Wheeler Dealers is a British television series originally produced by Attaboy TV for the Discovery Channel in the UK and Motor Trend in the U.S.
one of my favorite 60's moviesAug 1, 2017 - Laste The Wheeler Dealers norske filmer online gratis. Download The Wheeler Dealers HD 720p/1080p/480p. Fubbe ut tusenvis av filmer,. Released 1963, 'The Wheeler Dealers' stars James Garner, Lee Remick, Phil Harris, Chill Wills The movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 46 min, and received a score of (out of 100) on Metacritic. Directed by Arthur Hiller. With Lee Remick, James Garner, Phil Harris, Chill Wills. Big time Texas Wheeler Dealer (Ivy league educated, but plays dumb) runs out of money and goes to NYC to raise 1.5 million. The Wheeler Dealers movie YIFY subtitles. The Wheeler Dealers (1963). The Wheeler Dealers. Want to watch 'The Wheeler Dealers' on your TV or mobile device at home? Finding a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or watch the Arthur. You will get a notification at the top of the site as soon as the current price equals or falls below your price. You can also optionally receive an email notification (sent only once), this is.
The movie is about James Garner as an oil-man having a run of bad luck, so he goes to New York to make some quick money. He finds big bucks and romance, and it makes me laugh. The fact that Louis Nye plays a parody of Jackson Pollock, and that Phil Harris, Chill Wills, and Charles Watts act as a sort of Greek chorus to Garner will give you some idea of how inconsequentially silly this movie is. There's even a securities trial at the end (the judge makes a comment at the beginning that is just thrown away -- I missed it the first time I saw the movie -- which I laugh about every time I think of it).
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Of all the characters James Garner has created for the screen, I think I like Henry J. Tyroon the best. Cowboy oilman and conman par excellence, he moves skillfully from one situation to the other in business, but really comes up against it with Lee Remick in the romance department.
The supporting cast is soooo good I don't know where to begin to single anyone out. If put to torture I suppose I'd have to mention Louis Nye, 'the boss wrangler of the Henry Tyroon collection', and John Astin the manic SEC investigator.
As Mr. Garner puts it: 'Only the taxman loses in a Henry Tyroon deal'. Even a the most dedicated and humorless IRS agent will find laughs in this classic comedy.
'I'M INTERESTED IN THE ECONOMICS OF ANY SITUATION'
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All the fun is in the wheelin' and the dealin', Garner explains at one point. 'Money's just a way of keeping score.'
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Jim Garner at the top of his form, not long after his Maverick character became a household name, but before Rockford.
Lee Remick looking great, in an intelligent role for a beautiful woman.
It's worth the time just to see the terrific supporting cast of old faces (now mostly passed away.)
The only problem is my VHS version is just about worn out, and it's not available on DVD. Who do we complain to?
- - - Art
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Charming, dated fun. If you ever wondered what made Garner a star - here's your answer. Sean Connery's 'it' factor without the dark undertones.
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This isn't quite the bra-burning days later in the decade, but the feminist message was a big part of this story, that women can wheel and deal on Wall Street, too. Well, that's fine but most of the characters in here acted so arrogant and stupid that the movie is annoying. Yet, to be honest, remember liking this in 1963 at the movie theater. Times - and us - change. Now this just looks like the typically-dated and immature 1960s.
One thing that hasn't was my fondness for Lee Remick's face (not her politics). She was pretty to look at in 1963 and just as attractive when I saw this on VHS in the late 1990s. She was a good poster 'girl' for the feminist movement.
I can't say I was enthralled with the humor of Phil Harris, Jim Backus or Chill Wills in here, although I have laughed at those guys on occasion. Louis Nye, pretending to be an abstract painter riding a bicycle on the canvas, still made me laugh, however. James Garner was the star of the film and it's tough to criticize him, so I won't.
