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- TriviaRobert Downey Sr. took the still photographs himself with a 35mm camera and had the film developed at a local Walgreens drug store.
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All Women's Roles: My mother says that kissing a boy only leads to trouble and danger and skepticism.
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits state: "Special Hindrance: N.Y.C. Police Dept."
- ConnectionsFeatured in Putney Swope (1969)
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All Experiments Are Successful, Aren't They?
George Morgan has affairs with several women, including his mother, all played by Elsie Downey, while he goes through his annual mental breakdown.
I have a big problem writing about Robert Downey Sr.'s mixture of silent and sound film with voice-overs and still-shot sequences on a site devoted to movies. It is absurd. This is not a movie in any sense that we understand it. Oh, you might call it 'experimental cinema', but what then? The general rule seems to be that such experiments are always successful, whether you're looking at the Empire State Building for 24 hours or reinventing basic Georges Melies camera tricks fifty years later. I reject such a standard as being no standard whatsoever. So where are we?
This.... well, this thing looks amateurish, although I do do enjoy the bursts of Groucho-style voice-overs. Over to other opinions.
I have a big problem writing about Robert Downey Sr.'s mixture of silent and sound film with voice-overs and still-shot sequences on a site devoted to movies. It is absurd. This is not a movie in any sense that we understand it. Oh, you might call it 'experimental cinema', but what then? The general rule seems to be that such experiments are always successful, whether you're looking at the Empire State Building for 24 hours or reinventing basic Georges Melies camera tricks fifty years later. I reject such a standard as being no standard whatsoever. So where are we?
This.... well, this thing looks amateurish, although I do do enjoy the bursts of Groucho-style voice-overs. Over to other opinions.
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- boblipton
- Jan 29, 2022
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- $25,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 3 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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