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wendy so i got that going darling

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of my life we enjoy your films

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welcome to vintage video where we're

re-watching the 80s so you don't have to

we'll be reviewing every major film

release of the 1980s in real time i'm

patrick o'reilly

i'm jesse bayless and i'm richard wells

and today marks the 40th anniversary of

the release of little miss marker

on march 21 1980. it was written and

directed by walter bernstein

based on a 1932 story in collier's by

damon runyon

and released by universal pictures i

believe this is our first

full-blown remake i don't think we've

covered a remake previously

the fog had a remake yeah but it was the

original we were covering but i think um

this is the first one that existed in a

movie form uh prior to

this film this was adapted from a 1934

film of the same title

which starred shirley temple in the

titular role

technically though this is actually the

third remake

after sorrowful jones with bob hope and

lucille ball in 1949 and

then after that 1962's 40 pounds of

trouble

coincidentally starring tony curtis as

the sorrowful jones character

was he called sorrowful jones in that he

was not there's a few changes to that

version of the story but the character's

name is

steve mccluskey in that version and the

story takes place mostly at disneyland

he runs like a casino in vegas and takes

the kid to disneyland for most of the

day

but uh it's the title 40 pounds of

trouble

is a reference to the original little

miss marker film a scene that didn't

make it into the remake

but other than that it's the same story

and it was credited

the story credit still went to uh damon

runyon who wrote the article for

colliers

the poster and many elements of the film

are reminiscent of the sting

uh which is not a coincidence because uh

richard amsel

illustrated the one sheet for both films

but also very like

norman rockwell right saturday evening

post kind of thing

i was reading about amsel today and he's

really a fascinating character

in like american cinema because he was

very prolific

and had an impact on a lot of like huge

pop culture things that everyone

remembers

but he wasn't actually working for that

long he was 22

when he graduated from the philadelphia

college of art

and pitched a poster that was selected

by 20th century fox to be the official

poster for barbra streisand's

hello dolly the the hello dolly one

that's the

iconic one that's just like her face i

think so yeah

he was sought after for album art in the

music world

and in the 70s contributed to a string

of celebrated films

uh including the champ chinatown julia

the last picture show the last tycoon

the life and times of judge roy bean

mccabe and mrs miller the muppet movie

poster was him

that's a good one murder on the orient

express

nashville papillon the shootest and the

sting

over 13 years he produced the cover art

for 40 issues of tv guide

and then i'm reading from wikipedia here

that as

film studios changed their marketing

style in the 1980s

employing photographs in favor of

illustrations which is really a shame

yeah amsel and other artists were

frequently limited to creating works

for science fiction fantasy and

adventure films in response amsel

created the posters for flash gordon

later this year

the dark crystal raiders of the lost ark

which ultimately

became his most famous work uh amsoil

completed two posters one for

raiders 1981 release and another a year

later for its re-release

it's been reported that george lucas and

steven spielberg own the original copies

of those illustrations

uh his last film poster was for mad max

beyond thunderdome

and shortly after that he passed away

succumbing to complications from aids he

was 37 years old

wow so all of that happened in 15 years

that's amazing

it's pretty incredible but so we start

this film

uh with blackie and herbie are entering

uh sorrowful's betting office

where a man is pleading with jones

sorrowful jones

to place a bet but he doesn't have any

money to place the bat with right

so he's asking for a loan essentially

new heart

bob newhart in this uh film his name his

character the character's name is regret

yeah i don't think i don't even know if

it's ever said yeah

uh he just kind of like gestures to him

or

barks orders at him i don't i can't

remember him he does say regret a couple

times

so okay so our main character's name is

sorrowful

and this character's name is regret yeah

yeah and are these

like supposed to be real names or are

these like

nicknames i i think almost everybody is

going by other than amanda worthington

i think everyone's going by some kind of

street name yeah okay

blackie herbie and regret yeah and

blackie is not the name

from the original film but sorrowful and

regret are characters in the original

film uh we should also mention that

the original came out in 1934. this one

takes place in 1934 but obviously came

out in 1980 so this one is a period film

okay um but i think the two films on the

way to this were not period films they

were just

modern updates for the time but this is

the first one that went back to the 30s

an old woman leaves sorrowful jones

office crying because

she's unable to pay a debt she owes and

blackie

takes pity on her and gives her some

money which she immediately places on a

horse

like she reminded me of like uh it's not

the same actress but she reminded me of

the woman that plays johnny

dangerously's mother

where she can just like turn on a dime

and yeah i mean

i like that moment because i think it

sets up sorrowful really well

because like you think he's being this

cold-hearted man

as this little old lady walks out you

know all upset about it but

you know really he just knows these

people and he knows that she's putting

him on and that

everyone can't be trusted yeah it

actually reminds me of um

also the the old woman uh in mr

incredibles office at the beginning yeah

because uh i want a fixed income yeah

she's like very upset but she also

picks up way too quickly for my taste on

what he's trying to do and he's like

i would not recommend that you go then

she's like oh oh i got it i'm gonna

write this down it's like

okay so you're probably adding to your

sob story a little bit because you were

very quick on the take to figure out

that he's

he's helping you out but um

basically blackie walks into the office

regret tries to keep him out

but blackie comes in and says yeah he

wants fifty thousand dollars to open a

gambling joint

and joan says no i'm not gonna give you

any money because

the two of them have known each other

since childhood and uh

the last time they they fought about

something sorrowful jones threw him in

the river

but they're not children anymore and in

the meantime blackie has become like the

head of a

mafia gang basically so he's asking for

50 000

right which did you do the math i just

did the math on what that would be

equivalent

no close to a million dollars oh wow

really

that's crazy so he's coming in asking

essentially asking sorrowful for a

million dollars yeah and obviously he

doesn't want to contribute that money

and he doesn't feel threatened by

blackie so he says no

the desperate man who is asking for for

a loan

to place a bet decides that he's going

to leave his daughter as a mark

and uh jones obviously is not interested

in this and says no i don't know what

you're talking about but they kind of

get distracted by a gunshot

as blackie's leaving and it turns out

that

blackie shot the dog um in like the

office that is a front

for this the booking office and i i

think

this is supposed to be the like warning

dog this is supposed to be the dog that

like barks if

if the cops show up right to like warn

everybody in the back

yeah then this whole area in the front

is supposed to be like this is a

legitimate business don't go in the back

room

um even though the police obviously

already know

right at least one police detective does

yeah it's mostly to keep

like the public off of the scent of

what's going on here unless they're

paying public but uh so sorrowful jones

rushes to the front room and sees what

happened and he tells the

the guy that man's the front like call a

few places see what you can get for the

fart

tell them it's a wolf because it's like

not only

is he does he not care about this dog at

all but

he wants to like upsell it as much as