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Finally got a chance to catch this movie on TCM the other day, and what a disappointment it was. I mean, this movie seemed like a slam-dunk from the description. James Garner, fresh from Maverick, playing a Texas oilman who isn't above a con or two. And Lee Remick, one of the most beautiful women in the movies, playing a stock analyst. Put 'em in one of those big, glossy Hollywood comedies they made in the early sixties, with all the wonderful character actors who were around at the time, like Jim Backus and Pat Harrington, and you have a heckuva package.
So I always wondered why all the movie-review books gave it a mediocre rating.
Well, now I know. This movie just doesn't make any sense. It's incoherent. Garner and Remick are immensely appealing, and I especially would have liked to have bumped into Remick on Wall Street in 1963, though if I had I wonder if I would have retained the power of speech, so gorgeous she was. But you know, to be successful, a movie needs more than actors. It also needs a storyline that works.
This one? Well, it starts out with Garner drilling for oil in Texas, and hitting a dry hole. He discovers he and his company are broke and he needs to go to New York to raise some money. He has some leases that are about to expire.
So he goes to Wall Street and immediately convinces three financiers to put up $300,000. That's all the money he asked them for. So is the problem solved? I dunno. The movie doesn't tell us.
Then Garner goes to a brokerage and tries to sell the owner on buying stock in his company. Okay, so maybe that $300,000 didn't solve the problem. Who knows? Anyway, here he meets Lee Remick.
She has another mission. She has to sell stock in a widget firm or else she'll be fired. She figures Garner is her mark. Okay, not a bad setup. Romance ensues, with all the usual complications.
Here we start seeing the stuff that doesn't make sense. Garner buys a restaurant. I guess he wants to impress Remick. But he's broke, scrambling for cash. Huh?
Then he hooks up with a painter, disappears for a week in Europe and starts buying up abstract paintings. I guess it's because he thinks Remick is into abstract art. There's some blather about how the whole thing is a tax dodge. He can make ten cents on the dollar by donating to museums. But again, he's broke, his company needs every dime. Huh?
Three fellow Texans arrive on the scene, apparently so eager to invest in Garner's schemes that they flew after him to New York in their private jet. Does he pitch them on his drilling venture? No. He sells them on joining the painting scheme instead. Huh?
There's a throwaway line in there somewhere, indicating that the Texans aren't keen on oil ventures. Okay, I'll grant the movie that -- it's a stab at logic -- but Garner never even tries to ask them for money. Here we are at the halfway point of the movie and this is the last time we even get a hint about his problems in Texas. This whole idea is abandoned. We never find out what happens to Garner's Texas drilling venture.
Now we get into an entirely new storyline. Garner, for some unexplained reason, decides to run up the price of the widget company stock. What is the scheme? What is the con? I don't get it.
Is Garner planning to purchase stock on the cheap, then resell it? The final scene of the movie belies that. He purchased four percent of the stock and his buddies purchased 48 percent, and all of them kept every penny. So it wasn't a swindle. Okay, fine. But why does he expend 20 minutes of comedic gyration on running up the price?
Actually, the widget company stock sounds like a steal. Turns out the widget company is a holding company for AT&T stock, bought on the cheap befoie WWI, and the principals have been collecting fat dividends ever since. Why wouldn't Garner try to acquire a controlling interest as cheaply as possible? He could liquidate the widget company and make money by selling the AT&T stock. If this was the plan, that might make sense, but the movie owes it to viewers to explain it. And in this scenario it wouldn't make any sense for Garner to run up the price of the stock. Anyway, Garner doesn't even seem to recognize that the widget company has value. I just don't get it. Huh?
And while this was playing out, I wanted to scream -- what about the Texas drilling venture? Anyway, all this is backdrop to the lovely romance between Garner and Remick, and it all culminates in a securities-fraud trial. The two of them do what they're supposed to, they're cute as heck and all that. But I say the 'heart' part of the story doesn't work if the 'head' part is a failure.
