While I was at Sam's club with my awesome Hitchcock collection buying, I also picked up a collection of 11 movies ($5!!!) entitled "Great Cinema" which I was very excited about, one, because it had The last Time I Saw Paris, and mine is all scratched, but also because every movie in the collection fit my project's criteria!
So, I watched A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court. The movie came out in 1932 starring Eddie Albert as a regular man who, after getting a good whack in the head (This is what happens when you are mean to prison guards, Pally
) he finds himself In King Arthur's court (If you had no clue from the title). Anyways, after a quick plan to get the kingdom to believe him all powerful, he stats creating technology for their society to make himself a great man (Because you're really able to make a telephone pop out of a tree in a day in the movies......
)The townsfolk give him the name Sir Boss through most of the movie after he claims to be 'the new boss around here'. Meanwhile, A plan to murder Arthur, Sir Boss's new buddy, is underway, and boss must wok to stop it.Now, this film is extremely short, a little less than an hour because it was made for T.V. but was later shown in formal theaters. (random trivia pours from my brain!!!). Though perfectly fine for kids, its kinda corny, but in a rather charming way. In fact, this movie will probably serve kids minds more than adults, but was cute and an easy family movie either way.
Sadly, Nobody has anything on this original version of the film, but I found it at Sam's Club of all places, so best of luck to you finding it.
The Chick of Flick, Signing off.
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