Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Mini-Ep #81: Top Grossing Movies of 1966, Part 2
Episode Date: October 13, 2016Each week, comedian Gilbert Gottfried and comedy writer Frank Santopadre share their appreciation of lesser-known films, underrated TV shows and hopelessly obscure character actors -- discussing, diss...ecting and (occasionally) defending their handpicked guilty pleasures and buried treasures. This week: "Georgy Girl"! "The Creature from the Black Lagoon"! Gilbert covers Dusty Springfield! Richard Schaal vs. Richard Stahl! And Jack Palance goes south of the border! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Okay.
So part two.
In case you didn't hear part one, I'll bring everybody up to speed.
We've been saluting the year 1966, which is a year I'm obsessed with in pop culture history.
We did TV last week.
Now we're doing movies.
We're doing the top grossing 25, the top 25 grossing movies of, I'll get it right, the 25 top grossing movies of 1966.
We went from 25 to 15.
We ended with The Silencers, a Matt Helm picture.
And now we're up to number 14.
So I'm going to ask Gilbert if he remembers.
I know he knows the song from this one.
This is Lynn Redgrave.
Again, James Mason.
What's it all about?
Not yet.
Nope.
You jumped.
This is Lynn Redgrave, James Mason, Alan Bates.
Lynn Redgrave plays a virgin in Swinging London.
Yes.
1966.
Oh, is this Georgie Girl?
Georgie Girl.
Hey there, Georgie Girl. Hey there, Georgie Girl.
There's another Georgie deep inside.
That's it.
Da-da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-clothes you wear.
You're always window shopping and never stopping to buy.
So shed those dowdy feathers.
And fly away now.
Something like that.
Look up that band, Paul.
I think is that the New Seekers?
The Seekers.
The Seekers. Who also sang, what was the other big hit they had?
They had I'll Never Find Another You.
That's it.
That's the one.
Oh, my God, it has that same sound.
I know, I'll never find another you. Love that song. That's the one. Oh, my God. It has that same sound. I know I'll never find another you.
Da-da-da-da-da-da.
Love that song.
But there was a New Seekers, too.
There were a New Seekers.
There was a New Seekers, and I think there were the New Seekers, which may have had nothing to do with the old Seekers.
The old.
My wife heard that song.
She heard Georgie Girl recently.
She said, this is terrible.
It's cruel.
This poor girl.
You're calling her an ugly duckling, and you're playing Jane.
It was 1966. 66. We were talking about
sexism before. There's another example of it. 1966, on a measly budget of $400,000,
Georgie girl brought in $16 million for Columbia. That's a winner. The late great Lynn Redgrave.
And James Mason is all over the map here.
We finished talking about James Mason.
He's in this one.
Alan Beetz.
Great Alan Beetz.
Charlotte Rampling.
Yeah, Charlotte Rampling.
She's still around.
Oh, she was hot back then.
She's still hot, actually.
She's still.
She's swimming pool, which must have been the last 10 years.
It's spooky.
Yeah, spooky, but she looks terrific.
Yeah, she's around.
On the 13th highest grossing film of 1966,
again, made on a meager budget
of 800 grand
and brought in 18 mil
for Paramount,
Shelley Winters,
Denholm Elliott.
You know that actor
from Raiders of the Lost Ark?
He wound up being
in Trading Places.
Correct.
That's on The Jerk.
Oh, no, that's Maury Sevens in The Jerk.
Forgive me.
A Bacharach-David song.
Who I think was also an ape.
He was.
In Planet of the Apes.
And Jane Asher, Paul McCartney's girlfriend.
Oh, that's right.
That's right.
About a cat, about a womanizer who mends his ways.
A Bacharach-David song. This is... Sung by Dionne Warwick. Elfie. Elfie.ends his ways, a Bacharach David song.
This is –
Sung by Dionne Warwick.
Alfie.
Alfie.
Alfie, of course.
Yeah, yeah.
Michael Caine again.
