He plays a single man of about 35, a lawyer with a great respect for appearances, who finally agrees out of politeness to marry the girl hes been dating for several years. Toklas dvd, 2014 at the best online prices at ebay. Toklas apr 04, 2012 i think this must be my favourite peter sellers movie, its really hilarious and very 60s, i really liked it. The film is set in the counterculture of the 1960s. 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. Toklas1968 peter sellers, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung i love you alice b. Were sorry but jwapp doesnt work properly without javascript enabled. By the end of it i was feeling a certain amount of resentment at having been had, along with alice b. 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. Original warner brothers window card 14x22 for the hy averback.
Toklas stars peter sellers as harold fine, a staid jewish attorney. The next, you chuck it all for beads, bellbottoms and free love. How does a mishmash like this qualify for the essentials. The movie pokes fun at the american hippie counterculture of the late 60s, and shows that the grass is not. Giancarlo esposito on breaking three darksabers while shooting the mandalorian season 2. Find movie and film cast and crew information for 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. Toklas is a comedy about a mans midlife crisis during the countercultural revolution of the 1960s. Toklas 1 reply i bought my first gertrude stein book, the autobiography of alice b. Toklas, at the late great smith and hardwick bookstore on 20 th street in downtown birmingham in the 70s when i was an undergraduate at alabama. Peter sellers, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung, joyce van patten.
Like the brownies served by harolds new girlfriend, i love you, alice b. A thirtysomething square falls in love with a hippie and decides to drop out himself. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing i love you, alice b. This film is not currently playing on mubi but 30 other great films are. Peter sellers, whose flowerpower performance here is in the same. Toklas authentic original 14 x 36 folded movie poster. Toklas starring peter sellers and directed by hy averback. With peter sellers, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung, joyce van patten. Peter sellers stars in the wacky sixties comedy, i love you, alice b. The film opens with harold fine peter sellers, a respectable lawyer in. Toklas, the title song of peter sellers 1968 screwball cinematic ode to hash brownies, begins and so does gertrude stein. A halfforgotten nearly 50 year old comedy from the peter sellers catalog that deserves another look. On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost.
Rodney dangerfield at his best on the tonight show starring johnny carson 1983 duration. Through a fluke, harold is obliged to drive a station wagon emblazoned with. Hopelessly conservative and unadventurous, harold fine sellers is a motherdominated mensch, sitting passively by as mrs. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free. His life changes when he falls in love with nancy, a freespirited, innocent, and beautiful young hippie. Peter sellers stars as harold fine, an impossibly square litigator who grows weary of the conformity and hypocrisy of modern life. The cast includes david arkin, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung in her film debut and a cameo by the scripts cowriter paul mazursky. Thats how things are for harold fine, a dedicated lawyer about to become a more dedicated dropout. Toklas and so does gertrude stein i love you, alice b. Engaged to the equally straitlaced joyce joyce van patten, harold wistfully dreams of having a more exciting lifestyle. October 10 barbarella us october the subject was roses. Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of i love you, alice b.
Toklas peter sellers plays the character of harold fine, a lawyer. 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. One day youre a career 9to 5er with a pending marriage the next, you chuck it all for beads, bellbottoms. Sticking with a chronological order here, this one follows the party by six months, opening in october 1968. For sellers fans interested in scorekeeping the upanddown work during his late60s blue period, i love you, alice b. Elmer bernstein soundtrack music from i love you, alice. In the film, peter sellers plays harold fine, an uptight nebbish much modeled on the character of woody allen whom sellers had. This time around the focus is on the 1968 film i love you, alice b. After harold and his family enjoy some of her groovy brownies, he decides to drop out with her and become a hippie too. 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, and so does gertrude stein i love you, alice b. 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. Toklas, whose name, apparently, is to become an automatic laugh, like smog and girdle. 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.
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