- Who's Minding the Mint?
Infobox_Film
name = Who's Minding the Mint?
caption = 1967 movie poster
director =Howard Morris
producer =Norman Maurer
writers =R.S. Allen Harvey Bullock
starring =Jim Hutton Dorothy Provine Milton Berle
Joey Bishop
Bob Denver
Jamie Farr
Walter Brennan
music =Lalo Schifrin
cinematography =Joseph F. Biroc
editing =Adrienne Fazan
distributor =Columbia Pictures (1967) (USA) (theatrical)
GoodTimes Home Video (video/VHS )
released =September 26 ,1967 (US)
runtime = 97 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:54417
imdb_id = 0062490|"Who's Minding the Mint?" is a
comedy movie from1967 . It was produced byNorman Maurer forColumbia Pictures . Acomic book version of this movie appeared as a tie-in. It is available onVHS tape, but at this writing, is not out onDVD .ynopsis
Harry Lucas (
Jim Hutton ) works at theU.S. Mint inWashington, D.C. He is loved by Verna Baxter (Dorothy Provine ), who tries to woo him by giving him home-cooked (but nearly inedible)fudge . Lucas accidentally brushes $50,000 in currency into the bag with the fudge, and walks out with it. Before he realizes his mistake, he's destroyed the currency, and there will be an audit at work shortly.In desperation, he assembles a group of people who are willing to help him get into the Mint after hours and print up replacement currency, if he'll print them a million dollars apiece. The time for the operation is moved up unexpectedly, forcing the group to go in wearing a wild variety of clothing, from a
ballet costume (on Verna) to a full set ofRevolutionary War clothes worn byMilton Berle , he was called out of alodge meeting.Cast
In addition to
Jim Hutton ,Dorothy Provine andMilton Berle , the movie features many well-knowncomedy actors:Joey Bishop ,Bob Denver ,Jamie Farr andWalter Brennan all appear.External links
*imdb title|id=0062490|title=Who's Minding the Mint?
*amg title | id=1:54417
*tcmdb title | id=95748
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