Michael Caine.
You know, I saw that not long ago.
Talk about sexism.
How is it?
Oh, it is absolutely cruel.
Really?
Cruel with the Georgie Girl song?
Well, it's all the same.
Yeah, don't mention Alfie to your wife at all.
I love the song.
I love the Bacharach song.
He definitely, the Alfie character, you know, to him, life is just one kind of moment after another.
He doesn't put anything together, and he treats a woman.
Who's the woman?
Let's see.
I think it's Jane.
Is it not Jane Asher?
Oh, Jane Asher.
Somebody else.
But he just treats her with complete disregard.
But is this one of those where he gets his comeuppance at the end?
I think a little.
It's subtle.
A little bit.
It's not tied up quite that neatly.
They remade it with Jude Law a few years ago.
I wonder if they made it.
Yeah, I didn't.
I sort of.
Oh, my God.
Sometimes I don't like to see the remakes because you got the original.
It's so great, you know.
So I didn't see that.
And now we're going to put on the Dionne Warwick Alfie.
What's it all about, Alfie?
Is it just for the moment we live?
What's it all about when we take it out, Alfie?
The Gilbert Gottfried jukebox.
That's a classic.
I thought, I wonder if this movie episode is going to work.
And then I thought to myself, no, he'll really love the songs.
He hasn't disappointed.
That is one of the very short list of Bacharach David songs, great songs.
I think that's one of their very best.
Oh, listen, we should do a Bacharach episode.
And even better in Gilbert's version.
We'll come back and do a Bacharach episode.
One of my all-time favorites of Bacharach music scores is from a terrible movie.
I know where you're going.
Casino Royale.
Casino Royale.
I mean, that beginning part, that's what movies are all about to me.
Like the lights flickering on and off. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da- Yeah. And I remember at the end, at the end, like fucking idiots, they put in lyrics.
Isn't there a Dusty Springfield song too in Casino Royale?
Oh, I think there's, I know there's, The Look of Love is in.
Does that turn up in there?
Yeah.
Look of Love is when Ursula Andrews is in the shower.
That's right.
I remember Dusty Springfield for some reason.
But the end of Casino Royale, they have words, and that sucks.
It almost kills the song because it's like, you know, something like,
we're going to save the world at Casino Royale.
Yeah, I know what you're referring to.
Yes.
Never has a film with so much talent that everybody that was involved in it,
and John Huston and everybody that was involved in that.
Peter Sellers, David Niven. Woody Allen and John Huston and everybody that was involved
Peter Sellers
David Niven
Woody Allen
John Huston
William Holden
I know
Woody Allen
how that thing
went aground
Woody Allen
that's right
but it really did
well that looks like
wasn't that made
with like about
20 different directors
I think it's 4 or 5
yeah
but it's still
obviously
neither one knew
what the other one was doing.
Yeah, we talked about it with Mike McPadden.
I also love Dusty singing.
Is it the Windmills of Your Mind for the Thomas Cranaffaire?
Oh, Thomas Cranaffaire.
Yeah.
I love that movie.
That was written by Michelle Legrand.
And I think Marilyn and Alan Bergman wrote the lyrics.
Okay.
Now, who's the singer again?
Dusty Springfield.
Okay.
We have Dusty Springfield.
We have Dusty Springfield. We lost Dusty. the lyrics okay now who's the windmills of your mind.
You give new meaning to the word torch singer.
Do you know what I mean?
Burn down the windmill.
The villagers are coming.
The villagers. He's a pitchfork singer. Burn down the wheel. Yeah, the villagers are coming. The villagers.
It's a pitchfork.
He's a pitchfork singer.
A pitchfork singer.
Poor Dusty Springfield.
Here's one, and I'll be surprised if you know this one.
It's like a snowball down a mountain.
That's really fun.
And by the way, that original Thomas Crown Affair kicks ass.
Oh, it does. Yeah, it does. And that the way, that original Thomas Crown Affair kicks ass. Oh, it does.
