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 |
| Edited by | George Hively |
|
Production
company |
|
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
|
Release date
|
November 8, 1978 |
|
Running time
|
105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Movie Movie is a 1978 American double bill directed by Stanley Donen. It consists of two films, Dynamite Hands, a boxing ring morality play, and Baxter's Beauties of 1933, a musical comedy, both starring the husband-and-wife team of George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere. A fake trailer for a flying-ace movie set in World War I entitled Zero Hour (also starring Scott) is shown between the double feature.
Barry Bostwick, Red Buttons, Art Carney and Eli Wallach also appear in both segments, with Harry Hamlin, Barbara Harris and Ann Reinking featured in one each. The script was written by Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller.
The film is introduced by George Burns, who tells viewers that they were 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."
Joey Popchik, a young man from a poor family, 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."
...
Wikipedia