I watched Champagne For Caesar once, on TV, sometime in the very early 1980s. I had never even heard of it and I loved it! It was on very late at night and I
was laughing so much, I had to bite my pillow to keep from waking my family. So why have I not seen it on TV in the last two decades?
CHAMPAGNE FOR CAESAR is already available on DVD though a bit pricy. As always, Mr. Colman is very good as the jobless intellectual who joined a quiz show and wins every time until the jackpot prize skyrocketed to an amount insurmountable for the sponsoring soap company to pay. Very witty, amusing and really entertaining movie. The ending gives it a twist which is equally funny. Vincent Price is remarkable in this movie as the president of the soap company. Without him, the movie would not have been as entertaining. Celeste Holm is also humorous as the nurse who tries to confuse Mr. Colman's character by making him fall in love with her. Art Linkletter joins the supporting cast as the host of the show and eventually falls in love with Mr. Colman's sister. This is really worth watching.
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Find out what people think about my idea, and then change their thinking. -Champagne for Caesar
I just watched this movie last night (the DVD is pretty cheap at Amazon these days). How fun! I loooooooooooved Vincent Price, especially when he'd get really animated and start leaping around.
"Good night, Vienna, city of a million something-or-others..."
I just watched it and it was hysterical!! Vincent Price was 'priceless'. It's too bad he didn't do more comedy instead of getting stuck in horror movies. I loved the slogan for Milady Soap "The soap that sanctifies"!
A very clever movie.
I also saw the film in the early 1980s; it was shown in the Chicago metro TV market (WFLD Channel 32 I believe) on a Sunday afternoon. It was a hilarious movie and Mr. Colman, Ms. Holm and Mr. Price (and Mr. Linkletter too) were terrific; I really regretted that I didn't make a VCR copy of it, in particular as it seems to have never been shown on any type of TV broadcast in my area since. It was a mint-quality print which looked like it had been struck the day before, hence my reluctance to purchase bootleg copies with quality issues quite a few years later. I'd love to see it again and have a proper copy of it for my collection.
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