Henry Foster (Milton Berle) and Seymour Saltz
(Red buttons) strategize rebellion during Chess
Henry Foster (Milton Berle) and Seymour Saltz
(Red buttons) strategize rebellion during Chess
Shelley the show-girl once more.
At Mapleview: Seymour Saltz (Red Buttons) with Lou Adler (Lou Jacobi) after his stroke.
Shelley lives & loves in the Past (Dorothy Malone)
Helen Shaver (above) as Miss Beecher the new administrator, all function and efficiency at the expense of liveliness, fun and good food.
Comedy Ruination Rebellion and New Life in the Old Folks' Home
Milton Berle, Red Buttons, Lou Jacobi, Dorothy Malone, Helen Shaver, Sean McCann, Sharon Acker, Helen Hughes and ....
The residents of Mapleview Home for the Retired struggle to retain their individuality and joie-de-vivre, collectively rebelling against a new administration that diminishes the richness of their lives for the sake of smooth bureaucratic and bodily functioning, predictability and techno-logical control.
Good Guy Mr. Adler (Lou Jacobi) loses Mapleview when his gambling debts are taken over by hustler Lou Carman (Sean McCann) who cheats him out of his property. In despair, losing his mind to a devastating stroke, Mr. Adler becomes an inmate in what was his very own Mapleview. He and his old and beloved residents suffer from the new and oppressive regime. Henry Foster (Milton Berle) and Seymour Saltz (Red Buttons) plot to win the home back and return it to Mr. Adler even as as he is being nursed back to health by the tender intimacies of ex-showgirl Shelly (Dorothy Malone). Thanks to a sympathetic, daring and naughty nurse (Sharon Acker) the hustler is black-mailed, the home taken from him, and in a well-plotted revolution, returned to Lou Adler.
Production Development: Morley Markson
a Hal Roach Studios Production,
Producers:Earl A. Glick, Norman Glick
Directed by: Morley Markson and Larry Pall Screenplay: Sam Joseph & Morley Markson Story by Sam Joseph
Credits:
Directed by
Morley Markson
Larry Pall
Story
Samuel Warren Joseph
Screenplay
Samuel Warren Joseph
Morley Markson
Cast
Milton Berle
Red Buttons
Lou Jacobi
Dorothy Malone
Helen Shaver
Sharon Acker
Helen Hughes
Sean McCann
Helen Burns
Paul Kligman
Charles Irvine
Robert O’Ree
Doreen Glick
Michael Ironside
Ted Beattie
Kurt Freund
Sam Moses
Ben Baker
Matilde Calan
E.M. Margolese
Lenore Woodward
Peter Sturgess
Tom Butler
Rosemary Dunsmore
Marion Gilsenan
Mary Swinton
Wally Bondarenko
Alf Humphreys
Pierre Tetrault
Grant Roll
Barry Belchamber
Paul Todd
Michelle Dowell
Daryl Wells
Ken Lemaire
Produced by
Earl A. Glick
Norman Glick
Assoc. Producer
Deanne Judson
Production Development
Morley Markson
Original Music by
Ray Colcord
Srul Irving Glick
Cinematography by
Henri Fiks
Film Editing by
Melvin Shapiro
Richard S. Brummer
Asst. Film Editor
Bruce Perlstein
Art Direction by
Gavin Mitchell
Carmi Gallo
Makeup Department
Sandi Duncan
Jocelyn MacDonald
Hair Sylist
Wardrobe and Styling Cathy Viera
Second Unit Director/Asst. Director
Sherry Cohen
First Assistant Director
Ken Goch
Second Asst. Director
David Hynes
Art Department
Andrew Deskin
Property Master
Set Dresser
Carol Lavoie
Sound Department
Sound Editor
Terry Burke
Sound Recording
Douglas Ganton
Boom Operator
Thomas Hidderly
Supervising Sound Editor
Alban Streeter
Special Effects
Michael Kavanagh
Camera and Electrical Dept.
Gaffer
Roger Bate
Key Grip
Jim Craig
First Assistant Camera
Richard Wincenty
Music Dept.
Music Editor
Kirk Hawkes
Other Crew
Continuity
Margaret Mclintock
BarbaraRatz
Production Assistant
Sherry Wolfson