A pair of 60's hippies fall in love with the girl next door, who is exactly the kind of square that they are fighting against.A pair of 60's hippies fall in love with the girl next door, who is exactly the kind of square that they are fighting against.A pair of 60's hippies fall in love with the girl next door, who is exactly the kind of square that they are fighting against.
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Elizabeth Allen
- Landlady
- (as Betty Ellen)
Art Lewis
- Mr. Karlson
- (as Artie Lewis)
Alan Paige
- Neighbor
- (uncredited)
Betty Palivoda
- Checker in Market
- (uncredited)
Victor Paul
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
Charlie Picerni
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
Sally Yarnell
- Neighbor
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe film was made and released about five years after its source play of the same name by Neil Simon was first performed in 1966. The original Broadway production of "Star Spangled Girl" opened at the Plymouth Theater on 21st December 1966 and ran for 261 performances until 5th August 1967. It starred Connie Stevens, Anthony Perkins and Richard Benjamin. The theater marquee for the production can be seen during the opening titles of TV series That Girl (1966). The play's setting is described in its intro as being "A duplex studio apartment in San Francisco".
- Quotes
Norman Cornell: I'm sorry for what happened...
Amy Cooper: That's alright.
Norman Cornell: Andy... she spoke nicely to me...
- ConnectionsReferences King Kong (1933)
- SoundtracksGirl
Written by Charles Fox & Norman Gimbel
Performed by Davy Jones
recording supervised by Jackie Mills
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Blame Neil Simon
A woman trying out for the Olympics moves into a suburban home next to a couple of extremists lefty nuts who publish a little underground newspaper (back in the day when both parties distrusted government overreach and the media, before one seized a stranglehold on both). One of them (Todd Susman, Officer Shiflett from "Newhart") falls hard for the girl and makes a nuisance of himself. So?
Neil Simon wrote some great plays. He also wrote lots of twaddle (try "The Cheap Detective" or "Murder By Death," which has a great cast with nothing to say).
The Olympian (perky Sandy Duncan) is "conservative." I despise terms like "left" and "right" and "liberal" and "conservative" (or even "radical" since Republicans and their ilk were called "radical" under Presidents Lincoln and Trump). All these terms are historically meaningless. The USSR types who kidnapped Gorbachev were called "conservative" even though "liberals" here want exactly what they wanted: viz., a Communist autocracy.
But they're the terms we have to use because we're too ignorant to have jargon with greater precision in our combative political vocabulary.
As a writer myself (though not of plays) I can only smile at the likes of Simon, who probably never rubbed shoulders with a "conservative" but out of the depths of his ignorance sets up easy targets he smugly knocks down with softballs.
Curiously enough, though, the "conservative" America-loving Duncan is the only sympathetic character in the movie, terrorized as she is by Susman.
Frankly, the publishers of the underground paper aren't too radical. They're just a couple of nice boys too full of themselves. Tony Roberts' "radicalism" is no deeper than apparently wanting to tear things down simply because they're there. Susman doesn't seem to have the gumption or wherewithal to operate without Roberts' tyranny over him. Yet Susman is the only one who earns any genuine smiles.
Frankly, when I go to the movies I don't want political debate, even with soft targets and idiots on both sides. Simon's constant stream of dialogue gets tiresome quickly. Hardly a great movie; but if you love Simon and have to see everything he wrote, go for it.
Neil Simon wrote some great plays. He also wrote lots of twaddle (try "The Cheap Detective" or "Murder By Death," which has a great cast with nothing to say).
The Olympian (perky Sandy Duncan) is "conservative." I despise terms like "left" and "right" and "liberal" and "conservative" (or even "radical" since Republicans and their ilk were called "radical" under Presidents Lincoln and Trump). All these terms are historically meaningless. The USSR types who kidnapped Gorbachev were called "conservative" even though "liberals" here want exactly what they wanted: viz., a Communist autocracy.
But they're the terms we have to use because we're too ignorant to have jargon with greater precision in our combative political vocabulary.
As a writer myself (though not of plays) I can only smile at the likes of Simon, who probably never rubbed shoulders with a "conservative" but out of the depths of his ignorance sets up easy targets he smugly knocks down with softballs.
Curiously enough, though, the "conservative" America-loving Duncan is the only sympathetic character in the movie, terrorized as she is by Susman.
Frankly, the publishers of the underground paper aren't too radical. They're just a couple of nice boys too full of themselves. Tony Roberts' "radicalism" is no deeper than apparently wanting to tear things down simply because they're there. Susman doesn't seem to have the gumption or wherewithal to operate without Roberts' tyranny over him. Yet Susman is the only one who earns any genuine smiles.
Frankly, when I go to the movies I don't want political debate, even with soft targets and idiots on both sides. Simon's constant stream of dialogue gets tiresome quickly. Hardly a great movie; but if you love Simon and have to see everything he wrote, go for it.
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