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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
Front Cover Actor
Movie Details
Language English
Audience Rating Unrated
Running Time 121 mins
Country USA
Color Color
Plot
This fizzy musical was a Broadway smash in 1962, and boy, is it a product of its era. Executive washrooms, gray-flannel-suit businessmen, hip-swinging secretaries--they're all preserved in the movie's brightly colored amber. J. Pierpont Finch (Robert Morse) is the window washer who climbs the corporate ladder in a few days, guided by a how-to book. The Frank Loesser songs are great fun, the Bob Fosse dances are very clever and mod, and the gaudy set design may have given Andy Warhol a few ideas. The jack-in-the-box performance of the elfin Robert Morse doesn't seem toned down from his Tony-winning stage turn; think Mickey Rooney doing Jerry Lewis. Still, Morse is a unique presence, and his mad little solo dance down a real Manhattan street is an interlude of sublime daffiness. Grand old crooner Rudy Vallee shines as the president of Worldwide Wicket, barking his beloved alma mater's fight song: "Groundhog! Groundhog!" --Robert Horton
Personal Details
Seen It Yes
Index 676
Collection Status In Collection
Links Amazon US
Product Details
Format DVD
Region Region 1
Screen Ratio 2.35:1
027616809520
Release Date 4/18/2000
Subtitles English; French; Spanish
Audio Tracks English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Nr of Disks/Tapes 1