One local TV station in the US had a Friday-evening one-hour movie show for a few years in the 1970s. Each hour was a movie cut down to 50 minutes shown with the standard 10 minutes of commercials, and each movie was on a 16mm film print owned by a local collector and film buff. These movies were usually not available anywhere else, not even cable. That show was "The Funny People" and it specialized in classic Hollywood comedy.
The Funny People is where I got to see some classics, like International House, Hollywood Party, She Done Him Wrong, and many not-so-classics, like Behind the 8-Ball starring the Ritz Brothers.
I haven't seen it since, but if I remember right, isn't International House the one with a subplot involving an automobile being driven up and down the stairs of a fire escape? It had to involve visual effects using miniatures and stop-motion animation. It must have fit in well with the far-fetched story, manic style, flying machine and all.
The Funny People is where I got to see some classics, like International House, Hollywood Party, She Done Him Wrong, and many not-so-classics, like Behind the 8-Ball starring the Ritz Brothers.
I haven't seen it since, but if I remember right, isn't International House the one with a subplot involving an automobile being driven up and down the stairs of a fire escape? It had to involve visual effects using miniatures and stop-motion animation. It must have fit in well with the far-fetched story, manic style, flying machine and all.