Titles We'd like

[CineSight]

FORTY POUNDS OF TROUBLE
Universal, 60s comedy remake of LITTLE MISS MARKER with Tony Curtis and Suzanne Pleshette, first feature film ever to shoot a sequence at Disneyland. Supporting cast includes Phil SIlvers and Larry Storch. Charming family semiromantic comedy with a soft spot in many baby boomers' hearts.

THE DREAM MERCHANTS
Sudsy 80s TV miniseries about early Hollywood, based on a Harold Robbins novel. With Mark Harmon, Morgan Fairchild, Kaye Ballard, Fernamdo Lamas and dozens of familiar faces, with many sequences shot all over the Warner Bros, studios, which is a selling point for a lot of us..

IT HAPPENED ONE CHRISTMAS
Some time after the rights to IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE lapsed into public domain, Marlo Thomas' Daisy Productions made this rather faithful remake with Wayne Rogers, Orson Welles, Doris Roberts, and many other recognizable people, this time Ms. Thomas plays the lead, and the Warner backlot subs for Bedford Falls. Having disappeared from the air for several years, it turned up in a somewhat edited form on basic cable last year. A nice movie that takes nothing away from the original, and deserves to co-exist on video.

WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT FEELING GOOD?
A toucan spreads a rare tropical "love virus" around cynical 1968 Manhattan, making people polite to each other, and turning downbeat hippies Mary Tyler Moore and George Peppard into happy yuppies. Another supporting cast full of familiar faces from the day.

CAN HIERONYMOUS MERKIN EVER FORGET MERCY HUMPPE AND FIND TRUE HAPPINESS??
This reportedly self-indulgent 60s musical opus, written and directed by Anthony Newley, was once described as "like the Marx Brothers in a nudist colony." Features a mountain-top ballad called "Oh, What A Son-of-a-Bitch I Am!" performed by Newly in his birthday suit. How can you not be curious? Also stars Joan Collins.

THE INCREDIBLE SARAH
Legendary brilliant actress Glenda Jackson plays legendary brilliant actress Sarah Bernhardt in a late 70s indie that played a handful of art houses before Jackson gave up acting for politics. 'nuff said.

MGM SHORTS
A box set was released on laserdisc about a decade ago with dozens of fun short subjects from MGM. Among them: Pete Smith's MOVIE PESTS, and Robert Benchley's A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES. Plus some of the fun kitschy MGM travelogues, always ending with somethng like "and as the sun sets on __________, we bid a fond farewell to the people of ________!"

THE BOY FRIEND
Madman Ken Russell helmed this unusual musical based on the West End and Broadway hit that introduced young Julie Andrews to America. Here it stars Twiggy, with Tommy Tune. A dingy little theatre in the British provinces is putting on THE BOY FRIEND, when the star (Glenda Jackson) gets injured. Meek stage manager Twiggy must go on as the lead, totally unprepared, opposite Christopher Gable, whom she has a crush on... while the rest of the cast hams it up shamelessly for a Hollywood producer who happens to be in the house. If that's not enough going on, check out the wild fantasy numbers, which inject some lush production values into this deliberately tacky mess.

SONG OF NORWAY
Florence Henderson, Opera star Frank Porretta, and Toralv Maurstad as Edvard Grieg sing a fun song rolling down a lovely hill, and that's about as much action as you'll get here. Just before becoming Mrs. Brady, Henderson looks and sounds lovely, and it's shot among beautiful landscapes that often outshine the story. Beautiful music and beautiful scenery, with some beautiful people. And who can resist an Oscar Homolka movie? Originally released by Cinerama releasing/ABC FILMS. Who has the rights now?

More titles to follow as we think of them...

[Brighton Bourne]

LA GRANDE VADROUILLE
Released in UK and Australia as DON'T LOOK NOW...WE'RE BEING SHOT AT this dubbed French WW2 farce is probably the funniest film I have seen. It was released in 1968 and did good business (I believe that until Cameron's Titanic it held the record for most admissions in France). I can remember that most of the audience was in stitches of laughter and I am anxious to get hold of a dubbed version. There is a subtitled version available on ebay, but unfortunately, apart from being very expensive (sold for over GBP 75), the format was the wrong region for my DVD (must get an upgrade soon).

[zanygang]

Two films which are crying out for a DVD release are the original version of The Women and Dougal and the Blue Cat.