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The company never paid a dividend. They would buy the company stock when it was low and sell when high.
A lot of people do just that. But they flew the corporate jet to New York and convinced Wall Street investors to buy their company stock, which of course made the price increase. Brown and Roper then sold their stock!
Is this insider trading! I enjoyed watching this film.
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The good theme of the picture is that it deals with women in the work place, especially here at Wall Street. As her boss, Jim Backus wants to get rid of her so he assigns her to a dead end stock which hasn't been viable in years. Wait until you find out what the stock has been lined to.
You know of course where this shall all lead to regarding the Garner and Remick characters. There is a fling for him at a restaurant and art gallery.
As an art critic, Eliot Reid is wasted here but Garner's pals made up of Phil Harris and Chill Wills are funny here.
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The movie needed to slow down, pick just a few dealings and milk them for comedy with more witty dialog. There just isn't anything in here that induces laughter. Nor is there much spark in the romance. The underlying theme of writing things off, getting around the IRS, etc. was something of the culture in mid-century. I seem to recall it with adults talking about working so many hours each week for the IRS. That went on from the late 1940s maybe through the 60s. But, I think it died out – or at least wasn't among the top things on people's minds after that.
Lee Remick plays Molly Thatcher in a shallow role for her talents. Phil Harris, Chill Wills and Jim Backus are fine in there roles. It was a stretch for me to give this film five stars, but the talent of the cast earn that – even if they aren't used very well here.
Here's a sample of the best comedy this film has to offer. Molly, 'Is your word worth anything, or isn't it?' Bullard Bear (play on words with the name of the Jim Backus role), 'Well, it varies.'
Henry, 'You're a rich man, and a rich man can't afford to go broke.'
Molly, 'Was that Italian?' Henry, 'I find that in New York most French head waiters are Italian.' Molly, 'And you speak Italian?' Henry, 'No mam. A little wetback Spanish. Sounds the same.'
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It's a bland rom-com. Lee Remick is really pretty but she doesn't have a comedic side. James Garner is a cad. They have limited chemistry. At least, he's playing his character with a smile and a giddy-up. He's the best thing in this movie. Everybody is lying, scheming and selling junk. The money grubbing isn't all that fun or that likable. Director Arthur Hiller has trouble bringing joy into this movie. There is nothing memorable or hilarious. The story throws around a lot of business deals but half of them don't make sense. I guess the writer hopes they go by so fast that the audience won't notice. More than anything, this is just bland.
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The Wheeler Dealers | |
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Directed by | Arthur Hiller |
Produced by | Martin Ransohoff |
Written by | George Goodman Ira Wallach |
Starring | James Garner Lee Remick |
Music by | Frank De Vol |
Cinematography | Charles Lang |
Edited by | Tom McAdoo |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date | |
Running time | 107 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $3,200,000 (US/ Canada)[1] |
The Wheeler Dealers (also known as Separate Beds in the UK) is a 1963 romantic comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring James Garner, Lee Remick, Phil Harris, Chill Wills, Jim Backus, and Patricia Crowley. It was produced by Martin Ransohoff and distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer.[2] The film's screenplay was written by George Goodman and Ira Wallach, based on Goodman's 1959 novel of the same name.
Garner was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.[3]
Plot[edit]
Molly Thatcher (Lee Remick) is a stockbroker languishing in a company run by male chauvinist Bullard Bear (Jim Backus). When the company does poorly, he has to fire somebody. As the only female broker, Molly is the obvious choice since dismissing a male broker would make people think the company is in trouble. He assigns her the seemingly impossible task of unloading shares of an obscure company called Universal Widgets, figuring that she will fail, and he will have an excuse to fire her.
