Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Brightlyme i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

tarnower-1 I was 11 years old in 1967 and my family came from Texas to New York for my cousin's wedding. It was my first trip to New York. Another uncle was an editor for a prominent magazine and he got a group of the kids into the critic's screening of this movie (probably to get rid of us for the afternoon). The movie wasn't even in theaters yet.I loved it. It synced up perfectly with what I was experiencing NYC to be. We were staying in my uncle's big fancy apartment on 7th Ave at 55th St and everyday was another collection of remarkable memories. But honestly, this movie stood out in my mind for years. Partly because of the exclusive screening and largely because of how great the acting and story was presented. Not surprising, because most of the cast had performed the play together many dozens of times on Broadway, so they couldn't have been more polished.I bought the DVD a couple of years ago and IMHO it holds up as well as when I first saw it 50 years ago.

bkoganbing Next to Guys and Dolls, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying is Frank Loesser's best known and best loved musical. It did have the longest run of any of his shows, 1417 performances from 1961 to 1965.Though Hollywood was smart enough to retain Robert Morse and Rudy Vallee in their roles from Broadway, the only flaw with this film is that I do so wish Charles Nelson Reilly had repeated his role as Bud Frump, the rival to Robert Morse's J. Pierrepont Finch the upwardly mobile executive. It was the breakthrough part for Reilly in his career and it would have been nice had it been retained.Frank Loesser did it all in this show, book, music, and lyrics in a wonderful satire on the mores of the business world. How To Succeed is one of the few Broadway musicals that succeeds more on its book than anything else. The songs from this production are more functional than anything else, hits though some of them are. Unlike Guys and Dolls, Where's Charley, The Most Happy Fella there are no really stand alone ballads that could be enjoyed outside the context of the film or the stage show.Robert Morse never got a role like this one, the man who starts out as a window washer and moves up the corporate ladder through careful planning and a lot of nerve. He follows carefully the advice of a book with the title of the show. By the way in the film it is Morse's voice used in the narrative as the character reads from the book. On stage the prerecorded voice of Walter Cronkite was used.Rudy Vallee is the company president and Loesser took advantage of Vallee's unique personality and style with his songs and character. A lot of people who did not grow up with Rudy Vallee today would probably not get a lot of the inside humor. Vallee's big song is Grand Old Ivy and the humor of it would be lost today unless you knew that Vallee had recorded in his career such song hits as The Maine Stein Song, Betty Coed, and The Whiffenpoof Song, back when he was the reigning singer of the day.Though the jokes about Vallee are dated, the overall humor of How To Succeed was ahead of its times. Can you imagine had this musical premiered in the Reagan years? It would have been deified by all those motivational speakers that started to become popular then.For that reason How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying is as fresh as when Frank Loesser put those first notes down for this wonderful show.

debo-mills I can't say I enjoyed this movie. I fast-forwarded through all of the songs as I found them dull, uninspired, and repetitive. Not Loesser's best, and no way near as good as those in Guys and Dolls. I found Robert Morse interesting to watch, although I kept hoping right up to the end that he would somehow get his comeuppance and be knocked back down to window washer! Although his tricks were fascinating, he was rather obnoxious and unpleasant in how he used people and didn't care who he crushed on his way to the top (yes, I know it is satire, but he still was irritating!).I did find that things picked up near the end, but the ending itself didn't make sense to me. Why was it suddenly forgotten that Ponty had caused 6 offices to be wrecked and the company to lose money? Why did Michelle Lee suddenly forget that she was disgusted with Ponty for stealing Bud's idea and become his fiancée again? The art direction and colours were fabulous though, and I really enjoyed the sets and those enormous offices!

funkyfry I hadn't really heard much about this one and it was recommended to me by other IMDb posters. I think it's a very good movie, I enjoyed it a lot. Robert Morse (who I recognized from the cast album for the musical "Sugar") is hilarious and unpredictable as Finch (F-I-N-C-H), a former window cleaner who decides to use the tricks from a self-help manual to get him to the top of the corporate ladder. Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows, of "Guys and Dolls" fame, provide the excellent music for this fully integrated show that spoofs inter-office politics and sex.Michele Lee is very perky and vivacious in sort of a generic 60s kind of way that reminded me of Mary Tyler Moore, but she does a good job with her character, playing up the motherly elements as an ironic contrast to her real position. Rudy Vallee has a good role too, as the President of the company beset by his wife's interventions on behalf of the idiot nephew Bud Frump (Anthony Teague) and trying desperately to please his showgirl type paramour, Hedy (Maureen Arthur). Carol Worthington also puts in a notable performance as the head of all secretaries who takes her job very seriously.Morse's performance carries the film, a sort of variation on the kind of comedy that Jerry Lewis used to be so good at, or maybe Danny Kaye and guys like that. At least that's the closest thing I can think of to compare it to, because I really haven't seen anybody give a performance quite like this one. He's all up in everyone's faces and very "touchy" in the literal sense that he touches everybody, all over. Somewhat spastic, and yet inclined to the passive shrug of the shoulders and sly smile.My opinion is pretty much always that Abe Burrows was a better lyricist than Frank Loesser was a musician, and my feelings about this play in particular aren't any different based on the movie version. Burrows had the kind of wit that could be unobtrusive, not cutesy, the kind of thing you could compare to the greats of the previous generation like Lorenz Hart and Ira Gershwin. Loesser's music is good enough, but not particularly special in and of itself here.A very well made movie, I don't know how close it is to the show because I don't know very much about the show. But at the very least this film made me want to know more. And I wonder why Robert Morse isn't in more movies? I've been informed he's doing television these days at least.