Goodbye Charlie (1964)

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The person that was to send the VCR Tepe never sent it, I still want the tape but I am reluctant to order it again.
I attempted to contact the person who sold the VCR Tape, but they never responded.
So what is the next step, do I reorder or what?
Will September 21, 2008

Quite the gender bender!!

According to my research the copyright expired on this charming movie and apparently no one has put it onto DVD. What a sadness as it is very smart and funny and way ahead of its time in expressing human sexual preferences.

Our faceless "hero" Charlie, is a a real hound and a neer-do-well screen writer who is shot dead as he attempts to escape through a porthole by a cuckolded Walter Matheau. Charlie's only real friend (a very jet lagged Tony Curtis) eulogizes him (at a very sparsely attended service held at Charlie's very cool Malibu beach house) as a great extra man for a dinner party and a great tennis partner!!

Rich boy Pat Boone shows up at the beach house door later that evening with a half drown, nude Debbie Reynolds wrapped in a trench coat. Reynold's appears to have amnesia and only seems to know that she belongs at the beach house. Curtis' character reluctantly takes her in for the night.

The next morning we discover that Reynolds is the reincarnated Charlie, which fate has ironically changed into a very attractive woman who just happens to smoke, drink and play cards like a male. What ensues next is a very clever plot in which Curtis' character (to his horror) become smitten with his best friend who is now a hot blonde who knows all his secrets; the sexually confused Pat Boone's character falls desperately in love with Charlie's masculine side; Charlie continues to hit on his/her former mistresses and attempts to blackmail them to boot. The cuckolded Matheau is revealed as a philanderer himself when his wife appears as he tries to ravish the gorgeous but helpless female Charlie.

Great mid century set design, very attractive lead characters, Matheau is a riot and I am sure that this was Pat Boone's best role ever. Buy a vcr and one of these outrageously priced vhs tapes and see it for yourself.


June 14, 2008

Review of "Goodbye Charlie"

Are you kidding???? I saw this movie when I was young and loved the music, the story and the idea, which by the way has been used over and over again. This was the best. Charlie, womanizer gets killed and returns as a good looking woman (Debbie Reynolds, who by the way did a great job playing a woman, playing a man). She thinks up this really wicked idea to collect money from all the woman she (he) had affairs with. Tony Curtis, his best friend, thinks this is awful and to his dismay is starting to fall for her, which is driving him nuts. The party that killed Charlie in the first place gets involved and another killing takes place. So there goes Debbie , so you may think, but not so. She returns as a real person, hooks up with Tony, love and kisses. But Charlie comes back again in the end as a Great Dane. (funny-eh) Well worth a look see. November 2, 2006

Goodyby Charlie!

Tape is in poor condition, having problems with skipping & tracking. Looks like this tape was well used prior to being sold to me. February 18, 2006

I hope it comes out on DVD

This has remained one of my favorite movies throughout the years. I think Debbie Reynold's delivery of her lines drags occasionally when she is acting bewildered by what she is experiencing, but the plot is so cute and Tony Curtis shines so that it makes a wonderful romantic comedy. It is definitely worth viewing if you haven't already seen it...and I hope it comes out on DVD so that I can add it to my library. September 14, 2005

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