Fitzwilly [VHS]
by Delbert Mann
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Actor: Barbara Feldon, Dick Van Dyke, Edith Evans, Harry Townes, John McGiverDirector: Delbert Mann
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 102 minutes
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
VHS Movie Reviews of Fitzwilly [VHS]
Movie Review: VAN DYKE COMEDY
Summary: 5 Stars
I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO LOCATE A COPY OF THIS LESSER KNOWN FILM OF DICK VAN DYKE AND WAS GLAD TO FIND A USED COPY THAT WAS AFFORDABLE. THE QUALITY IS GOOD AND I LOOK FOWARD TO SHOWING IT TO FRIENDS!Movie Review: Fun Family Movie! Dick Van Dyke is one of my favorites and doesn't disappoint.
Summary: 4 Stars
I was trying to remember which Christmas movie I had been missing and it finally came to me. FITZWILLY! Like hearing John & Yoko singing HAPPY XMAS, the holidays don't start for me until I see this movie. I've missed it the last couple of years, so I tried to find it on DVD! It appears the only place to find a DVD copy is a bootlegged one. Please re-release it! Movie Review: Why is it not on DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
Why is this not on DVD! I would love to buy it for my friends and for myself. Dick Van Dyke is a great star. I wouldn't mind buying it on VHS if that is the only option except it is rather expensive. I'll have to wait for the price to go down.Movie Review: Old classic still worth your time
Summary: 4 Stars
Based on the novel by Poyntz Tyler originally titled "A Garden of Cucumbers," this is a delightful and lighthearted caper film from the 60s. The USA working title was "The One with the Fuzz," and the movie was even referenced in "Star Wars: Episode VI -Return of the Jedi" (1983). It's the sort of movie they don't make anymore but still holds its appeal today.
Feldon and van Dyck are absolutely charming in the main roles, and among the rest of the cast you will recognize many of your other character actor favorites, such as John McGiver. (Probably irrelevant footnote--does anyone remember the Gilligan's Island adventure where McGiver plays an eccentric entomologist who briefly visits the island, with Russell Johnson ((the professor)) becoming his student?).
The whole film turns on the ability of the clever van Dyck's character to pull daring capers such as heists at local department stores to keep his devoted and benevolent philanthropist employer flush with cash so she can continue to give it away, which van Dyck does with inimitable panache and style. Eventually, however, Feldon's character discovers his shenanigans and tries to convince him to go straight--he is, after all, as she points out--a Harvard grad whose station in life should be above such things. :-) Overall, a charming and delightful movie from a simpler time that's still worth watching today.
A little trivia on Poyntz Tyler, he wrote only one novel (at least that I know of), and also edited Airways of America as part of the Reference Shelf, Volume 30, No. 6, published by H. W. Wilson Company in 1958. The book was an anthology of 1957 aviation articles from different sources (Time, Atlantic Monthly, Fortune, and so on). Other than that, I have no further information on him, but I'll always remember him for this humorous and lighthearted romp of a movie.
Movie Review: Bring Fitzwilly to DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great caper movie, and my favorite one to see at Christmas. It deserves to be released on DVD in widescreen format. I hope the powers that be release it soon.
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