Yeah, it does.
And that song is great.
It says she was peerless.
You know this picture.
Especially, I meant my version.
Oh, yes, your version.
Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan.
Another underrated actor.
Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Is this the professional?
You bet.
Yes.
Jack Palance.
Yeah, Jack Palance is like a Mexican villain.
That's the one.
That's the one.
And, oh, yes, that was a good one.
I like that picture.
1966, obviously.
And I always liked Burt Lancaster.
Yep, Claudia Cardinale.
Oh, my God.
Claudia Cardinale.
As Ed Norton would say, va-va-voom.
And Ralph Bellamy.
Oh, my God.
Wasn't Claudia Cardinale in the original Pink Panther, was it?
I think she was.
Yeah.
That sounds right.
In the sequel that was shot in the dark, it was Elka Summers.
Right.
That's right.
Isn't she in the Once Upon a Time in the West?
Oh, I think so.
The Leone picture? Yeah, with Charles Bronson
and Henry Fonda.
Henry Fonda, yeah.
How about this one, number 11,
Endless Summer, a surfing documentary.
Oh, the
surfing documentary. Yeah, made a fortune.
For a minute I was thinking of Summer of 42,
not the same thing. $20 million on a $50,000 budget fortune. For a minute I was thinking of Summer of 42, not the same thing.
$20 million on a $50,000 budget.
Endless summer.
I was thinking of that.
Now, here's, I got a mental block on this movie.
This was, there was that movie, something summer, crazy summer or something that had Jacqueline Bissett, Tony Franciosa, and Michael Sarazin.
Wow.
And Bob Denver.
He's looking it up.
Oh, it's one of those Bob Denver, Michael Sarazin movies.
Yes.
There were so many.
That's when they teamed them up.
I don't think I know this.
I love Michael Sarazin and The Flim Flam, man.
I remember what I remember best about it is Jacqueline Bissett,
her opening scene is her arms covering her chest like she lost her bikini top.
And Summer was in the title?
Yeah, Summer, I think, was in it.
Anything, Paul?
You might want to go in for Jacqueline Bissett.
Yeah, because I'm getting Denver Film Festival
switches. Bob Denver.
The Bob Denver Film Festival?
I always get them mixed up.
The one from Gilligan's Island.
Yeah, yeah. Wow.
Who was it in Elky Summer? No.
No, no. Jacqueline Bissett.
Jacqueline Bissett. Tony Franciosa.
I love Tony Franciosa.
I'm going to keep working on this one.
And Tony Franciosa was in love Tony Franciosa. All right. Go into the... I'm going to keep working on this. We're going to jump with the mix.
And Tony Franciosa was in that movie, Fathom.
Yes.
With Raquel Welch.
Yes, I know that movie.
Where he used to...
He was calling her Puppet.
Wow.
And I think like...
Your memory.
Hello, Puppet.
Again, it sounds like Gavin McCloud in the donut bit.
We'll go fast.
I'll add him to the bit. We'll go fast. I'll add him to the bit.
We'll go fast.
Blow Up, Italian film,
a very highly regarded film.
That got later remade.
As Blow Out by Brian De Palma.
Yes.
Our friend Jessica Walter
in the movie Grand Prix
with James Garner and Ava Marie Saint.
Grand Prix.
Came up at number nine.
Grand Prix.
And here's one I know
that's near and dear to your heart, Gilbert, and I'll just read you the cast.
The director was Norman Jewison.
I won't get very far.
Cast Brian Keith.
And they said he puts the Jew in Jewish.
We got to get Norman Jewison.
If we lost Arthur Hiller, we got to get Norman Jewison.
Okay, so Brian Keith from Family Affair.
Ava Marie Saint.
Alan Arkin.
Oh, my God.
And Carl Reiner.
Oh, the Russians are coming.
Very nice.
Yes.
Yes, yes, yes.
And there's the one that plays his son, like Golumbi or Golum or something.
He plays his son.