possible by calling multiple places for

price checks and then

lie to them about what it is so that he

can get as much money as possible

and the guy basically succeeds in

leaving his kid behind

as uh as collateral for a ten dollar bet

yeah in in the original it was a twenty

dollar here it's a ten dollar bet

um but uh the guy doesn't come back for

the kid for the rest of the day

um jones tells regret the bob newhart

character to just watch her

and he doesn't want to basically yeah so

he sneaks up to sorrowful jones's place

and knocks on the door and just leaves

her outside of his apartment

so sorrowful jones opens the door and

he's like get lost

and then he goes back inside and waits

for a second and kind of realizes like

i don't know if he's deciding that

that's a crappy thing to do or if he's

going like oh wait i just left ten

dollars in the hallway

yeah um so he comes back and opens it up

and

and she walks inside she hasn't eaten

all day

he pours her a bowl of cereal but

there's a there's a depression on so

right you know that's normal exactly but

he decides that because he's a

cheapskate he's not going to put any

milk in this

cereal she's going to eat it dry at the

table but after

mere seconds of listening to her eat

this dry cereal it

is pissing him off enough that he's like

okay fine we'll put some milk in it i

can't stand this sound anymore

but you noticed i didn't see this but

when he was

then went to pour her the milk he like

takes all the cream off of the top of it

first right right

yeah i at first i thought the joke was

that he had poured it into a milk

serving

and then poured it and then poured it

back into the milk jug like yeah like

like he was trying to be porsching and

portioning it out yeah but then i

realized oh no because he looks at it up

in the light

yeah he's checking to see how thick the

cream is

but yeah so he adds milk to her cereal

and she finishes eating and then climbs

into his murphy bed

um while he's like getting ready for bed

and he's pushing chairs together to make

a small bed for her in the corner of the

room well he at first he's concerned

that this is a scam

like yeah not until she she says like oh

no

this this that's big enough he's like oh

i see what this is

yeah he's like he's worried that he's

gonna be like chris hanson

yeah like he's gonna be accused of being

a pedophile

uh which is like a running gag for a

while throughout the year yeah

i thought it was weirder the second time

when dennis he's at the door yeah but

but here she's like no no no the bed's

big enough we can we can both share this

bed and she's like

stroking the pillow next to him like

that's the weirdest part of this

moment and then uh he he's like sure

honey

move over i'll be right there

and then he opens the door like he's

gonna catch somebody listening or about

to bust in

and there's nobody there and then he

closes the door but then immediately

there is someone there and it's the

people who he probably expected to be on

the other side of the door

um but it's brand then he uh well i want

to discuss this scene a little bit more

sure i i because i feel like this entire

most of the scene was either improvised

or they just were rolling film

how long do you think that the scene is

from when they enter

together like 10 minutes yeah it's 10

minutes

of almost complete silence yeah

of her is serving the milk he he makes

the bed he undresses

walking back and forth and back and

forth and i was just like this scene

is way way too long

yeah it was driving me nuts i also think

i guess they went they auditioned like

90 different girls or 90

more than 90 girls to play this part and

this is the girl that they settled on

and she does have like a cute moment in

this scene but

for the most part she's silent and she

is very passive to what's going on in

the story like obviously

uh when you cast shirley temple in this

role you're getting a girl who's talking

through every scene and is able to like

keep up with everybody verbally

but this girl is barely saying anything

so it's two very different ways to play

the character but she's like

shirley temple's like singing songs and

joking around and making fun of people

the whole time

and she takes a much more active role in

having been left behind

as the mark because i feel like this

movie doesn't do a really good job of

explaining why he ever took her

as collateral well i think i feel like

this girl actually did a good job though

of portraying a girl

who's had you know an absentee

or abusive father who clearly has some

sort of gambling problems you know like

not not to say that

he had any outward signs of aggression

towards her sure but she's

she's definitely very like subservient

like i'm just going to do

whatever any adult tells me to do and

i'm just going to go along with it and

i'm just going to sit here and be quiet

and obedient

and and and not get in any trouble yeah

i think it's a it's a much subtler

performance and it's and i think it's a

more realistic one

but that was the biggest difference that

i noticed between the two films is that

uh shirley temple like she's the reason

that he accepted her

as money in the first movie because

she's like look daddy

he is running away is your friend

take her down off of there now listen mr

jones if you look you get down over

there

you're afraid of my daddy

are you afraid of me and then later on

he's like well

she bluffed me into it like she's

outsmarting him and

and they're like well that seems more

like a con you know

right exactly you know like she's in on

it right but she isn't in that movie

but they make it seem more like that

like she's able to keep up with him not

that she's just doing what he says all

the time which is what it feels like

with this girl

yeah but this seems like a more

realistic relationship with a child

but uh yeah then then he is at the door

and he says hey you're gonna meet with

blackie tomorrow about that money

and he's like no that's not going to

happen

and he says okay well we'll we'll see

what happens but i'm pretty sure you're

going to meet with him tomorrow

and he closes the door and he kicks the

bed out of frustration and immediately

folds back up into the wall

and brian he also kind of looks in and

sees a little girl oh right yeah

sleep in the bed and kind of like gives

them a little look of disgust

yeah and even when that happened in the

movie i was like is that really what

your first thought would be like

oh he's in bed with a what is she six

years old or something

six or eight it's just like i don't

think that would even be his first

suspicion he would just be like what is

this your niece or something like

or you're taking care of somebody's kid

like there's no way that his first

thought would be like oh you're in bed

with a child

but i think everyone knows sorrowful

jones because like

that's like a running gag is that

everyone uh not running gag

but things will happen later on where

everyone is like questioning things that

he's doing because they know him so well

yeah and so i would imagine like herbie

knows them

pretty well as well yeah and is probably

wondering what the hell this is about

right uh but again just kind of gives

them like a look like

i don't know what you what you're doing

what this is yeah

how is this related to your business and

maybe i should just

not know about it yeah he also seems

like

obviously we've from what we've covered

he is pretty much a cheapskate who

spends

zero money like he's living in this like

kind of crappy apartment with a murphy

bed and

he's like keeping track of how much of

his milk he's using for people's cereal

like

he's obviously trying to be a thrift

spend he's not

he's he's keeping all of his money

socked away because he doesn't want to

spend it on anything he doesn't have a

phone which was bright and he's

complaining like about trying to get a

hold of him right

yeah he's like the the loretta lynn

house

he's just like no he's like why don't

you have a phone he's like well because

then people would call me

it's like the exact same complaint that

doolittle makes

but uh but yeah so the bed starts to

fold back up into the wall with the

little girl sleeping in it

and he catches it right before it

completely closes

but her head pops up over the top and

she's like oh that was fun let's do it

again

i mean it looks like they legitimately

just did that with the kids yeah i think

so

so and and it's funny because she's at

