MovieChat Forums > I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968) Discussion > GREAT MOVIE! When Will it be Released o...

GREAT MOVIE! When Will it be Released on DVD??

posted 21 years ago by PLS1017
19 replies | jump to latest

This movie seems to be overlooked in the Peter Selers DVD Catalogue. But to me it's one of his greatest films. The Harold Fine character is the played perfectly as the straight laced conservative establishment abiding Lawyer. In fact all the characters are well cast! This is a Great time capsule of the late sixties as it pits both extreme lifestyles against each other. And the result is that everything isn't black or white, liberal or conservative as the prefered direction. At the end of the movie Harold Fine discovers that he's not sure what he wants, the stifling constrictions of conservativsm or the hedonistic overindugent extremes of the hippie movement. But he knows that somewhere in the world there has to be something that makes sense and resolves his frustration. I hope this movie comes out on DVD soon, it's a MUST for Peter Seller's FANS!!

[–] YankeeDood 14 years ago

My thoughts exactly.
On the surface, this movie looks like any other critical hippie film from the 60's, but once you really understand where it's going you'll see the beauty in the storyline.
The movie really examines our structured society and makes you wonder what it's really all about. At first we think Alice is just another marijuana-crazed hippie chick until we see how her lifestyle affects Harold and his family. They all became more joyful after experiencing a new way of life (the magic brownies helped too).
I won't spoil the ending, but what a wonderful message it sends to us about how our "civilized" society isn't all it's cracked up to be.
They sure don't make thought-provoking movies like this anymore, sigh.

"You can't kill the boogeyman!"
- Tommy Doyle

[–] solex10 9 years ago

It was on DVD in 2006 and is now available as a DVD-on-demand title from Warner Archive via Amazon.

They sure don't make thought-provoking movies like this anymore, sigh.

Why should 'they' want to make movies like this anymore? And what is so profound about them, anyway? Many of them are relics, like this one and a few others, or are completely stupid supposedly 'with it' crap like Skidoo, and mean nothing to society now other that 'it's good to tune in, turn on and drop out.'

'They' are still making independent movies that are just as'deep' as what was released in the mid-to-late 60's and most of the 70's-look for them and SEE them, and STOP complaining about how they're not being made anymore.