He plays Carl Reiner's son in the movie yeah there he was like something
like steve uh i don't have him on the cast list i have michael j pollard okay read the other people
uh there was ben blue the silent comedian oh my god yeah how about john philip law your favorite
i want to turn down skidoo yes no he oh he The one that turned down Skidoo. Yes. No, he took Skidoo. Oh, he turned down Midnight Cowboy.
Yeah, yeah.
To take Skidoo.
But you had a figure.
Sure.
On his side that you're going, oh, wait a second.
I'm going to be in a comedy with Jackie Gleason and Groucho Marx?
Right, of course.
How could this not be a classic?
Right.
Oh, boy.
Yeah.
Jonathan Winters, Brian Keith, Ava Marie Saint, Paul Ford.
Yeah.
Oh, Paul Ford.
Paul Ford.
I think if we can go back in time just a few minutes.
Counter-culture drama with Bob Denver, Tony Franciosa.
Mike, this is the one, right?
Yeah.
The Sweet Ride.
The Sweet Ride.
The Sweet Ride.
Yes, Sweet Ride.
Never heard of it.
That's impressive.
I've seen that a few times.
Tony Francio is an aging tennis hustler.
Yes.
Who directed?
Who directed?
Let me see here.
Please say Jack Smite because I like saying that.
Oh, and I forget that actor's name.
He was in The Pawnbroker.
Oh.
He has like a weird face.
He played one of the gang members.
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Well, I think I ran into him at some convention.
Yeah, not the guy who was in, not Mark Lawrence, not the guy in the asphalt jungle.
He's got like a pug nose.
Wow, I never heard of that movie.
That's impressive.
Anyway, the director of this, are we still on?
Yeah, the guy who plays Paul Reiner's son. I'm having a colossal of Are we still on? Yeah, we're still on the ride.
The guy who plays Paul Reiner's son.
I'm having a colossal...
He's now a dentist.
He's jumping.
The director of the sweet ride was Harvey Hart.
Harvey Hart.
Can I ring a bell at all?
No, no.
But listen to the cast of The Russians Are Coming.
Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner, Ava Marie Saint,
who I'd love to get on the show.
Brian Keith, the late Jonathan Winters, Paul Ford.
Your favorite, Theodore Bacall. Oh my
God! He was the Russian captain.
Tessie O'Shea. Wow!
Why is that name significant?
Because she was on the Ed Sullivan
show, The Night, The Beatles.
Oh my God!
1964. John Philip
Law, Ben Blue,
who I believe turns up as the airplane pilot
and it's a mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
when Sid Caesar rents the plane.
Cliff Norton.
Remember that actor?
When I show him to you, you'll know him.
Richard Shaw.
Oh, yeah.
He wound up.
He would pop up in the odd couple episodes.
Yes.
You might be thinking of Richard.
No, that's the right.
Richard Shaw.
Either Richard Shaw or Richard Stahl.
Oh, maybe.
There were two guys.
One of them was married to Valerie Harper.
Yeah.
And that's it.
Boy, that is a terrific comedy.
If you haven't seen it.
Have you seen The Russians Are Coming?
I love that.
The Russians Are Coming?
I'd like to see that again.
I love that movie.
Let's wrap it up quickly with the last seven.
Robinson Crusoe, USN, starring our pal Dick Van Dyke.
Oh, geez.
And Nancy Kwan.
Oh.
And Akeem Tamaroff.
Oh, my God.
Or Akeem Tamaroff, if you want.
Number six, a big film, a big, big film that made $25 million on a $1 million budget.
I guess the all-time spaghetti Western.
Eastwood, Morricone, Sergio Leone, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach.
The good, the bad, and the ugly.
Da-da-da-da-da.
That was the...
I'm sure it didn't have trend, right?
Oh, yeah.
I think so.
Da-da-da-da-da.
Da-da-da-da-da.
What was that?
It's no windmills of your mind.
The last five, A Man for All Seasons, which I think was the best picture of 1966.
