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Another endlessly soaring Legrand string melody among his most elaborate. and attractve should wax eloquent but hey indulging hyperbole U Tubes helpers are out in force Other Side of Midnight withstands multiple listens pay deference to Frank De Vol whose music wafted away cares in 1960s comedies Earlier did a version of On the Street where you Live from My Fair Lady~ great song in the Vic Damone version What a Musical Indeed Ifcopod musical arranger De Vol doubled as Carleton alongside Barbara Feldon in Get Smart with Don Adams ~ recently aboard The Love Boat specially for your delectation hear a snatch of Beethoven's opening Adagio string quartet opus 131 about 50 mins into Good Neighbour Sam. Wonderful cultural delights afforded in common or garden cinema. and a putative cheapo comedy ..1960s were good to actor Jack Lemmon. also The Fortune Cookie. Good Neighbour Sam before this viewing ifcopod comments were of the ~good comedy good script and beaming presence of jovial Edward Andrews But overall judgement ~movie too long and
~ . Outlandishly long comedy(154 mins)Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World with cast of thousands shouldnt have succeeded viewed many times affirms position among all time favourite comedies Colourful West Coast settings. irrepressible No? make that irreplaceable Ethel Merman capacious bloomers all a blow ingloriously up ended as irate Terry Thomas snorts somewhere in the background my favourite Merman film Take time out hear Ethel doing her stuff on Blow Gabriel Blow I'd bin this for a protracted boot of Ethel Blow Gabriel Michel Legrand Orchestra Typical have you something against singers ~ plumping instead for the orchestra
Good Neighbour Sam hardly afterthought in comedy roll call .Luckily over praised Game of Thrones ~ but positive sighting of 1960s offshoot in name only of Alban Bergs lush decadent opera Lulu an opera wherein exotic sounds of our time did flow ~ The Lulu effort courtesy Dorothy Provine in mock 1920s pomp was fake jazz stuff on Warner Bros label a minor hit for the songstress circa 1961 . Provine a pleasant addition to the Good Neighbour Sam scenery
. Surely thats the doctor from The Love Boat one Bernard Morton Kopell in a early moonlighting effort pardon the nocturnal ingress courtesy 1964 Good Neighbour Sam~ Kopell lowly photographer hired hand if you will ~ paying obeisance to big boss Edward G Robinson but Who are the four lads doing the brilliant harmonies as Hertz puts you in the driving seat The Four Hi~los no less~ memory nearing the end of a successful 1950s to be sidelined by less lucrative 1960s . Beatles completing stranglehold on future lets pay tribute to late Michel Legrand in Other Side of Midnight one of his finest romantically developed melodies availing of plenty symphonic potential Oh the soaring arc what musical delight .String music of this sort brought some to the cast Good Neighbour ~ this after all a super light comedy We alight on Mike ~ make that primeval Rock n roll movie from 1956 Shake Rattle Roll doing gerontological battle with clatter of doddering old biddies and legless old duffers~ SEXIST AGEIST and a tad discourteous iFCOPOD late Mike aka "Touch" Connors. Indeed How very tactile . Connors input in Good Neighbour Sam ~solid upstanding citizen romantically linked to late Romy Schneider Jack Lemmons marital interest in the seemly affair .