1963 Directed by Arthur Hiller
Henry J. Tyroone leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but ...
James Garner Lee Remick Phil Harris Chill Wills Jim Backus Louis Nye John Astin Elliott Reid Pat Harrington, Jr. Joey Forman Pat Crowley Charles Watts Howard McNear Marcel Hillaire Donald Briggs Vaughn Taylor Robert Strauss John Marley Peter Leeds Leon Alton Allyson Ames Eleanor Audley Al Bain Bobby Barber John Barton Shirley Bonne Paul Bradley George Bruggeman Walter Burke Show All…
This has a great supporting cast, lots of great character actors doing small little funny performances through the whole thing. Much flimsier than Pillow Talk although I can't imagine a fan of that movie not enjoying this at least a little bit. James Garner and Lee Remick are no Hudson and Day but it's a delightful little picture nonetheless. Sixties comedies have really nice energy! Although I am glad that Arthur Hiller tightened up his directing by the time he got to The In-Laws.
Oh, isn't it amazing how I sparkle so early in the morning?
I LOVE LEE REMICK ABOVE ALL. She is that woman. She's got that presence.
This movie weirdly holds up--and not just since my last viewing in 2010 when I was 16 that I specifically remember writing a blog post about 😭--it holds up today. It's a truly dizzy look at American capitalism and stock market bros shenanigans in particular.
From start to finish--inspired!
Lee Remick and James Garner should have been a screen pair for real, but at least we got Lee Remick and Jack Lemmon for life.
(What doesn't hold up: a casually and cheerfully spoken slur to describe a type of Spanish one character speaks. 😠)
Dripping with ridiculous 1960s charm, this comedy is a relatively unknown gem. James Garner was always his best as a bit of a con man, and teams up brilliantly with Lee Remick. There's a nice supporting cast as well, with standouts like Pat Crowley, Jim Backus, and Star Trek's James Doohan in an uncredited role.
I am unashamed in my love of this film. If you give it a spin, don't let the horrendous title tune scare you away.
This is an ok 60s sex farce/rom com. Garner is terrific and so is the supporting cast, but Lee Remick is only fair at comedy in my opinion. It has that breezy, easy 60s first-world-white-people-problems kind of vibe. A neurotic boyfriend who spends too much time with his analyst, "Texan" as shorthand for redneck millionaire, see-through shortie nighties, cracks about abstract art, plucky dame trying to break into the boys club. If you love Pillow Talk you might like this, just adjust your expectations a bit.
the queers at the art show is p funny
this was actually not bad. obv compared to the other jim garner sex coms with doris, this falls a bit short in the sex and comedy, but it actually sorta redeemed itself by the end. starts to go on a bit too long, it’s up n down, not super funny throughout but with some funny moments occasionally. honestly the adams family guy stole the show at the end and saved it a bit. john astin’s hilarious.
68/100
'Beach Blanket Bingo' and 'Wall Street' coupled and made beautiful babies. The reality portrayed in pop movies of the 1960's provides a landscape in which to get lost and forget how much everything truly sucks. People are gorgeous. Sparkling water flows from the taps. Stupid amounts of money can be made by waking up in the morning and brewing coffee. There's real comfort in mid-century glossy, screwball relationship comedies. It helps to have James Garner, but it's not altogether necessary.
'The Wheeler Dealers' features some arbitrary coupling and uncoupling, pre-ordained rich-get-rich schemes -- but it also features a slightly more open-minded idea about the potential of the fairer sex... until of course Lee Remick falls in love with the rich…
This has a scene where James Garner brushes his chest hair and puts cologne on his shoulders. That gets five stars.
I expected a Rock & Doris screwball farce, but that doesn't really arrive until late. Most of this feels like an improvement on that formula - a light romance in an adult setting, with almost no baseline deception or misunderstanding, and a nearly equal partnership throughout. I kept waiting for them to undermine the "women in business" theme but Remick pretty much stands her ground. Even the shady business dealings they come up with feel mostly harmless, if you keep in mind that I am a film critic, not an economist, and also I am not even a film critic.
Lee Remick plays Molly Thatcher, a young woman trying to make her way on Wall Street despite having been employed by her boss Jim Backus as little more than a publicity stunt. So when times get hard for the firm he dumps some stock on her and charges her with getting off the books on the basis that when she fails he can legitimately fire her.
The other party is a certain Texan by the name of Henry Tyroon (James Garner) whose latest attempt at wild-catting has come up dry, much the same as his bank balance. But he is a wheeler dealer, always looking for a new scheme.
So when Henry arrives in town looking for investors and he…
The wheeling dealing parts of the plot were mostly lost on me, but James Garner is very charming, and Lee Remick is lovely, and I had more than enough fun watching this!
I'm not sure who else could pull off this character as well as James Garner. He's so charming I buy his whole deal and see why everyone else would too. He can even make the dated bits almost work. Like when his car dispenses whisky and it's so fun you almost forget how insane that is. In any other film I'd have a hard time rooting for tycoons and stock brokers but when they are this adorable together and collectively showing how silly those worlds are I really don't mind it. They even get some very fun jokes in at the expense of the art world. Though I do unironically love Stanislas' tricycle painting and the Texans longhorn steam saunas.
James Garner and Lee Remick are charming leads in this goofy comedy about a deal obsessed man and a woman trying to make her way on male dominated Wall Street. It's a touch too long and could have done with some trimming around the middle. Still, it was enjoyable.
