Down Among the Z Men
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List Price: $1.49
Features
• Black & White
• NTSC
In Theaters : 1952
DVD Release : 01 January, 2004 |
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Down Among the Z Men
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DOWN AMONG THE Z' MEN (1952), also known in some quarters as The Goon Movie,' stars four members of the popular radio and television series and precursor of Monty Pythons Flying Circus. Harry Secombe plays Harry Jones, Michael Bentine plays Professor Osrick Purehart, Spike Milligan plays Private Eccles, and Peter Sellers plays Major Bloodnok.
For all their trail-blazing ways the Goons' first movie is pretty tepid, standard stuff. Grocery clerk Harry Jones comes into possession of Professor Purehart's top-secret formula. The clerk and the professor wind up at the same military base, commanded by Major Bloodnok and including among its rank Private Eccles. The plot, such as it is, concerns a couple of bad spies chasing the formula that the Professor forgot and the clerk doesn't realize he has. What ensues is a series of loosely connected skits with characters that may have been funny in 7-minute doses but wear out their welcome long before the hour and fifteen minutes are up. If the Goons' hallmark was surreal zaniness, it's not in evidence here. Rather you have four Costellos desperately in search of an Abbott, preferably one with a plot in his back pocket.
Recommended only for those who want to see Sellers in an early movie role or, like me, have heard some classic Spike Milligan bits on tape or radio but have never seen him in action. With this cast in place it's a little embarrassing to admit that the highlights were a couple of routines performed by an all-girl dance troupe. At least the price is right.
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