Such a classic. I don't think this movie could be remade. Too many Hollywood egos and salary demands which might be a good thing, this original is such a tour de force.
shareYou get no argument from me. I watch it once a year.
"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley
Yeah, me, too. It's in my Top Ten of ALL Time. Steve V.
shareA remake is in the works...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0936482/?ref_=nv_sr_2
"All necessary truth is its own evidence." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh yeah. Love it. Who doesn't love to see a gas station destroyed? And who doesn't love a car thief? (That Section 10851 of the California Vehicle Code is such a kiljoy, isn't it? Wasn't 9/11 fun? (Sarcasm.)
Damn trash movie!!! π
How many gas stations you know are run by Top Cat and Choo Choo? This wasn't terrorism, this was a comedy with comedians everyone from the 1960s knew. It was Sgt Bilko stealing a car from Barney Fife! Rochester and Columbo driving cabs! Just harmless fun.
share...Something you laugh at if you're told you're supposed to.π
shareIt's still great. I feel sorry for people that can't enjoy this classic.
shareI guess I can't because I know the difference between right and wrong.
shareRight, compared to the morally superior shows of today. (sarcasm)
They also knew right from wrong, but it is akin to gold fever, they were after a very large sum of money, even in these days, and don't tell me that today's society wouldn't do a lot more to get their hands on it.
Oh yeah. The end justifies the means.
shareI don't know why you are so quick to pick on this old movie, especially when these days kids play games like grand theft auto. Sure what they did was wrong, that's why they ended up in jail at the conclusion, but they were not terrorist in the sense you are suggesting, such as 911. Besides, you seem to be leaving out an important detail, if the garage owners had just left him alone and not knocked him out and tied him up on the word of some stranger, none of that would have happened, talk about breaking the law, they had no proof of any wrong doing so no legal reason to detain him.
Having said that, I don't care for that scene because it looks cheap and very unrealistic.
Who ended up in jail? The closing scene I saw was Spencer Tracy and others in the fracture ward in a hospital. No jail scene.
No proof of wrongdoing? Didn't Jonathan Winters detonate explosives in a gas station? Didn't Phil Silvers steal a car? (while we're on the subject of grand theft auto)
As for what they do today--if someone told me I should see a movie made these days, I could make a colorful suggestion about what they could do with their movie. I would rather be deaf and blind than go to the movies these days.π
They were in the hospital ward in jail, didn't you notice the officers? They don't usually throw someone in a cell if they have injuries. I don't remember Winters and the explosives, not saying it didn't happen but I just don't remember it. Yes Silvers stole the car. or rather he conned the driver into letting him use it but it is still stealing, but again he also ended up in jail, they all did.
The no proof of wrongdoing is just that, the gas station owners simply took the word of Silvers, they had no right to start a fight with him and detain him, they should have just left him alone and there wouldn't have been any trouble, after they hit him for the second time he even warned them he was going to get mad, wouldn't you? Even if you wouldn't go to the extreme he did, I doubt you would just stand there and let someone hit you then tie you up. I'm not excusing what he did, but it was not unprovoked.
This is clearly a movie not meant to be taken seriously, and I doubt it has spawned any crime waves.
Jail Ward? Sorry, I didn't see the great big sign that said "Jail Ward." I guess I was supposed to have a prejudice in favor of the movie's plot that would obviate the need for such designation.π
shareWell they don't usually post armed police officers in a regular hospital, and I suppose you missed Spencer Tracy's character talking about the judge who would be trying their cases. Point of fact; they all committed crimes, they all ended up in jail, why is that so hard to grasp?
shareArmed officers? Somehow I missed that part. Other than the patients in casts and bandages I only saw a nurse--who had a slip and fall. I extrapolated on the patients' lives after the events of the movie, and your statements merely add one more factor: Prison time. After that, of course, they'll live on Skid Row, drinking rubbing alcohol and throwing up in the gutter. Hilarious. π
shareYep, you missed that part, they were there. I don't know about prison, no doubt they would have a hefty fine and have to make good the damage they did, and probably probation. Even these days first time offenders rarely go to prison, unless it's murder.
Anyway, if you don't like the movie, then that is clearly your right. It is also the right of others to like it if they wish, those who know better than to take such things seriously.
Just one more thing...
The "nurse" who had the slip and fall was actually the shrewish mother-in-law.