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#MovieoftheDay: Who's Minding the Mint? (1967) Movies I Want to See: 43/50 A bumbling Treasury Department employee (Jim Hutton) accidentally destroys $50,000 worth of paper currency, and decides to break into the printing house in the dead of night to make more. But to do this, he'll need to assemble a team—a team which grows rather larger than he anticipates—and once they start printing, greed takes hold of them and they grow reluctant to stop... The team, by the way, consists of Milton Berle, Walter Brennan, Dorothy Provine, Joey Bishop, Jack Gilford, Bob Denver, and Victor Buono. This little heist comedy seems to be pretty consistently regarded as an overlooked little gem, and is often compared to It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World—though its shorter length and tighter focus might well make it the funnier film. Despite a solid reputation, it's never become a part of the canon, and if you want it on DVD, you'll have to shell out for one of those MOD editions...which is still much more than so many films have received. #WhosMindingtheMint #HowardMorris #JimHutton #MiltonBerle #WalterBrennan #DorothyProvine #JoeyBishop #JackGilford #BobDenver #VictorBuono #heistfilms #60sfilms

#MovieoftheDay: The Incident (1967) Movies I Want to See: 24/50 Two young hoodlums (Tony Musante and Martin Sheen—in his film debut) board a New York subway train and terrorize the passengers—comprising a cross-section of society—who remain frustratingly passive to each other's sufferings. Let's just start by rattling off the biggest names in the cast: in addition to Sheen, we have Beau Bridges, Ruby Dee, Jack Gilford, Ed McMahon (yes, that one), Gary Merrill, Donna Mills, Brock Peters, Thelma Ritter, and Jan Sterling. Not too shabby, right? And a glance at the reviews only adds to the interest: almost every notice I read praised the film's tension and evocation of the "I don't want to get involved" mindset. And several of them—like myself—lament its obscurity. Why IS so acclaimed a film so obscure? Aside from a long-ago VHS release and a British DVD, The Incident remains unavailable for home viewing, and certainly it is not much spoken of. I myself wondered if it might have aged poorly, but the latter-day reviews suggest it still packs a punch. Maybe the subsequent career of director Larry Peerce (whose film One Potato, Two Potato I have previously profiled) is to blame. After this, he made the Oscar-nominated Goodbye, Columbus (which is just okay in my book) and adapted the classic novels A Separate Peace and The Bell Jar (reputedly with iffy results), but otherwise seems to have worked mostly in television and soap-opera level films. Whatever the case, the tight focus, resonant themes, excellent cast, and train setting (I love trains, especially subways) make this one film I badly want to see redeemed from the ash heap. #TheIncident #LarryPeerce #MartinSheen #TonyMusante #BeauBridges #RubyDee #JackGilford #EdMcMahon #GaryMerrill #DonnaMills #BrockPeters #ThelmaRitter #JanSterling #NYCsubway #subway #MTA