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Movie Movie

  • 1978
  • PG
  • 1h 45m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
1.4K
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Movie Movie (1978)
ParodySketch ComedyComedyMusicalSport

Three movie genres of the 1930s--boxing films, World War I aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals--are satirized using the same cast.Three movie genres of the 1930s--boxing films, World War I aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals--are satirized using the same cast.Three movie genres of the 1930s--boxing films, World War I aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals--are satirized using the same cast.

  • Director
    • Stanley Donen
  • Writers
    • Larry Gelbart
    • Sheldon Keller
  • Stars
    • George C. Scott
    • Trish Van Devere
    • Red Buttons
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    1.4K
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    • Director
      • Stanley Donen
    • Writers
      • Larry Gelbart
      • Sheldon Keller
    • Stars
      • George C. Scott
      • Trish Van Devere
      • Red Buttons
    • 19User reviews
    • 18Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 10 nominations total

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    George C. Scott
    George C. Scott
    • Gloves Malloy (segment "Dynamite Hands")…
    Trish Van Devere
    Trish Van Devere
    • Betsy McGuire (segment "Dynamite Hands")…
    Red Buttons
    Red Buttons
    • Peanuts (segment "Dynamite Hands")…
    Eli Wallach
    Eli Wallach
    • Vince Marlowe (segment "Dynamite Hands")…
    Harry Hamlin
    Harry Hamlin
    • Joey Popchik (segment "Dynamite Hands")
    Ann Reinking
    Ann Reinking
    • Troubles Moran (segment "Dynamite Hands")
    Jocelyn Brando
    Jocelyn Brando
    • Mama Popchik (segment "Dynamite Hands")…
    Michael Kidd
    Michael Kidd
    • 'Pop' Popchik (segment "Dynamite Hands")
    Kathleen Beller
    Kathleen Beller
    • Angie Popchik (segment "Dynamite Hands")
    Barry Bostwick
    Barry Bostwick
    • Johnny Danko (segment "Dynamite Hands")…
    Art Carney
    Art Carney
    • Dr. Blaine (segment "Dynamite Hands")…
    Clay Hodges
    • Sailor Lawson (segment "Dynamite Hands")
    George P. Wilbur
    George P. Wilbur
    • Tony Norton (segment "Dynamite Hands")
    Peter Stader
    • Barney Keegle (segment "Dynamite Hands")
    • (as Peter T. Stader)
    Jimmy Lennon Sr.
    Jimmy Lennon Sr.
    • The Announcer (segment "Dynamite Hands")
    • (as James Lennon)
    Charles Lane
    Charles Lane
    • Judge (segment "Dynamite Hands")…
    Dick Winslow
    Dick Winslow
    • Reporter (segment "Dynamite Hands")…
    Brendan Dillon
    Brendan Dillon
    • Jury Foreman (segment "Dynamite Hands")
    • Director
      • Stanley Donen
    • Writers
      • Larry Gelbart
      • Sheldon Keller
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    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

    User reviews19

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    Coxer99

    Movie Movie

    Affectionate parody of 1930's movies with Scott hamming it up perfectly in double roles. There's a boxing drama, then a corny musical, but it adds up to fun in this pleasant trip down Hollywood's memory lane.
    kinolieber

    It'll put a smile on your face

    For anyone who has grown up loving Hollywood musicals, the second half of this film is an absolute joy. Stanley Donen, who has arguably directed the greatest of these, had a chance to create an homage to them which includes every silly musical plot and song and dance device he could think of. Barry Bostwick's first number will knock your socks off and the finale (including dancers on bikes!) will put a grin on your face from start to finish. Watch for Stanley Donen's cameo as a cab driver.
    8Scott_Mercer

    Wonderful Wonderful

    Just wrote a review of the far, far, far, far, inferior "National Lampoon's Movie Madness," which also parodies films, though contemporary ones. I brought up "Movie Movie" as an example of the same concept which is as excellent as the National Lampoon movie is awful.

    This is a delightful trip back to the movies of the 1930's. Somehow I saw this movie when it first came out. I guess I sought it out as (having been an eager consumer of Mad Magazine as a little squirt) I am a fan of parodies and mockumentaries of this sort. I remember watching it in a tiny closet-sized movie theater in a shopping mall in New Jersey. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the only movie theater in the state of New Jersey that played it. I was only 12 years old at the time, and obviously not around during the 1930's, but I had been exposed to enough old movies on television during my young life that I enjoyed the whole thing fully.