the very top of the bed with her head

against the wall so

she had to turn real quick as that bed

was folding up yeah for him to catch it

and for her to pop up like that

but it's a funny bit and she seems

really cute in that moment i think

um so he goes into his office the next

day

and uh regret tells him that the cops

came by they're looking for the kid

because

they found the body of of her father in

the river

and some i don't know what agency found

out because he's like seems like he's

drifting through town they're staying at

a hotel

like i don't know who kept track of the

fact that he had a kid with him and that

they're on the lookout for her somehow

they know that

he had a child yeah the child services

is on top of it

so they came by to look for him and uh

he basically says i think we should give

her up to the cops and he's like well no

we'll hold on to her she's worth 10

bucks

um well i guess maybe they didn't know

the father is dead yet

no they had to because the cops wouldn't

yeah we told him that so i don't know

why he's holding onto her here well i

think

because he knows he knows that they

would send her to an orphanage and

he wants to do better than that no i

think i think he was worried that they

were going to get him for kidnapping or

something

yeah that's what he says later he he

says that

if he admits because he's already lied

to to about not having

having the kid yeah uh because the cop

came in asking

if if the father had been there and he

said yeah

uh and you know

it's it i have a lot of a lot of things

with this movie that bother me

or that not bother me but uh i feel like

there's a lot of really great jokes

but they all fall really flat yeah

because they're not really delivered all

that well

and so in this scene like when the

because the the banter between the cop

and

matthau is really good yeah like he's

like he's like oh who would you bet on

he's like oh i've been on such and such

in the fourth

so that race already happened what do

you know i won and

and mother hands them money like yeah

they all either they don't give you

enough time to process the joke

yeah or it just didn't

land well for me i also feel like that's

not necessarily him tricking

him out of money that was just like i

came here to get money i'm going to make

a false pretense for you to give it to

me exactly yeah

this is their this is the way they do

bribes yeah and

you know and so he asked about the kid

and he said the father left here and

the kid left with him yeah because he

wouldn't leave a kid here right yeah

right but it's weird that the cops are

already looking

because this is before the father is

dead then or before they know he's dead

they're just like oh he owes people

money and we're looking for him and they

already know that he

and his daughter are missing somewhere

so he goes into his office and he like

unscrews this

thing in the floor and pulls up just

stacks of cash apparently a million

dollars worth of 1934 bucks

well yeah he empties out yeah more than

just the floor he empties out like

everything he has

yeah and it really is like all of the

money that he's been saving for

presumably decades

and he takes it to meet with blackie

blackie's immediately annoying the kid

by asking how old she is and she doesn't

want to talk to him and he's like oh

maybe

maybe she doesn't like you he's like no

no kids love me

and he's like maybe she's not even a kid

maybe she's a

let me see your mouth like if he's like

gonna check her teeth

like she's a horse yeah she's like she's

not a horse either and he puts his

finger in her mouth and she bites and

she's like i'm

six

and then uh jones notices that uh

on his way through the casino he's so

quick with things that he notices that

the roulette wheel has been fixed

so that and obviously if he's noticing

it on the way in then some of the more

observant people are gonna catch on to

that as they're walking into this

establishment

but um he wants to run basically an

unfair casino which is

it's overkill because the casino is

already favors the house

so it's not necessary to uh to set up

this roulette wheel and he said

if people catch on that you're cheating

these games then

you know everyone's gonna leave you're

not gonna have a customer base

especially with the

the upscale clientele that he's supposed

to be catering to

right and he makes the opposite argument

he makes he says

well these are rich people they expect

to be ripped off it's like you

you if you're the house you're already

you're already winning you're

ripping them out exactly so uh while

they're arguing

the kid runs off and then when sorrowful

notices he's like oh i gotta find this

kid and he's walking through

the casino that's being constructed and

questioning workmen like did you see a

kid about this tall and they're like

that tall like how about this what about

this tall

it's just like high this high you sure

not a little lower

what are you a taylor you need it to the

inch you want i should finger the wrong

kid

i think i think the point of that scene

is to just be like he hasn't really been

paying attention to this kid and has no

idea how

how old she is or how tall she is or

anything like that but these other

people are like

no it's a child like i remember exactly

how tall it was because it's a child

but he finds her in the backyard she

basically wandered out of the house

and climbed onto a horse with the woman

who owns this

property and they're on sir galahad

which is uh in the original film

she her parents uh her mom specifically

used to read her

the stories of king arthur and the

knights of the round table

and so she's constantly naming the

people in these gangs after

characters from those stories but she

reserves the name

sir gala had until the very end of the

film when she decides that

the walter matthau character from that

movie is sir galahad

because he's like the bravest knight of

them all and uh so this is like the only

thing that's left of that story right

it's just a call back to the original

movie

but there's a lot of stuff in the

original that i think like

i don't know why you would take it out

of this and then there's a lot of stuff

in the original that they kept where i'm

like i wouldn't have kept that part

either

um i feel like you could mix these two

movies together and get a really good

version like

i think walter matthau and shirley

temple would have been a really

interesting

crossover but they're he's only like

eight years older than her

yeah because the movies came apart uh it

came out very far apart

but um it's kind of like how i feel like

i love hayley steinfield but

yeah i think that kim darby

jeff bridges would be the perfect true

grit

because i honestly don't think that uh

the duke

is that great in uh yeah

even my dad who's like a big western

john wayne fan was this like the neutral

grit

was far superior to the old true grit i

might not say that about the whole film

but

i think that jeff bridges does a much

better job

that's rooster cogburn than john wayne

does but i think kim darby is a better

maddie ross

than haley steinfeld i

i don't know if i completely agree but i

do like both of their performances

but they are different performances i

think haley steinfeld plays her as more

of like a prude and a nerd

and i think kim darby plays her with a

lot more attitude

which i feel like works better as like

the foil for

the rooster cog wearing character and

kim darby is

two years older than jeff bridges she

okay well it's another

that would be oh you need a time machine

for that one

but yeah so he starts talking to amanda

uh the woman on the horse with uh with

the child

um and she explained to she owns this

property that they'll basically be

partners because

she is blackie's girl and uh

and if he's gonna be partners with

blacky then he's partners with her

which is the beginning of them kind of

semi-flirting with each other

right she's she tells him a little bit

about her horse or galahad and how

he's running a lot of races but he

hasn't won any

uh he came in fifth i think in a race

fifth or sixth in a race

he's a slow starter he has trouble with

the game you mean it opens

yeah and see and then again that's

another perfect example that's a funny

joke

but it moved they moved too quickly past

it yeah i didn't have time to appreciate

it

i think i also don't get a lot of

gambling references

because a lot of the jokes in this movie

i just don't understand

well i think they're also trying to

