Thursday, September 13, 2018

Down Among the Z Men (1952)

aka Down Among the "Z" Men
Peter Sellers made some great comedies and he made some terrible ones. The worst is undoubtedly "Ghost in the Noonday Sun," which isn't so much a film as a series of filmed improvisations loosely tied together. This was his first film and it stars the Goons, who were a radio comedy team. Unfortunately, they didn't write the movie, so it just isn't funny. There's dance numbers and other things tossed in and the whole plot is an army "let's put on a show" chestnut. The main character is a messy absent-minded professor played by Michael Bentine, who was barely part of the Goons... and he's dreadful. Sellers has minor duties and doesn't interact much with most of the cast. But now you know where I got the blog title and now the Americans reading it should know they've been pronouncing it wrong: it's "Zed Movies" and not "Zee Movies!"

Thanks for playing along for 1700+ reviews. I may come back.



2 comments:

  1. Being a Canadian, I always say "zed", not "zee", so I was glad to read that about this film.

    Great title for a film blog, by the way. :)

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  2. Really glad its over. This blog was so terrible. It had zero interesting things to say about these extremely fascinating movies and the writer never did any substancial research at any point. So long, hack. Nothing of value was Lost.

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