Panic Button... Operazione fisco!

Titolo originale: Panic Button

1964
T
1h 30min

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Maurice Chevalier, Mike Connors, Jayne Mansfield, Eleanor Parker, and Akim Tamiroff in Panic Button... Operazione fisco! (1964)

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA businessman plans to solve his tax problems by financing a film version of "Romeo and Juliet". He hires Maurice Chevalier and Jayne Mansfield to play the title roles, and Akim Tamiroff to ... Leggi tuttoA businessman plans to solve his tax problems by financing a film version of "Romeo and Juliet". He hires Maurice Chevalier and Jayne Mansfield to play the title roles, and Akim Tamiroff to direct. The finished film is shown at the Venice Film Festival, where it's considered a wi... Leggi tuttoA businessman plans to solve his tax problems by financing a film version of "Romeo and Juliet". He hires Maurice Chevalier and Jayne Mansfield to play the title roles, and Akim Tamiroff to direct. The finished film is shown at the Venice Film Festival, where it's considered a witty parody and awarded a Golden Lion.

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5stefanozucchelli

It could be worse

A lot of strange characters in a movie which tries to be funny but fails many times even if the plot was not so terrible.

This comedy is part of the large circle of those comedies which, although not filthy, fail in their objectives.

1moonspinner55

Clever premise and leads, withering results...

Hambone French actor on the skids and a buxom artist's model are tapped to co-star in a rank television production of "Romeo and Juliet" as an automatic $500K tax loss for a shady European business...but of course, the unbelievable product they deliver is embraced by the public. This curious precursor to Mel Brooks' "The Producers", shot in Italy in 1962, was thought unreleasable until Gorton Associates--their only film endeavor!--distributed the picture two years later in the US as a second-biller. While it is interesting to see Maurice Chevalier sharing the screen with Jayne Mansfield, nothing that ensues is quite as clever. NO STARS from ****

6Enrique-Sanchez-56

There are some redeeming qualities here....

If one ignores the pathetic quality of the actual film stock used to bring this to the screen, If one ignores the sad overacting of Mr. Chevalier, If one ignores the convoluted plot, If one ignores the eccentric direction,

One will find some redeeming qualities in Panic Button:

The scenes of Europe, a more innocent Europe, a different mannered Europe were handled well. I really felt transported to the early 60's.

One is able to observe the way that our sensibilities have changed in such few years.

We observe that the sophistication of moviemaking has come a very long way from those days.

I watched this movie with not as much cringing as other reviewers. I tend to discern some of the good things that directors try to bring to movies.

And lastly, I did laugh and I did smile where I should have. So for that, I must at least give Panic Button a "6".

2suw

Dreadful!

Not even the label of "camp" can save this one. A precursor of The Producers, but without its sparkle or satiric bite. Chevalier does everything short of winking at the camera--a sad final chapter to his career. The project ends up resembling the intentionally bad TV pilot that the film is about.

searchanddestroy-1

PANIC BUTTON to escape from this film

I would have never bet a dime to see one day a movie directed by George Sherman, and starring the most improbable cast: French great singer Maurice Chevalier, Mike - MANNIX - Connors and Jayne Mansfield. What a cast, I hardly believe it.... So only this can justify to watch this non sense, gentle, entertaining crap, watching to be sure that you don't dream....;But on the other hand, I fought very hard not to stop the viewing; also because of the f...pan and scan copy I saw. It can be considered as a kind of psychotronic comedy yarn. Yes: psychotronic, and directed by a great B movie Hollywood director; George Sherman, more or less the equivalent of Richard Thorpe, same kind of career and death year too. So, to at least speak bout this phony story, well, it's so silly, boring, brainless though entertaining.

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Several of Shakespeare's plays are referenced: from Romeo and Juliet only the balcony scene is shown but Chevalier's audition piece is from Macbeth, and there is a scene in which mobsters read extracts from King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Pandowski: Artists! My name is Salvatore. I am your director. I must warn you. I am a sensitive man, a very sensitive... as a matter of fact, when a pigeon goes hungry, I cry. When a child is happy, I laugh. And if you do not listen to me, all of you, I will get angry. I get very angry. Oh, yes. I don't care how much money I spend on making this film because I want quality. Qual-i-ty! Yes, therefore, I... therefore, I am appointing myself to write a script. A few pages every day as we go along. You act, I write, I write, you act. I will plant the seeds of realism in it - realism in it. And I will let it blossom into a magnificent flower of truth. Hmm, yes, you know I decided to put this film together, edit it as we professionals call it, personally, myself. Oh, Darling, I have a feeling this will be my masterpiece. Yes, a super, colossal, Cleopatra! Remember, when people work together, they suffer together. Oh, yes. Well, now we can make a film. Go and get dressed.
[to an assistant]
Pandowski: Er, get six Italian coffees for the crew.