emulate that 30s like banter like

really quick or the mid-atlantic or yeah

the mid-atlantic

like quick banter yeah so like the point

is supposed to be that you spit these

jokes out really fast and

and if you didn't catch them then that

that's your own problem

but it doesn't work when the rest of the

pacing is like a typical 1980s movie

like either stay and fast forward so

that i'm in that mindset the whole time

or take your time with these jokes when

you get to them

well and you don't cast walter matthau

in that role because he's he's the

perfect choice i'm just saying

i'm just saying he's great at what he

does but

i don't think he does you know he

doesn't do a carrie grant dialogue

you know he doesn't do the quick the

quick witted thing yeah he's delivering

the the fast joke with like slow

delivery

yeah and everyone else is moving really

fast and ignores it no one reacts to it

yeah no one reacts to the joke

yeah if you had carrie grant saying like

yeah the gate opens

and and and they would have someone go

like like yeah like be frumpy and then

that doesn't happen yeah like it's just

the jokes just fly over everyone's head

but it also seems like she's making a

concerted effort not to react to him

every time he says something insulting

to her later on presumably the same week

while they're preparing to open the club

amanda sees

uh sorrowful at a bike race and it's

super late at night

but he brought the mark with her because

that's his collateral and he's just

holding on to her

but she's asleep um because it's late

and she goes over to him and she's like

you can't have that kid out here that

kid needs to be in bed

at home this is unacceptable and uh he

just like kind of sloughs her off like

ah i don't really care what you have to

say i'm i'm here to do my job and the

kid doesn't care

he starts to head back to his home and

regret stops him outside

and says hey the police are here they're

looking for the kid

he bribes the cop to leave him alone and

says that he doesn't know where the girl

is yeah so this is that scene yeah

uh i think earlier

they were mentioning that the that he

was he was missing and

yeah yeah that they they knew they knew

about the kid but he was missing

so uh that night after he bribes the

cops to

leave him alone and leave his

establishment alone he

puts marky in the bed marky is what they

call her in the

first movie but the girl who is only

ever referred to as the kid i don't know

yeah

give her a name in this version uh but

he puts her in the bed

and she says you know my parents used to

read me stories in the original she says

they used to read me the stories of king

arthur and the and the knights and so

as he's reading the horse race stuff out

of the newspaper

he keeps changing the names of the

horses to characters from

king arthur's tales and she really likes

it like she's like

totally like into the story and later on

he like tries to read her

the actual king arthur stories and she's

like what what happened to him kicking

the dirt and the faces

and she's like yeah that's not that's

not how it really goes like suddenly

she's like moving into the gambling

world and she doesn't care about like

the fantasy stuff that her parents

taught her

and it's part of her transformation to

like

being uh being a bookie instead of being

a child

which he doesn't like and that

transformation is happening here too to

this girl

but not as dramatically as it did

there'll be references to her gambling

later yeah and like other other criminal

activity

but so he reads her to sleep by just

reading her the results of

various races he takes her the next day

to the salvation army to get her a dress

for the opening of

their club and as soon as they get there

basically

amanda's like oh what is this dress is a

little big why don't we change you into

a different outfit because she has like

or whatever

she wants to hem she's going to

ultimately she's going to hem the bottom

of the skirt because he bought her dress

that was way too big for her right

but walter matthau is like running this

place like rick would run

uh his place right casablanca he he he's

just watching out the window and

immediately goes over to brian dennehy

and saying hey

you know the guy brought phony dice in

yeah and uh you know this this woman's

like stuff and chips into her brassiere

and brian is going to check like like

things he's going to take care of yeah

but they mentioned that the guy who's

switching the dice out was like this

like you know like fat max or something

like that yeah he's like why did you

even let him in here he's like he wore

tux he wore a tux and we all thought he

was a waiter

again a really funny joke but it just

moves on

yeah uh because and i really like brian

dennehy

always yeah brian dennehy is is never

not good even even in other parts of

this movie

just watching him in the background yeah

and he's always on

yeah um later on at the horse race we'll

get to that but

you know he he he's just great i'm sorry

i just love it

and when he after he goes and escorts

the guy with the bad dice out

he brings it back in and throws him on

the table he's like seven every time and

he's like

yeah he's lucky that uh blackie told me

not to break his arms just his fingers

yeah or something like that well and

then the their uh their accountant

is like you want these herpes and i

already got a pair he's like and he's

like thanks and he pockets them

so they're going to go cheat somewhere

else later

jones and amanda talk about marky's

future basically

she she brought the girl up to

her childhood bedroom which is still

exactly the way that it was when she was

a child there's like totally

awesome there's like an entire playhouse

and like a bed on a loft and it's

covered in stuffed animals

yeah and so this is like just a giant

playground

for for the kid it's like the playroom

from

mary poppins almost yeah they they talk

for a minute and then

about what what she's going to do she

needs schooling she needs

someone to look after her and he doesn't

want to tell her all this information

but

he can't put her in school because the

cops are looking for her

and and she's like well why did you even

come up here and he's like you know what

i was just going to check on the kid and

she's like what about the kid he's like

i don't know why i came up here i'm

going to go

and he turns around to leave as he comes

down the stairs

blackie is starting to get suspicious of

the relationship between

amanda and uh jones and he says

what do you think of the dame and he's

like she's a nut

i like her too which is just a funny

exchange between the two of them well

because blacky blacky and walter matthau

i mean they're not

friends but they are close i guess would

be the word

yeah because just despite everything

that's happening

uh when walter matthau was making

demands about changing the casino to be

it make it honest

blocky was totally accommodating yeah

like he totally understood where

matthau was coming from and was willing

to

to use his expertise as a professional

gambler

yeah i think he also he respects his

intelligence and when he hears him say

you're stupid if you leave the wheel the

way that you did then he's like oh i

guess i am stu i guess that would be

stupid because he said it would be

stupid so

he goes and he makes the change jones

talks with regret about

some of amanda's concerns for the child

that she needs someone to cook for her

clean for her teacher

and he decides that he's going to

collect on debts that he is owed

from people who are chefs from people

who are housekeepers

well they aren't really those things

they're really other things like i think

the one who's going to be the

housekeeper

is a madam of some sort yeah for sure

and you know and the and the and the

cook was

i think he was like cooking for the army

or something no he he prepared a pot

roast to poison someone with arsenic

oh yeah yeah but they but he also said

that he's a pickpocket i think yeah

well one of them normally cooks for a

large group of people though

yes like yeah like i thought it was for

the army but

uh i think he said it in prison

yeah but he says he's the guy who we got

to cook that pot roast to kill

like philly the squealer or something

like that and then he's like

i didn't know that was him so his last

words were

delicious just like my mother's but he

don't only have to cook with arsenic you

can

cook very tasty without but he can cook

without arsenic

[Laughter]

