doesnt exactly sound like the stuff of a great film. Like the brownies served by harolds new girlfriend, i love you, alice bl toklas has a hidden magical ingredient. Toklas is the closest a person can get to being in the sixties, which was close to the the end. The film is set in the counterculture of the 1960s. Successful, straitlaced jewish lawyer harold fine peter sellers takes a walk on the wild side after reluctantly agreeing to marry his longtime girlfriend, joyce joyce van patten. Watch online or on your favorite connected device with the vudu app. Aug 10, 2011 some episodes from motion movie i love you, alis b. May 06, 2008 14 videos play all i love you, alice b. My name is nobody western english free and full movie henry fonda hd spaghetti western.
Some episodes from motion movie i love you, alis b. Plus, watch over 4,500 free movies on vudu movies on us. Find movie and film cast and crew information for i love you, alice b. Peter sellers made a lot of good movies, and history has been kind enough to purge the memory of the bad ones from our collective minds. The film however is stolen by the incredible beauty of leigh tayloryoung who was making her film debut. After harold and his family enjoy some of her groovy brownies, he decides to drop out with her and become a hippie too. His life changes when he falls in love with nancy, a freespirited, innocent, and beautiful young hippie. The cast includes david arkin, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung in her film debut and a cameo by the scripts cowriter paul mazursky. Toklas 1968 eating groovy brownies watch i love you alice b. For starters, despite it starring peter sellers, i had never heard of it until coming across a clip on youtube several months ago while searching for something else. 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. First feature film offering from writerdirector paul mazursky an unmarried woman, down and out in beverly hills, enemies. Death and a funeral full movie trailer by william tell. The film opens with harold fine peter sellers, a respectable lawyer in.
Toklas, bob and carol and ted and alice and alex in wonderland. I recall seeing this movie when it first came out in 1968 when i was 10 years old. Elmos fire 1984, and a rare bitchy appearance as the antagonistic athletic coach in the bad. The movie is about changes people make, and is funny because of things that happen.
The films title is a tribute to gertrude steins lifelong partner, alice b. Toklas cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more. Elmer bernstein soundtrack music from i love you, alice b. Peter sellers, whose flowerpower performance here is in the same league as dr strangelove, inspector clouseau and other best sellers paul mazursky and his cowriter larry tucker spread good vibes aplenty as harold discovers tuning. But when the effects of the brownies wear off, harold suddenly feels like the rather foolish middleaged man that he is.
Rent, buy, and watch movies and tv shows with vudu. Toklas, whose name, apparently, is to become an automatic laugh, like smog and girdle. The hot dog vendor from the carol burnett show full sketch. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing i love you, alice b. Toklas starring peter sellers and directed by hy averback.
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