Thursday, April 28, 2011

Dick Van Dyke & Barbara Feldon in Fitzwilly (1968)

Obscurity factor: 8

Heiress Miss Victoria Woodworth (Dame Edith Evans) lives a comfortable life in the family home and wants for nothing. This is entirely due to the larcenous efforts of her staff, headed by her butler, Fitzwilly (Dick Van Dyke), because her father left her only $200. She is kept blissfully unaware of this fact, however. This house of cards is poised to come tumbling down when Miss Vicky hires Juliet Nowell (Feldon) as her personal assistant. She inadvertently foils several plots and puts the household in debt. To make up the balance Fitzwilly devises a plot to rob Gimbles department store of it's entire Christmas Eve revenue. Will they pull it off, and will the burgeoning romance between Fitzwilly and Juliet survive?
This is one of those frenetic 60's comedies with great cast of character actors including Ms. Evans, Norman Fell and Cecil Kellaway. It's not available on DVD, and there is absolutely no video of it available online that I can find. It appears to have been scrubbed, which may mean a DVD release is imminent...

Obscurity factor: 8 (not on DVD, not available on the web)
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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 28, 2011 at 8:53 PM

    I saw this two or three years ago on TCM, and loved it. The style is very much one that belongs to the mid-late-1960s. It must have been so much fun to see these sort of movies in the theater back then.

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  2. BenApril 28, 2011 at 9:02 PM

    Yes, it is a very distinctive style. They don't make films like this anymore...

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  3. Lou VockellApril 29, 2011 at 1:09 AM

    I saw this movie in a huge old theater, with my grandma, at Christmas! Thanks for the memories buddy!

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  4. BenApril 29, 2011 at 8:59 AM

    Nice memory!

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  5. PuNk rAwK pUrLApril 30, 2011 at 12:59 PM

    It's available on instant Netflix. no disc availability though.

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  6. BenMay 1, 2011 at 10:47 PM

    Very cool! Thanks for the heads upon that...

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  7. AnonymousSeptember 11, 2011 at 9:26 PM

    watching it now.. i'm bored. lol.

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  8. BenSeptember 11, 2011 at 9:35 PM

    Ahh, but are you bored watching it, or watching it because you're bored?

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