but but what's weird about this scene is

that jones gets really kind of upset

about the death of the squealer he's

like i didn't know he did that

like he his delivery of that line was

just like oh man

i didn't read that at all i was just

like i felt really bad like

he felt bad about it oh i didn't think

that was the case at all

i guess that's possible that he because

he doesn't seem like the

murderer type yeah but and then there's

another great joke later about the pot

roast don't touch the pot roast

people put strange things at pot roast

uh

and then the nanny i think is the old

lady at the beginning

right who he was berating like and she's

she cleans classrooms so she he's hoping

for like a good will hunting kind of yes

oh right she's supposed to be some sort

of teacher because she cleans classes

she cleaned a school for 12 years you

don't think some of that's gonna rub off

he he actually gets a whole new house

and he brings all these people that owe

him debts to the house

well is it an apartment or are they

taking residency in a hotel

because there's a couple maybe that's

what it is yeah because they asked the

uh because when when the kid goes

missing in a later part like she runs

down to the clerk

yeah and she's like it's not my job to

take care of your kid yeah but yeah

i think you're right it is residency in

a hotel but he's obviously like

splurging

here and also not to mention that he's

cashing in on all these debts

and he's not getting anything out of it

it's purely to make sure that she has

the right upbringing

well he gets his own bed back right and

he pretends that that's all it's about

but she stops him and she's like well

wait why are we moving

like isn't my dad gonna go to your old

place

if he's looking for us and he wouldn't

he would go to the booking

place where he dropped her off but um

but he says oh we're moving because

like you said i need my own bed not not

because of any other reason she's like

is my daddy dead and he says no no no

uh he's just looking for money sometimes

it takes a long time to look for money

and she's like well normally he sends me

postcards and he's like he's probably in

some place where they don't have

postcards

you know somewhere somewhere completely

in the middle of nowhere it's like this

is

immediately where he should have just

came forward with it

her delivery of is my daddy dead yeah

it's your opportunity man

yeah like she's already considered this

you wouldn't be blowing her mind if you

told her the truth right now she's come

to the conclusion already

but her mom's only been dead for like a

month or two right which is really

tragic that she would then lose her

other parent right

so amanda and jones go to visit sir

galahad before the race

with the kid um and she goes to to pet

it and she's like oh well just

just be careful you know she gets really

anxious before before a race and then

walter mouth was like not the mouth

stay away from the mouth because he's

worried the horse is gonna bite the girl

but uh but he keeps telling her this

horse sucks

it's not gonna do anything i've read up

on it and she's like oh no he's gonna

win this race i found the right kind of

race and the right kind of competitors

and he's definitely going to win

i looked up his races he'll have a hard

time coming in last

uh they watch him lose the race by a lot

yeah

comes in last yeah distance is wrong for

him

a mile and a half is his distance don't

you think don't you think he could go a

mile and a half

if you give him enough time that was the

best light of this whole scene

uh but again she doesn't react to it at

all

she's like i mean the other racers were

like she just immediately off on the

next thing

like running over his joke and she's and

she's visibly upset

right and and the kid comforts her yeah

the kid realizes that she's crying and

moves to comfort her but

i think they're both crying as as they

embrace there

and he says well you know what i'll go

find a horse that's a sure thing we can

put our money on that and

everybody will win and it'll be happy

and it seems like they're basically

they don't want to be at the horse races

anymore they're too sad about galahad so

they take her to

like a fair ground to see a fireworks

show well yeah it was like

i got a hor i got a line on a horse

that'll never lose guarantee

right yeah and it's you know cut to a

carousel yeah

and uh and it does seem like it's

working she's cheered up

yeah but herbie is following them this

whole time

all right and and even when walter

matthau tries like one of the carnival

games where he shoots a gun

herbie fires his gun at the same time to

scare them

yeah yeah that's horrifying you like

firing a gun in a

crowded carnival um i also applaud

herbie's choice of gun he's got like a

german mauser

it's just like what a what it's a weird

pick yeah

it's just like choice for a gun they

bring the kid home

and they put her to bed um amanda gives

her

a kiss in the bed and she throws her

arms around amanda's neck and then she's

like

your turn sorrowful like you gotta give

her a kiss too and he holds his hat up

to like block the kiss so that

amanda can't watch him kiss the girl and

right when he

makes contact whether she throws her

arms around him and hugs him really

tight

and then she goes to sleep and the two

of them decide they're going to fumble

through the fridge in the kitchen to try

and find something to eat

that's when they he's like not the pot

roast that knocks it out of her hand

yeah but also the food just all fell out

of the fridge on the floor

like all of it was just loose in the

fridge including the pot roast

well this is the 30s so this is a bunch

of other beef yeah but it just

just fell on the floor you're all just

gonna pick up this loose food that was

on the floor and

throw it back in the fridge to eat later

and it was all like it was like oranges

it's like who puts oranges in the fridge

is that what you do well yeah and also

like a lot of it was fruits but some of

it like

it was like cooked fish and like cooked

birds and it's just like it just fell

out onto the ground and you're just

picking it up and eating it out of your

hands

yeah and i guarantee when he's trying to

force feed her a piece of the fish and

she goes there's a bone

there's a bone that was real that was

that was not a scripted line

and she still gets a bone after that

yeah because she's like she's like oh i

got another one you hear

like the panic in her voice there's a

bone

[Laughter]