Paul Schofield.
Paul Schofield, what a great actor.
That's a wild movie.
The Sand Pebbles, directed by Robert Wise.
Wait, wait, wait.
The Sand Pebbles had a theme song. Shadow of Your Smile, was that Wait, wait, wait. The Sandpapes had a theme song.
Shadow of Your Smile, was that it?
Oh, no.
No, what was it?
I don't have it in front of me.
Shadow of Your Smile.
Good picture.
Robert Wise, an underrated director.
Oh, yes.
Made a lot of good films.
And he also did The Day the Earth...
He sure did.
He sure did.
And a couple of little films called West Side Story and The Sound of Music.
There was something funny that we had on the show before.
Like the movie he did right before West Side Story was some really low budget something.
Do you remember that?
Robert Wise?
Yeah, I think so.
I know.
He made some good pictures.
The setup.
It's a good movie.
Whenever I worked, I think it's at Paramount.
I know they have like a bungalow that's the Rapid Wise.
That's cool.
Yeah.
I had the pleasure of meeting him in film school.
Oh, wow.
Richard Attenborough, Steve McQueen, Richard Crenna, an actor we like to talk about.
Simon Oakland, another actor we like to talk about.
Oh, my God.
And Mako, M-A-K-O.
Oh, she was in that.
I think he's a he, Mako.
He's a Japanese actor.
Or Mako.
I don't want to say Mako because he sounds like a muffler.
Okay.
I know what Robert Wise directed.
I think The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
No.
No?
Who was that?
No, somebody else.
But I think The Creature from the Black Lagoon may have had music from Henry
Mancini. That's good
stuff. He used to write a lot of
cheap science fiction music
early on. Oh, that's right. We established
that. Let's wrap this up.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Oh, my God. The third highest
grossing film of
1966. Man, that was a good year. Yeah.
Again, George Segal.
Mike Nichols. Love that picture.
That's a desperately sick
lie.
Oh, yes.
Your Burton is good. Yeah.
Another George Roy
Hill picture. Julie Andrews, Richard
Harris, Gene Hackman,
Carol O'Connor. Oh, but wait.
And also he goes,
and one boy with a gangster father who,
he went to a speakeasy and we would all have a drink and he ordered Bergen, Bergen and water.
And then we would hear this and we'd laugh.
And then everyone in the store,
everyone in the speakeasy would start ordering Bergen.
Bergen and water.
I love it.
It's a little Sydney Green Street.
Yeah.
I love talking to a man who likes to talk.
Name this film, Gilbert.
It was the second highest grossing film of the year.
Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris, Gene Hackman, Carol O'Connor.
Directed by George Roy Hill.
Called Hawaii.
Oh, I remember when that came out.
Never saw it.
United Artists.
Yeah.
I've never seen it either, but what a cast.
I really should see everything Hackman's in.
Again, scored by the great Elmer Bernstein.
And last but not least, what do you think was the number one highest grossing film 50
years ago in the year 1966, our favorite year in pop culture history.
I'll give you a hint.
I'm going to read you the cast.
Michael Parks played Adam.
Ola Burgrid played Eve.
Richard Harris played Cain.
John Huston played Noah.
Was this the Bible?
The Bible.
Wow.
In the beginning.
I read the book.
Really?
Don't tell me how it ends.
Let me just correct the...
Go ahead. If anybody cares,
The Creature from the Black Lagoon is directed by
Jack Arnold. There you go. I said it. You said it already?
Yeah. You said somebody else.
And then I said Jack Arnold. Okay.
This was
some cast. Ava Gardner played
Sarah, George C. Scott, Stephen Boyd,
and then everybody else is Italian.
Gianluigi Crescenzi, Maria Grazia Spina.
It was an Italian Hollywood co-production because Dino De Laurentiis.
Oh, my God.
Was the producer.
Has anybody seen the Bible?
No.
I heard Dino De Laurentiis, when he was making the new King Kong,
that horrible, horrible King Kong.
