Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (MOD)

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (MOD)Funnyman filmmaker Carl Reiner, who put Steve Martin, George Burns and John Candy through their comedic paces in one hit movie after another, strikes again with this warmly outrageous musical comedy. The title role gives dazzling Robert Lindsay (Hornblower, Jericho) a screen debuting showcase that followed his virtuoso award winning London Broadway stage turn in Me and My Girl. His coal miner wannabe movie star Bert Rigby is all singing, all dancing,

To present the true facts

Jo Ann (Helen Westcott) as he slowly unravels the case

the movie's locale was changed to Las Vegas when RKO studio chief Howard Hughes decided to publicize the city in which he'd recently taken a financial interest

sowing jealousy and conflict in a once-tranquil home

clever comedy and dance legends Astaire and Powell make the final Broadway Melody (costarring George Murphy) a song to remember

Paolo does succeed in wooing Lizzy

professors whose brains are being zapped by aliens and bored housewives passing the time

Comedy-support-actor Allen Jenkins portrays sidekick Buck

Cult icon John Saxon (Enter the Dragon) battles clones

a cop whose heart is bigger than his badge

the heavy headlining this crime thriller that sprung from the pen of Sing-Sing's warden himself

in a role that mirrors her later work in The Roaring Twenties