but yeah so he he's telling her if she

hasn't had cooked whitefish then

she doesn't know what she's missing and

so they just start tearing it apart

they're like

just a cold white fish that fell out of

the fridge on the floor yeah

in the morning uh uh

she wants to more to happen right

because

she kisses him and and he's not he's

really conflicted because he likes the

kiss but he gets up and checks the

window and herbie's still waiting

outside so

he knows that nothing can proceed beyond

this point right

he's been warned yeah and so he has to

escort her out

yeah this is this is like john travolta

and uma thurman like

if he keeps looking out and sees one of

marcellus wallace's people outside he's

like no no

this has to end with us being friends

because otherwise i'm in a lot of

trouble

so he sends her out in the morning

he wakes up and the girl is gone when he

runs downstairs

uh in his underwear to ask the clerk in

the

lobby she's like well i'm i'm not

in charge of your kid i mean i asked her

where she was going but i didn't tell

her she couldn't leave because that's

not my place

and she's like she said she was going to

try and find her father

we all assumed you were her father yeah

like once again another

another weird pedophile like insinuation

we're going to have to check the cameras

in your room what

what nothing nothing nothing never mind

um

this is 1934. there's literally like a

guy creating a camera

yeah it's the guy that invented the

cameras behind the wall taking

as many pictures as he can in a row so

he when he runs around town

looking for her yeah person is underwear

then regret

gives him the advice of getting dressed

why don't you put some clothes on first

why didn't you tell me

um and then he starts checking hotels

and when he finally finds her

uh the hotel clerk for that hotel had

just called the police yeah

and so they're already on their way and

uh

they make a run for it but she's

resisting right

because you know she wants to see her

father and he's saying he's not here

he's like he will be and then finally he

has to

admit it yeah that that your father's

dead

and and she's not even upset at that

yeah she's upset that he's been lying

lying to her

like he's like you said so i her first

line there is like no no

my my mother is dead and he's like no

your father's dead

i didn't want to tell you and uh and

yeah she she tells him that she doesn't

trust him and she doesn't want to go

near him

he tells the guy at the hotel to

basically just just tell the police that

the girl ran off and you couldn't keep

up with her and so they would like move

out the back door to where they're

having this disagreement

they take her back to amanda's and uh

she's really upset and crying in bed and

and amanda says you should go talk to

her

yeah and this is where multiple math is

like trying to

trying to cheer up with like oh we'll go

to the carnival or go to get some hot

dogs and she's not responding

so finally he apologizes for lying to

her and says

you can stay with you can stick around

with me as long as you keep your nose

clean and

don't cause any trouble and then she you

can walter matthau is even getting like

really choked up

in this uh you can hear his voice kind

of like quivering

and then she hugs him and that's like

this is yeah this is it this is

like a uh the big turning point for the

both of them

yeah do we do we get a hint here that

she's learned to play cards

um winning money from people remember

does that come later maybe

when she first learns to play cards oh i

think it's i think it's

after the the next horse race uh

because he sneaks into her room yeah we

at some point we see her in her bed

at his house with money and he tells he

he

oh that's right she got it and it was

that i i don't recall if it was the

the nanny or the the maid but one of one

of them had been teaching her how to

play and taught her so well that they're

now losing to her right and

and then later she had more money and uh

and he asked her about it and

and he asked if the if the lady had paid

her debts and she's like well no

she gave me this marker because she she

owes me a dollar

he goes shopping and gets a brand new

suit to wear

to this night of operating the club

and uh everybody keeps giving him

about it the whole way through the place

uh even when he walks into the back room

uh herbie goes

excuse me sir this is a private area

it's like it's like whoop sorrowful

like it's like when's the last time he

bought a new suit when he graduated from

public school

everyone's kind of panicking right now

because uh somebody with deep pockets

came in and is about to break the bank

and this has kind of played a little bit

of sorrowful's fault because he didn't

let him install

the bad wheel and so this guy's playing

roulette and just rocking it

we kept thinking that it was gonna it

was gonna be a turn like

he did have the bad wheel running again

but

it was running so that this guy could

win so he could take sorrowful's half of

the money that they had invested in this

um operation but that's not what's

happening here yeah and it's just a guy

with a lot of money

yeah and i thought that it was going to

be revealed that he was cheating yeah

and that's yeah they didn't do it either

just a lucky guy

and even later on uh amanda says like oh

you don't know

what what i can do you don't know how i

could destroy you and i was like is she

about to admit that she was working with

the guy that took all the money

um all of these things would have been a

more interesting

fun ending to you a twist or a con or

something i think the way this ends is

better than the way the other one ends

the original i think the ending is

better in this than

in in the first one but we'll we'll get

into that once we're past it

uh so they're cleaned out yes and even

when they're so when they're shutting

down for the night even the accountant

goes

when i should lock the safe what for

yeah there's a lot of great lines so the

next day

blackie is unexpectedly happy he's he's

in sorrowful's office before jones gets

in

and he's like oh uh what are you doing

here

and he says i got a i got something that

can't lose what we're going to do is

we're going to take all of our money and

we're going to bet it on sir galahad

and because the odds like if he wins we

would make

insane bank and he says all we have to

do is dope the horse

and we got this new stuff from europe

and he's like which europe i don't know

the one over the ocean

but this dope is so powerful that it

will kill the horse within a few days

because oh well as soon as the race is

over yeah

yeah uh yeah if he administers this

specific drug to the horse it will kill

the horse after the race

and obviously sorrowful doesn't want to

do that because the girl is totally in

love with the horse

and so is amanda yeah and he loves the

girl that loves the horse

yeah it's like deadly due right yeah

always killing horses that deadly do

right but that was the plot of deadly

due right like

he loved the girl but the girl loved his

horse so he killed the horse

[Laughter]