Sure, that's a bad one.
Although I love Grodin in it.
Oh, he sounds like he's doing a Jack Benny.
He's chewing scenery and having fun and probably doing Jack Benny, yeah.
And I heard that De Laurentiis said, nobody cries when Joss dies.
That's right.
Everybody going to cry when Kang dies.
I think there's an SNL sketch with Belushi as Dino De Laurentiis saying that very dialogue.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
And, of course, we had Joe Dante on the show, and he was talking about Orca.
Oh, yes.
Orca the killer whale.
Orca's on land.
With Bo Derek.
Right.
But Dino was pitching Dante, as if I have the story correct,
some version of Orca where he gets on land.
He's like, Orca going crazy, kill everybody.
He's going to kill everybody.
Dino De Laurentiis.
Never thinking about like, well, how does he actually get around that line?
This is the last great piece of trivia here on the Bible.
Houston, who directed the picture, John Houston of all people,
originally considered Alec Guinness, who was unavailable for the role of Noah, and Charlie Chaplin, who declined.
Oh.
Now, doesn't seeing Charlie Chaplin as Noah take you right out of the movie?
Oh, my God.
Does he do it in the derby?
It's one of those you wish they had made.
Yeah.
Is he just like the, why not just do the story of mankind again
and cast Harpo
as Isaac Newton?
Imagine that.
You're watching
this biblical epic
and Chaplin shows up.
And his part
would be silent.
As Noah.
It's a very original
conception of the film.
I'll tell you,
that King Kong movie
is so bad.
Oh, horrible.
Rick Baker in the suit,
I think, is fun.
I know.
Yeah, we should talk to Rick Baker.
But also, Rene Abujunwa is in that movie.
Oh, my God, yes.
Who I love.
You just like to say it.
I do, and I want to get him on the show.
That is a truly bad film.
Oh, yeah?
But it's a testament to the quality of the acting, the talent of Jessica Lange and Jeff
Bridges, that they emerge basically
unscathed. Because that thing
is a ship on fire.
It's beyond shit.
Yeah. That was early
in Jessica Lange's career. Was that her first
movie? I think it's her first part. Well, she's,
yeah, I got to know the year.
She's in all that jazz.
What's also creepy now
is in the posters and the final scene has to do with the world trade
scene.
Right, right, right.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
It's bad.
Whatever was charming and delightful and innovative about King Kong in 33 is completely lost.
It is so, so bad.
Although, and we'll have to get Mr.
And Ed Lauder's in it. Remember that actor? Oh, my God, yes. and we'll have to get Mr. Skin. And Ed Lauder's in it.
Remember that actor?
Oh, my God, yes.
Ed Lauder.
Another good crowd.
He was in Death Wish 3.
Yep.
Another great character actor who died recently.
And I think we'll have to get Mr. Skin in or just look her up.
I think there are some scenes you accidentally see Jessica Lange's breasts when she's showering herself.
Well, now there's a reason to go back and watch Game Con.
Maybe it's not as bad as we thought.
I do like Rodan, who's just acting as if he's in an SNL skit.
And maybe he was.
I think he probably knew this is a piece of shit.
I don't care.
He twirls his mustache.
Oh, yes.
For two and a half hours.
He's like, you know, chewing the scenery.
Well, that's 1966.
That's the top 25.
That was a hell of a year.
Grossing films of 1966.
And you want to take us out to dinner?
Oh, okay.
Did you want to sing the theme song from the Bible before we?
Just let Charlie Chaplin as Noah be your last waking thought as you fall asleep tonight.
And Harry Ritz as Methuselah.
Ritz.
Oh, God.
And Fatty Arbuckle as the Virgin Mary. Exactly.
Max Swain.
Okay.
This has been Gilbert and Frank's Amazing Colossal Obsessions.
I'm drained.
See you next time.
Thanks, Paul.
Thanks, Frank. Here we go boys 1, 2, 3, 4
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