August 1966
Columbia
Comedy, Sci-Fi
VHS
C+
Although it has potential to at least be silly fun, this movie about a gravity-defying Soupy Sales never, well, quite gets off the ground. Besides Soupy, it's got a chimp, Arthur O'Connell as a somewhat befuddled scientist, Beverly Adams as his science-protesting daughter who throws parties where her friends dance to the non-Cole-Porter title tune and the weather, Tab Hunter in a dual role as an idiot and a villain, a man-hating turned man-hungry Congresswoman, and an inflatable horse. But there are too many unresolved plot points (even for a farce) and there are cameos by Dean Martin and Groucho Marx which give neither star much to do (Flipper's presence is explained by Ivan Tors as producer), not to mention a lame parody of the yacht scene from Some Like It Hot. I'd still be inclined to give the movie a B-, but the Melvin-floating-over-Lover's-Bay sequence goes on far too long.
Courtney Brown, Arno here, would be Carrie in Speedway. Jay Laskay, who plays Willie, would be Philo in Hello Down There. Julian Voloshin, who's Prof. Nep, would be "old man in fishing boat" in Super Fuzz.
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