I was living in NYC and went to see this with a male date in '82 I think it was and the recession was still kicking our butts so the whole tenor of the film was not really something the few who could pay for a movie were all that thrilled to see in general. I saw Martin in Soho and he had such an aura, I smiled and he smiled back. With this movie he declared he wanted to be an actor.

@Zeppolino100

7 жыл бұрын

Great story! Thank you for that!

This is one of my all time favorite movies. The conception was brilliant and in the end, where Arthur Parker is about to be hung for murder, he walks out of the gallows bringing a happy ending to his story, because in Hollywood no one ever dies. And how right he is! You can buy DVD of TOP HAT and see Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live on screen... Even though they have been dead lo these many years... That is what made the movie brilliant!

It is my favourite movie, for this stimulating and rare mix of depression and vitalism. Glad you liked it. You can see more clips from the film and a gorgeus interview with its author, Dennis Potter, at the link included in the video description

This scene reminds me of the day I met my future wife back in 1979--which is especially interesting because my Dad used to say that she looked just like Bernadette Peters (these was in truth just a bit of a resemblance). As it happened, she left me 17 years later, and now 19 years after that I am still wandering the world waiting to find a new dream walking. Perhaps I should be hanging out in pawn shops, as Bernadette is soooooooooooooo scrumptious here!

@liamwhitcombe1237

7 жыл бұрын

Zeppolino100 Then you have an absolutely beautiful wife if I may be so bold

@Zeppolino100

7 жыл бұрын

Oh yes, she certainly was (and is, though I have only seen pictures in the past 10 years). Nice while it lasted.

It's too bad that it flopped as bad as it did; people wanted "the wild and crazy guy" and this movie was anything but. A few years ago, I met Mr. Martin at a PBS fundraiser and brought a copy of the original script I bought off ebay. When I took it out of the envelope, he definitely had a reaction (although he didn't say anything about it). I've heard it was his favorite of all his films.

@StevenTorrey

7 жыл бұрын

When and if you watched "The Jerk" you would never have guessed Martin could be involved in something like this. This was his 2nd movie. Turns out Martin is something of a friggen genius.

@michaelj.r457

2 жыл бұрын

@@StevenTorrey And brave as well. I heard him say in an interview that he knew at the time that making Pennies after The Jerk was not an appropriate career move, but he loved the story, and he wanted to avoid making The Jerk II or some version of that which would shoehorn him. His theory was that people wouldn't understand the choice then, but in 10 years, they would no longer think of Pennies as the movie he made after The Jerk, but as just a movie that he made, and on its own, it would be seen as a great film.

Dang I had no idea that Bernadette could tap dance shes amazing at it

I think This was the year I fell in lust with Ms. Peters... *sigh*

I saw this when it came out and liked it. They should have delayed the release because there was a horrible recession in the US then and this was too depressing and weird for people. I saw Steve Martin in Soho in NY and he had a bright aura, and no, it wasn't the restaurant lighting per se. Thank you for posting this. I will try to get my young French husband to get us this from the library here in France on DVD. Uprated. Shared.

0:56 LIKE A BOSS

This encounter is going to lead to bad and tragic things for all three of these people as the story progresses.

Am I the only one who sees Arthur Parker as the white-bread 1930s version of Tony Manero. Both are characters with dead end lives, and who long to escape with the music (the disco music Tony dances to, the old-style music Arthur sells) also, they are truly flawed characters (they are not the two people I would talk to about how to treat women.)

So Steve Martin DID actually have color in his hair one point.

Herbert Marshall?! He was an actor in the 1930's and 40's. I think you mean Herbert Ross, the director? The original BBC series as well as the movie was written by Dennis Potter.

Whose rendition is this? Bing Crosby?

@hebneh

5 ай бұрын

Yes.

...and before that, the color was in a bottle on a store shelf somewhere.