Molly meets Henry Tyroon (James Garner), an aggressive wheeler dealer who dresses, talks, and acts like a stereotypical Texas millionaire. He is interested in her, not Universal Widgets, but decides to help out in order to get closer to her. As they spend time together, Molly watches Henry make complicated business deals, often in partnership with his Texan cronies, Jay Ray (Chill Wills), Ray Jay (Phil Harris), and J.R. (Charles Watts). One example is dealing in modern art, with the aid of Stanislas (Louis Nye), a cynical avant-garde painter.
Molly and Henry have trouble figuring out Universal Widgets' reason for existence; its only factory burned down around the time of the Spanish–American War. It manufactures nothing and provides no services. (Widgets had something to do with horse-drawn carriages.) It is just a corporation on paper whose sole asset is a huge block of shares in AT&T, bought long, long ago when the stock was ridiculously cheap. Now it pays out hefty, regular dividends to its complacent shareholders.
When Henry makes attempts to take control of Universal Widgets by what appears to be questionable methods, over-enthusiastic government regulator Hector Vanson (John Astin) takes him to court. Further complications arise when Jay Ray, Ray Jay, and J.R. get Molly fired so that she will spend more time with Henry. She thinks Henry is responsible. She also discovers that he is actually an Easterner and a Yale University graduate; masquerading as a Texan just helps him with his wheeling and dealing. The judge dismisses the Federal Securities Commission case when it is determined that all the Universal Widgets shares are in the hands of just a few people, not the general public. Henry and the Texan trio's shares are sold back to the original owners, then and there, for a sizable profit. The trio also confesses that they were the ones who had Molly fired. After hearing this, she quickly makes up with Henry.
Cast[edit]
- James Garner as Henry Tyroon
- Lee Remick as Molly Thatcher
- Phil Harris as Ray Jay Fox
- Chill Wills as Jay Ray Spinelby
- Jim Backus as Bullard Bear
- Louis Nye as Stanislas
- John Astin as Hector Vanson
- Elliott Reid as Leonard
- Pat Harrington Jr. as Buddy Zack
- Joey Forman as Buster Yarrow
- Patricia Crowley as Eloise Cott
- Charles Watts as J.R. Martin
- Howard McNear as Mr. Wilson
- Don Briggs as Len Flink
- Vaughn Taylor as Thaddeus Whipple
- Robert Strauss as Feinberg, Taxi Driver
- John Marley as Achilles Dimitros
- Peter Leeds as Arthur Watkins
Reception[edit]
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times was unimpressed, writing 'somehow the script of George J. W. Goodman and Ira Wallach doesn't jell and isn't droll, and Arthur Hiller's direction is too slow for romantic comedy. What might be brightly satiric simply isn't because it lacks wit. Too much double entry and too little double entendre'.[4] He did, however, like Garner ('spry and briskly charming') and Remick ('cute').[4]
Glenn Erickson characterized the film as an 'entertaining trifle that, if I read it right, outsmarts itself. Nobody on either side of the camera seems to know that the joke is really on them, and us, and our way of life'.[5] He thought both stars gave 'outstanding performances' and rated the film 'Good +'.[5]
Home media[edit]
The Wheeler Dealers was released on June 27, 2011 by Warner Home Video as a widescreen Region 1 DVD via its Warner Archive DVD-on-demand service. The film's Blu-ray release came on April 25, 2017.[6]
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See also[edit]
The Wheeler Dealers 1963
References[edit]
- ^'Top Rental Features of 1963', Variety, 8 January 1964 p 71. Please note figures are rentals as opposed to total gross.
- ^Variety film review; September 25, 1963, page 6.
- ^'James Garner'. Golden Globe Awards.
- ^ abBosley Crowther (November 15, 1963). 'The Wheeler Dealers (1963)'. The New York Times.
- ^ ab'The Wheeler Dealers'. DVD Savant. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
- ^The Wheeler Dealers Blu-ray, retrieved 2017-09-08
External links[edit]
- The Wheeler Dealers on IMDb
- The Wheeler Dealers at the TCM Movie Database
- The Wheeler Dealers at AllMovie