His life changes when he falls in love with nancy, a freespirited, innocent, and. Engaged to the equally straitlaced joyce joyce van patten, harold wistfully dreams of. Toklas by harpers bizarre youtube harpers bizarre come to the sunshine new deluxe mono feelin groovy cd on now sounds duration. Searching for a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or watch the hy averbackdirected movie via subscription can be confusing, so we here at moviefone. Like the brownies served by harolds new girlfriend, i love you, alice b. His life changes when he falls in love with nancy, a free spirited, innocent, and beautiful young hippie. Toklas dvd, 2014 at the best online prices at ebay. The next, you chuck it all for beads, bellbottoms and free love. It isnt sarcastic or black humor or based on taking pot shots at characters. This is the life of harold fine, a dedicated lawyer about to become a more dedicated dropout. Thats how things are for harold fine, a dedicated lawyer about to become a more dedicated dropout.
Through a fluke, harold is obliged to drive a station wagon emblazoned with. Peter sellers as always, is brilliant to watch as a free love finding middle aged. Big rental films of 1968, variety, 8 january 1969, pg 15. After harold and his family enjoy some of her groovy brownies, he decides to drop out with her and become a hippie too.
One day you re a career 9to5er with a pending marriage the next, you chuck it all for beads, bellbottoms and free love thats how things are for harold fine. One of the best comedies of the 1960s and one of the most subversive as well. Peter sellers, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung, joyce van patten. Peter sellers, in his most american role, plays harold fine, an uptight mamas boy putting off any commitment to girlfriend joyce van patten. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free. One day you re a career 9to5er with a pending marriage, and then next you know, you chuck it all for beads, bellbottoms and free. The movement tried to take a holistic view on mankind, in order to enter a new age. Join us as we chat with our guest actress leigh tayloryoung soylent green, i love you alice b toklas, peyton place, picket fences, cant stop the music, etc. Toklas is the closest a person can get to being in the sixties, which was close to the the end. Toklas, whose name, apparently, is to become an automatic laugh, like smog and. Full movie in hd visit harold fine is a selfdescribed square a 35yearold.
Toklas movie clip tonto at the cemetry square lawyer harold peter sellers, stuck with a borrowed hippie van, meets. Toklas is a 1968 romantic comedy film starring peter sellers, directed by hy averback with music by harpers bizarre. With peter sellers, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung, joyce van patten. Toklas stars peter sellers as harold fine, a staid jewish attorney. He plays a single man of about 35, a lawyer with a great respect for appearances, who finally agrees out of politeness to marry the girl hes been dating for several years. This graceless time capsule finds peter sellers done up in full hippie garb, handing out copies of the free press on street corners, sucking down hash brownies, and saying such random things as far out, groovy, or far out. A thirtysomething square falls in love with a hippie and decides to drop out himself. Toklas was released to dvd by warner home video june 20, 2006, as a region 1 widescreen dvd and years later in 2011 as a dvdondemand title via warner archive. The next, you chuck it all for beads, bellbottoms and free love thats how things are for harold fine, a dedicated lawyer about to become a more dedicated dropout. But please, we rely on you, bob, so much so that we think our admiration merits your highest level of integrity on our behalf. One of the few 1960s satires of the hippie culture that doesnt appear to be concocted by grumpy old men, i love you, alice b. The cast includes david arkin, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung in her film debut and a cameo by the scripts cowriter paul mazursky. Toklas stars peter sellers, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung, joyce van patten the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 33 min, and received a score of out of. Toklas a career ninetofiver with a pending marriage chucks it all for beads, bellbottoms and free love thats how things are for harold fine.
Harolds brother, herbie david arkin is a freespirited hippy who, as his horrified jewish mother exclaims in one. One day youre a career 9to5er with a pending marriage the next, you chuck it all for beads, bellbottoms and free love thats how things are for harold fine. Peter sellers, whose flowerpower performance here is in the same. Toklas apr 04, 2012 i think this must be my favourite peter sellers movie, its really hilarious and very 60s, i really liked it.
Toklas and so does gertrude stein i love you, alice b. One day you re a career 9to5er with a pending marriage, and then next you know, you chuck it all for beads, bellbottoms and free love. One day you re a career 9to5er with a pending marriage. On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost. Peter sellers, the incomparable master of comedy pink panther series, portrays a successful but supersquare l.
Just pleading for a return to real quality, and thanking you in advance. Toklas 1968 directed by hy averback genres comedy subgenres satire, comedy of manners, romantic comedy release date oct 7, 1968 usa unknown run time 93 min. The establishment meets the counterculture in this topical and. The film opens with harold fine peter sellers, a respectable lawyer in. Almost immediately after freespirited nancy, leigh tayloryoung, peyton. This is a fine place to live, if you happen to be an orange. Toklas gives an excellent portrayal of the counter culture movement in the last years of the 60s, notably in the west coast of the usa. This is one of my alltime favorites love, love, love this movie.
Toklas im gonna change your name to mine red velvet trees and lions. Engaged to the equally straitlaced joyce joyce van patten, harold wistfully dreams of having a more exciting lifestyle. Toklas the 1968 movie, trailers, videos and more at yidio. Toklas is a comedy about a mans midlife crisis during the countercultural revolution of the 1960s. The movie is about changes people make, and is funny because of things that happen. Rewind that feeling by a handful of decades and you get the poorly dated 1968 comedy i love you, alice b.