Movie Movie

Movie Movie
Movie Movie

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Stanley Donen
Produced by Stanley Donen
Written by Larry Gelbart
Sheldon Keller
Starring George C. Scott
Trish Van Devere
Red Buttons
Eli Wallach
Barry Bostwick
Harry Hamlin
Barbara Harris
Music by Ralph Burns
Cinematography Charles Rosher Jr.
Bruce Surtees
Editing by George Hively
Distributed by Warner Bros. / ITC Entertainment
Release date(s) November 1978 (1978-11)
Running time 105 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Movie Movie is a 1978 musical comedy film directed by Stanley Donen. Movie Movie consists of two short films, both starring the husband-and-wife team of George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere, with a fake movie trailer sandwiched in between them. The film was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]

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Plot summary

At the start of the film, George Burns tells us that we are about to see an old-style double feature. In the old days, he explains, movies were in black-and-white, except sometimes "when they sang it came out in color."

The first feature, Dynamite Hands, is a throwback to boxing-ring morality plays such as Body and Soul. It's about a young man named Joey Popchik from a poor family, who dreams of one day becoming a lawyer. His sister is losing her eyesight, so he becomes a boxer to raise the money to have her cured. Along the way, he gets seduced by fame and fortune, and runs afoul of a crooked boxing manager. In the end, his sister is cured and Joey, so that "poetic justice could be served," races through law school to become the prosecutor who puts the villain behind bars, spouting corny courtroom aphorisms such as "a man can move mountains with his bare heart."

The trailer is for a flying-ace movie set in World War I.

The second feature, Baxter's Beauties of 1933, is a throwback to musical extravaganzas such as 42nd Street. Legendary theatrical producer Spats Baxter learns he's dying. To support the daughter he's never known after he's gone he plans to create one last Broadway smash. A young ingenue with dreams of performing on Broadway arrives to audition. Baxter's accountant is at heart a genius songwriter. Baxter's star is a spoiled actress who almost destroys the entire production with her drunkenness and reckless spending of the show's money. In the end the ingenue must go on in her place, becomes a star, and learns that Baxter is her long-lost father. As the curtain falls, a dying Baxter tells her, "One minute you're standing in the wings, the next minute you're wearing 'em."

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Notes

In the theatrical release, as George Burns leads us to expect in the film's prologue, Dynamite Hands and the mock film trailer were in black-and-white, while the musical Baxter's Beauties of 1933 was in color. However, the black-and-white segments are (insensibly) colorized in most home-video editions as a result of the controversial colorization craze of the 1980s.

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