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A great, bubbly, aromatic piece of cheese


This lost gem was designed to show the suckers (us) what is REALLY happening, tittilate with a little smut, and clean up. The mishandling of a great beauty like Jill St John, the solid Stephen Boyd and a (bizarrely) non-singing Tony Bennett (who sounds like either Joe Pesci or Alec Baldwin doing Tony) is breathtaking. Hymie Kelly indeed. I love the Mexico sequence with the Herb Alpert-like soundtrack. This would be a great movie to see on loco weed with the right group of friends.

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This movie is a great trash wallow. It has some really great campy scenes and is so bad it's good all the way throughout. The actresses are great too, Elke Sommer, Jean Hale doing a Carroll Baker type star, Jill St. John, Eleanor Parker. Too much fun!

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Tony Bennett as Hymie Kelly was hilarious, what a funny part. Jack Soo as the house boy, and Stephen Boyd is a laugh riot. This was one of the worst films, yet funny I have ever seen.

"It's the stuff that dreams are made of."

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I'm watching "getTV", and it's on now. What a hoot - I haven't seen this in a couple of decades! This is one of the best bad movies ever made. Hymie called Frankie, "You've been nominated for an Academy Award. You, and Burt, and Lancaster..." It's remarkable to see what was "luxurious" interior decorating was: dark wood paneling, oversized tables lamps, massive brandy snifters holding cellophane-wrapped mints. This would be a great movie to see with a bunch of people that lived during this era.

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wow, this one ranks right down there with "Mommie dearest" and "valley of the dolls." i'm dying laughing at all the chewed up scenery...

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Yeah it's pretty damn silly. But fun to watch as high camp.

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My most favorite scene in the movie is when Hymie Kelly and Frankie Fane have that huge argument, and everyone just walks away disgusted, even the Asian butler (played by Jack Soo from Barney Miller). That gets me all the time! The background character isn't supposed to be in on this scene and yet the film actually showed his reaction, too.

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