Released Date:
1965-10-11
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
122 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (2451 Reviews)
Director:
Tony RichardsonGenres:
ComedyEvelyn Waugh (novel)
Terry Southern (screenplay)
Christopher Isherwood (screenplay)
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.
Released Date:
1967-03-09
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
121 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (3256 Reviews)
Director:
David SwiftAbe Burrows (book)
Jack Weinstock (book)
Willie Gilbert (book)
Shepherd Mead (novel)
David Swift
Twenty-seven year old New York window washer, J. Pierpont Finch, believes he can be a success in the corporate world after he impulsively picks up the book "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying". The book promises its reader that he can climb the corporate ladder simply and quickly. The Worldwide Wicket Corporation, the business in the office building whose windows he washes is, according to the book, the perfect type of business. There he meets secretary Rosemary Pilkington, who sees in Ponty (as she calls him) an unassuming man who she believes the corporate world will eat alive. But Ponty, memorizing what the book tells him, does quickly climb the corporate ladder but not by doing any real work. Ponty has a few obstacles along the way such as: Bud Frump who sees Ponty as a rival and is the nephew by marriage of the company president J.B. Biggley; Hedy La Rue, a curvaceous but simple woman who has a secret or not-so-secret tie to someone important in the company; Mr. Ovington, an executive who Ponty can't figure out; and Ponty possibly making a fatal error by not reading far enough ahead in the book. Ponty ultimately has to decide if climbing to the top of the ladder is worth stepping on all those along the way and risk losing the love of Rosemary. In the end telling the truth may set him free.
Released Date:
1968-06-19
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
89 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (614 Reviews)
Director:
Hy AverbackGenres:
ComedyClaude Magnier (play)
Everett Freeman
Karl Tunberg
When the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 hit, millions of people were left in the dark, including Waldo Zane, a New York executive in the process of stealing a fortune from his company, and two people whose paths he's destined to cross, Broadway actress Margaret Garrison and her husband, Peter.
Released Date:
1967-03-09
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
121 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (3262 Reviews)
Director:
David SwiftAbe Burrows (book)
Jack Weinstock (book)
Willie Gilbert (book)
Shepherd Mead (novel)
David Swift
Twenty-seven year old New York window washer, J. Pierpont Finch, believes he can be a success in the corporate world after he impulsively picks up the book "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying". The book promises its reader that he can climb the corporate ladder simply and quickly. The Worldwide Wicket Corporation, the business in the office building whose windows he washes is, according to the book, the perfect type of business. There he meets secretary Rosemary Pilkington, who sees in Ponty (as she calls him) an unassuming man who she believes the corporate world will eat alive. But Ponty, memorizing what the book tells him, does quickly climb the corporate ladder but not by doing any real work. Ponty has a few obstacles along the way such as: Bud Frump who sees Ponty as a rival and is the nephew by marriage of the company president J.B. Biggley; Hedy La Rue, a curvaceous but simple woman who has a secret or not-so-secret tie to someone important in the company; Mr. Ovington, an executive who Ponty can't figure out; and Ponty possibly making a fatal error by not reading far enough ahead in the book. Ponty ultimately has to decide if climbing to the top of the ladder is worth stepping on all those along the way and risk losing the love of Rosemary. In the end telling the truth may set him free.
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