now i remember i never saw that movie

now i remember

i remember that i don't know what you're

talking about

so uh jones decides that instead of

doing that

but to still win the race he's going to

spend every last penny that he has

paying every other jockey to lose the

race

and then regrets like well you're going

to have to split it however many ways

like however many horses there are in

the race he's like well i don't have to

pay the

jockey that's actually on sir galahad i

can just let him think he's winning

but um the the plan mostly works but

it's funny

the night before regret says if the plan

doesn't work i'd hate to be in your

shoes because they will be made out of

cement

and the plan almost works the jockeys

try extremely hard too hard

to lose the race they're like yanking

their horses backwards

pretending to fall off their horse

lagging circle ahead forward come on

at one point they like shock sir galahad

for behind and try to get one guy falls

off of a horse totally falls off

it looks real bad like i'm sure it was

planned but it's just

a really solid stunt because it looks

like the guy hurt himself but sir

galahad wins the race

but is immediately disqualified for

interference amanda

notices jones's reaction to this and

knows that he's in on it um and she's

mad that he won't explain what happened

she thinks that he just bribed them so

that the horse would win because

she wanted it to win not because he was

probably going gonna get killed if it

didn't

and uh and she doesn't realize that

because it's been disqualified

his death is now back on the table yeah

it's a very likely

scenario and so he hands off the kid

because he doesn't want the kid to get

caught in any crossfire that's about to

happen

right uh and so he just kind of runs off

yeah and uh so that night he comes back

to

uh the kid's room through the window he

waits for

the maid to leave um and then he comes

in through the window

and she they they hug and she's like

laughing when they hug and when they

separate she took his wallet

which is another trick that she learned

from one of one of uh

her her several teachers of crime and uh

he tells her that he's going to take her

out of town that they

have to get away because the police are

after him but

after sir gala had lost the race or was

disqualified

blackie basically took the cops off that

he has this girl

and she's at this house and you can go

get her there so before he's even able

to get out of the room the cops come in

and they take the kid away jones finds

out uh from regret that if he wants the

kid back

that he would have to show up to court

to get custody of the kid

but if he goes to court he's going to

get intercepted by blackie and his guys

and they're going to kill him so he says

i want you to send a message to blackie

for me

and tell him i'm going to meet him at

the river so

he goes to deliver this message and he's

literally delivering a handwritten

message on the inside of his hat

to blackie who's sitting down to dinner

at the magic castle i think right

yeah it looks like that's where that one

was filmed yeah and uh

and he's reading this note off the ends

of that he keeps like tipping it away

from his chest to read the next

sentence but then tony curtis eventually

catches up

and starts reading it aloud with him

and they're like their lips are moving

in sync with each other

but basically the note says like hey i

invite you to meet me at the river

where i'm going to throw you in the

river again which is known by one and

all

and uh and if you don't come then you're

a chicken

and so the next day he's like all right

well i guess i'm going to go to the

river

and they meet and before he can

they start like fighting immediately

walter mata is like well now hold on you

got to hear the terms dummy like we

haven't even discussed like what the

challenge is

it's like oh now it's evolved into like

there's a challenge yeah mistakes on

both sides

so the agreement is that if jones is

able to throw blackie into the river

he's going to stop trying to kill him

and if blackie throws jones in the river

he's also not going to kill him but he

gets the whole booking joint

which he needs a lot of money he's in

debt to people all over the country

because he's he's kind of borrowing from

peter to pay paul all over the place

and they fight for a while i'm pretty

convinced

jones jumps in this river on purpose i

don't think so

they make it look like he runs he runs

at the guy

he gets he gets attacked on the other

side and so he's not

in the like so he yeah he's he's

charging at him but he's able to like

uh when he's charging at blackie and so

he runs straight past blackie because

the woman hit him out of the way and he

falls in the river

because his initial punch hits

tony curtis and he almost falls off the

edge of the pier

yeah but regains his balance and that's

when walter matthau looks at his hand

it's like

i told you quarters like but nickels are

cheaper it's like

i guess the joke of that is had it been

quarters it would have been enough it

would have been successful

okay well maybe maybe that in the the

point but

i i feel like he definitely wanted to

give up the bookie joint

anyway because he thought it was

becoming a bad influence on the kid

this is a way to like get rid of it and

save face yeah and not look like he was

giving it up for a child like his heart

melted

yeah um and and exactly and like and i

said he's he's trying to help

blackie he's like yeah if you kill me

you're still

in debt yeah it doesn't doesn't change

and also you've broken the law in front

of all of these people

yeah but so yeah so he uh he get he

jumps in the river on accident

and then shows up to court just

completely sopping wet

uh the judge has just told amanda sorry

you can't have this kid

because you're not married and probably

the best performance in this whole movie

is by this

judge yeah who's just like snapping at

people

yeah you're dripping in my courtroom

yeah may address me as

your honor it may please the court to

know that i just

fell in the river or something like that

but yeah so

and joan says i want to adopt her and

she says well you're

a single guy and i'm not going to give

this kid to single parents

yeah because amanda worthington is also

there pleading

and and she almost accuses her of being

a horror

because she's very attractive he's like

it's like i have references i'm sure you

do you're a very attractive woman

yeah it's just like what i did i thought

it was either that or she was hitting on

her

i couldn't tell she's like i'm sure you

do you're very attractive woman

marry me and you can have this kid but

she keeps telling them no

i'm not i'm not going to give this child

to a single person even though

amanda's the obvious choice here and

yeah it doesn't matter that she's single

if she's independently wealthy

like just give her the kid that that's

enough that's the thing is she's not

wealthy the whole reason she was like

his partner was

to buy the house back from the bank yeah

because she lost everything and so she

was doing this illegal stuff to get it

back

yeah but um so the two of them asked the

judge for a quick moment to

discuss and they move out into the

hallway and he says

so are you gonna be difficult about this

too and she's like is that a proposal

he's like is it yes or no like he

doesn't have any questions where he's

just like come on

obviously we have to tell her we're

getting married at least if we want the

custody

and she says oh yes of course yeah we'll

we'll get married and and then he's like

okay and then we'll divorce as soon as a

kid she's like no no if we're going to

get married we're going to stay married

i'm not i'm not going to go into this

half-assed and i'm not going to give

them an excuse to take the kid away from

us

and she also says like and as as dumb as

it sounds i'm for some reason in love

with you

and you're also but for a much better

reason in love with me yeah

and uh they move back into the courtroom

and the kid is sitting up on the

on the uh judge's desk like they're

playing cards and she just beat the

judge at yeah

the judge goes into her wallet and

starts pulling out some money yeah

and i like how he asked the judge what

are the odds

that we would get the kid if we got

married yeah and she

just really 11 10 yeah 11 to 10 like

like

immediately gives him like good odds

yeah

um is 11 to 10 good odds yeah because

like it's better than 50 50. yeah it's

it's

it's essentially like uh

11 out of 21 right well no

11 to 10 is like uh for every

10 you get 11. so it's like it's a very

easy

bet because you only make a dollar oh

okay if you bet 10

you'll get 11 if you win so it's a very

it's a shore bet

yeah i got it okay see this is this is

why i had promises of the movie because

they kept making these

jokes that i don't understand because i

don't understand anything about gambling

well you needed to play more vegas

stakes for super nintendo

see the trick is you put all of your

money on red and then

if you lose you turn the game off you

turn it back on

you load your save and you put all your

money on black

that's how that's how i made billions

because there was no max on the table

for some reason

so they step back into the courtroom and

uh

and they basically just walk towards the

kid and then hold hands

indicating we as one are going to be

adopting you as your parents and that's

the end of the phone and we iris out on

the kids

right kid kid clint plural single

kid plural there's a word for that i

forget what it is

kids there was just one kid

[Laughter]

just to clear that up i must be seeing

double two kid

um but yeah that's uh that's the end of

the film

it's cute um wait how does the other one

end the original ending

uh so they everyone in the gang is

uncomfortable with how

adult and crimey and gambly she's

getting

and so they wanted to turn back into a

kid so they all agree to host a party

where they'll dress up as the knights

that she has told them they are

and the horse that she is in love with

the same kind of story that the horse

she's in love with

is the princess's charge and so they

dress

it up to look like a horse from a

medieval story with like

stuff draped over it and everything and

she's so happy

and she's kind of reverts back to the

child that she was at the beginning of

the story

she's riding on the horse when the bad

guy comes in it's not he's not blackie

in that version but he's a different guy

and uh he comes in and he says you owe

me money you cheated me and

and gets in gets in people's faces gets

really close to the horse

and the horse rears up on its back legs

throws the girl off

knocks her into a coma she needs to have

like

surgery and she needs a blood

transfusion while she's unconscious

yeah it's like super dark for what the

rest of the film is

but uh she's she's in a coma

and everyone in the whole gang went in

to get their blood type checked

nobody's a match except for sorrowful

the bad guy

the bad guy not sorrowful okay but the

bad guy feels so terrible about what he

did

that he comes and he does the blood

transfusion and it's kind of a sweet

moment at the end

because the doctors are like oh you know

what i think it's working and the girl

wakes up and she's like

she turns over and starts talking to him

because she had given him a night name

earlier in the movie and she's like oh

it's you it's sir

whoever and uh and the doctors are like

yeah that's right he has really good

blood and this guy's been a criminal his

whole life and and he's being told that

he has good blood

and he thinks that it's like a statement

about his like inner self and it's like

oh i got good blood

i'm a i could be a good like it doesn't

matter what i've done in my life i got

good blood i can be a good person

and then he walks out and that's the end

of the movie is that he's he's

successfully saved this girl's life he

also put her in the coma but

yeah yeah okay all right but it doesn't

end with

the sorrowful and the girl getting

married and i mean

they talk about that but it's not out of

a court obligation which i think is a

funnier

explanation for that that joining yeah

uh i was really confused

when i read the imdb synopsis that

someone wrote for this movie before i

started watching it oh does it have that

in it

no it says uh let's see uh the

sprightly youngster has a positive

effect on the curmudgeon guardian

and uh sunshine to his life the girl

decides to play matchmaker for sorrowful

and lonely widow amanda by setting them

up on a date

yeah that doesn't happen in the movie

yeah she's also not i wouldn't call her

sprightly at all she's like morose most

of the time so i feel like

i feel like this was like a blending of

those two

ideas but they had like the names right

like

uh walter matthau and julie andrews as

these characters that's interesting but

it's like that's not what happens maybe

someone like me who watched both of them

the same day

and then just confused them with each

other the writer director of the film

walter bernstein

he is uncredited as having written the

the first draft of magnificent seven

um obviously adapted from the japanese

film

um but uh seven samurai but he was

blacklisted

and the script was rewritten by other

people so he doesn't get a credit at all

he also wrote the sydney lumet failsafe

which is the not dr strangelove movie

from 1964.

