The next, you chuck it all for beads, bellbottoms and free love thats how things are for harold fine, a dedicated lawyer about to become a more dedicated dropout. Toklas im gonna change your name to mine red velvet trees and lions. Toklas and so does gertrude stein i love you, alice b. Toklas peter sellers plays the character of harold fine, a lawyer. The film is set in the counterculture of the 1960s. Toklas and so does gertrude stein i love you alice b. This film is not currently playing on mubi but 30 other great films are. 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. In the film, peter sellers plays harold fine, an uptight nebbish much modeled.
Released without a rating, but with the proviso for mature audience, i love you, alice b. I love this movie 3 if you really want to see the good old l. Elmer bernstein soundtrack music from i love you, alice. Toklas is a 1968 romantic comedy film starring peter sellers, directed by hy averback with music by harpers bizarre.
Toklas is a comedy about a mans midlife crisis during the countercultural revolution of the 1960s. Toklas starring peter sellers and directed by hy averback. 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. Help contribe and earn points to increase your vip level to get extra benefits. 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. Through a fluke, harold is obliged to drive a station wagon emblazoned with. Far more importantly, her name became a synonym for a certain type of illicit brownies, and thus became part of the title of one of my favorite crazy sixties comedies, i love you, alice b. This is one of my alltime favorites love, love, love this movie. Peter sellers, the incomparable master of comedy pink panther series, portrays a successful but supersquare l. Toklas is a 1968 romantic comedy film starring peter sellers, directed by hy averback with. Toklas, and so does gertrude stein i love you, alice b. 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.
Toklas 1877 1967 was an americanborn member of the parisian avantgarde of the early 20th century, and the life partner of american writer gertrude stein. Original motion picture soundtrack for the movie i love you, alice b. Its unfortunate that peter sellers should be making his comeback just at a moment when american movie comedies are not. But of three swinging 60s satires recently released on dvd, only 1968s i love you, alice b. Peter sellers stars in the wacky sixties comedy, i love you, alice b. Jim nabors behind the scenes with host matt lauer duration. Total number of members who have this title in their. One day youre a career 9to 5er with a pending marriage the next, you chuck it all for beads, bellbottoms.
With peter sellers, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung, joyce van patten. Toklas, whose name, apparently, is to become an automatic laugh, like smog and girdle. By the end of it i was feeling a certain amount of resentment at having been had, along with alice b. 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. The next, you chuck it all for beads, bellbottoms and free love. Satires that aspire to tap into the cultural zeitgeist often age about as well as mayonnaise left out in the sun. Gertrude stein 1874 1946 was an american novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. A thirtysomething square falls in love with a hippie and.
After harold and his family enjoy some of her groovy brownies, he decides to drop out with her and become a hippie too. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing i love you, alice b. Engaged to the equally straitlaced joyce joyce van patten, harold wistfully dreams of having a more exciting lifestyle. Toklas im gonna change your name to mine red velvet trees and lions, grinning lions, candy witches eating lychee leaves, spinning rainbowing light green wooly golden gardens, marvin gardens coriander baby elephants singing silent night sweet cinnamon and nutmeg, che guevara teotihuacan aglow clean cannabis sativa, sweet. 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 composed by elmer bernstein, released by cinema records in 1968. Toklas is a 1968 romantic comedy film starring peter sellers, directed by hy. The film opens with harold fine peter sellers, a respectable lawyer in. Rodney dangerfield at his best on the tonight show starring johnny carson 1983 duration. One day youre a career 9to5er with a pending marriage. Toklas stars peter sellers as harold fine, a staid jewish attorney.
Get it today with same day delivery, order pickup or drive up. Download premium images you cant get anywhere else. A halfforgotten nearly 50 year old comedy from the peter sellers catalog that deserves another look. Like the brownies served by harolds new girlfriend, i love you, alice b. 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. His life changes when he falls in love with nancy leigh tayloryoung, a freespirited. Italia latinoamerica magyarorszag nederland new zealand norge. Toklas 1968 eating groovy brownies watch i love you alice b. Thats how things are for harold fine, a dedicated lawyer about to become a more dedicated dropout. Film is not heavyhanded in its approach either to hippie life, or to what is considered normal modes of behavior. Toklas 18771967, most famous as secretary and companion to gertrude stein.
Dispiritingly trendy comedy, coscripted by paul mazursky, in which sellers briefly sketches a brilliant performance as a middleaged lawyer tormented by asthma, by a mistress intent on being a. This time around the focus is on the 1968 film i love you, alice b. Were sorry but jwapp doesnt work properly without javascript enabled. Toklas stock photos and editorial news pictures from getty images.
The movie is about changes people make, and is funny because of things that happen. Hopelessly conservative and unadventurous, harold fine sellers is a motherdominated mensch, sitting passively by as mrs. Toklas is the closest a person can get to being in the sixties, which was close to the the end. This is the third installment in the turn me on, dead man series of posts on movies with psychedelic themes. Deutsch francais italiano nederlands norsk bokmal polski. 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. It isnt sarcastic or black humor or based on taking pot shots at characters. Letssingit is a crowdsourced lyrics database, created by and maintained by people just like you. Toklas, dvd, manufactured on demand, mono sound, comedyclassic, 88857470.
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