    I remember noticing that both movies start off with the same stock footage of a busy Manhattan street, the first one in black and white of course, and the second one in color, both backed by a similar jaunty tune meant to evoke the bustle of Manhattan in the 1930's. Sure to provoke a big laugh even before we meet the characters or hear the first line of dialog.

    Who know George C. Scott had such a facility for comedy? It's worth finding out. If you are in any way, shape or form a fan of crusty old movies, you should seek this out. A lovable way to spend 100 minutes.
    8marcslope

    Expert

    Stanley Donen in 1978 was old enough to remember how Warner Brothers double features of the 1930s played, and he brings them pretty gloriously back to life in this affectionate double-bill-within-a-single-movie, helped by a knowing, funny script by Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller. The first, a Kid Galahad-type boxing melo reveling in bad Clifford Odets-style metaphors, looks wonderful in black and white and is superbly cast, with, among others, George C. Scott in what might have been the Walter Huston role, Red Buttons doing Frank McHugh, Harry Hamlin as Wayne Morris, and a very funny Trish van Devere lampooning Eva Marie Saint in On the Waterfront. The 42nd Street parody rounding it out has some curiosities--it's in color, which it wouldn't have been in in 1933, the songs aren't all diegetic as they would have been, the camera work's a little more sophisticated than it should be--but gets most of it right, including Barry Bostwick and Rebecca York doing Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler and Barbara Harris doing a Joan Blondell. The in-between preview, Zero Hour--War at Its Best!--is a riot, with Scott, Buttons, and Eli Wallach parading around as some hilariously overage young World War I fliers. This didn't make much noise in 1978, and it's hard to know why--it's marvelously entertaining, the cast is aces, and plenty of people around then remembered the originals it so expertly spoofs.
    7ijonesiii

    A Special Treat for Film Buffs

    MOVIE, MOVIE is a forgotten gem from the late 70's which is an affectionate spoof of a 1930's double feature (there's even a preview of coming attractions)that is divided into two separate films that run about 50 minutes a piece. The first film, "Dynamite Hands" is a black and white "Golden Boy"-type spoof with Harry Hamlin as a young boxer rising to the top with George C. Scott as his manager, Red Buttons as his trainer, Kathleen Beller as his hometown girlfriend and Ann Reinking as a nightclub singer named Troubles Moran. The second film is called "Baxter's Beauties of 1933" and is a colorful spoof of films like 42nd STREET with George C. Scott featured again as the egomaniacal director, Barry Bostwick as the idealistic young songwriter, Rebecca York (who years later would practically steal the Broadway show VICTOR/VICTORIA from Julie Andrews) as the young Ruby Keeler type and Trish VanDevere as the bitchy diva who York eventually replaces. True movie buffs and fans of these kinds of movies will be in cinema heaven here...a loving tribute to a bygone era that works thanks to spirited direction by Stanley Donen and an energetic cast.

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    • Trivia
      In the original theatrical release, "Dynamite Hands" which was filmed in color, was printed in black and white. The home video version uses the original color footage. Contrary to rumors, the video version was not colorized.
    • Goofs
      Assuming Baxter's Beauties of 1933 had actually been shot in 1933, it would have used two-strip Technicolor, also known as Red Technicolor because it is particularly good at photographing the red spectrum. This is shot in the three-strip process, or Blue Technicolor, which would not be introduced until 1935. Additionally, most musicals would not be shot completely in color until the 1940s.
    • Quotes

      Joey Popchik: When a man says what's right, what's good, what's real, and what's true, then his mouth is ten feet tall.

    • Crazy credits
      The cast list in the closing credits is divided into two sections with headings Dynamite Hands and Baxter's Beauties of 1933.
    • Alternate versions
      In the theatrical and pay-tv release, the first half of "Movie, Movie" is in black and white, while both halves are often shown in color in commercial TV.
    • Connections
      Featured in Sneak Previews: Ice Castles/Same Time, Next Year/Caravans/American Graffiti/Movie Movie/Beyond and Back/The Late Great Planet Earth (1979)
    • Soundtracks
      Overture to Baxter's Beauties of 1933
      Music by Ralph Burns and Buster Davis

      Performed by Ralph Burns and the Orchestra

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    • Release date
      • January 4, 1979 (Argentina)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Double Feature
    • Filming locations
      • 56th Street and Park Avenue. Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production company
      • ITC Films
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    • Budget
      • $6,000,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 45m(105 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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