Minor film gem alert for Thursday!

[therealfuster]

Tonight at 1:00am on the TCM schedule for Thursday [really early Friday morning] they are showing:

 

"The World Of Henry Orient "

[Two poor little rich girls dog the steps of a womanizing pianist. Peter Sellers, Angela Lansbury, Paula Prentiss. D: George Roy Hill. C 107m.]

 

If you have not seen this film, may I suggest a viewing. It is a great little film, and not too well known, but has some fine pedigrees.

 

To begin with, it was written by Nora Johnson, daughter of the famed screenwriter and former newspaperman Nunnally Johnson, of films like "The Grapes of Wrath", The Woman in the Window", "Along Came Jones", "My Cousin Rachel", "How to Marry a Millionaire" and numerous others. He assisted his daughter on the writing of the script and it was awarded a nomination for best written American comedy for 1965, by the Writers Guild of America.

 

This film is very witty and clever, with Peter Sellers at top form trying to elude the attentions of his two teenage groupies, all the while trying to be the suave, man about town pianist, that he thinks he is....assisted by Angela Lansbury and the wonderful Paula Prentiss.

 

With clever direction by George Roy Hill, of Butch Cassidy fame and excellent cinematography by Boris Kaufman, brother of Russian director, Dziga Vertov of the revolutionary silent, "The Man With a Movie Camera" which TCM has kindly shown....this film aims to please, and accomplishes it with ease.

 

Boris Kaufman also lensed classics like "On the Waterfront" and Kazan's "Baby Doll" and his stuff is always right on and interesting to watch.

 

This is not a big movie, just a small, well articulated gem.

 

Enjoy!

[edgedrv]

thereafuster, in your interesting rundown on HENRY ORIENT you neglected to mention that fine actress Phyllis Thaxter, who played the mother of one of the two teens. This was one of Thaxter's rare screen roles in the 60's. In fact the only other film that she appeared in after that was SUPERMAN. Unfortunely, Thaxter who was under contract to WB in the 50s was always typecast in sincere/nice girl roles and most people today have forgotten her. BTW although I am not much of a fan of Peter Sellers, I like HENRY ORIENT very much.

[moviejoe79]

I've seen Henry Orient too and I remember enjoying it very much. I'll try and tape it tonight. If I remember correctly, Angela Lansbury is a real you-know-what in the movie, and not the most pleasant woman to deal with. Or perhaps I'm thinking of her role in "Dear Heart." But it is a fun movie - anything with Peter Sellers is great. I would love for TCM to show "The Bobo" with him and Britt Eckland. I saw that one years ago too, and I remember liking it.