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VINTAGE TUBE: Rose & Morey movie
June 10, 2008  | By Diane Werts
 

DON'T WORRY, WE'LL THINK OF A TITLE - Wednesday at 6:15 a.m. ET, Turner Classic Movies

rose morey.jpgSet this DVR for this genuine curio, a 1966 feature film with Dick Van Dyke Showwriters' room sidekicks Rose Marie and Morey Amsterdam, plus show-within-a-show producer/foil Richard Deacon. I haven't seen it myself -- in fact, didn't even know it existed -- but I just know it must be deliriously horrible. It's about a defecting cosmonaut, and Morey Amsterdam wrote it.


Other tube titans featured: DVD Show creator Carl Reiner, bowl-cut stooge Moe Howard, F-Troop schemer Forrest Tucker, Irene "Granny" Ryan, and such TV pioneers as Milton Berle and Danny Thomas.

(Thanks to newsfromme.com for the photo.)

 

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Gregg B said:

Here's what tvguide says:

Abominable comedy has Amsterdam and Marie (also cast is Deacon, another refugee from "The Dick Van Dyke Show") as a short-order cook and a waitress, respectively, in a greasy-spoon diner. One day their incompetence gets them fired, so they go to help a friend (Jones) run a bookstore she's inherited. Russian spies mistake Amsterdam for a defecting cosmonaut, and soon spies, counterspies, federal agents, and local policemen are chasing our inept heroes and each other up and down the rows of books. Making matters worse are a couple of bank robbers using the store as a base to tunnel into the vault next door. One of the gags is that the head spy, "Mr. Big," is a midget. It's all downhill from there

 
 
 
 
 
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