okay i still need to see um that shares

a lot of similarities

um he wrote the molly mcguire's the

seance

um and he also plays annie's date

outside of a theater somewhere in annie

hall i don't remember which scene

exactly

um the music here is henry mancini

who he did breakfast at tiffany's he

wrote the pink panther theme

um he also composed the music for new

heart

the series so we have bob newhart here

with him and also

pink panther has a connection to julie

andrews who was married to blake edwards

well because i think henry mancini also

did victor victoria

right yes and she was for a long time

she was

just in blake edwards movies actually

this movie is in the middle of like

an 18-year streak where julie andrews

only did movies that were directed by

her husband blake edwards except for

this right in the middle

yeah uh uh oh am i seeing this right

that he also did the peter gun theme

i don't know that what is peter gunn

that's a doo doo doo doo doo

doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

doo doo doo like from spy hunter and

oh okay uh that's a good that's a good

theme

yeah i didn't see that one and most

importantly it looks like in 1990

he did the score for ghost to dead

oh what a great movie a shame someone

had to ruin it for all of us yeah i

can't watch that movie

anymore the assistant to the executive

producer

uh was charles matthau the son

obviously of walter matthau um he also

wrote and directed a movie called freaky

deaky

which was adapted from an elmore leonard

novel with christian slater crispin

glover and michael j

white which makes me want to see it kind

of yeah um

he also played a character named

athletic in bad news bears

and a character his very first acting

credit was boy

and charlie varrick so oh surely very

goddess's son

a acting role right because matthau

obviously yeah

he's the lead of both of those films

we'll have another bad news bears

someone coming up soon

yeah next next episode um walter matthau

played sorrowful jones uh he is uh one

half of the odd couple

um uh third or fourth of grumpy old men

isn't there a bunch of grumpy old man in

that movie well yeah oh i mean if you

count uh burgess meredith

as uh jack lemmon's father yeah he was

in charade charlie varick

dennis the menace um he's also in fail

safe

i'm a big fan of uh taking of pelham one

two three yeah oh yeah that's a

classic and don't forget earthquake

his one scene where he's just guy at bar

drinking

yeah doesn't he get in the credits he

has like some fake name

well i think it's his full name which is

like walter matthau and

yeah whatever it is yeah it's a hugely

long name

uh julie andrews was amanda worthington

she was obviously mary poppins was what

she got her oscar for

she's in sound of music the princess

diaries movies shrek

despicable me we mentioned victor

victoria victor where she's a woman

playing a man playing a woman right

a lot of blake edwards movies a couple

pink panthers and victor victoria

you you really like the americanization

of emily if you ever get a chance to see

that

oh okay that's her uh james garner and

uh james coburn the americanization of

emily yeah it's a good one i'll have to

look that one up um she has five golden

globes for acting

she's also a dame but i feel like people

don't call her dame julie andrews

that's true yeah um but she is one she's

just

not in your face like judy dench doesn't

rub it in everybody's faces whoa

that's right i'm calling you stuff is

coming out here i'm

i'm not the one with the hardcore grudge

against judy tinch that's all matt

um tony curtis is blackie obviously

some like it hot with jack lemon so

these are both jack lemmon partners

spartacus he was in the earlier remake

of little miss marker called

uh 40 pounds of trouble which is a

reference to

one of the very first scenes after

sorrowful takes care of her he brings

her into a club

and all these guys are like what do you

have this kid for he's like oh she was a

mark for

somebody who tried to place a bet and

they're like oh she looks like she

she couldn't weigh more than 50 pounds

and someone's like 50 pounds what are

you talking about she looks like she

weighs 48 pounds and they're immediately

like

placing bets on how much she weighs and

each of them takes turns like

picking her up and throwing her in the

air to decide how much she weighs

and amanda walks in and she's like what

do you you can't just toss this child

around like she's a prop for you to

weigh

and she's like i'm liking this like

she's like

aren't you going to pick me up sorrowful

he was like nah i could tell by looking

at you you're 40 and a half pounds

and then they wear and she's like

exactly 40 and a half pounds like he's

the only person who knew but

he's like yeah 40 pounds of trouble and

so then they used that title for

the second remake of the movie bob

newhart as regret

obviously best known for the bob newhart

show um and then a show called new heart

and then a show called bob and then he

was out of show names

um he also played bernard in the

rescuers films

and uh he was the head elf i think in

elf

was he was he like in charge he was like

santa's second in command

yeah yeah i guess he he was certainly

one of the el the older

yes he was he was a senior and buddy's

adopted father

right yes uh lee grant was the judge

she plays ann thorne the stepmother of

damian and the omen two

um she's also miss colbert in the heat

of the night

and uh i read ebert's review of this

film and she was his only complaint

because he said

in 1934 i i don't buy a female judge

that was that was his only complaint

about the whole movie which never even

occurred to me watching yeah that's

totally true um brian dennehy is herbie

um he was uh teasel in first blood

um he's cobb and silverado i always go

to farley's dad and tommy boy yeah

i i would i would say first blood is

probably like

the most famous den here yeah um but i

all through watching this uh i always

remember pat oswalt's famous

like bit about when he met him

and they were at the like the buffet

table and he said right then he was like

stuffing his face

character actors who cares if we're fat

that's an awesome my dad has a denny

story too

i i tried to ask him about it today and

he seemed to not remember the story that

i thought he had told me in the past but

i'm pretty sure that

my dad uh was working near

his home and that then he saw my dad and

said you could be a stand-in for me

but my dad was working uh like clearing

brush or something to prevent

uh brush fires and stuff because he

worked with the fire department he was

also

uh dennehy was mickey j the head of the

teamsters on 30 rock and the sandwich

day

oh yeah which like he's perfect casting

dennehy as the head of the teamsters

it's like you got to beat them in

drinking contests it's a standard

which character was bran again i think

having trouble remembering i think

brannigan was their accountant

okay well he plays oh wait no he's the

cop

he's the cop okay uh the cop uh in this

film

went on to play baron vladimir harkinan

and lynch's dune

yeah and he'll also be back this year in

kearney and borderline

um sarah simpson like we said before was

uh

one of over 90 children who auditioned

for this role didn't do anything else

after this she had an appearance as a

guest on a talk show

around the time the movie came out that

was that was it from her

um yeah i think uh that's everything for

the cast

jess what do you think up or down um

you know i enjoyed it but i don't i

don't think there's anything

that spectacular about this movie that

makes it a must watch

so

i'd i'd say down just because i don't

think i don't think it's super necessary

sure uh i agree um

i like wash it twice just like you know

as

i often do with these movies yeah uh but

and i i laugh i was more listening to it

the second time and i was laughing more

at the jokes

because i wasn't paying attention to the

performances of how they were being

delivered yeah

and and i was like wow these are jokes

are really funny

but they're not funny when you're

watching it yeah um

so just for that i'm kind of like yeah

no this movie's not

not up there for me so it's enough yeah

i agree i think um

if if you want if the the must-watch

version of this

is just paper moon i think this this one

doesn't really

um doesn't really need to be seen

i would say it's it's not a required

viewing

um letterboxed jess

or we'll start with richard um

i think so that jess can copy him so she

knows what she thinks

i think that i would put this um

just above midnight madness but below

married couple all right

interesting uh i would put it just above

last married couple uh which is right

below

the fog for me okay i am also putting it

right above midnight madness

which is below foxes for me

but i think that's about it for this one

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next time

when we'll be discussing little darlings

which imdb

calls two 15 year old girls from

different sides of the tracks compete to

see who will be the first to lose their

virginity while at camp

we leave you now with the trailer for

little darlings

tatum o'neill the kid from paper moon

and bad news bears

is now more adorable than ever look

i don't like sharing this space with you

either you keep out of my way and i'll

keep it

yours deal isn't she a little darling

and christy mcnichol everybody's

favorite daughter from tv's family

she's sweeter than ever slide me

something nice

[Music]

isn't she a little darling tatum and

christy

together for the first time in the true

spirit of hot-flooded american

competition

nobody can stop these girls so if you

can't beat them

join them little darlings

[Music]

you're entering a new era this summer

do something special something you've

never done before

angel versus ferris whoever catches a

guy

first wins you just lost 100 bucks

sucker

now the game is on and every male is up

for grabs

what's your name anyway it's randy

[Music]

don't let the name wow he is great

great

he'll have to do

[Music]

okay

oh this is so romantic

that was nice

[Music]

you know romeo and juliet didn't you

love it it was so romantic

sure is a hot night tonight

this is better than books i got to tell

you this is great

there's something you know that it's

really beautiful

hey what are they gonna do about

protection

tatum o'neill

christy mcnichol i'm not a woman randy

in the motion picture that suddenly

grows up into something

very special

little darlings